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Gamblin ASO Sketching Oils

Gamblin Sketching Oils are made in the traditional manner as students want inexpensive oil colors still with similar properties and pigment qualities as traditional oils. These oils are made from approximately half the pigment as Gamblin Artists Oils. Available in 37 or 150 mL tubes.

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Art Alternative Black Canvases

This black canvas is made with natural, unbleached medium-weight 100% cotton duck stretched around specially designed, kiln-dried stretcher bars and held in place with a flexible spline, allowing for painting on all four edges as well as the canvas surface. The surface is primed with acid-free black acrylic gesso, providing a dark rich background for traditional paints and techniques as well as paint markers, spray paint and multi-media techniques. Studio Canvases feature a 3/4" deep profile and Gallery canvases feature a 1-3/8" deep profile.

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Itoya Zig-Zag Portfolio Albums

These Itoya ZigZag Frost Portfolio Books have a sleek, modern design that make them the perfect album for today's family. ZigZag Frost's contemporary design allows photos to slip in and out easily. Use these ZigZag presentation profolio's for vacation or family photos, corporate presentations, sales literature, recipes and much more!
- Rigid and durable frosted cover protects images from dust, moisture and fingerprints
- Includes 12 clear top-loading pocket sleeves to hold up to 24 images
- Pages lie flat when opened and are not removable
- Archival, acid-free & photo safe

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Neptune Watercolor Brushes

Neptune™ - the softest synthetic hair Princeton has ever created and the most thirsty. Aiming to develop a substitute for natural squirrel hair, Princeton was so successful that experts have been fooled - it feels that natural!

Neptune™ brushes are actually a blend of several types of synthetic fibers, some with shapes and treatments that have never been used in brushmaking before. Watercolor painters love the results: Neptune synthetic drinks up watercolor delivering oceans of color to the sheet.

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Royal LangNickel Paint Sets

These lovely box sets feature a huge assortment at a fantastic price!

- Acrylic Color & Brush Set - Includes 11 brushes, flip-up brush organizer with palette knife, stylus, 12 tubes of acrylic paint, apron, palette, pencil, eraser and beginner's painters guide.

- Oil Color & Brush Set - Includes 12 brushes, flip-up brush organizer with palette knife, stylus, 12 tubes of oil color paint, apron, palette, pencil, eraser and beginner's painters guide.

- Watercolor & Brush Set - Includes 11 brushes, flip-up brush organizer with palette knife, stylus, 12 tubes of watercolor paint, apron, palette, pencil, eraser and beginner's painters guide.

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Iota Legacy Journals

Legacy Journal with elastic closure is the perfect place to record your thoughts, dreams, ideas, and plans
- Laminated hard cover in a bright Ric Rac design
- 160 lined pages with colorful endpapers
- Pretty ribbon marker
- Measures 5.25-inches x 7.25-inches

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Strathmore Art Journals

New Strathmore® Visual Journals deliver high-performing papers and heavy-duty features engineered to meet the intense demands of your creative process. The removable cover sheet reveals a subtle, hand-illustrated cover design. The wire binding allows the journal to lie flat and open up 360 degrees.

Journals are available in three sizes, in Drawing, Mixed Media, Smooth and Vellum Bristol, and two weights of Watercolor

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Jack Richeson O'Connell Dulce Easel

Best OConnell Dulce Solid Oak Easel - An elegant studio easel for the serious painter. Each BEST Easel is made of American oak sanded to a smooth surface then hand-rubbed with oil to reveal the inherent beauty of the wood grain. The craftsmen at BEST nail glue and wood screw every joint guaranteeing strength and precision. Only the highest quality hardware is used as these easels are constructed to last a lifetime. Minimum easel height 54 maximum height 90. Base measures 22 wide by 24 deep. Holds canvasses up to 7ft high. This special version of the Best Dulce easel includes a shelf with two stainless steel cups and a paper towel holder. A superb and economical easel.

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Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist

Glimmer Mist is a quick and easy spray that delivers just a touch of glimmer in a fine mist to make all of your projects shine. It puts an end to messy, clumpy, conventional glitters. Glimmer Mist was made by a scrapbooker with the scrapbooker in mind and is water-based, archival safe, and non-toxic. It adheres to all types of materials including paper, acrylic, metal, and fabric.Comes in 11 transparent colors.

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Pottery Clayzee

With this soft, fun and versatile dough, making natural looking projects is easy. It can be squished, bent, and shaped into a variety of creations that will look like stone, wood, pottery, or cork depending the type of Clayzee used. Once done creating, simply leave the clay in the open air and it will dry to a non-cracking, paintable finish ready for use, play or display. For ages 6 and up.


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Snap Brushes from Princeton

A new brush series that’s determined to get you to like it. We think you’ll like the way they look. We know you’ll love the way they perform. Snap! Brushes are fun, but not frivolous.

80 individual brushes in a variety of styles shapes and sizes. Both white and golden synthetic are available on short handles for watercolorists, decorative painters, and acrylic artists. Bristle and stiffer white synthetic are featured on some pretty darn good-looking long handles to make oil and acrylic painters happy . Not sure what to grab? Go for one of the 5 sets near the bottom of the spinning display at the front of your local art store.

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OLIO HD Oil Paints

 

Olio HD is Maimeri’s range of 30 oil paints specially selected for the generation of artists that have experienced the bright, back-lit color of electronic screens their whole lives.. Maimeri describes these colors as "hues of a colorful dreamscape...They are the colors of video." Chosen for their unconventionality, their luminosity and vibrant transparency, these traditionally made oil paints are fluid, ultra vivid, and lively; the colors fit neatly into an age of various device monitors, video games, and high-definition flat screen televisions.

Olio HD does not contain substances that are considered hazardous, making it a line that is welcome in the studio of theartist concerned with safety. Another interesting property of these paints is that, when applied in thin coats, they dry in approx. 24 to 48 hours, making them well-suited for glazing techniques, since layers can be applied in a relatively short amount of time.

 
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ACME Studios was founded in Los Angeles in 1985 by Adrian Olabuenaga and his wife, Lesley Bailey.

ACME made its first appearance with a limited edition collection of jewelry designed for them by Peter Shire, the LA-based member of the world renowned Memphis Group.

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LOOM Metallic Ballpoint Pen

Eye-Catching Metallic Colors The metallic lacquering creates striking color contrasts which express individuality Spring-load metal clip.

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Monte Verde Wrinting Instruments at Forstall Art Center

Monteverde® division of YAFA pen company (YPC) corporation offers high quality and elegant writing instruments that combine the finest European resins, celluloid's, and carbon fibers with state-of-the-art ink technologies.

The origins of Monteverde® stemmed from more than 33 years of service to the fine and luxury writing instruments trade in the United States. The experience and success accruing over 33 years, earns Monteverde®, itself a relatively new collection, the esteem of being sold through the finest pen shops in America and worldwide.


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Enkaustikos Hot Sticks

Hot Sticks Encaustic Wax Paint are designed for the professional encaustic artist. Hot Sticks feature the same professional artist quality colors you find in the Hot Cakes line but come in a versatile, square stick. In fact, Hot Sticks are available in all 86 colors plus Wax Medium and XD Wax Medium. The new square paint stick shape allows artists to use encaustic paints in a whole new way. The Hot Stick design is very versatile. You can use Hot Sticks for encaustic painting, printmaking, rubbings, and even mixed media techniques. Hot Sticks can be melted directly on your hot palette to create a puddle of color for your brush or can be applied directly on a heated substrate. When applied to a heated substrate, Hot Sticks glide just like lipstick on your piece creating those vibrant colors or subtle earth tones you love. Simply apply just the tip of the Hot Stick to your heated substrate to paint more finer details of your painting or swipe the Hot Stick on it's side to make bold strokes of color.
You can color mix using your Hot Stick colors directly on your painting, your hot palette or melt them together in a large tin to create custom mixes. Hot Sticks are the newest addition to the Enkaustikos encaustic paint line. These artist-quality colors are made from the most beautiful pigments, the finest Damar Resin, and United States Pharmaceutical Grade (USP) Beeswax. These paints contain no bleach or synthetic adulterants whatsoever.
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Krink K-66 Paint Marker

 
A unique writing experience, the K-66 paint marker features high-quality opaque ink that can be used on light or dark surfaces. Vibrant Krink colors are both fade and water resistant. The unique steel-ball tip is super durable and performs well on all surfaces. The squeezable body lets you control the ink’s flow.
Writes on most surfaces: Metal, canvas, painted surfaces, wood, glass, plastic, and paper are all great surfaces for Krink inks. Opaque, pigmented, permanent, and quick drying. Large ink capacity, unique steel ball-point tip.
Highest quality. Handmade in the USA. Xylene free. Conforms to ASTM D-4236. 2oz/60ml K-66 bottles are recyclable (#2 resin code) HDPE plastic.

 
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K-71 Krink Pens

The K-71 paint marker features high-quality opaque ink that can be used on light or dark surfaces. Vibrant colors are fade and water resistant. Valve action nib let’s you control the ink’s flow.
Writes on most surfaces: Metal, canvas, painted surfaces, wood, glass, plastic, and paper are all great surfaces for Krink inks. Opaque, pigmented, permanent, and quick drying. Great for a wide variety of art, craft, and industrial applications. Highest quality. Handmade in the USA.

 
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K-12 Paint Marker

The Krink K-12 is a unique paint marker featuring a durable steel fine-point tip with a squeezable body. Filled with 12ml of rich, opaque ink that can be used on light or dark surfaces. Writes on most surfaces: metal, canvas, painted surfaces, wood, glass, plastic, and paper. Great for a wide variety of art, craft, and industrial applications.
Quick drying, highest quality, made in the USA.
Colors: red, purple, black, light blue, orange, yellow, gold and silver.

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K-60 Paint Markers

A Krink original, the K-60 paint marker features high-quality opaque ink that can be used on light or dark surfaces. Vibrant Krink colors are both fade and water-resistant. Valve action nib and squeezable body let you control the ink’s flow. Large capacity and broad round tip are excellent for working on larger areas.

Writes on most surfaces: Metal, canvas, painted surfaces, wood, glass, plastic, and paper are all great surfaces for Krink inks. Opaque, pigmented, permanent, and quick drying. Great for a wide variety of art, craft, and industrial applications.

 
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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.

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.
   
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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.
   
   

 



 












 
 

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