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Pastel Beauty, Pencil Control

Derwent wood cased pastel pencils have a soft, powdery texture which produces a velvety smooth finish, ideal for mixing and blending. All the qualities of a pastel with the control of a pencil.
Derwent Pastel Pencils come in 72 naturally water-soluble colours and have a round 8mm barrel and a wide 4mm soft core. Pastel pencils are extremely popular for portrait work and are available in a handy tin of 12 especially selected colors, ideal for all skin tone portrait work.

Bill Sethre

The Herald News of Monterey Bay California reports that John Wiseman will be closing Art Max due to lawsuits and claims filed by his son and ex-daughter-in-law. It makes for quite a sad and sordid story and proves that Murphy’s law is alive and well in family businesses. Read the whole story here:  Art Max to close.

Tim & Kerry

“The Science and Spiritual Resonance of Paint” What a great title that would have been for an article and Pete Cole reports the National Endowment for the Arts is featuring Gamblin this month in their magazine and online. The article is available online so check it out: Painting the Town Napthol Red.

Check out  the commercial some very creative customers made for Raw Materials in downtown Los Angeles. Say hi to the store’s mascot Wonton! 

There’s a amazing new smart phone app called Art Around Town: It tracks street art and fosters community. It’s a community-generated map, tagged with the locations of publically accessible art, including murals, sculptures and, yes, even graffiti. It already features hundreds of pieces of public art in Washington, San Francisco, New York and Oakland, Calif., and it’s growing – a street in Spokane, Wash., already features seven tags. Check out a PBS article with lots more details. Art Around Town on PBS

Strathmore Artist Papers™ is pleased to introduce a new product line – Artist Tiles, for pattern drawing and meditative art. Now artists can experience the emotional benefits of art more conveniently with affordable, pre-cut artist tiles in appropriate paper surfaces and sizes. Items include papers from the 300 Series and 400 Series offering that are suitable for common techniques and media used in patterning and meditative art.

The new line was developed in response to growing popularity of pattern drawing where artists combine repetitive marks, circles, lines, and forms to create small pieces of art. This easy-to-learn art form is credited with helping individuals clear their minds, and become more focused and relaxed.

Some of the benefits and features of Artist Tiles items are:
·      Papers available in a range of options: 300 Series Bristol, 400 Series Watercolor, 400 Series Artagain® Black, and 400 Series Recycled Sketch. Acid free.
·      Sizes include 4” x 4” tiles for traditional patterning, or 6” x 6” for those who prefer working in larger scale.
·      Formats include packages, glue bound pads, and a wire bound sketch format with micro-perforated sheets.
·      Made in the U.S.A.

Product offering includes the following items:
·      300 Series Bristol Vellum: 4” x 4” Packs ▪ 6” x 6” Glue Bound Pads
·      400 Series Watercolor: 4” x 4” Packs ▪ 6” x 6” Glue Bound Pads
·      400 Series Artagain Black: 6” x 6” Glue Bound Pads
·      400 Series Recycled Sketch: 6” x 6” Wire Bound Pads with Micro-perforations

New OPEN Acrylics Landscape Set from GOLDEN!

GOLDEN OPEN Acrylics continue to be adopted by more and more artists who are finding these innovative slow-drying acrylics to be the perfect acrylic for their painting style. OPEN Acrylics are ideal for:
• Representational art
• Subtractive techniques
• Printing techniques
• Mixing with standard acrylics
To engage even more artists with OPEN Acrylics, GOLDEN is introducing a new OPEN Acrylics Landscape Set. The OPEN Landscape Set is designed to catch the eye of the traditional painter looking for an alternative to oil paints, or simply to those painters who identify with a more representational approach to painting. Since OPEN Acrylics will remain wet far longer than other acrylics, color mixtures resist skinning on the palette during long painting sessions, both in the studio and outdoors. The remarkably relaxed working properties facilitate the blending, softening and shading required for traditional painting techniques.

Colors and mediums included in the OPEN Landscape Set: OPEN Cadmium Yellow Primrose 22 ml, OPEN Yellow Ochre 22 ml, OPEN Alizarin Crimson Hue 22 ml, OPEN Cadmium Red Light 22 ml, OPEN Ultramarine Blue 22 ml, OPEN Manganese Blue Hue 22 ml, OPEN Sap Green Hue 22 ml, OPEN Titanium White 2 oz., OPEN Thinner 1 oz.
Item # GD0957-0
UPC: 7-38797009578
List Price: $40.95
W x H x L: 5.5 x 1.8 x 11.85
Weight: 1 lb
Shipping began November 1, 2013.

Visit GOLDEN in New Location at Creativeworld 2014

For more than 10 years, GOLDEN has been exhibiting at Creativeworld, the leading international trade fair for paper, office supplies, stationary and art supplies.  This year, GOLDEN is exhibiting in a new booth with Art Select (Hall 4.1 Stand G37), so please be sure to stop by and visit during the show, which is from January 25 – January 28, 2014.

Holiday Schedule Reminder

Golden Artist Colors will be closed on November 28th and 29th in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Please plan your needs accordingly.

 

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