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Itoya Profolio Series

Your artwork will slide into Itoya's "pocket" pages for a highly organized, customized and professional presentation!
- Unlike vinyl, Itoya's PolyGlass pages will not warp, migrate, discolor, or stick to your artwork. The manufacturing process allows these pages to achieve unprecedented levels of clarity and a texture-free, glass-smooth surface. Your art and photos will appear unobstructed, with crisp, sharp lines and vivid colors.
- Lightweight, recycled, polypropylene covers protect artwork and documents from virtually any damaging office, household, or environmental elements.

- Includes European made, quality crafted, acid free black mounting paper that is safe for all your art.
Itoya offers 5 unique styles:
Art Profolio Professional: Style and Clarity for Serious Artists and Photographers
With its stylish, contemporary cover and its exclusive PolyGlass® pocket sheets, no other presentation book on the market shows off your materials better. A soft yet durable polyurethane cover with black textured finish gives the Art Profolio Professional a metropolitan appeal. The advanced, synthetic materials give the look and feel of natural leather while being resilient to wear and maintaining long term beauty. Available in 10 popular sizes: 4” x 6” to 14” x 17”
Art ProFolio Multi-Ring Refillable Binder: Sleek, Contemporary Exterior Design
The Art Profolio Multi-Ring Refillable Binder features a rigid and lightweight polypropylene cover with durable, matte black precision steel binder rings. A unique, center mounted, multi-fold spine allows the Art Profolio Multi-Ring Refillable Binder to lay perfectly flat for presentations. Made from a unique and proprietary process, the recycled polypropylene cover is rigid to protect the contents, yet lightweight for easy transport of your important presentations. Includes one pack plus bonus sheet. Available in nine popular digital image and art sizes: 8 ½” x 11” to 14” x 17”
Art ProFolio Multi-Ring Mini: Slim Spine Multi-Ring Binder
The ability to add and subtract pages from your presentation just got a whole lot easier with the Art Profolio® Multi-Ring Mini Refillable Binder. The “Mini” allows a sleek and slim profile for those thinner presentations of up to 20 pocket sleeves. The pages are locked in place with an exclusive acrylic ring mechanism that snaps together and holds the pages securely. Despite its smaller rings, the Art Profolio® Multi-Ring Mini Refillable Binder uses the same pockets as the larger Multi-Ring binder so you don’t need to buy a different set of insert pages like other company’s small binders. And the easy-to-use Mini ring mechanism means no screw-posts to disassemble, making assembly of your presentation fast and efficient. Available in three popular digital image and art sizes, both portrait and landscape formats: 8 ½” x 11”, 14x11, & 17” x 11”
Art ProFolio Advantage: Exclusive PolyGlass® pocket sheets; crystal clear clarity unlike any other
The Art Profolio Advantage sports a fresh contemporary look for the ultimate understatement in presentation and storage. Using a special polypropylene material, the Art Profolio Advantage incorporates a rigid, yet lightweight black poly cover for added durability with easy-to-carry mobility. The Advantage, fashioned with a muted texture cover surface, pages that are fastened solidly to the cover with black anodized metal rivets, and features a multi-fold spine that lies completely flat ensures that your Photos and Artwork are the stars of your presentation.
Available in 10 popular sizes: 4” x 6” to 14” x 17”
Art Profolio: The Original
The only storage/display book of its kind! Accept no imitations! Archival safe for all your art storage needs. Great for storing art, photographs, film and more. Top-loading, clear polypropylene sheets will not stick to copier toner and is also ideal for storing a vast array of artwork and memory projects. Includes quality crafted, acid free black mounting paper making the Art Profolio archival safe for all your art storage needs.
Available in wide variety of sizes: 4” x 6” to 14” x 17”

Canson Art Boards

Thirteen of your favorite papers that stand alone! Canson Art Boards provide artists the benefits of a stiff, strong working surface – with Canson and Arches quality paper on top. It’s an exciting innovation – a complete range of boards for a variety of media and techniques, from illustration and comic art to drawing, watercolor and pastel. These boards are created to withstand the rigors of repeated watercolor washes or the pressure of building up pastel. Because Canson Art Boards are mounted on white, acid-free, lignin-free, archival conservation board, they are both durable and long lasting. No Mounting Required. Canson Art Boards are ready for framing without mounting, eliminating a step as well as the added expense.
Arches Watercolor Boards - The ultimate choice for watercolor, gouache or ink washes, Arches Watercolor Art Boards offer natural white, mould-made French watercolor paper in cold press, hot press and rough surfaces.
Montval Watercolor Boards - Montval Watercolor Art Boards feature cold press French watercolor paper, excellent for watercolor, acrylic, gouache or ink washes. Natural white.
Bristol Plate Boards - Bristol Plate is an ideal foundation for pen and ink renderings or technical drawing, or work in hard pencil. It is a rich, natural white surface that is smooth and hard enough for detailed work.
Illustration/Comic Boards - These ultra-smooth boards provide a brilliant foundation for ink, marker, felt-tip pen and pencil that stands up to erasing and scraping. Made without optical brighteners, boards are extra white for superior contrast.
Black Drawing Boards - These art boards deliver a dramatic surface for pencil, chalk and gouache. Very finely textured, the paper is acid-free, and highly resistant to light and fading.
C à grain Drawing Boards - C à grain Art Boards provide a luxurious surface with pronounced texture for drawing that stands up to repeated erasing and reworking. Ideal for charcoal, Conté crayon or pastel, or very soft pencil.
Pure White Drawing Boards - Pure White Art Boards offer a luminous white, fine textured surface perfect for detailed work in pen, pencil or colored pencil. Sturdy and erasable.
Canson Edition Boards - Versatile Canson Edition Art Boards provide a substantial textured surface that is excellent for drawing, printmaking and multi-media expression. In vanilla and bright white.
 
 

Gamblin FastMatte Alkyd Oil Colors

 
FastMatte colors solve a real problem for oil painters. Dry-time and permanence issues that come with using acrylics as an underpainting layer are the two primary concerns of these painters. In response, Gambling built a focused line of colors to address these and others needs of oil painters. The FastMatte colors carry an artist grade pigment load, dry quickly but retain the permanence and working properties of artist grade oils, and glaze or varnish to a satin or high-gloss finish if desired.

The Grex GCK01 Airbrush System

 
This all inclusive system combines everything a beginner airbrusher needs to easily setup their first airbrush. This kit includes the popular Grex Genesis.XT - one of the most comfortable, easy and intuitive to use airbrushes. Along with the AC1810-A quiet mini compressor and additional accessories, this makes for a very complete kit.
 

 

Jack Richeson O’Connel Easel

This easel was designed and engineered by a painter. The quality and care that goes into each easel is obvious. Each easel is built by hand, made from hand-rubbed, oil-finished solid oak. Joints stay together because they are first nailed, then glued, then wood-screwed. Only high-quality, heavy-duty hardware is used.

Art Spectrum Colourfix™ Papers

 
Are sheets of acid-free hot press watercolour paper screen printed with Art Spectrum Colourfix™ Primer. They provide an excellent surface for acrylics, oils, inks, oil pastels, gouache, watercolours and dry media such as soft pastels, charcoal and pencils. The natural toothy surface will hold multiple layers of pastel without the need for fixative. The acrylic base of the Primer causes the primed surface to be waterproof so Colourfix Papers and Boards can even be washed!  

New from Enkaustikos! 24 NEW COLORS & 3 New Mediums:

Damar Resin

 
Damar resin is harvested from trees in Malaysia and these trees are slashed yearly to ooze sap for harvesting. These trees are not damaged from this process and it is very similar to the tapping of maple trees for syrup. Packaged in crystal form, Enkaustikos uses Damar resin to produce a harder, more durable paint film. Damar, in combination with beeswax produces a paint film with a higher index of refraction.
 
 

USP Refined Yellow Beeswax

 
This beeswax is 100% natural and is United States Pharmaceutical (USP) grade. It has been filtered and purified without the use of harsh chemicals or bleaching agents. This wax has a slightly deeper, yellow color than our other USP Grade White Beeswax. It comes in little tiny granules (called prills), just like you see in the photo. You can easily use a tiny bit or a bulk amount. It has the same natural scent that you find with all pure beeswax.

Enkaustikos Wax Medium

 

Made from U.S. Pharmaceutical Grade White Beeswax and Damar Resin. Wax Medium can be used as a topcoat, a basecoat, to create a textured surface or added to your wax paints to increase transparency for glazing techniques. For those who like custom colors, wax medium is ideal for mixing with your own pigments.
 

 

Arches Oversized Watercolor Paper – 40”x60”, 300lb Cold Press

 
This 100% rag, water-marked watercolor paper is mould-made in France. The sheets are hand inspected for consistency and quality in surface, texture, and performance. Because the paper has been sized both in the beater and again after the sheet has been formed, repeated erasures can be done without any feathering. Special felts give a handsome grain finish to the cold pressed paper.

Rives BFK Oversized Printmaking Paper – 47”x31”, 140lb.

 
Rives BFK Oversized Printmaking Paper – 47”x31”, 140lb. This very popular, fine printmaking paper is mould made in France and has a smooth, absorbent surface. Rives Papers, made of 100% cotton, are acid free, soft-sized, and buffered. Rives is perfectly suited for lithography, intaglio, screenprinting, relief printing, linocut, collotype, and drawing.
 

 

Xyron Adhesive Runner

 
Quick and easy adhesive application that is a great alternative to sprays – no odor, no overspray, no mess. The 2" wide runner is ideal for use with bookmaking, presentation boards, photos, greeting cards, small posters, signs, wide labels and more. The permanent adhesive is non-toxic and acid-free. A protective cap prevents dust accumulation and accidental adhesive transfer. Each runner comes with 30 ft. of adhesive; easy to load refill cartridges are available separately.

Hot Wire Foam Factory: foam engraving and cutting hand tools

Used by artists and sculptors, architects, florists, interior designers, sign makers, shipping departments, Hollywood theatrical sets builders, animation studios, trade show booth designers, and so many more. If you can imagine it, then you can make it. It's fast, fun and easy with the Hot Wire Foam Factory.

Liquitex Free-Style Brushes

These brushes feature blended synthetic bristles with ideal snap and spring for acrylics. Ideal for large paintings and murals, the large scale brush handles are made of seasoned hardwood sealed and lacquered with a black, satin matte finish that provides comfort and a non-slip grip.

Grand Prix brushes are made exclusively for Silver Brush Limited by

master brush makers, using 100% naturally curved Chungking white bristle. This carefully chosen bristle has deeply flagged and interlocked tips for maximum color carrying capacity. Grand Prix brushes are perfectly balanced and shaped to fit the hand using only the best quality materials, making painting an exciting and stimulating experience.

iDye dissolvable dye packet

Dyeing fabric in a washing machine has never been easier. iDye comes in a packet that dissolves in water which means there is no handling of messy dye powders. Just throw the dye packet in, add salt and run through the wash cycle. It is the ultimate easy way to get gorgeous color! iDye comes in 38 vibrant colors.There are also two laundry aids: Color Remover, which will remove or lighten a color and brighten whites; and Sun Blocker, which will penetrate clothing and will block harmful UV rays from the sun.

Tie Dye Kit by Jacquard

Get groovy! Fun for all ages, this kit is a fantastic introduction to tie dye! You supply the shirts. Everything else you need is here, including three pre-mixed colors of Procion MX dye—the undisputed king of tie dye. For use on cotton and other natural fabrics or clothing.

M. Graham Walnut Oil Paints

 
Using Walnut Oil Paints has given the modern artist an oil color with extremely concentrated pigment and freedom from discoloration and superior handling properties. Preferred by artists for over 15 centuries, free flowing Walnut Oil gives artists greater freedom and control over their color without the addition of solvents. Revival of this fine oil has allowed the creation of a contemporary professional oil color with extremely high concentrations of pigment, freedom from discoloration and superior handling properties.

 

Iwako Collectable Erasers

  Fun, useful and adorable! Iwako erasers are a hot new collectable made of high quality, non toxic materials. Come see our selection of ice-cream treats, animals, and baseball gear!

Bucky Balls Rare Earth Magnets

 

Each set contains 216 powerful rare earth magnets that can be shaped, molded, torn apart and snapped together in UNLIMITED WAYS. Make sculptures, puzzles, patterns, shapes, stick stuff to the fridge or invent a new game. Featured in RollingStone, Maxim, Esquire and People Magazine… people simply can’t stop talking about Buckyballs!

 

 

Ampersand Artist's Panels SALE up to 40% Off! 

Forstall Art is now the Premier Dealer of Ampersand Artist's Panels in Alabama!

Ampersand Artist's Panels have become the first choice for painters the world over. Here's a few reasons why: 
  • your colors appear more luminous on a hard panel than on a canvas
  • the rigid surface allows more control over your brushwork, making fine details easier to achieve
  • each type of panels' surface is flawlessly prepared for a variety of media
  • the rigid surface withstands changes in temperature and humidity with much more stability than canvas
  • panels require no stretcher bars, eliminating unsightly indentations on the surface

Art Supplies: Enkaustikos Hot Cakes at Forstall Art Center, Birmingham, Alabama  

Enkaustikos Hot Cakes! SALE 15% Off!

Hot Cakes are ready-to-use encaustic paints that come in a convenient reusable metal tin. Simply unscrew the lid, place the metal tin full of color onto your hot palette, and wait for your paint to melt. It makes set up easy and simple so that you can get started right away on your painting! In an era when “going green” is a growing concern, encaustics offers artists a completely natural, non-toxic and earth friendly
medium. These encaustic wax paints are completely free of solvents, out gassing polymers, powdered inhalants and toxic particulate matter. Encaustic paints give artists a whole new dimension; not only in their alluring beauty, but in the broad scope of instruments that artists use to paint with them.

 

Holbein Duo Oil SALE 30% Off!

17 New “Elite” colors including cobalts, quinacridones, and cadmiums.

Duo is a wonderfully versatile product manufactured to Holbein standards of production control, reliability, light fastness, color vigor and technique handling

control. It reproduces the characteristics of traditional oil color, and dries in as little as 24 hours. There is truly no other water soluble oil alike.



 

RGM Palette Knives

Take your paintings to the next level with these uniquely shaped painting knives. Use them with relief pastes, including heavy gels, modeling pastes, and gesso. Experiment with creating "relief" effects in a variety of thicknesses and layers with acrylics and oils. These Italian-made knives feature water-resistant mirror blades made of hand-ground steel and handles crafted of high-quality bubinga wood.


Baroque Wooden Panels! New Product at a Great Price!

 

1.5" deep birch wood panels. Your painting surface can have a profound effect on the success of your art, having as much impact as your technique. Baroque Wooden Panels' smooth surface reflects light, making colors more brilliant and vibrant than on canvas.


 

Magnetic Manikin

This accurately-proportioned magnetic manikin 8" is flexible enough to mimic many human positions, and can even do handstands or "climb" other metal surfaces. Made of unvarnished hardwood, it features magnetic hands and feet allowing it to go where most manikins cannot. It comes with a magnetic ball accessory and stand that can attach to either its hands or feet.

 
     
 

 

 



 












 
 

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