Raw Materials

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).

Made in small batches, Williamsburg Handmade Oil Colors are recognized for being richly pigmented and dense. Each color is treated individually, with each pigment ground to the nature of that specific color, bringing out the beauty and preserving the wider range of differences that were common in the past. The line of colors is guided by tradition with a recognition for modern organic pigments. Most colors are considered to have excellent lightfastness, with the exception of Alizarin Crimson and Van Dyke Brown.

The sample set comes with three 5ml tubes of three of the colors that show off these distinctive qualities of the Williamsburg line. Below is an article that our friends at Williamsburg Technical Support shared that explains the three colors in the set.

Reflecting and Projecting History
by Sarah Sands, Williamsburg Technical Support

Color is a living language. Creative currents ebb and flow while science moves pigments to the forefront and pulls other into obscurity. A display of Williamsburg Handmade Oil colors shows the cycle of history. Colors we share with generations of painters in the past, as well as Colors owned only by this generation of artists.

Here, we present three colors from the Williamsburg palette. Each with its own place in history, and because of their inherent beauty and personality, they should also have a place on your palette.

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.

Descriptions of colors, or even close examination of paintings that employ these colors, cannot do them justice. You must experience these colors. Ask for the special sample set containing these three colors next time you visit Raw Materials Art Supplies.

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.

The panels are available in a range of sizes from 6" × 6" to 18" × 24" and they are all 20% off every day.

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.

We’ve expanded our selection of Sketching and Drawing Pencils from Conté.

Pierre Noire Pencils have a soft, smooth lead particularly well suited to drawing, sketching and outlining. They are available in four grades.

Colored Drawing Pencils are particularly well suited to portrait and landscape drawing, extremely rich colors with an added abrasive for easier stumping.

Carbon Pencils are derived from traditional charcoal but are stronger, and the lead does not crumble or dirty the hands. Its delicate and detailed finish enables all types of perspectives to be drawn accurately.

Available at a special price every day, we think you’ll love the feel and possibilities of these pencils.

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 now have a selection of colors in the 2oz size available in the store, and we can always special order any of the 44 colors in the full line, or the larger sizes available in some colors.

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.

Majestic brushes deliver smooth even strokes. The lightweight feel of the brush, excellent color-holding capacity, durability and snap make them a favorite among artists. These brushes are ideal for watercolor and acrylic painting.

Majestic Long Handle brushes deliver smooth and even strokes with exceptional control, and are ideal for use with acrylic or oil. These brushes are admired for their weightless feel and excellent color-holding capacity, durability and snap.

Mini Majestic brushes were designed for working in miniature scale, and are ideal for precise detail painting. This line represents the largest assortment of miniature brushes on the market, including the smallest versions of the patented Royal Wisp brushes.

All of our Majestic brushes are available for 50% off for a limited time.

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.

These 3½" × 5" notebooks come in packs of three, in six different colors and designs, each with 48 pages of ultra-smooth white paper and with covers that are 100% post-consumer recycled. Every Word. Notebook is designed and made right in the USA.

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.

They’re also adding new colors to the marker line, and we have the first batch of new colors in: 100% Cyan, Make-Up, Malachite Light, Sahara Beige, and Royal Red. These are available in the 2mm fine marker as well as 180ml and 25ml refills. New colors will be coming later this year, including fluorescent colors.

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.

We recently restocked and expanded our selection of these notebooks, and we brought in the new Whitelines Link Notebooks. These innovative notebooks are a happy combo of physical and digital notes, combining paper with a clever scanner app (available for iPhone) that makes it super-easy to capture, save and share your notes.

Flashe Matte Vinyl Paint is an extra-fine vinyl-based professional grade of matte permanent colors. It offers optical characteristics similar to gouache, old tempera paints and primitive painting grounds – the result is matte, velvety and opaque. Extremely highly pigmented, Flashe Matte Vinyl Paint may be diluted with water to create a range of possible techniques – from dense, highly opaque application to transparent watercolor effects.

Flashe is so versatile, it may be used inside or outside. The supple film offers good adherence and resistance to weather aggression – ideal for fresco and wall painting, faux finish, theater decoration, etc. It is especially well suited to film and theatre decoration because it does not reflect the light from spotlights.

It is also compatible with paper, canvas and other supports or for preparing grounds. Flashe colors may be applied using brushes, paint guns or sponges and clean up easily with soap and water — no solvents required.

Not only can it be used as a painting medium on its own, but Flashe Matte Vinyl Paint is great for creating the underpainting for oil painting. The matte texture gives oils perfect adherence while respecting the “lean to fat” rule.

We have a growing selection of Flashe Matte Vinyl Paints available in our store at 20% off or more every day, and you can also order the full range of colors through our online store for in-store pickup or to be shipped to your door.