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Our classes are based on individual instruction, i.e. private lesson in a group environment. Your instructor will teach you the principals of art through your choice of project and medium. Using this method allows you to learn at your own pace.
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Naturally colored with no optical brightness additives. Also available: Arches Bright White Watercolour Paper.
Leak-proof. Rust-proof. Makes washing brushes fun, in the studio or on the road.
Synthetic Sable. Great for Watercolour and suitable for acrylics • Designed for detail work.
We're not crazy about it but it's inexpensive and we have lots of it.
Arches Watercolour Paper Sheets
Naturally colored with no optical brightness additives. Also available: Arches Bright White Watercolour Paper.
Leak-proof. Rust-proof. Makes washing brushes fun, in the studio or on the road.
Princeton 3050 Miniature Brushes
Synthetic Sable. Great for Watercolour and suitable for acrylics • Designed for detail work.
We're not crazy about it but it's inexpensive and we have lots of it.
Pentalic C2F Utility Sketchbook
BIG utility sketch book has 288 pages.
Despite manufacturing over half a million individual sticks a year the pastels are still completely hand made and retain all the qualities of the originals. They are mixed to John’s meticulous recipes and are based on traditional pigments such as cadmiums, cobalts and natural and synthetic earths.
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Over a decade ago, in the hills of Northumberland, England, artist John Hersey began hand-making his own pastels. Gently hand-rolled and air-dried, each stick is as much an organic sculpture as it is a tool. Look closely at a stick and you may see the fine lines and fingerprints imparted by the pastels’ creator. Each pastel takes on the tapered shape of the bowl of the maker’s palms. Hersey’s unique color formulations contain only pure pigments in a cycle of related hues, instead of adding white or black to the colors. The result is intense, vibrant color application not muddied by the blending of colors. The color range is sublime overall and at moments astonishing.
