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.  Also available in tins of 12, 24, 36, 72, a wood box of 72, plus beginner sets of 6 on a blister card and a mixed media blister of 8 products. Derwent Pastel Pencil Sets…

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: · …

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…

Art Alternatives got a great shout-out for 4 of its terrific kid-friendly items from the hugely popular mom-inspired blog called Metropolitan Mama… just in time for this vey short holiday gift-giving season! MacPherson’s is already cleaned out of many gift sets so you will be happy to note we have plenty of stock on these great gifts. Here they are: The Art Alternatives Junior Brush & Smock Set (AA11111) Rainbow Marker Sets (AAV-FAN, AAV-FANMINI)   and the Artist’s Value Pack (AA75001) Here are some facts about the blog/website: Metropolitan Mama {est. January 2007} is a travel and lifestyle site for moms and moms-to-be. • Website Grader currently ranks Metropolitan Mama as being in…

Check out Pentel’s new inking center products in the Pentel Arts Inking Center Retrofit Kit: Add the 6 new inking products to the best-selling display of the last few years – the Pentel Inking Center. Pentel has developed 6 new products for the Inking Center: +  A Bold Point Brush Pen with water-soluble black ink. +  A Fine Point Brush Pen with water-soluble black ink +  A Fine Point Brush Pen with permanent, pigmented ink. +  Duopoint, a double-ended water-soluble Brush Pen. +  Slicci .25mm Black Gel Pen. +  Finito Porous Point Black Pigmented Ink Pen. Pentel makes it easy to upgrade to the new assortment for the Inking Center.…