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Stonehenge Paper

Stonehenge Paper

Stonehenge is a traditional fine art paper with a smooth, flawless surface that is slightly mottled to resemble actual vellum. Use it for watercolor, printmaking, pen-and-ink, pencil, or pastel. Stonehenge is machine-made in the United States, from 100% cotton fibers. It's acid-free. Each sheet has two deckle edges. Sheets are available in a 90 lb weight, and in a variety of colors and sheet sizes.


Arches Watercolor Paper

Arches Watercolor Paper

The choice of leading watercolorists all over the world, Arches is the product of five centuries of papermaking experience. You can rely on Arches to always be consistent. Arches watercolor papers are mouldmade in France, with 100% cotton fiber content. They are pH neutral, gelatin-sized, and air-dried. Sheets have two deckle edges, are watermarked, and embossed.


Strathmore 400 Series Premium Recycled Paper Pads

Strathmore 400 Series Premium Recycled Paper Pads

Strathmore 400 drawing and sketching papers contain 10% post-consumer recovered material and over 40% pre-consumer recovered material. All papers are acid-free. Bright white paper, ideal for use with pencil, crayon, pen and ink, charcoal, or light washes. Paper is 80 lb (130 gsm), spiral-bound on the short side.


Twinrocker Handmade Watercolor Paper

Twinrocker Handmade Watercolor Paper

Twinrocker is 100% handmade. Owners Howard and Katherine Clarke run America's most prolific paper mill just down the road form us in Brookstone, Indiana. You'll love the chance to try your hand on these unusual sizes and shapes. Many of these sheets are "feather deckled" in a unique process invented by Twinrocker. All papers are neutral pH and sized with purely archival materials.


Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens

Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens

Pigmented India Ink in four nib sizes and 48 colors brings great versatility to pen-and-ink drawings requiring lots of intricate details. Pitt Artist Pens are great for sketching, journaling, cartooning, and drawing. The Superfine, Fine, Medium, and Brush nibs not only replace ink bottles — they’re instantly available for work. The ink is waterproof, unsurpassably lightfast, acid-free, and pH-neutral. The nib size is prominently displayed on the end of the cap.


Coit Lettering Pens

Coit Lettering Pens

The Coit non-flexible, non-rusting brass nib gives you the longest continuous stroke of all dip pens. No drag, no sputter, no blot. For large calligraphy and lettering on signs, posters, charts, etc. Be creative — make patterns, weaves, and textures using inks, tempera, watercolor, dyes, acrylics and gouache. Rinse clean with water. Each nib comes attached to its own long plastic holder. Includes sizes 1/16", 1/8", 3/16", 1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 5/8", 3/4", 1" wide.


Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph Pens

Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph Pens

Technical pens were the mainstay of the designer and illustrator's craft before the development of computer graphics. Now, many artists and design professionals are rediscovering the technical pen because its handiwork, in expert hands, stands out almost magically against the bland precision of computer rendered graphics. Dependability and high performance make Rapidograph technical pens the first choice among artists, designers, drafters, architects, and hobbyists. Rapidograph pens provide uninterrupted, productive drawing time. Each Rapidograph pen has a white plastic barrel with a refillable ink reservoir (pens do not come filled with ink), and a color-coded cap and point section.The double-seal cap is air-tight to keep the point from drying out. Each pen is identified by a standard point size or by its line width expressed in millimeters. (Point sizes do not correspond to points in the point/pica system of typographic measure.) Replacement point sections are available for all pens. Sizes 3×0, 2×0, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4, plus a bottle of Koh-I-Noor universal ink and nib keys in a hinged-lid plastic case.


Rotring Rapidograph Pens

Rotring Rapidograph Pens

The Rotring Rapidograph technical pen has a prefilled, disposable, capillary ink cartridge which offers a significant improvement over other technical pens in the single most troublesome area — consistent ink flow. Virtually no maintenance is required because the ink reservoir and the breathing system are one piece. This means that each time you replace the ink cartridge, the pen gets a complete new pressure equalization system, and you get instant ink flow without leaks or blobs until the cartridge is empty.Each pen is fully equipped with one cartridge, a stainless steel drawing point, and a color-coded barrel and cap with double seal and clip. It's refillable with cartridges only. Rotring 4-Pen Set —Sizes 3×0, 0, 1 and 2.5.Replacement Point Sections —Replacement tips for all size pens.Ink Cartridges —Replacement cartridge provides permanent, waterproof, black ink. Each box contains 3 cartridges. For use only in Rotring Pens.


Itoya Nikko Permanent Pens

Itoya Nikko Permanent Pens

fine-point pens write on virtually any surface, including film, metal, plastic, glass, wood and cellophane. Each pen contains a generous supply of quick-drying, permanent, waterproof ink that won't wash or rub off. The tips are fitted into long metal sleeves to allow drawing close alongside templates and rulers. Perfect for detail work as the hard plastic porous tips won't fray, and every line is precise.


Sanford Uni-Ball Pens

Sanford Uni-Ball Pens

Sanford's Uni-ball Pen incorporates a durable metal point, a precision tungsten ball, and a premium liquid ink. Uni-Ball has a sleek, matte black barrel with a color-coded tip and cap. The fine point pen has a 0.7 mm tip, while the ultra-fine point pen has a 0.5 mm tip.


Portfolio Series Acrylics

Portfolio Series Acrylics

Portfolio Series Acrylics are ideal for traditional acrylic painting and applications as varied as airbrushing, printmaking, and marbling, without chemical additives. These vivid colors are rich in pigment, and they have a thick, tube-like viscosity. Portfolio Series Acrylics adhere permanently to paper, wood, fabric, and clay. They dry to a flexible water-resistant finish. Clean up is easy — just rinse with soap and water.


Speedball Acrylics

Speedball Acrylics

Speedball Acrylics offer vibrant paints at economical prices. Just add imagination! This archival, water-based paint extends well when mixing. It is highly lightfast, dries quickly, and is water-resistant when dry. The paints have no harmful pigments, and are cadmium and cobalt-free.2½ oz (74 ml) tubes.


Bob Ross Master Paint Set

Bob Ross Master Paint Set

The Bob Ross Master Paint Set includes the following materials: Eight 37 ml (1.25 oz) tubes of oil colors: Alizarin Crimson, Bright Red, Cadmium Yellow, Sap Green, Phthalo Blue, Van Dyke Brown, Midnight Black, and Titanium White Liquid White, 4 oz (118 ml) Painting Knife, #10 Landscape Brush, 1" Background Brush, 2" Script Liner Brush, #2 Bob Ross instructional DVD


Sennelier Artists' Extra Fine Oil Paint Sets

Sennelier Artists' Extra Fine Oil Paint Sets

Oil sets from Sennelier are perfect for getting you started in this renowned paint line. The paint originally formulated at the request of the Impressionist School in Paris can now be yours! Contains eight, 40 ml (1.35 oz) tubes of basic mixing colors as well as a color chart.


Grumbacher Pan Watercolor Sets

Grumbacher Pan Watercolor Sets

Grumbacher uses two formulas for their pan watercolors, so you can enjoy the clarity of a transparent watercolor or the velvety coverage of an opaque. The colors are poured into large, circular cakes that snap in and out of the trays for cleaning and rearranging. Each set comes with a choice of either 12 or 24 colors. and includes a pointed, round red sable watercolor brush. The opaque watercolor sets include a 5 ml tube of Chinese White. Includes 24 pans, one in each of the following transparent colors: Lemon, Yellow, Indian Yellow, Orange, Vermilion, Permanent Red, Carmine, Violet, Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Prussian Blue, Turquoise Blue, Blue Green, French Green, Yellow Green, Green Oxide of Chromium, Raw Umber, Vandyke Brown, Burnt Sienna, Indian Red, Yellow Ochre, Flesh Color, Payne's Gray, and Lamp Black.


Talens Watercolor Pan Sets

Talens Watercolor Pan Sets

Made in Holland, these excellent educational quality watercolors are affordably priced for the student or beginning painter. Choose opaque watercolors for gouache effects and solid coverage. Choose transparent for traditional luminosity. Each removable pan is 30 mm (1.18") in diameter and snaps into place in its sturdy case. Sets of six have plastic cases while larger sets have metal cases. A 5 ml tube of opaque or transparent white is included with each set.


Blick Watercolor Brush Set

Blick Watercolor Brush Set

Blick's Watercolor Set is an affordable student set for fine detailing in watercolors and inks. It's a heterogeneous sampling that includes some of our best heritage watercolor brush series, as well as some of our newest brushes. We've had to make changes in the composition of this set from time to time, as some brushes become unavailable, but we've kept the value in the set. The complete set includes the following brushes: Blick Masterstroke Finest Red Sable Round (Series 558), Size 2 Blick Pointed Scholastic Round (Series 566), Size 5 and Size 7 Blick Academic Sable Round, Size 3/0 and Size 0 Blick Studio Sable Detail Round, Size 0


Holbein Bamboo Brush

Holbein Bamboo Brush

This bamboo brush has a long, tapered point of soft, dyed goat hair for watercolors, ink, and Japanese calligraphic lettering. It's hand set in a plastic ferrule with a bamboo handle. This set includes sizes 2, 4, and 6