ColArt Americas to launch new Winsor & Newton Superior Artists’ Acrylic Color at NAMTA in Louisville. Why a new Artist Acrylic? Brand leader Winsor & Newton must be represented by the best acrylic in the world, superior to all others in every key feature! Why it’s the BEST! Unrivalled brilliance and depth of color NO color shift from wet to dry…period Longer open working time New pigments unique to professional acrylics Artist Acrylic Features: 80 colors in 60ml tubes (69 single pigment and 11 mixed colors) 17 new colors (Cobalts, Perylenes, earths, metallics, inorganics, & synthetic organics) 36 best-selling colors in 200ml tubes New Display Look AND…a stunning new Artist…

Chroma is  excited to have a new video on its website,  Bigger and Bolder Watercolors with Atelier Interactive, found at the Chroma Media Library. In this 2-part video, Chroma Teaching Artist Barry Sholder demonstrates his method of creating vibrant “watercolor” paintings using Interactive on full sheets of watercolor paper. Bigger and Bolder painting is an Impressionistic style of painting that incorporates very wet paper surfaces and the brilliant characteristics of Interactive’s line of artist acrylics and mediums.  Materials and their use are explained, as well as simple compositional concepts that are easy to understand and executed, to produce beautifully vibrant paintings much like a watercolor … only using acrylics. Perfect…

Notes from Elmer’s Mike Mankowsky… “BTS planning and sales are just around the corner and I encourage you to check out MacPherson’s Fall BTS Buyer’s Guide for a great selection of featured products from Elmer’s. A sampling of what you find includes item such as: ·         Bienfang Fine Art Pads:  Our newly designed pad covers have been a great success and you will find the complete assortment of fine art pads on promotion.  Choose from such well known products as Raritan Drawing Pads, Nelson Bristol, Take Me Along Sketch Books, NoteSketch, Canvasette, and others.  All of our fine art pads are now in convenient case packs of 6 for easy…

There’s still time* to take advantage of all these ColArt essential savings! ·         All Cotman WC tubes and sets ·         All LIQUITEX 2 oz. Soft Body tube & jar acrylics ·         All LIQUITEX Super Heavy Body Acrylics ·         All DERWENT Blister Pack Pencil sets ·         Bristol Sketch & WC Easels CAP Dealers!!! ·         All ARTIST WATER COLOURS! ·         All LIQUITEX Heavy Body 4.65 oz. & 32 oz. large size acrylic color ·         All BASICS 118ml & 250ml tube acrylics ·         Derwent Coloursoft Sets & Assts ·         Bristol Sketch & WC Easels – ++discount! *All orders must be received by ColArt by May 15th, 2009.

The ArtBattles is a regular live art event in New York that introduces emerging artists to the market. Through competition and live art showcase events complete with DJ’s, music and an audience, ArtBattles presents the creative process as a form of entertainment. Providing a unique forum for connecting artists with buyers, they aim to establish a new model for art and commerce to come together, influence and inspire. Check out the link below for hot pictures from the latest ArtBattles event, sponsored by MABEF and Art Alternatives! Art Battles Join the ArtBattles group on Facebook! Art Battles Facebook Group MTV Art Battles – Vote Now at ARTBATTLES.MTV.COM! @ Yahoo! Video

Princeton Art & Brush Co. is celebrating its 18th year in business by launching a barrage of new and updated products at NAMTA next month. To start the celebration early, they are offering an additional discount to encourage retailers to promote all Princeton products, sets and open stock, on a Buy-One-Get-One–Free basis. Princeton President Howard Kaufman says, “Times are tough for all of our customers. That’s why we started 2009 by holding our prices. We now feel it’s our job to help our dealers get more customers into their stores and to encourage those customers to buy more.” And it’s not just discount. Princeton is providing signage kits including 4-color…

Canson Treasure Mats This is a beautiful collection of Canson papers bound in a 4.5″ x 6.5″ pad.   Available in a distinctive collection of archival papers including:  Expressions, Mi-Teintes Heritage, Mi-Teintes Tuxedo, and Effects. These versatile collections of paper are perfect for matting 4″ x 6″ photos, creating mini artist books, creating greeting cards and creating post cards as well as numerous other paper-craft projects. Tape Bound, 60 sheets/pad.  Acid-free. New Rembrandt Pastels Set Display Without doubt the world’s most popular soft pastel  sets are Rembrandt, and they are now available in a new set-focused counter assortment.  This attractive compact wooden display matches the new open stock displays and allows…

New Pottery Tools and New Assortment! Available in warehouses now! 15 new Pottery Tools have been added to the existing Art Alternatives line along with a new Pottery Tool assortment (AA17399) featuring an unbeatable discount! The 108-piece assortment comes as one SKU in one box; all items are individually packaged and bar-coded and a free header card is included. All pottery tools are available as open stock for replenishment. Easy to order and easy to sell! There is also a better discount on the essential 8-piece pottery tool kit. All new items are available at an every day discount of 65% and a whopping 70% for Art Alternatives dealers! If…

Gamblin Artists Colors Co is pleased to announce the expansion of its line of Dry Pigments.  Based on feedback from retail partners and painters, Gamblin has added four colors to their line of Dry Pigments.  These additional colors expand the possibilities for artists wishing to work with earth colors.  Dry Pigments were one of their fastest growing product lines last year, as encaustics, wood finishing using oil painting materials, and decorative painting all continued to grow. Gamblin’s line of Dry Pigments gives the artist access to color in its purest form and greatest versatility.  These completely lightfast pigments can be used to make all types of painting mediums including oil…

GOLDEN Launches New Web Videos Artists now have the ability to access online videos about various GOLDEN products.  These short, informative videos give customers valuable technical product information.  Each video, which focuses on a specific product, can be found on the www.goldenpaints.com Web site as well as the GOLDEN Company page of www.youtube.com.  Artists can download the videos or link to them using a simple cut-and-paste method from the YouTube video page. Videos currently available include: •    GOLDEN Silverpoint  / Drawing Ground •    GOLDEN Clear Tar Gel •    Printing on Specialty Papers with GOLDEN Digital Grounds •    Creating and Printing on Acrylic Skins with GOLDEN Acrylics and Digital Grounds •   …