Aids

Metal Drawing Board Clips High-quality drawing board clips can be used for securing paper to drawing boards up to 1.6cm thick. Made from Nickel-plated spring steel

Grey Scale & Value Finder Card - Artist Aid Learn to examine the value of your colours, lightness and darker hues.  This useful tool with help your see hues correctly without the influence of other colours allowing you to judge surrounding objects in the distance or close by.

Reading Glass or in our case a Magnifying Glass for close up artwork 75mm diameter round with x2 magnification plus a smaller circle in the glass with x4 magnification. This magnifying glass with easy to hold handle is a great gadget for painting details, particularly relevant for botanical art Moulded with sturdy black plastic.

Colour Wheel - Pocket Size This useful guide to mixing colour helps you to discover the difference between primary, secondary, tertiary, warm and cool colours. How to use:  select a colour on the outside wheel.  Align it with a colour on the inside wheel.  The mixture appears in the window allowing you to judge the tonal value and get the colour required for your painting.

Colour Wheel - An invaluable guide to mixing colours in all media Large 23.5cm diameter (9.25") This useful guide to mixing colour helps you to discover the difference between primary, secondary, tertiary, warm and cool colours. The reverse side of the colour wheel deals with harmonious colour schemes. How to use:  select a colour on the outside wheel.  Align it with a colour on the inside wheel.…

Clear Film 50cm x 5 metre: Cellophane A glossy, high-clarity polypropylene film suitable for a wide range of arts and crafts users.  Popular for covering framed drawings and paintings with artists.

Clear Film 50cm x 10metre : Cellophane A glossy, high-clarity polypropylene film suitable for a wide range of arts and crafts users.  Popular for covering framed drawings and paintings with artists.

Professional Artist Lamp, delivering high quality natural light.  Designed and created to make it possible to colour match every brush stroke accurately. Have total control over your creativity with the right light exactly where you need it, by using the 360° shade rotation and 320° head-flip system. This allows the lamp head to swivel completely to a different area, maximising light coverage of u…

Blender And Burnisher Blister - Derwent Burnisher and Blender Set provides you with the tools needed to make colors shine in your artwork. The burnisher is a hard, colorless pencil that creates a polished finish on top of existing layers of colors. The blender is a soft, colorless pencil used to blend colors together to create rich tones. Use them individually or together. The set includes two ble…

Groove Cube for creating lines with your Derwent XL blocks. Creates expressive lines with Derwent XL Instructions: run your Derwent XL block along one of the ridge sections to carve grooves in the block surface. See what line pattern appears on your paper and let your imagination go!

Sandpaper Block - perfect for shaping pencils, pastels, charcoal and powder making With a backing of wood this block is fitted with removable sandpaper pieces.  Hold the wood handle and sand your pencil, pastel, or charcoal Ideal for creating an angled point Use to create pigment powder to drop onto wet paper for amazing effects. Lightweight Length block 16cms (6.5") Length of sandpaper sheets 9cm…

Derwent Scaper Sgraffito  is the art of scraping away layers to reveal underlying colours.  This age old technique creates exciting and unusual effects. This scraper tool has been designed to provide the artist with a wide selection of scraping shapes to produce different marks. Perfect for use with Derwent Artbar, oil pastels, colour pencils and wet acrylics and oil paints.

Derwent have now discontinued this product. Make your own Graphite and Charcoal powder! Run your Derwent XL Block along the Sprinkler mesh to produce a fine art powder for drawings and multimedia work. Try using damp watercolour paper and see the effect.

Easy Draw - Enlarge & Copy Images Easy Draw Drawing Grid Device, based on a grid system. Turn photos into sketches. Enlarge images. The quick and easy way to transfer images with this clever plastic grid device. Useful for all ages. This sturdy long lasting plastic grid system can be re-used over and over again and is very useful for gaining confidence and building drawing skills. Portable, light,…

Eraser Shield - Assorted precision shapes Perfect for erasing pencil marks neatly. Choose from dots, dashes, straight lines, curved lines, tear drop shapes. Made of thin stainless steel with 26 openings and a polished finish to resist tarnishing

Faber Castell Sandpaper Block Wood block with 2 strips of fine and coard sand-paper for sharpening pastels, charcoal, or fine lead points

Jullian Paris quality Easel Umbrella 130cm width when open Easy to fit Fully adjustable Made of translucent white or tricoloured nylon with a large diameter : 130 cm. This stunning easel umbrella for artists provides protection from direct sunlight without affecting colours. Easel umbrella clamp : Flexible gooseneck clamps to the easel allowing the umbrella to be adjusted to any position.

The Rembrandt Splender is extraordinary. Its a colourless pencil for burnishing and blending coloured wax or watercolour pencils (used dry). The Splender blends & burnishes to a sheen which has the effect of saturating colours, creating a dense glossy surface. Further colours can be layered over the burnished surface. 0.4mm Lead Size.

Handheld Magnifying Sheet 9" x 6" (195mm x 305mm) Perfect for helping the artist with more intricate work, especially seeing the detail for botanical artists. Magnification x3 Ideal for artwork, reading or detailed work. Lightweight at less than 100g so easy to use and not too tiring Black soft frame surrounding transparent sheet.

A Mahl Stick is a useful device for balancing your painting hand, particularly useful for close detailed oil painting or acrylic painting.  The Mahl Stick comes in two lightweight pieces which screw together to form a metal rod which has a cork head covered in suede leather. 90cms length Use this Mahl Stick to support your painting arm and keep your hand steady.

Miniture Bulldog Clip With Pin Fastener For Hanging Paper - Paper Pin Clip Pack of 8 These miniture brass bulldog clips with a pin fastener on the back are perfect for displaying small works on paper and prints. With the pin on the back and a clip on the front these paper clips can be most successfully used on fabric, other papers and bulletin boards or soft boards. However we have found they will…

Lyra Pencil Extender - Beechwood Lengthener How to avoid the frustration of trying to use stubby pencil ends. Extend with this useful beechwood lengthener with polished chrome metal clasp fitting. Easy to Use - Fit the pencil stub into the metal clasp, slide the locking bar and you're ready to go with your favourite graphite pencil, coloured pencil, watercolour pencil - the choice is yours. Manufa…

Ruling Pen by GeoCollege  11.5cm total length The Ruling Pen is a useful art tool for applying lines of masking fluid or ink to your paper.  You can vary the width of the line by using the adjusting screw to change the aperture. Instructions: Adjust to your chosen line width, dip the ruling pen in your ink or alternatively masking fluid and draw onto the paper.  It is possible to create very fine…