Visual Arts Newsletter

A set of step-by-step instructions for how to use offsets to mount your canvas in a front-loading canvas frame, as well as instructions for fastening your hanging hardware. For the accompanying video, click here....Read more

Hardware and Tools You Will Need

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Once, when I was working in the Victoria store, a shopper asked me which brand of acrylic paint she should buy. As a beginner, she was a bit leery about buying the higher priced brands, and really wanted to know if there was a good reason....Read more

Let’s get creative with Christmas wrapping.

I remember as a kid wrapping prezzies in old engineering blueprints from my dad’s office, and then spray painting them, taping suckers on them, gluing paper snowflake cutouts to them…aided and abetted by my mother (or was it the other way around?)....Read more

In all the time that I have spent helping people with their questions about art materials, one of the most commonly asked questions about acrylic paints is "How do you stop them from drying so fast?"

Well cue the trumpet fanfare! Golden Artist Colors has produced a new line of acrylic paints that dry slowly, resist forming a "skin" on the surface and can be re-activated when tacky....Read more

It’s exciting when a new product comes along. Trying new things can spark enthusiasm, get the creative juices flowing, and sometimes re-affirm your current ways. That is why we are introducing an exciting new printmaking paper for fine art printing, which we think is great....Read more