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Createx Airbrush Colors are the number one, most widely used and trusted professional airbrush paint in the world. And we now have a broad selection of the most popular colors available, as well as many of the additives and mediums.

Createx works on fabric, wood, leather, canvas, plastics, aluminum, metals, ceramic, clay, poster board, brick, plaster, latex, glass and more.

Come by and check them out, as well as our new selection of Badger and Paasche air brushes and accessories. (We’ll feature those later!)

All Createx sets are 20% off every day.

This Saturday, come down and check out the Rembrandt Soft Pastels and Mi-Teintes drawing papers. We’ll have a table set up with pastels and papers for you to play with. And we’ll be offering the pastels at 25% off (including a small selection of sets) and the papers at 40% off. (The pastels are regularly 10% off, and the papers are regularly 20% off.)

We’ll have to think of something good to do for the anniversary of our grand opening, which was last November, but the anniversary of our soft opening has actually passed. We first started keeping regular hours on the Tuesday after Labor Day last year.

It was a year ago yesterday that we first put all of the markers in our Prismacolor tower into stock. (Now that I’ve done some digging, keep on eye on our Twitter feed and Facebook page for some specials timed to when we first brought in some products.)

And of course, that’s not even the anniversary of our first sale. That was on August 14, 2008. It was for a 4×3 Pentalic “A la Modeskine” traveler’s sketch journal. 

un-du Sticker Remover has a patented label removing tool built into the bottle. We have the special formulation that meets California’s regulations about VOC products. (It works just as well as the non-California formulation, it just dries more slowly.) It’s 10% off for a limited time.

For a limited time, every time you purchase six tubes of Golden Acrylics heavy body acrylic paint, you’ll get a free 5oz tube of Titanium White.

With our every-day discount of 20% on Golden products, this is a perfect way to either start building your palette or expand it using some of Golden’s innovative colors.

Have your models been missing that greenery that would really make them pop? Are they bereft of people like a scene out of Night of the Comet? The model trees and people from Woodland Scenics should help. And they are 20% off for a limited time.

Cold Wax Medium from Gamblin is a simple mixture of pure beeswax, Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits, and a small amount of alkyd resin. This versatile medium can be added directly to oil colors as a painting medium, used to modify the surface quality of Gamblin Galkyd painting mediums, as well as used alone as a matte varnish.

While supplies last, get a free sample of Cold Wax Medium with the purchase of any other Gamblin products. We’ll also throw in a free 37ml tube of Torrit Grey paint while our supplies of that last. Ask about our other Gamblin samples, too.

Stay tuned for details on a special Gamblin oil painting class we’ll be hosting in October. We’ll have the full details in our next newsletter.

Did you know that Pantone graphic design products were redesigned all the way back in 2003? Pantone is offering a $50 rebate if you purchase a replacement for your old Pantone products. Now I know you’ve carefully combed through our inventory and didn’t notice any Pantone products in stock, but we can special order them for you. In fact, until the end of 2009 we’ll even give you 10% off the regular list price for all the Pantone you can eat. The chips are edible, right? (Note: you don’t have to eat them. In fact, you probably shouldn’t.)

When you’ve got your mitts on your new chips, don’t forget to download the Pantone Rebate Form and send it in to get your $50.