BACK TO SCHOOL & UNI WITH S&S

S&S has a wide variety of items on offer for when you go back to school and uni in 2015. From colouring, pastel, sketching and graphite pencils to charcoal, brushes, oils, acrylics, watercolours, gouache, paintstiks, easels, sketchbooks and paper, students will find everything they need to make this year an artistic success.

A large selection of the Derwent range is on offer. S&S is offering Derwent Artbar, Inktense pencils and blocks, Coloursoft, Drawing, Artist, Studio, Watercolour, Pastel, Metallic, Graphitint, Tinted Charcoal and Sketching pencils along with some specially selected Collection

Sets for students to begin their artistic year in style. These selections of pencils are available in selected wooden boxes and tins. Derwent pencils are high quality drawing instruments suitable for amateur, student and professional artists. The rich, luscious colour of Coloursoft and the bold, earthy tones of Derwent Drawing pencils are especially good for capturing landscapes and life drawings, while the unique properties of Graphitint and Tinted Charcoal offer artists exciting new mediums to create beautiful pencil drawings.

Inktense pencils are pure, vibrant colour pencils that combine the intensity of pen and ink with the versatility of line and wash. Use dry to create strong, vivid tones then apply a light wash to achieve a translucent ink-like effect. Once dry, the colour is permanent and can be worked over with both soluble and non-soluble media. Derwent Inktense pencils are incredibly versatile and can be used to create a diverse range of art from Japanese Manga and vibrant silk painting to more traditional watercolours and stunning botanical illustrations. The newly re-formulated Derwent pastel pencils have a softer texture and improved performance than the previous Derwent Pastel pencils. The colours are vibrant, intense and blend easily allowing you to create an infinite number of hues and tints. All Derwent pencils are now manufactured with an environmentally friendly, waterbased, solvent free coating.

For sketching artists, there is a selection of graphite and sketching pencils, mixed media sets and charcoal. The Cretacolor Black Box and Artino graphite sets contain a useful selection of black drawing materials including charcoal, graphite and Nero drawing pencils while the Cretacolor Artino and Primo sketching sets provide a great selection of sepia, sanguine, charcoal and chalk pencils

along with accessories such as paper stumps and kneadable erasers.

The ‘Silver Box’ by Cretacolor is the perfect complement to the

Black Box. It contains a selection of quality graphite drawing materials including graphite blocks, sticks, pencils, monolith woodless graphite pencils plus accessories presented in a beautiful silver tin. The Cretacolor “Artist Studio” Drawing 101 set is ideal for all art students. This excellent value, introductory set contains three graphite pencils (HB, 2B, 4B), an extra soft oil charcoal pencil, white chalk pencil, sanguine pencil, sepia pencil, three charcoal pencils (soft, medium, hard) plus paper blending stump.

For something a little different, try the Cretacolor “oil pencil” sketching set. This set contains a selection of oil pencils that are perfect for all types of drawing, sketching, landscapes and portraiture in white chalk, sepia (light and dark), Nero

(soft and extra soft) plus Sanguine.

If you are looking for charcoal, the soft black willow charcoal from Coates is particularly well suited to satisfy a whole range of artistic needs. Coates willow rods are clean and straight – top quality artist pieces! S&S is also offering DalerRowney’s willow charcoal for back to school and uni this year. This premium quality charcoal has a deep black hue and uniform texture and is available in a range of thicknesses.

Sakura Expressionist Oil Pastels are a serious painting medium providing both a pastel and oil colour effect. These round oil pastels are smooth, easy to use and the high pigment loading guarantees extremely intense and vivid colours with excellent lightfast properties. Superior oils and waxes have been blended into these pastels to produce exceptionally smooth drawings.

For protection of your work,

Nuart workable fixative gives clear protection to prevent smudging or dusting of your valuable drawings. Nuart workable fixative has been specially formulated for charcoal, graphite, coloured pencil and pastel drawings.

To transport your pencils around, then look no further than the Derwent Pencil Wraps or Derwent Artpack. Made from heavy cotton canvas, the Pencil Wraps are available in pocket size (holds 12 pencils) or standard size (holds 30 pencils) and have a small pouch for accessory items such as erasers and sharpeners. They are small enough to be carried in your pocket, bag, portfolio or backpack.

The Artpack is a canvas pencil case that holds up to 24 pencils and a selection of accessories. It features an easy-view pocket that allows for quick pencil selection plus a mesh pocket for securing accessories. Both the Pencil Wraps and Artpack are ideal for the artist on the move!!

A stable support is necessary when drawing. To help you achieve this, the Bieffe and Richeson drawing boards offer a firm support for working alone or at an easel. The A3 European Bieffe boards are probably the best value-formoney drawing boards of their type available. Manufactured from highimpact plastic, the board is supplied complete with locking straight-edge ruler, 1800 protractor and anti-slip feet. The Richeson lightweight metaledge drawing boards feature a smooth hardwood laminate surface with core of honeycomb matrix, providing the user with a warp resistant surface.

S&S is also offering a selection of fine liners and markers to students this year. The Sakura Pigma Micron fine liner contains the unique Pigma ink which is permanent, water-proof, colour and light fast. Pigma Micron pens will write on virtually any porous surface and will not bleed through paper. They work very well on tracing paper. Pigma Micron is available in black in a variety of line widths from 0.2mm to 0.5mm for both technical and artistic drawings. There is also a range of eight colours which are great for cartooning, illustration, Manga, scrapbooking and journaling.

ShinHan “Touch” Twin Markers are now available to Australian consumers. Every aspect of the “Touch” Twin marker has been designed to outperform every other artist marker available on the market today. They are odourless, non-toxic, permanent and contain the highest quality ink with very few additives. The rich and intense colours are fade-resistant and non-streaking and will not dissolve toner inks allowing them to be used safely on copied drawings without the use of smudging. ShinHan Touch Twin markers are available in this back to school and uni period in sets of 12, 24, 36 and 48 assorted colours.

If painting is your forte, then check out the offers from Daler-Rowney, Richeson, Shiva and Sakura. Oils, Acrylic, Gouache and Watercolours are all on offer for back to school and uni this year. Georgian Oil Colours by Daler-Rowney have been the

UK’s favourite oil paints for many years. Georgian Oil Colours offer artists high quality and performance at an economical and uniform price across colours in the range. They are produced to the same exacting standards as Daler-Rowney Artists’ Oils, and are carefully blended and tested to produce the most brilliant colour and match the tint and texture from batch to batch.

The Simply range of colours have been formulated to provide bright, clean colours at an economical price. Simply Oil Colours are available in 12ml tubes in sets of 6, 12 and 24 assorted colours. For a different take on oil painting, try Shiva Painstiks. These are professional grade artists’ oil colours in convenient stick form. Manufactured from quality pigments blended with refined linseed oil, they can be used in conjunction with conventional oil paint surfaces, mediums and varnishes, using the same methods and techniques.

Daler-Rowney Designers Gouache is characterised by its free-flowing texture, tinting strength and excellent covering power. It is a brilliant, opaque, artists’ quality body colour made using only the highest quality pigments and calcium carbonate ensuring that it retains its pure, bright colour across all 87 colours in the range. Daler-Rowney Designers Gouache is available this year in the 12 x 15ml college set or the

30 x 15ml studio set. Richeson Gouache sets are available in sets of 12 or 18 assorted colours. These fine gouache colours offer the beginning artist a good selection of gouache colours at a great price.

For water-colourists, the Daler-Rowney Aquafine watercolour travel tin sets offer you excellent quality at a very good price. The Round

Travel Tin contains 18 half-pans, two mixing palettes and a brush while the Square Travel Tin contains 24 half-pans, brush and removable mixing palette. Sakura Koi Watercolours are vibrant, sunning, finely ground and transparent watercolours packed in a heavy-duty white plastic sketch box. These watercolours are ideal for taking into the field. Each box features a fold-out lid with five mixing wells, a daubing sponge and Sakura water brush. Simply watercolours provide an ideal introduction into the world of watercolour painting. These basic and affordable colours can be used to paint on all conventional watercolour surfaces and are available in 12ml tubes in 6, 12 or 24 assorted colours.

A stable platform is essential for painting, and this year S&S has a selection of top quality easels on offer. For outdoor or plein air work, look no further than the Richeson field/ sketching easel. It is lightweight, compact and easy to transport. For those whose space is limited, the Angelina aluminium table top easel is the ideal solution. Manufactured from black anodised aluminium the Angelina features adjustable ‘wings’ to support or display large pieces (up to 24 x 36” canvas

boards) and a collapsible back leg allowing the angle of the easel to be easily adjusted. The entire easel folds compactly into a small bag (included) with shoulder strap. It is ideal for plein air or classroom use.

To complete your painting experience, S&S is offering a set of Daler-Rowney Simply Bristle brushes. This set contains 10 brushes in various sizes and all have nickelplated brass ferules and short timber handles. The Simply Bristle brushes are best used for oils and acrylics.

To plan your masterpiece, S&S is offering a great selection of sketchbooks from renowned paper suppliers Fabriano and Daler-Rowney. These sketchbooks are the ideal platform for taking initial sketches prior to painting or for plein air work. The Fabriano Artists’ journals are available in several sizes and contain a selection of 90gsm Ingres paper in various colours and are ideal for work in pencil, pastel, charcoal and ink. The Daler-Rowney “Ebony” and “Cachet Classic” Hardback books contain quality acid-free paper in 150gsm and 220gsm respectively. Both are bound with durable, rigid covers and have a glued/sewn spine. The “Ebony” and “Cachet Classic” books are suitable for works in pen and ink, pencil and all other dry techniques and the covers can be overprinted. The Daler-Rowney “Simply” hardback sketchbooks are excellent value. They contain 220 pages of 100gsm extrawhite or natural white, medium grain paper that is ideal for any technique.