SURFACES
We offer a range of painting surfaces from canvas rolls to wood panels (up to 60" x 60"!) and other unique surfaces to paint, draw or mix media on. Our vast array of sketchbooks and journals will hold up to the creative process and travel with you wherever your art adventures take you. Whether big or small, we have the surface to get you started!
We also offer canvas by the yard! To get you going, please see our tutorial How to Stretch Your Own Canvas.
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Birch Wood Panels, 1-5/8 deep
$4.80Made with pride in the Pacific Northwest, these wood panels are constructed with a Baltic Birch face and a smooth solid Poplar cradle (frame around the back). The cradled back ensures no warping, flexing, stretching, and makes for easy hanging. As the...$4.80 -
Fredrix Standard Stretcher Bars
$1.58Fredrix Standard Stretcher Bars are precision cut using state-of-the-art computer driven milling machines to ensure a smooth and tight fit with a tongue-and-groove design. The wood is sourced from managed sustainable forests primarily in the North...$1.58 -
Foamboard White
$5.60This rigid, warp-resistant foamboard with its smooth, white, clay-coated surface is ideal for mounting, paints, markers or screen printing. When cut with a sharp knife, the edge bounces back for a clean edge appealing to model makers. Low pH factor helps...$5.60 -
BEST Stretcher Bars, Heavy Duty
$5.15BEST Heavy Duty Stretcher Bars are made of pine that has been finger-spliced – a method of bonding pieces of lumber together to form a very long, straight bar that becomes stronger than the natural wood, First designed for the construction...$5.15 -
Canson Colorline Papers
$1.99Canson Colorline Papers are designed for universal use. A vivid and contemporary color range, nice medium weight and a dual-surface combine to make Colorline an easy choice. The smooth side is ideal for felt and marker pens, while the...$1.99 -
Birch Wood Panels, 7/8 deep
$4.80Made with pride in the Pacific Northwest, these wood panels are constructed with a Baltic Birch face and a smooth solid Poplar cradle (frame around the back). The cradled back ensures no warping, flexing, stretching, and makes for easy hanging. As the...$4.80 -
Foamboard Black
$7.80This rigid, warp-resistant black foamboard is laminated on both sides with black matte paper. Ideal for displays, signs and presentations, when cut with a sharp knife the edge bounces back for a clean edge. CFC-free. Boards larger than 32" x 40" are not...$7.80 -
Canson Mi-Teintes Paper
$2.95Canson Mi-Teintes Papers are our most popular for pastel, drawing, multi-media and paper crafts. They are dual-surface with a heavy pronounced texture on one side and a smooth side for detailed work. Acid-free, and light resistant with a high cotton...$2.95 -
Bienfang White Sketch & Tracing Rolls
$15.80Bienfang White Sketching and Tracing Rolls are top quality rolls of drawing paper. Used by designers, engineers, architects, and artists, the 8 lb. paper is excellent for sketches, roughs, and preliminary drawings. With a fine surface texture, this paper...$15.80 -
Artists' Canvas Boards
$1.35Artists' Canvas Boards are an economical alternative to stretched canvas. The canvas is laminated onto a high quality board with excellent stability, and the surface has a medium grain ideal for all techniques. The panels are prepared with a...$1.35 -
Strathmore Blank Watercolor Postcards
$6.65Strathmore Watercolor Postcards are made specifically to hold up to any wet media, including watercolor, acrylic, or gouache. They are a great way to send special greetings to family and friends. 15 postcards measuring 4" x 6" in a tape-bound pad. The...$6.65 -
Canson XL Mixed Media Pads
$7.95XL Mixed Media Pads feature heavy-weight paper with a sizing designed to hold up to watercolor, acrylics and dry media. The durable paper provides an excellent surface for blending. These wirebound pads are designed to provide a superior, versatile paper...$7.95 -
Chipboard, Full Sheets
$5.50Chipboard is a non-archival, affordable board with many uses. Made from 100 percent recycled fibers that are bonded together, chipboard is very durable. Sturdy and rigid with an uncoated smooth finish on both sides, it is popular for many creative...$5.50 -
Duro Oil Board, 24" x 36"
$5.80Perfect for making your own stencils, Duro Oil Board is fused with drying oils to resist bleed through and provide sharp clean edges that resist fuzzing even after repeated use. The high quality 15 pt. paper sheets are also laser cuttable. Made in...$5.80 -
Strathmore Artist Trading Cards
$3.55Artist Trading Cards make it easy for artists to express themselves in a small format and exchange their creations with other artists. Artists can create, trade, and collect these trading cards at “swap" events. The only official rule for ATCs is...$3.55 -
All-Purpose Chipboard, Cut Sizes
$0.99Chipboard is a non-archival, affordable board with many uses. Made from 100 percent recycled fibers that are bonded together, chipboard is very durable. Sturdy and rigid with an uncoated smooth finish on both sides, it is popular for many creative...$0.99 -
Colorplan Paper
$4.95Colorplan Paper has a subtle vellum texture that makes it suitable for many applications, including digital printing, letterpress, pastel, charcoal and silkscreen. It has fantastic tensile strength, which allows for great...$4.95 -
Masterpiece Vincent Pro Monterey Stretched Canvas
$5.79Masterpiece makes premium stretched canvases. Vincent Pro Monterey canvas is 7oz 100% cotton, triple primed with archival quality gesso to a weight of 10.5oz. It has a medium, uniform surface perfect for oil and acrylic. The canvas is drum-tight, thanks...$5.79 -
Strathmore 300 Series Bristol Pads
$11.60Strathmore 300 Series Bristol Pads contain heavy-weight 100lb, acid-free paper in a choice of two surfaces. Smooth surface bristol paper is good for technical applications in mechanical drawing, marker, pen & ink and airbrush. Vellum has a bit more...$11.60 -
Strathmore 400 Drawing Pads
$5.60400 Series Drawing Pads contain cream colored drawing paper, ideal for sketching and most finished work. This pad has medium surface textured paper that readily accepts graphite pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, pen & ink, marker, soft pastel, oil...$5.60 -
Strathmore Museum Mounting Boards
$16.95Strathmore Museum Mounting Boards are designed for mounting and matting fine archival works of art. The specially treated, acid-free 100% cotton fibers and buffering agent provide enduring protection from the destructive effects of acid. These boards...$16.95 -
Mini Stretched Canvases
$1.99Mini Stretched Canvases are made with the same acid-free acrylic primed cotton as Art Alternatives' regular stretched canvas. Suitable for use with all acrylic paints, oil paints and other wet or dry media. Mini Easels available separately.$1.99 -
Acid Free Foamboard
$12.80Acid-Free Foamboard is used as a mounting surface by photographers and artists who are concerned about preserving their work. Unlike regular foam board whose surface has a pH rating of 6.5, this archival sheet has a pH rating in the 7.3 to 8.5 range...$12.80 -
Artist Canvas Value Packs
$28.95These economically friendly, value packs of artist canvas are great for quick studies, practice and classroom or high volume use. The 100% cotton is triple primed with acid-free acrylic titanium gesso and has a uniform weave with medium texture. The...$28.95 -
W&N Classic Stretched Canvas, 3/4" Deep
$2.99From Winsor & Newton, these Classic Stretched Canvases are 100% cotton with a medium texture, prepared for high performance with a titanium dioxide gesso primer and a finished weight of 12.3 oz. Stretched to perfection by hand, each canvas is...$2.99 -
W&N Classic Stretched Canvas, 1-3/8" Deep
$9.60From Winsor & Newton, these Classic Stretched Canvases are 100% cotton with a medium texture, prepared for high performance with a titanium dioxide gesso primer and a finished weight of 12.3 oz. Stretched to perfection by hand, each canvas is...$9.60 -
Arches Watercolor Paper, Natural White
$7.95Arches is made the traditional way, on a cylinder mold, and this watercolor paper has been the benchmark and standard that all other watercolor papers rival. Its composition with long fibers of 100% cotton gives the paper its strength, beauty, a...$7.95 -
Railroad Board, White 22" x 28"
$0.99Railroad board is great for construction, art projects, mats, mounting, block printing, painting, markers, stenciling and posters. The surface is white and smooth, with one side having a glossy finish. 6 ply (20 pt.), recycled and recyclable.$0.99 -
Arches Watercolor Pads
$26.30Arches Watercolor Pads hold the same paper as their high quality, best selling full sheet papers, but in a convenient tape-bound pad. The paper in each pad is gelatin sized, which creates a consistent surface texture and makes the paper absorbent...$26.30 -
Strathmore 400 Series Recycled Sketch Pads
$5.95400 Series Recycled Sketch Pads have a fine tooth finish paper, making them an excellent, general-purpose sketch pad. This heavy-weight sketch paper is intended for experimentation and quick studies with graphite pencil, colored pencil, charcoal,...$5.95 -
Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media Pads
$6.50400 Series Mixed Media Pads are great for studies and finished art. This heavy-weight vellum paper can be used with watercolor, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pen & ink, colored pencil, marker, pastel, and more. Each glue-bound pad contains 15 sheets...$6.50 -
Fluid Watercolor Blocks, Cold Press
$8.45Fluid Watercolor Paper Blocks are high quality watercolor papers at an affordable price. Crafted in a European mill that has been producing fine art paper since 1618, these watercolor paper blocks are made with machines that are able to operate at very...$8.45 -
Lenox 100 Paper, 22" x 30"
$4.15Lenox 100 is a machine-made paper created to have its own unique characteristics which make it so suitable for a variety of media. At only 250gsm, Lenox paper is very dimensionally stable, making it an excellent paper for silkscreen. It's medium textured...$4.15 -
Crescent Illustration Boards, 15" x 20"
$4.55Crescent Illustration Boards are used for all illustration media and techniques, They feature high-quality surface papers mounted to a rigid gray core. Ideal for professionals as well as students. Cold press boards have textured surfaces and hot...$4.55 -
Legion Stonehenge Paper, White
$4.75Stonehenge is a very versatile paper for artists working in a broad spectrum of media. Originally created as a printmaking paper, Stonehenge is used for letterpress, pen & ink, pastel & charcoal, relief printing, silkscreen, and watercolor. This...$4.75 -
Corrugated Cardboard Sheets
$5.95Corrugated cardboard sheets with a brown kraft surface have a matte finish that easily accepts markers, crayons, paints, and adhesives. Lightweight and rigid, with C-Flute interior construction that cuts easily with a knife or razor blade. Perfect for...$5.95 -
Shuji Gami Paper Rolls
$14.55Shuji Gami Paper Rolls for sumi-e, calligraphy and watercolor, are also used for origami paper and even lantern making. This versatile paper has been used throughout Japanese history in a wide variety of applications. Made from Kozo, Shuji...$14.55 -
Crescent Ultra Black Boards
$4.35Crescent Ultra Black Boards feature one smooth side that is perfect for mounting, and a textured side ideal for pastels, chalk and acrylic paint. These boards are the blackest and most fade-resistant boards available, solid black throughout...$4.35 -
Raw Canvas by the Yard
$9.50100% natural cotton canvas, raw and unprimed, 10 ounce weight. 63" wide x as many yards as you want. Add some gesso to prepare the perfect surface for your next acrylic or oil painting. For assistance, please see our tutorial How to Stretch Your Own...$9.50 -
Arches Watercolor Blocks
$32.95Arches Watercolor Blocks consist of beautiful 100% pure cotton rag paper that has been mold-made, cut and tape-bound into blocks made for easy use in any environment. A staple in the papermaking world, Arches creates paper that has been relied upon and...$32.95