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QoR MINI Watercolor Set: Compact Color for artists on the move

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MINI Watercolor Set by QoR fits 12 half pan watercolors in a tin smaller than an index card. It fits perfectly in pocket or purse for urban sketching and plein air painting and is on sale for 40% off!!!

The deep, rich, beautiful color of QoR Modern Watercolors with its exclusive Aquazol binder provides more pigment in every brushstroke, while retaining the best qualities of traditional watercolors. Strength, versatility, and now convenience and mobility are part of the Qor Story – and at 40% off list price! Get this set for $69.99 (list price $99.99) while supplies last!  

Features include:

  • Stamped wells on tin lid offer convenient mixing space
  • Innovative non-staining silicone insert with embossed letters next to each pan
  • Standard size removable/refillable half pans; and
  • Watercolor paper insert to paint out a color reference key

Vibrant, clean mixing primary colors along with convenient secondary and earth colors includes: Cadmium Yellow Primrose, Nickel Azo Yellow, Transparent Pyrrole Orange, Pyrrole Red Medium, Quinacridone Magenta, Dioxazine Purple, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue (Green Shade), Sap Green, Payne’s Gray, Transparent Brown Oxide, and Burnt Umber

Introducing: QoR Light Dimensional Ground

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A white, lightweight paste that spreads like frosting, Light Dimensional Ground by QoR can be applied smooth and thinly, or built up to create ridges, peaks and other interesting textures. The extremely absorbent surface of Light Dimensional Ground allows washes to spread quickly, while accommodating fine lines and detail as well. Try dropping color into lightly wet areas to create beautiful blooms. And during the month of March, QoR Modern Watercolors, Mediums, and Grounds are on sale at 40% off!!! If you haven’t experienced it yet, now is a good time to try QoR Light Dimensional Ground!

How To: QoR Masking Fluid

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QoR offers a latex-based Masking Fluid to complement their range of modern watercolors and mediums. Masking Fluid is ideal for hard-edges and highlights with watercolor compositions. Have you tried using masking fluid when working with watercolors? If you haven’t yet, now is the time to try! QoR Masking Fluid and all QoR Mediums and Grounds are on sale for 40% off through March 31st!

Introducing QoR Watercolor Ground

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Watercolor Ground by QoR is a fluid acrylic primer that creates a porous surface similar to hot press paper on many different materials, including canvas and panel. You don’t have to limit your watermedia-based art to only paper, you have options. Watercolor Ground dries to an absorbent, lightfast, and flexible surface that withstands repeated lifting and scrubbing. Suitable for a full range of watercolor techniques, including wash and staining effects, Watercolor Ground can also be used to return stained areas to an absorbent white surface. During the month of March, QoR Modern Watercolors, Mediums, and Grounds are on sale for 40% off !!!

How-To: Neocolor II Water-soluble Wax Pastels

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This video covers various basic techniques with NEOCOLOR® II Water-soluble Wax Pastel by Caran d’Ache: drawing, graded applications, washes, watercolour effects and techniques. Soft, velvety texture, ultra-high pigment concentration, luminous colours, excellent light resistance, and superior covering power – these are more than just crayons. The NEOCOLOR II Water-soluble Wax Pastels have the widest color range on the market – perfect for dry or wet drawings, water color effects, washes and sgraffito. On sale for 20% off through March 31st!!!

Win A Trip to Holland and “The Rembrandt Experience”

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Rembrandt Zelfportrait Apostel

2019 is the year of Rembrandt! To recognize the spirit of Rembrandt in all of us, Royal Talens, manufacturer of Amsterdam Acrylics, Amsterdam Acrylic Inks, and Rembrandt Artists Pastels presents a competition for artists around the world!

How To Enter

Take a high quality photo of your artwork

Share on Instagram or Facebook and use the hashtag: #RembrandtArtExperience add a hashtag with your home country and add @RoyalTalens. (Example: #USA@RoyalTalens)

Describe how Rembrandt influenced your work and maybe you win the prize!

What’s “The Rembrandt Experience”?

  • A trip for two to Holland where you visit Royal Talens for a tour and see where Rembrandt products are produced. Enjoy an in-depth Rembrandt Masterclass covering all Rembrandt products and techniques
  • The next day you will float the canals on a boat tour of Amsterdam. Explore the Rembrandt house to see where Rembrandt lived an worked. Be spoiled with a guided tour through the Rijksmuseum where you’ll see the largest collection of Rembrandt’s work on display.
  • The winning art works will be displayed in the Rijksmuseum Library during a dinner honoring the winners held in the museum. 

Enter the contest now! The last day to submit artwork into consideration will be October 4, 2019. Nominees will be announced October 21, 2019. Nominees send in their artwork before November 18, 2019. Winners will be announced December 16, 2019. Rembrandt Experience trip dates are April 23-26, 2020.

What makes QoR Watercolors different?

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Check out this video which explains just what makes QoR Modern Watercolors different from other watercolors. SPOILER: It’s Aquazol®. You’ll want to check out the video anyways because the colors are so pretty. In any case, the patented Aquazol® formula is excellent for all your traditional watercolor needs but offers even greater capabilities than ordinary (traditional) watercolors made with Gum Arabic. Explore the range of vibrant colors and unique qualities of the only modern watercolor, QoR. Also, all QoR Watercolor, Mediums, and Grounds are on sale for 40% off!!! Sale ends March 31st, so don’t miss out!

Raw Materials Stretched Canvas and Floater Frame

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Raw Materials Stretched Canvas

There are plenty of brand-name options in the canvas and floater frame world, but only two with the name Raw Materials on them. Perhaps not surprisingly, Raw Materials Stretched Canvas and Raw Materials Canvas Floater Frames are available exclusively at your favorite independent art supply store, Raw Materials! Our Stretched Canvases come in the usual standard sizes, with four different types of stretcher bars: Slim (3/4” deep), Thick (1 1/2” deep and lightweight), Chunky (1 1/2” deep and broad), and Epic (2 1/2” deep). You can also order custom-stretched sizes in all four bar sizes, and/or upgrade to a heavier or smoother canvas.

Our Canvas Floater Frames come in come in two different depths, 1½” deep for ¾” canvases (such as our store-brand Slim canvases, Masterpiece Vincent Pro canvases, or the Art Alternatives Studio canvases), and 2½” deep for 1½” canvases (including our store-brand Thick or Chunky canvases, Masterpiece Monet Pro canvases, or the Art Alternatives Gallery Canvases). They are available either unfinished (ready to be stained or painted) or with a black finish. Raw Materials Stretched Canvases and Canvas Floater Frames are only available for in-store pickup and/or local delivery to the Los Angeles area.

M.Graham Oil Colors is on a mission

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You’ve probably seen our posts about M. Graham Oil Colors, and how they’re on sale for 40% off. Maybe you heard that you can get a FREE tube of Alizarin Crimson or Manganese Blue Hue when you buy three (3) or more tubes. Check out this video to learn a little more about this beautiful oil paint, handcrafted from artists’ pigments, free from extenders or adulterants and dispersed in pure non-yellowing American walnut oil. Completely permanent, intermixable and compatible with all other oils, varnish and mediums including alkyd resin products. We just don’t want you to miss out.

SumoGrip Premium Erasers Are Ideal for Reductive Drawing

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SumoGrip Premium Erasers work like ultra-fine sandpaper to get into the small grooves of paper and grab and trap erased graphite. Check out this video where artist Lemia Crescent uses the SumoGrip Premium Eraser to play with highlights, textures, gradation in tone, and to create contrast between light and shadow in her graphite illustrations. She also uses the Sakura Gelly Roll Pen in Classic White to create highlights and to make the drawing pop.

If you’ve never heard of SumoGrip Erasers before, this cute short video has more info about the erasers, and why it’s called SumoGrip.