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Friday, March 28th, 2008

Clearance Art Supplies

We’ve got a LOT of clearance stuff here that really does need to go.

Everything has been drastically reduced for your shopping pleasure!

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All sizes of Regal Canvas Frames- 9×12, 11×14, 16×20, and 18×24
These are great for framing 3/4″ canvases. They are a beautiful dark wood that will really add elegance to your work.

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All sizes of Essex Canvas Frames- 9×12, 11×14, 16×20 and 18×24.
This is a natural wood frame that has very clean cut lines.

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Ambrosia Print Racks- These are at a close out price of $41.97!!!
These are HUGE wood print racks that hold a lot! If you are thinking of having a rack like this in ArtScape, this is a great time to buy them!

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Selected colors of Holbien Designer Gouache

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Blank cards from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This is just a small taste of what we have. There are also canvases, architecture supplies, and just general art supplies that are nice and cheap!

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Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Something interesting - Harvesting natural Pigments to make your own paints

I’ve always been interested in the process of making your own paint, and especially harvesting pigments from natural sources. There are a lot of different ways that you can actually get pigments.

I found this web site Clean India which tells you how to harvest different colors from all natural resources.

Some other ideas are as follows:

Red/browns- Use plain old rust, literally iron oxide, and grind to a powder in a mortal and pestle. This one is pretty gruesome and not for the faint of heart- Hog or cows blood (take a trip to your friendly neightborhood butcher, and insist that you are not an escaped lunatic from Sheppard Pratt), dry and grind to a powder.

Light Green- Rust off of copper or bronze, Copper oxide, grind to powder in mortar and pestle.

Iridecent tinting- Dried fish scales ground to a powder (this meathod was used way, way back to add iridesence to lipstick).

There are a lot of other things you can do completely naturally. Most pigments from living flora are going to have to be soaked and boiled, anything that is grainy and dry just needs to be dried

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