Airbrushing Essential Guide

A great new 144 page hard cover book by Fred Crellin

Airbrushing is a versatile and exciting art. The technique has been used for some 150 years, and is now finding ever more applications. This beautiful book explains how to use an airbrush. It looks at the fundamentals of how to get started, advises on maintenance of the tool and then gives step-by-step examples of a range of projects. With troubleshooting tips throughout, it enables you to get the most from your airbrush and create beautiful pieces with a professional finish.

Topics covered include:
- Technical illustration
- Watercolour landscapes
- Portraits
- Painting scale models
- Cake decorating
- T-shirts and leather
- Custom painting vehicles

Fred Crellin learnt how to airbrush while studying Industrial Design and Modelling at Wolverhampton University. In subsequent years, he honed his airbrush skills before establishing his own company specializing in custom painting, portraits and cartoons. He qualified as a teacher and runs the Artimagination Airbrush School from his own classroom studio. Fred regularly shows his work at local art galleries and exhibitions.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on Airbrushing Essential Guide  on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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Jackson’s Black Hog Brushes are on Offer

Not your ordinary hog brushes!

Our most popular oil painting brush is an extra 20% off the already low price until August 3rd, 2014.

Our Black Hog Oil Brushes are truly beautiful. Similar in look to the Black Sable but with slightly stiffer hair and considerably less expensive, these natural hair brushes have the softness, touch, spring and control of a top quality brush. The interlocked bristle is contained in a distinctive copper ferrule with a high quality matt black handle.

Available in round, flat, and filbert shapes in sizes 2 to 12 and two sets.

Julie Caves: “I personally love these brushes. They feel substantial. The bristle has the right mixture of characteristics for oil painting: stiff enough to pick up thick paint and leave brushmarks if desired, springy enough to retain the shape of the brush even with scrubbing and smooth enough for blending. They are so sturdily built that the bristles do not break off in the paint, something I find very irksome. The handles do not peel.”

Customer Reviews:

• “Excellent very manoverable would recommend it for oil and acrylic”
• “Good quality at a good price.”
• “If ever a beauty contest was held for paint brushes, these brushes would win hands down. They far exceeded my expectations. Go and buy these brushes. Not only do they look good they balance superbly in the hand and the quality of the black hog is incredible. What a treat.”
• “Enjoyed using it – much better than ordinary hog.”
• “This is lovely brush. The bristles hold the paint well, it has enough strength for expressive brushwork and enough softness for more gentle passages. It actually looks great too. It looks more expensive than it actually is.”
• “Very nice responsive bristle brush”
• “I have bought some previously and they really are excellent. They outclass all other brands in that price bracket and some higher priced ones.”

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on Jackson’s Black Hog Brushes on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more. Brush only orders of £20 or more are free postage worldwide.

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Half Price Wooden Artist Boxes
£5.00 – £21.00

Organise your workspace or create your own plein air kit!
We have boxes for pastels, pencils, drawing tools, brushes or paints.
These sturdy, well-made boxes are solid wood with brass catches. Some come with carry handles, tray inserts, adjustable dividers, drawers or a narrow palette.

Half Price on Five Styles of Wooden Boxes at Jackson’s Art Supplies until August 10th, 2014.

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Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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City Lit Fine Art Course Exhibition
17-22 July 2014
Preview: Thursday 17 July 6-9pm

Students from the City Lit Fine Art Course present their end of course show at Espacio Gallery.

The dynamic and often experimental work is a result of two years study by students from contrasting and diverse backgrounds and artistic interests. There is no unifying or house style to this show, it is based upon exploration and discovery and no student is prevented from working in their chosen genre. Interests range from small sculpture inspired by Brutalist Architecture to personal dreamscapes, visions and myths of masculinity and the very process of creating artwork on an intuitive basis.

Students have chosen work because it represents an exciting stage in their development and this informs the lively spirit of the show.

City Lit is an inclusive Adult College in Central London, where students are encouraged to develop their aspirations and celebrate their difference.

Curated by Chris Hough, Tony Hull & Students Team

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

Opening times:
Daily 1-7pm including weekends.
Tuesdays until 5pm.
Closed on Wednesdays.

Espacio Page on Facebook

This dynamic gallery has a fast-paced exhibition schedule, with a new exhibition every one or two weeks.
Work shown at the top is a student painting from the City Lit fine art course.

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Rendr No Show Thru Paper and Shin Han Touch Twin Markers
Great together!

Rendr No Show Thru Paper

Rendr No Show Thru Paper allows you to use both sides of your sketchbook paper. Eliminating the need to tear out the next page, and removing the limitation upon what type of media you use in your sketches. No Show Thru paper is available in a roll, pad or hardback sketchbook.

ShinHan’s Twin Touch Marker Pens

ShinHan’s Twin Touch Marker Pens are ideal for a diverse range of uses, from animation, illustration, architectural renderings, and interior design sketches. With a unique fine point nib on one side and a broad chisel nib on the other, the Twin Touch Marker offers artists and designers a greater range of line thicknesses than ever before. The delivery of ink flow can be perfectly controlled to allow precision drawing. The alcohol based ink will write or draw on a wide variety of different surfaces including paper, card, glass, wood and plastic (acetate). The ergonomically designed rectangular body resists rolling on work surfaces and provides a perfect grip that avoids smudges and smears. A specially designed safety cap stacks neatly and prevents damage to the nibs. The new Twin Touch marker contains an alcohol-based ink that doesn’t dissolve printed ink toner, allowing for odourless, vividly colored artwork on printed materials. Colours dry waterproof. They are a great drawing material that has the capacity to layer and blend into one another in a way that bridges the gap between drawing and painting.

Because alcohol based ink is fast drying, our tip is to act fast if you wish to manipulate the appearance of your colours.

Varying the tonal value: You can make a colour appear darker by repeatedly going over the same area with that colour. If you want to make the area appear as light as possible in a certain colour then we suggest you apply it as lightly as possible.

Colour Mixing: There is a degree of transparency in the colours of the Shin Han Twin Touch Marker Pen range, so if you layer one colour over a different colour, you get to see the resulting mix of the 2 drawn colours.

Soft blending: You can apply two contrasting colours on to a surface and if done quickly enough, the colours will bleed into one another to create a softer transition. If time was allowed between the applications of the 2 contrasting colours, a hard edge would appear between the 2 colours on your work.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on Rendr No Show Thru Paper and Shin Han Touch Twin Markers on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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Manet Soft Pastels

The smooth finish of these handmade pastels and the unique colour formulations result in a truly lovely soft pastel. Gently hand-rolled and air-dried, each stick is as much an organic sculpture as it is a tool. Look closely at a stick and you may see the fine lines and fingerprints imparted by the pastels creator. Each pastel takes on the tapered shape of the maker’s palms.

The use of only pure pigments in a cycle of related hues instead of adding black or white creates vibrant colours not muddied by the blending common in conventional pastels. The pastels use as little binder as possible making them very soft and smooth.

All the feedback I have received about these pastels has been positive about their softness and colour intensity. These 16x35mm size soft pastels have 112 colours in the range plus 12 sets.

Manet Soft Pastel Half Price Offer
Manet Soft Pastels are on offer at Jackson’s at an incredible half price! Available at this special price while stocks last.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on the Manet Round Soft Pastels on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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Sign School: Practise Club

For those who already have some basic brush lettering/sign painting skills, this is a self-facilitated opportunity to practise together and share techniques. Easels, paper and tape will be provided but you should bring your own brushes, paint and thinner (supplies are available to buy on the day).

One day session on Saturday 26 July 2014, 11am – 4pm.
Price: £15
Location: 1 Farleigh Place, London N16 7SX
Book Your Place

Other workshops on the Handover website

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Shin Han Watercolour is on offer at an extra 30% off

until August 3, 2014.
We get these directly from the manufacturer so can offer them at a fantastic price, starting at just £2.87 for a 15ml tube!

Artist quality watercolours based on the Munsell system, Natural Colour System (NCS) and the Ostwald System, the 83 colours in the Shin Han range are sophisticated and highly regarded for their permanence.

ShinHan Artists’ Water Colour is carefully formulated to satisfy the needs of discerning artists. Each consists of pure pigments and high-grade gum Arabic that ensure bright and lively colour. Shin Han Artists’ Water Colour has a high degree of lightfastness and adhesiveness. A high quality to price ratio makes ShinHan Artists’ Water Colour a great choice for artists at all levels.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on the Shin Han WaterColours on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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Upcoming Gilding Workshop Series

An introductory course to gilding with master gilder Marisa Delpoio, including traditional oil based and water based techniques. Marisa was born and grew up in Lambeth. She has a history of a range of art education, but finally trained as a gilder, and has lectured at Lambeth College and the British Museum. Whilst lecturing at Lambeth College Marisa also wrote the City & Guilds Lacquering course, and we are delighted to have her lead these workshops.

This 6-part series of workshops that will be held in our East London shop in September and October, 2014 will teach you everything you need to know about working with metal leafs and powders.

In Module 1-3 a master gilder will teach you traditional techniques for preparing a gesso base and other foundation techniques. Then you will progress to gilding with metal leaf and metal powders. Additional specialist techniques are covered in Module 4 Gilding on Glass and Module 6 Restoration of gilded artefacts. If you would like a shorter overview Module 5 Decorative Craft Gilding will provide basic gilding skills for students wanting to gild as a hobby.

This series of courses will teach you what you need to know to add genuine gold to your paintings, icons, mirrored signs, carved frames and more.

Click to read more about the gilding courses and to book your place.

Overview of Gilding Modules

Module 1- Preparation Of Surfaces For Oil Gilding & Water Gilding
In this workshop you will learn the all-important foundation needed for gilding. How to prepare surfaces using traditional methods: prepare and apply rabbit skin glue, gesso and clay bole, plus how to polish and seal the surfaces.

Module 2- Oil Gilding – Leaf
*Students must have attended Module 1*
Learn traditional and contemporary methods of oil gilding with metal leaf.

Module 3- Oil Gilding – Powders
*Students must have attended Module 1*
Learn traditional and contemporary methods of oil gilding with metal powders.

Module 4- Water Gilding & Verre Eglomise
Learn the method of water gilding on glass and frescoes.

Module 5- Decorative Craft Gilding
Learn transfer leaf, patination and more. It would suit students wishing to use the craft as a hobby to decorate boxes, book marks, cards, artwork, frames or other small object without taking the surface preparation course.

Module 6- Restoration Of Artefacts
Learn to restore such artifacts as plaster statues, frames and the like.

To read more about the gilding courses and to book your place.

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Duality
24-29 July 2014
Preview: Thursday 24 July 6-9pm

Performances at Preview:
Bryan Green 8pm
Luciana Duailibe 8:15pm

Duality is the condition of being two, of having two parts usually with opposite meanings, two splitting parts stemming from one unit like the existence of good and evil in human nature.

Duality is present in the enigmatic nature of mankind – up and down, peace and war, love and hate, etc. The idea of opposites (Yin-Yang, the union and harmony of opposites) has existed in both Eastern and Western philosophy since ancient times.

Duality has been farther examined, it has technical meanings in geometry as well as physics, and it can be challenging. However, for this show we aim to get into a playful, free-spirited investigation using art and a great dose of audacity!

Exhibiting artists:
Lawrence Mathias, Sinclair Watkins, Justine Roland Cal, Silvio Severino, Carla Fleck, Liz Derbyshire, Kevin Derbyshire, Les Lismore, Mark Nelson, Liz Kent, Carl Meek, Niki Hare, Marina Lewis, TAO, Pascale Pollier, Bryan Green, Naomi Davis, Terry Filisetti Yoshinaga, Sharon Sondh, Dong Li-Blackwell, Swaroop Biswas, Nicholas Peart, Gaelle Garbani

Exhibition curated by: Ana Cockerill

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

Opening times:
Daily 1-7pm including weekends.
Tuesdays until 5pm.
Closed on Wednesdays.

Espacio Page on Facebook

The painting shown at top is by Kevin Derbyshire.

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Crescent Art Paper and Boards

Crescent Art Boards

Artist Illustration Boards– Crescent professional grade cold press (not) illustration boards have a textured surface designed primarily for pencil, ink, airbrush, washes, light collage & wet media. The textured surface of a cold press board permits the medium to be applied without fast absorption, which in turn allows the washes to blend smoothly. Made of 100% cotton fibre acid-free paper on a high quality board to create a balanced tension. Also available the student board, available in two surfaces.

Marker Boards- a rigid alternative to marker layout paper, marker ink won’t feather and the colour remains brilliant.

Paint Boards-
Watercolour Board
experience the convenience of an extra thick, watercolour surface that eliminates the need for stretching and mounting of water colour paper. Featuring a 100% rag heavy weight surface paper.
Canvas Board
Canvas board has the same texture as real canvas but on a durable surface.

Crescent Art Foam Boards

Crescent Art Foam Board has a number of successful applications such as exhibits, POP displays, signage, crafts, photo mounting, screen-printing and framing. The polystyrene core is bonded between high quality boards to create a lightweight, reliably rigid, ultra-smooth board.

Its environmentally friendly nature and sheer flexibility makes it a “first choice” material in numerous areas. It is multi-laminated therefore much more rigid than most foam boards, CFC free, stiff and lightweight. Available in white, black, & grey/black in thicknesses of 3mm, 5mm and 10mm in a selection of pre-cut sizes.

Crescent Artist Trading Cards

This range of surfaces for miniature artworks on paper was developed for artists, by artists and features high-quality, in-demand products for the ever-increasing Artist Trading Cards (ATC) community, including little mounts and books. ATC artists are active on the web with loads of websites, blogs and videos devoted to trading cards.
Read more about ATCs on the Crescent website.

Crescent is headquartered in Wheeling, Illinois, USA and is a private, family owned company founded over 100 years ago by the Ozmun family, which is now in its 5th generation of leadership and commitment to the company.

Click on the underlined link to go to the entire selection of backing boards, tapes and specialist card from Crescent Art Paper and Boards on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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Painting Skies and Seascapes

A new 112-page paperback book by Peter D. Rush

The sea and sky have captured the attention of artists for centuries. Their energy and drama, or their tranquility and beauty, can be portrayed powerfully and magnificently in a painting. This encouraging and user-friendly book gives practical advice on how to set about sea and sky painting, and explains what to look for in capturing space and movement, colour and light.
Peter Rush has asked four guest artists to join him in this book to write the chapters that cover mediums that aren’t his main mediums: Ros Harvey, Cathy Veale, Andrew Lievesley, and Ken Bushe.

- Guide to the tools, materials and techniques
- Practical instruction on coloured inks, acrylics, pastels, watercolours and oils
- Step-by-step painting sequences
- Inspiration and ideas from leading artists

Peter Rush has always been drawn to the sky and sea. After many years of working as an illustrator for the BBC’s Jackanory, he now specializes in painting skies and seas, often en plein air or from the relative comfort of his camper van.

Image at the top is from Chapter 4, painted by Cathy Veale who is the artist who has written the watercolour chapter of this book.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on Painting Skies and Seascapes book on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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Paintbrush bargains enough for a whole crowd of kids!
And a handy art carry case!

Children’s Paintbrushes
Incredible prices on seven sizes of brushes and a set in round and flat shapes. Brushes that are designed especially for little hands!
Up to 90% off! Starting at just 15p!

Children’s Art Carry Case
This plastic art carry box will hold an A4 pad, brushes, pencil case and more. The translucent design makes it easy to find what you are looking for.
Great price! Just £1.75

Please note that contents are not included. They are included to show the size and capacity of the box.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offers in the Children’s Arts and Crafts Department on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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New from Daylight Lighting!

Daylight Wafer Light Pad
Ultra Slim A4 Light Box

The Wafer Light Pad is only 0.8cm (3/8″) thick. The tracing area measures 32cm x 23cm (12.5″ x 9″) – easily fits A4. The Wafer has dimmable LEDS and provides an even spread of light from edge to edge. It is powered by Mains/AC Adapter and is very low heat. Wafer is ideal for calligraphy, stencilling, scrap-booking, embossing, quilting, embroidery, sewing, and much more.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on the Daylight Wafer Light Pad on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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New at Jackson’s!

Schmincke Mussini Oil Mediums

A perfect compliment to the Schmincke Mussini resin oil colours, the Mussini Oil Mediums work beautifully with all makes of oil colours.
Choose from Mussini Oil Medium 1, 2 or 3 depending on what effect you are looking for in your painting.

Schmincke Mussini Medium 1
Thinning Oil Medium

Schmincke Mussini Medium 1 is a thinning medium. This medium is ideal for use on lean/low-fat paintings. It is recommended for use when creating thin grounds. This medium is made from safflower oil dissolved in mineral spirits, which retains the film integrity and lustre of the oil colour. The product thins paint with minimal effect on drying time and gloss.
Contains: Safflower oil, natural/synthetic resin, and mineral spirit

Schmincke Mussini Medium 2
Slow Dry Oil Medium

Schmincke Mussini Oil Medium 2 is a slow drying medium. It reduces the drying speed of the paint and allows for an extended working period. This oil rich medium is suitable for wet-in-wet painting and blending techniques. The high content of oil and resin in the medium improves the gloss of the paint. It dries to a smooth elastic film.
Contains: Sunflower oil, stand oil, mineral spirit, ketone resin

Schmincke Mussini Medium 3
Fast Dry Gloss Medium

Schmincke Mussini Oil Medium 3 is a fast drying medium. The volatile solvent and siccatives in this medium cause rapid drying. The resin rich content increases gloss, depth effect and refraction and makes the colour layers more resistant.
Use sparingly to prevent excessive gloss. Close immediately after use.
Contains: Ketone and alkyd resin, mineral spirit, siccative.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on Schmincke Mussini Oil Mediums on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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Daylight Foldi Portable Lamp

On offer at Jackson’s Art Supplies – RRP Price: £74.99 was £65.00

now £39.99

The LED Foldi Lamp features 30 Daylight LEDs to give you comfortable glare-free full-spectrum light. Foldi will give up to 8 hours of bright white light using batteries or unlimited light using the USB lead connected to your laptop (or other USB power source), making it the ideal travel office or studio lamp. With its slim design and smooth lines, the LED Foldi Lamp is truly functional and stylish.

Customer Reviews:
- “I love using my new portable daylight light, it is easy to use, very light and easy to carry around. I don’t know how I managed with out it, it is such a useful asset. Thank you”
- “I bought this lamp to use for my needlework and am thrilled with it, it gives excellent true light without being too bright. It is really good quality and fold compact so fits in my sewing bag. Highly recommend this lamp.”
- “The case of the lamp has such a lovely feel to it and it comes with a bag to protect the case. The light is excellent for painting.”
- “Very compact, with good lighting. Just what I want when painting at the saloon table on our yacht which we will be living on shortly. Batteries, along with option of connecting to computer wonderful.”

• Width: 7.5cm (3″)
• Height: 23.3cm (9″)
• Depth: 3.3cm (1.5″)
• Weight: 0.5kg (1lb)
• Light: 30 Daylight LEDs

• Supplied with a long 1.6m/5.25′ USB cable
• Requires 3 x AA batteries, included in the box
• Black protection bag and instruction leaflet included.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on Daylight Foldi Portable LED Lamp on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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New DVDs at Jackson’s!

A Journey in Watercolour
by Herman Pekel
108-minute long DVD

Herman is a painter of light who works outdoors whenever possible. He encourages us to identify a focal point, to exaggerate the light effect and the shadows and, if necessary, borrow elements from the surrounding area to improve the composition. In this film he selects street views in his home town of Melbourne before journeying to the UK and finding some wonderful subjects in the countryside in and around Faversham in Kent.

Wade’s Watercolour Wisdom
by Robert Wade
85-minute long DVD

Filmed in his studio in Melbourne, Bob takes us through a series of exercises in watercolour, encouraging us to experiment with the medium and understand what watercolour can do. Using a variety of techniques such as wet into wet and dry brush, he begins by producing abstract shapes, progresses through to finding form and shape in abstraction and finally to finished paintings. A lot of fun and enjoyment and plenty to learn.

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on Watercolour Art Instruction DVDs on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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We have just received the first Winsor & Newton Watercolour Markers!

H Locke was kind enough to do a review of them to let us know what they are like for illustration work.
Below are highlights of the review. You can read the full review on H Locke’s website.

Illustrator H Locke reviews Winsor & Newton Water Colour Markers

“Firstly, it’s nice that they have the feel and shape of a promarker style pen – something chunky to work with. They also have the traditional double-tip for flexibility and effect.”

“As you can see, there are some vibrant and quite dark colours coming out here. The nice thing about this for any marker fans out there is that these can clearly be used purely as markers without water/blending – and have neither the nasty smell nor tendency to soak through All The Paper that promarkers and other alcohol-based pens have.”

“As you can see, the wash effect works rather well, whilst keeping that dark edge in the original marker work. This is something you definitely can’t achieve with ‘normal’ watercolours.”

“There’s something about the effect that I was able to achieve on these chimney pots which makes me very excited about these pens. I don’t know if it’s because I have to be braver working with this much colour? – I can’t hide behind the gradual build up of colour that I can with a traditional watercolour palette and brush? But I seem to have gone all Quentin Blake on these – something in these pens has changed my whole approach, even in the Micron drawings, freeing up the work, spilling the colour over the lines and capturing much more of the lights and shadows than I otherwise would.”

Close-up of small detail of chinmey pots
on rooftop in an illustration by H Locke

“I have to say W&N, I think you’ve got a convert. Love the markers and will be adding more colours to my collection soon.”

Read the full review on H Locke’s website.

Editor’s note:
H Locke has let me know that her use of “permanent” (in the full review) was not about the lightfastness of the markers but was instead saying they are not waterproof.

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Fantasy Landscapes in Watercolour

The new 48-page paperback book by Stuart Littlejohn has 80 illustration.

Littlejohn’s accessible and easy-to-follow text will guide you through the materials and equipment you need to get started with fantasy painting. Littlejohn’s shows the reader where to find inspiration, how to develop your ideas, and how to add mood, drama and atmosphere and a little bit of magic to create your own fantasy worlds.

The three stunning, step-by-step projects, filled with numerous invaluable tips and techniques, will allow you to produce vibrant and colourful paintings of your own. This useful book will be appreciated by beginners, experienced artists and anyone interested in fantasy art.

Review by Artbookreview.net
“This introduction to fantasy art has the great benefit of simplicity on its side. Stuart Littlejohn has taken what can be a huge subject and distilled it into three very thoroughly illustrated demonstrations that will set you firmly on the right road if you’re just starting out. If you need a little help with the practicalities of the medium, there’s a useful introduction to materials, colour and composition at the beginning, but even more experienced artists will find that the real meat is in the demonstrations.”

Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on Fantasy Landscapes in Watercolour  on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.

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