How to: Varnish
Varnish is a resin that’s dissolved in fluid so that it can spread across a painting. When the carrier fluid evaporates, it leaves the resin behind to harden into a...
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Approaching Colour Mixing
There are many diverse approaches to colour mixing, shaped by our understanding of colour, and what our desired approach and results are.
Guide: Acrylic, Oil, & Watercolour Brushes
We offer so many brushes here at Gordon Harris that you may wonder what they’re all for. While the unusual shape of some brushes, such as the da Vinci Vario...
Schmincke Aqua Drop
Schmincke Aqua Drop is a concentrated, lightfast, liquid watercolour in 24 transparent colours plus an opaque white. In a first, Aqua Drop delivers brilliant, true artist quality watercolour in liquid...
NEW Schmincke Liquid Charcoal
This isn’t any ordinary charcoal – it’s a new way of working with an ancient medium. Schmincke Liquid Charcoal is a clean, dust-free process for painting, drawing, and underpainting with...
NEW Fabriano 1264 Pad Range
Fabriano is Europe’s oldest paper mill, and invented watermarks and surface-sizing. This range of pads is named after the year Fabriano began: 1264. All papers in the 1264 range are...
NEW Golden SoFlat Matte Acrylic
Super matte, self-levelling and so easy to brush out, the new SoFlat Matte Acrylic presents an exciting colour experience within the Golden range. Using genuine artist pigments and full-strength binders, SoFlat creates immersive...
Airbrush Action
With the huge amount of cross-pollination between street art, craft and fine art, it’s timely to look at a painting tool with a long history: the airbrush.  First introduced...
Review: da Vinci Colineo Kolinsky Synthetic Sable
Fresh out of Germany comes the new Colineo synthetic sable brush from da Vinci! After a decade of research, the Colineo ("new Kolinsky") was released just last month, and I...
NEW 37 Golden High Flow Colours
Golden High Flow Acrylic now with 37 NEW COLOURS offer even more possibilities to your art making. New colours have been added to the High Flow fluorescent and iridescent selection,...
R&F Pigment Sticks: Oil Paint in stick form
We heard you! Artists have been crying out for oil sticks, so we searched the world for the best, and now offer you the most delicious range of 103 colours...
NEW Schmincke Norma Blue Finest Water-mixable Oil Colours
The new Norma Blue from Schmincke is a water-mixable, professional quality oilcolour, with something extra special to it!Schmincke have developed significant new technologies since water-soluble oilpaint first appeared in the...
NEW Pebeo Colorex Watercolour Ink & Markers
Since the 1960s, Pebeo Colorex Watercolour Ink has supplied illustrators, comic artists, calligraphers, and designers with brilliantly coloured inks. Now the range has been reimagined for today’s drawing techniques, with...
NEW Golden SoFlat - 20 New Colours!
Introducing Golden SoFlat Matte Acrylics: 20 New Colours! More Matte. More Opaque. More Leveling. More Colours! Golden Artist Colors has exciting news for artists and enthusiasts - the beloved SoFlat...
NEW Staedtler Pigment Art Pens
Introducing STAEDTLER's New Pigment Arts Pen: New Multi Ink Sets New Standard STAEDTLER has just unveiled its groundbreaking new range of pigment arts pens made with the innovative new Multi...