We are very excited to be nominated in the “Best Art, Craft & Design Store” category in the annual Best of Downtown Contest by L.A. Downtown News. You have until May 25 to vote, and if you vote in at least 30 of the categories you will automatically be entered into a drawing to win some fabulous prizes. The grand prize is two nights at downtown’s Omni Los Angeles Hotel, including dinner for two at Noe, $200 spending cash, dinner for two at Morton’s The Steakhouse, and a Los Angeles Conservancy walking tour. Other prizes include an iPad Mini, cash, gift certificates and more.
Go vote! This is the third year in a row that we’ve been nominated for the Best of Downtown, and we’d love to take home a prize this time (now that we aren’t in the same category as clothing boutiques).
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While supplies last, come in and get a free sample of of Williamsburg Oil Paints. Just ask for it at the counter (one per customer, please).
Viridian The color of emeralds, this was the favorite green of the French Impressionists, central to the palettes of Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Renoir, among many others. Its translucent, blue-green tones cannot be matched by a blend of other colors. Never strident or artificial in appearance, it has an almost earthy, mineral feel that allows it to sit comfortably within a painting. Williamsburg grinds it to a velvety surface, rather than the more glossy sheen common to Phthalo and Sap Greens. Mixed with white it can almost feel blue, yet blended with yellow can generate a wide range of leafy landscape greens.
Alizarin Orange Like peeling back the shadowed skin of a tangerine to reveal the bright golden notes hidden inside, Williamsburg’s Alizarin Orange explodes with color. From the tube its masstone hovers between saffron and paprika, with a mid-tone note of russet-orange that is moody and alluring.
But none of that prepares you for the vivid, hot streaks of yellow left by your brush pushing the paint across the canvas, or the infusion of warmth it provides in glazes. Its most vivid and dazzling moments hide just beneath the surface.
Sevres Blue Inspired by the crisp, bright blue, Celeste enamel found on the finest Louis XV Sevres porcelain. It is opaque yet airy, dense yet luminous, it is the blue of a clear sky at noon. But its usefulness goes well beyond landscapes. Blend with warmer earth colors for steely grays, pull a touch into skin tones to create shadows, or go electric by playing off its nearly perfect complement of Williamsburg Cadmium Red Vermilion.
Liquid Art Panels from Pebeo are ideal for containing liquid Gedeo residents, liquid acrylics, speciality paints such as Vitrail and Fantasy Prisme and Mono, waxes and more. The panels are designed with a border that is 3mm deep and 3mm wide to contain paints, mediums and other liquid art mediums. That allows for mixed media applications including: abstract artwork, collage, inclusions, layering, encaustic work and all other forms of fine and decorative artwork where liquid retention is required. Just place the panel on a level surface and pour, drip, drizzle or spread.
DuoPoint Double Ended Artist Pens from Pentel contain water-based dye ink that dries quickly and produces rich, black tones. The brush end features a durable nylon brush tip that holds its point and can produce a variety of strokes and effects in illustrations and calligraphy. The other end features a plastic nib tip that allows for fine detail. This is another great addition to Pentel’s variety of pens and color brushes that can be found at every-day low prices in our Inking Center.
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We’ve expanded our selection of Sketching and Drawing Pencils from Conté.
Sculpey III Oven-Bake Clay has the same excellent handling qualities of Sculpey and Super Sculpey combined with the dimension of color. It maintains tooling and detailing, is easy to use and stays soft until you bake it. It is available in a variety of colors that can be intermixed for even wider color possibilities. It bakes to hardness in a 275°F home oven in 15 minutes per ¼" of thickness. Once baked, Sculpey III takes on a matte, bisque-type finish.
We recently brought in all three varieties of the Majestic Brushes from Royal & Langnickel. All of these brushes feature synthetic multi-diameter filaments, black anodized brass ferrules, and kiln-dried hardwood handles with Silk Touch, a rubberized coating used to add comfort and protect the brush handle.
Word. Notebooks were created to be the ideal notebook to keep in your pocket at all times. Stylish and functional, aesthetically pleasing but also able to handle all of the lists you craft on a daily basis. It’s not just a lined notebook, it incorporates a unique bullet system for organizing your thoughts. Your to-do lists will be cleaner, your notes will be more organized and your notebook won’t look like a disaster.
Montana Acrylic Gloss Varnish Markers can be used to seal and protect Montana Acrylic artwork for longevity, to enhance effects and to intensify the visual impact of final artwork. The markers are refillable and the interchangeable nibs can be replaced with the existing Montana Acrylic Marker replacement nibs. The varnish can be applied to dry surfaces in a variety of ways including marker, brush and airbrush. It is ideal for creating depth to background/foreground work and manipulating the play of light on artwork. The varnish is also available in 25ml and 180ml refill bottles.
Whitelines Notebooks flip the design of lined and graph notebooks on their head. Instead of dark lines that clutter the page and distract from your writing and drawing, the Whitelines paper is light grey and the lines are in white, which allows them to just fade into the background and keep your work front and center.