The journal sent to me was the 5″ x 7″, cold pressed 100% cotton paper, 300gsm/140lb spiral bound with 15 perforated sheets of paper for easy removal from the pad. Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolour Paper is a luxury paper made from 100% cotton and is naturally acid-free and archival. It is cylinder mould made, and contains…
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PRICE ALERT! Tombow Dual Brush Pens
From “Lettering With Love” showing blending of Tombow Dual Brush Pens Hello all. Amazon.com is having a sale on their Tombow Dual Brush Pen Sets. These pens are water-soluble and can be used like watercolor pens. Their brush pen end also makes beautiful lettering techniques which I am learning in this book, Lettering With Purpose…
NEW! Custom Schmincke Square Palette
Previous Wet Paint Custom Schmincke Palette Holy COW!! I heard from Kate at Wet Paint and she confirmed that indeed they ARE making a new CUSTOM SCHMINCKE PALETTE for October! Yes! THIS October. They’re not waiting until 2018 which means we don’t have to wait either. I’m thrilled. I didn’t get one of the last wonderful…
The New Schmincke Watercolors
Schmincke has brought out 35 new watercolors to celebrate their 125th year. That brings their color count to 140 brilliant watercolors. Wet Paint provided me with the New Schmincke’s dot card which is unavailable to the general public at this time. They’re a terrific place to purchase Schmincke watercolors. They have good prices with low shipping…
PRICE ALERT! (For Canadians!!!)
Uniball Vision NeedleMicro Pens, one of my very favorite pans, is on super sale on Amazon.ca. YAY, Canadians get a sale! These pens write super smooth, they’re waterproof when dry and they dry really fast. I’m left handed and I never smudge a drawing using these. This is my goto pen for adding “character” to a…
PRICE ALERT! Sketchbooks & Pens
Hi everybody. I noticed there are some really great prices on sketchbooks and pens on several brands. I think it must be because we’re right in the middle of back to school time. I’m just gonna list them here so you can see just what’s available at really good prices. Staedler Pigment Liners 6 piece…
Stragglers
I made some of my own toned paper the other day. I wanted to practice on toned paper so I would be ready for all the sketchbooks, pads and paper that will be arriving for my toned paper comparison post. I’m so excited to be able to try paper from Hahnemühle, Strathmore, Stillman & Birn,…
PRICE ALERT! Whiskey Painter’s Travel Palette
Whiskey Painters have been well known to make the best, most sturdy palettes. Now they have brought out a much lighter travel palette that is great for Plein Air painting. It technically the palette holds 12 half pans but in pictures, artists are showing that not only can you get an extra pan on the…
New Winsor & Newton Supplies
Last month I won three tubes of Artist quality Winsor & Newton watercolors, a Series 7 W&N brush and a spiral bound 5″ x 7″ sketchbook of 300gsm cold pressed watercolor paper. Really, I never win anything and since I won two gifts of paint in one month I’m taking it as a sign to…
PRICE ALERT! Strathmore Softcover Sketchbook
Hi all, this just in, Strathmore Softcover Journals are on sale at Amazon! This is the 8″ x 5.5″ softcover portrait watercolor sketchbook. The paper is 300gsm/140lb and there’s 48 pages. All that for just $11.84, that’s 42% off. Obviously it takes watercolor but also anything else you could through at it, pen & ink,…