Archive for July, 2011
Beauty from the Beach
Art can come from the most unlikely of places. All it takes is imagination. As a Northern California boy I have a passion for the beach and the beautiful environment we enjoy. Growing up in the art supply business led to an understandable appreciation for art in its many forms. So when the genesis for new art is the beach, and the result is wonderful pieces of art… More »
Live Art with Kristin Kyono
Kristin Kyono is a San Francisco artist specializing in mixed media painting and printmaking. Kyono’s work appeared in group exhibitions at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, SomArts Gallery, 111 Minna, and California Modern Gallery, among others… More »
Screen Printing Seminar
Annette Pierson of Jacquard will go through the steps required for traditional silk screen preparation, from mixing and applying the emulsion to burning the screen. You will explore alternate methods for using the screens with stencils, as well as… More »
Convenient Graphite Transferring
The newest thing to come to Flax is the Bernini Pencil Line Transfer Spray. It is a fast drying graphite spray that allows you to transfer drawings to paper, canvas, walls or art boards without dealing with the mess of carbon paper. The spray can be put on the back of digital prints, photographs, or sketches and after two or three minutes, it’s dry and ready to leave a soft grey line on… More »
Scratchboard – Easy to do Art
Full of endless possibilities, scratchboard is a medium that anyone can enjoy working with easily. Scratchboards are hard boards coated with white clay that are then coated with black India ink that can be etched and inked. We offer Ampersand Art Supply’s great selection of sizes and tools for “Scratchbord” art… More »
Aerosol Art Workshop
Join internationally renowned artist Max Ehrman (aka Eon75) as he demonstrates the unique properties of Montana Spray Paint. Learn the difference between the White, Black and Gold can lines and how they are used as a true art medium and can enhance a wide variety of art projects… More »
Kidsfest
We would like to invite you to join us for Kidsfest 2011, a fascinating day of discovery, imagination and learning for children and their parents. There will be lots of interactive events, demonstrations and a chance to win wonderful prizes… More »
New Oilbars are Buttery Smooth
Winsor & Newton has reintroduced the newly formulated Artists’ Oilbar with a new buttery consistency that enables fluid painting and drawing directly onto surfaces. Long awaited by artists who appreciate the freedom and directness of pastels or charcoal, the Oilbar is a stick of pure oil color that delivers immediate expression in rich colors. Artists’ Oilbar is fundamentally different from oil pastels and oil crayons due to its unique formulation. Oilbars dry just like normal oil paint, slowly over time unlike oil pastels which never dry. The new range has a spectrum of 50 colors, each of which is produced by combining artists’ quality pigments with linseed or safflower oil, blended with specially selected wax. A colorless blender allows you to… More »
Recycled Pigment Dust – Oil Paint Competition
Creating oil paint can be messy (and somewhat dangerous). At Gamblin Artists Colors, an abundance of pigment particles are collected at the factory in their Torrit® Air Filtration system that captures airborne dust. Each Spring, those collected pigments are recycled and formulated by paint makers into “Gamblin Torrit Grey”. If you took all the pigments in the color spectrum and mixed them together, what color would you make? The mix of pigments varies from year to year, so Torrit Grey is always unique and will never be repeated. The actual color tends to have a greenish tinge because of the powerful strength of the Phthalo Green pigment, (a dark bluish green). The color ranges from a medium dove grey to a dark… More »
Canson Infinity Digital Papers
The new Canson Infinity Inkjet Fine Art and Photographic papers are a team effort by world renowned paper mills Canson and Arches. Winner of the 2010 Technical Image Press Association Award, the museum grade papers are acid free, as well as internally buffered to resist gas fading and maximize the conservation of prints for several generations… More »