Talking about art, techniques and materials.
Posted in Books and Reviews on Jan 30th, 2012
Botanical Sketchbook by Mary Ann Scott A review by one of our customers on our website: “Botanical Sketchbook is an excellent display of improvement in watercolour technique. It takes us through the process a student went through during a Course of 2 years offered by the Society of Botanical Artists. This student, Mary Ann Scott, [...]
Posted in Books and Reviews on Jan 25th, 2012
Mitchell Albala has been a landscape painter and teaching artist for more than 25 years. He has put all his experience into a comprehensive, genre-specific book that has received excellent reviews. Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice. We stock this book and many of our customers have purchased it [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Jan 19th, 2012
Jackson’s stock a large selection of canvas with the best UK price by a mile! If you stretch your own canvases we have canvas available by the metre or in 10-metre rolls in a variety of weights and textures of cottons and linens with unprimed, oil primed or universal primed surfaces. And we have an [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Jan 17th, 2012
NB Frames are the makers of the high quality aluminium stretcher bars that we stock for stretching your own canvases. Now we have made a special purchase of ready-made linen canvases from NB. These are medium-grain 280gsm linen, triple coated with universal primer, with the 25mm deep aluminium stretcher bars and stapled on the back. [...]
Posted in Books and Reviews on Dec 14th, 2011
Popular artist Tim Fisher has a new book just available today: How to Paint: Flowers in Acrylics. Click on the link above to go to the item on the Jackson’s website. The book is discounted off the cover price at Jackson’s and as always all books come with a free sable brush. Postage on orders [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Dec 2nd, 2011
Ready To Paint Books buy 2 get 1 free using the voucher code below. The Ready to Paint book series is designed for those who want to learn to paint but cannot rely on their drawing skills. Re-usable A3 (42 x 29.5cm; 16½ x 11¾in) outlines of paintings are provided to pull out from the [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Nov 10th, 2011
Our entire enormous range of Derwent artists sets are on offer at 10% off our regular discounted selling price. At these prices it is a great time to stock up on gifts! Offer prices end on Dec. 12th. These include the Inktense pencils and blocks, Watercolour pencils, Metallic pencils, Aquatone pencils, Studio pencils, Coloursoft pencils, [...]
Posted in Books and Reviews on Nov 9th, 2011
Paint with the Impressionists: A step-by-step guide to their methods and materials for today’s artists by Jonathan Stephenson In this approach to Impressionism and its methods, the author’s instruction sets out to enable amateur artists to paint like the Impressionists. Illustrated throughout with well-known works of art and step-by-step examples, the book shows how the [...]
Posted in Art Technique -Technical on Nov 7th, 2011
Working with pastels is usually called pastel painting. It is a way for artists to paint directly with pigment without the intermediary of a brush. Blending can be done with the finger, blending tools or a brush. Pastels come as oil pastels, soft pastels and hard pastels. Health concerns about breathing in dust from the [...]
Posted in Art Technique -Technical on Oct 10th, 2011
Drying Oils Drying oils are the binders used when making oil paint. These include linseed (flax), safflower, poppy and walnut oils. They are also the ingredients used when making painting mediums to add to the paint to adjust its qualities. Mediums are usually made from a drying oil and either a resin (like damar) or [...]