GIFTS FROM S&S WHOLESALE
S&S Wholesale is offering a wide range of exciting new products as well as traditional favourites for Christmas this year. From colouring, drawing, watercolour and sketching pencils to easels, pastels, watercolours, acrylics and oil paints … you’ll find something special for the artist in the family.
A large selection of the Derwent pencil range is on offer for this Christmas. S&S Wholesale is offering Derwent Coloursoft, Studio, Artist, Inktense, Watercolour, Pastel and Sketching pencils in a variety of wooden presentation boxes along with drawing sets and sketchbooks – helping people to begin their artistic year with a flourish. Of particular interest, especially for the younger artists, will be the Derwent Master Manga Art Sets. These sets contain everything you need to begin creating Manga drawings or comics, and they come with a set of Inktense pencils, paintbrush, sketchbook and CD tutorials (created by renowned Manga artist Hayden Scott Baron).
Also of interest are the Derwent Sketching Folio and Sketching Wallet. These sets contain everything you need to sketch anywhere, anytime.
The Sketching Folio contains 12 Graphitint pencils, three water soluble sketching pencils, two charcoal pencils, a waterbrush, an A6 pad, and a sharpener, palette and eraser packed into a leatherette case. The Sketching
Wallet contains four tinted charcoal pencils, five graphic pencils, three water soluble sketching pencils, a dark Onyx pencil, an A5 landscape sketch pad, plus an eraser and sharpener packed in a leatherette case. Finally, the very special, limited edition,
175th Anniversary Heritage Box will also be offered. This large, beautiful Mahogany box is a collector’s item and only a few have been made available to the Australian public.
The Daler-rowney company has provided beautiful and unique gifts for artists this Christmas. For the oil painter there are several Georgian Oil Colour assortments: A beautiful wooden box containing 12 x 75ml tubes; a jumbo Georgian Oil painting set containing
9 x 120ml tubes; a ‘Festive’ starter set with 6 x 22ml tubes plus a Number 2 brush; and a tinned set containing 5 x 75ml tubes in ‘Classic’ oil colours. The acrylic painter will find the re-vamped System 3 Original and System 3 Heavy Body Jumbo sets to their liking – each set contains 8 x 150ml tubes of this highly pigmented, versatile acrylic. To complement this, a set of seven System 3 palette knives with wooden handles is available in an attractively presented zip case. These knives feature a selection of traditional blade styles allowing you to achieve multiple painting effects.
Watercolourists will be delighted with the beautiful Artists’ Watercolour wooden box. This deluxe set is the ideal gift for the experienced watercolourist. It contains 15 half pan watercolours,
2 x 5ml watercolour tubes, Number 0 and Number 4 Kolinsky Sable brushes, a five well China palette, sea sponge and microfibre cloth plus 10 x Langton A6 watercolour sheets.
For a complete gift, the Dalerrowney Graduate Bumper Easel set represents great value. It contains 6 x 120ml tubes, 2 x brushes, palette knife, 8 x 10 inch canvas panel, canvas artist’s bag and box easel.
The Bumper Easel sets are available in oils or acrylics. Alternatively, the ‘Simply’ acrylic wooden box set is the ideal gift for the younger or beginning artist. This sturdy wooden box contains 12 x 12ml tubes of ‘Simply’ acrylic, four artists’ brushes, palette, two palette knives, four drawing pencils, sharpener and eraser.
Daler-rowney is a renowned brush manufacturer and is offering some special brush cases this Christmas. Each set contains a selection of the most popular and useful brushes in the Cryla, Georgian, System 3 and Simply ranges.
Some easels wouldn’t go astray as places to create artistic masterpieces. The St Pauls field easel is a lightweight wooden easel complete with canvas carrier – allowing it to be easily transported for plein air painting. The ‘Simply’ table box easel provides a solid base for your work; it has a fully adjustable painting angle and a
comfortable carry handle, and it will hold canvases up to 17 inches high.
Cretacolor of Austria has made available some lovely new ‘Aquarelle’ sets for Christmas this year. The watercolour collection contains a 30 piece assortment of all Cretacolor watercolour media. Aqua Monolith is a woodless watercolour pencil, producing six times more colour than standard watercolour pencils. All Cretacolor ‘Aquarelle’ sets come with a free Aquarelle/watercolour DVD, which provides you with hints, tips and techniques so you can get the most out of your Cretacolor pencils. For the sketching artists, there is a selection of mixed media sets containing selections of pastels, drawing, and graphite and sketching pencils. The Cretacolor Black Box set contains a useful selection of black drawing materials including charcoal, graphite and drawing pencils; while the ‘Terra Classica’, ‘Professional’ and ‘Ultimo’ sets contain assortments of sketching, graphite and graphite aquarelle pencils together with charcoal and graphite sticks, artists’ pastels and a free Cretacolor creative calendar.
The Ultimo and Terra Classica sets also come with a Cretacolor Sketching and Drawing DVD.
Cretacolor has also made available the brand new Karmina and Marino Aquarelle Fine Art Pencils. These pencils are of the highest quality and are maximum lightfast rated. They are available in tins of 12, 24 and 36 as well as wooden boxes of 24 and 36.
Pastellists haven’t been forgotten this Christmas. S&S Wholesale is offering starter sets of 8, 18, 36 and 72 Unison Soft Pastels. These pastels have only recently been made available throughout Australia and they are counted among the world’s finest. Each individual pastel is hand-made and hand-rolled by a master craftsman in England. Their colour response and feel is unmatched. There are also some beautiful wooden boxes of Richeson Handmade, Soft and Semi-hard Square pastels. These pastels are of professional quality and are an ideal gift for any pastellist. As a bonus, you will receive six sheets of Richeson Premium Pastel Paper free. If you prefer your pastels a bit cleaner, try a set of Bruynzeel Pastel Pencils. These pencils are regarded by many as the best pastel pencils available. They are smooth, soft and watersoluble. They are easily sharpened and won’t split.
If you want to experience something a bit different, try St Petersburg watercolours. These highly regarded Russian pan watercolours were once only made exclusively for use by the Russian Masters. They are professional quality watercolours which are liquid poured and contain only the best quality and exceptionally finely ground pigments, guaranteeing the highest possible lightfastness and colourfastness.
For the beginner, hobby or junior artist, why not give them a Richeson painting gift set? These gift sets contain everything needed to begin painting straight away.
Each set contains a table top easel, 12 quality colours, brushes, palette, paint saver keys and either a watercolour pad or canvas panels.
The gift sets are available in oil, acrylic or watercolour sets.
If the artist in your life loves the outdoors, then perhaps they would like the Richeson Field/sketching Easel. Perfect for ‘plein air’ painting, this easel has adjustable legs and is easy to set up and take down. It is lightweight, compact and easy to transport.
Lastly, Maimeri of Italy has some truly beautiful gifts for the artist in your life. Maimeri has produced some beautiful Beechwood boxes to house a collection of Classico Extrafine Oil Colours or Polycolor Acrylics. These boxes contain a selection of 8, 10 or 12 x 20ml tubes in popular colours plus a 75ml bottle of medium and a brush. Some of the larger sets also contain charcoal, palette, painting knives and easel. Of particular note is the Classico Wooden Table Easel Box. This set contains 10 x 60ml tubes of Classico Extrafine Oil Colours plus a 200ml tube of Titanium White, a 75ml bottle of linseed oil, a 75ml bottle of oily thinner, five sticks of artists’ grade willow charcoal, double metal palette bowl, large oval timber palette, a Number 7 painting knife, plus Number 2 and Number 6 Hog Bristle brushes – all packed in a wooden table easel box with carry handle. These sets are made with true Italian style and any artist would be overjoyed to find such a gift in their Christmas stocking.