Portable Painter: Watercolour Palettes Made for Painting Anywhere
Painting outdoors is one of the best ways to capture a place, a moment or a changing atmosphere. However, carrying palettes, water containers, brushes and paints can quickly turn a...
New da Vinci GO Brushes: Professional Brushes Made for Artists on the Move
GO is the exciting new range of travel brushes from da Vinci, created for artists who want to paint wherever inspiration finds them. The range reworks da Vinci’s traditional travel...
Custom Stretched Canvas: Studio Art Supplies
At Studio Art Supplies, our team of professional canvas stretchers are here to meet all your Custom Canvas needs. With over 30 years of stretching experience, Dean and Richard provide...
In Conversation with Sarah Oostendorp
Auckland-based artist Sarah Oostendorp reflects on her upbringing, creative process, and the deeply personal role art plays in her life. Can you tell us about your upbringing in Southland and...
Limited Palettes: A Colour Mixing Approach
Introduction A limited palette is a colour mixing approach that could benefit your studio practice. It is an effective way to simplify mixing for beginners and provide a challenge for...
Retro Photo: PAR Van Dyke DIY Kit
Explore the timeless Van Dyke photographic process with the PAR DIY Kit, a hands-on way to create rich, sepia-toned prints without a darkroom. With all materials and clear instructions included,...
Decoding da Vinci Brushes - Getting the right touch.
One Brush – Dozens of Fibres With all their manufacture done in Nürnberg (Nuremberg), da Vinci Artist Brushes combine German technology with the long brush making traditions of the Defet...
Product Pairings that POP: GOLDEN
Push your materials further and discover what happens when GOLDEN Acrylic, Mediums, & Watercolours collide. This series of explorations brings together the GOLDEN range in unexpected ways. GAC 100 and...
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...
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...