Our Limited Edition Triads offer incredible value and a chance to experiment with gorgeous color mixes. Each set is a perfect project all on its own - or use them as a limited palette for card making or plein air  Learn More

DANIEL SMITH offers high-quality watercolors, many with properties you won't find elsewehere. These include our Quinacridones, Luminescents and PrimaTek color lines.  Learn More

With this subject, Kay Barnes constructs a wonderful fall scene filled with color and contrasting values. The reference photo is only a springboard for the rhythms, colors, and textures I wish to impart to the  Learn More

A Demonstration of the Best Way to Prepare Ampersand Hardbord Using Daniel Smith Gesso The tradition of panel painting dates back to the Renaissance. If the maste  Learn More

Experimenting with Daniel Smith Gesso, I hit upon this easy layering technique which gives the effect of an aged patina or old gold leaf and works well with my figurative work. Ampersand's Gessobord is prepared w  Learn More

Joanne Wasserman explores her ideas and techniques for creating bright, large-scale interior murals Joan Wasserman's mural for the Leona Bowman Center for Community Health Nursing was pai  Learn More

So you've gotten the trip of your dreams arranged to Tibet, Italy, or maybe just across the state; then comes the dilemma -- what kind of painting equipment to bring? I'm constantly asked this question, and thoug  Learn More

DANIEL SMITH released Lapis Lazuli Genuine watercolor in 1998 and artists were introduced to PrimaTek® pigments. Since then, this line of natural mineral paint has grown to 38 colors and has become  Learn More

A Demonstration of the Best Way to Prepare Ampersand Hardbord Using Daniel Smith Gesso The tradition of panel painting dates back to the Renaissance. If the maste  Learn More

Watercolor was the first type of paint to be used in the airbrush, and why not? Watercolor has all the necessary attributes—thinning with water to an appropriate consistency is easy; the tip of the airbrush isn’t  Learn More

When painting most fur patterns, you want to start with an opaque background of a medium value color. This medium value color should be in accordance with the overall coloring of your subject. Once applied, you  Learn More

What creates the illusion of dimension for objects in a painting? What gives reality to shapes and items in an airbrush painting? The answer to both questions is shading, the cast shadow or the implied shadow.  Learn More

Letters can be used to adorn all kinds of objects or as an intriguing element incorporated into artwork. We used a lightbox to trace an elaborate K from a clip art book of ornamental alphabets onto a shee  Learn More

Rock Newcomb Explores Graphite On Claybord for a New Look During the past decade, I have worked with many mediums and surfaces (supports). Claybord Smooth™ is the one surfac  Learn More

Working bigger, bolder, faster with Wax-based Colored Pencils - A Demonstration by Vera Curnow Control is the operative word for colored pencils. Clean, cheap, and portable, there are no  Learn More

Tinting Block Prints with Watercolor by Molly Hashimoto Get Acquainted with Your Colors After working as a watercolor artist for years, I tried out the Safety-Kut  Learn More

Whether painting, sculpting, drawing, or printing, all methods or media can strengthen one another, and perhaps a respite from one will enrich another-and vice versa. Two bonuses of etching are that one ca  Learn More

1. Start with an original drawing. If it's drawn in soft pencil, you can turn it face down on a Safety-Kut Soft Printmaking Block and transfer it by rubbing. If you'd like to keep the original drawing intact, pho  Learn More

Diana Randolph Demonstrates her Technique for Capturing an Expansive Sky with Pastels When in the car or walking my dog I often bring my camera with me to capture nature's surprises-a bea  Learn More

Diana Randolph uses Pastels to Capture the Magic of that Fleeting Hour Some call it the magical hour, when the sun sinks in the sky, casting long rays through our planet's thick atmospher  Learn More

Telling a Story with Pastels: An Artistic Dramatization by Carole Katchen People think that storytelling is only done with words, but you can also tell a story in a picture. To tel  Learn More

Our Limited Edition Triads offer incredible value and a chance to experiment with gorgeous color mixes. Each set is a perfect project all on its own - or use them as a limited palette for card making or plein air  Learn More

Pick up some Blank Watercolor Cards and Create Your Own Holiday Cards! Susie Short has some great & simple tips that make creating cards fun - you'll enjoy making them as much as your friends and family will  Learn More

Follow this project to make Watercolor Ornaments and Gift Tags. Using our template or a shape of your own, cut ornament shapes from cardboard and trace them onto 300lb cold press watercolor. We worked on 5 in wide  Learn More