Exploring the Alchemy of Pebeo Acrylic Mediums: A Journey of Texture and Transformation As an artist, the thrill of creation often lies not just in the stroke of a brush but in the alchemical dance between color and texture. Pebeo’s acrylic mediums are like a box of...
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Robert Gellion FREE relax and stay safe colouring projects.
We want to thank Robert Gellion for his kind gesture of allowing anyone that wants to print off a copy of his colouring image the chance for free to help you through these trouble times. We have set the images up as PDF so you can click them while you're self...
Soft Pastels for beginners
Soft Pastels What are pastels? Pastels are compressed pigment and binder formed into sticks. The higher quality the pastel the greater the pigment, which increases the coverage and intensity of the colour. Types of pastel Soft pastels These are as the name...
Is there a difference between a palette knife and a painting knife?
A palette knife is a really essential artist painting tool for use with oil paint, acrylic paint or thick mediums. Giving you the ability to produce shape, texture or mixing of your acrylic paints or oil colour paint for all levels of artist. Most artists refer to any...
Watercolor for beginners – Watercolour basics: brushes, easels and accessories
Local art shop is proud to be run by artists for artists and we always enjoy our customers coming in and asking questions or sharing their techniques with us. We've noticed that we get a few questions regularly so we thought we would try and cover these frequent...
Watercolour Basics – Paper and Paint
Local art shop is proud to be run by artists for artists and we always enjoy our customers coming in and asking questions or sharing their techniques with us. We've noticed that we get a few questions regularly so we thought we would try and cover these frequent...
10th Anniversary of our shop opening.
September 18, 2007 we opened the doors to the public for the 1st time. Being immensely proud of being back in the family building. The locals took us to heart straightaway. Scratch designs very quickly built its reputation for its bespoke picture framing offering...
Friends of Gedling Country Park Photographic competition 2017
We wanted to share our congratulations to the winners of the Gedling Country Park photography competition 2017. Which we are proud to have provided second-place prize. 1st) Dave Walker -£150 sponsored by Castle Rock Brewery 2nd) Simon Wright - framed picture of his...
Sennelier Soft pastels Colour list
Sennelier high quality soft pastels are full of pigment and come in over 500 shade or colours. This is a list of the full range available from them. Truly amazing pastels loved by professional artists around the world.
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Free Art Friday Nottingham
Quick link to Nottinghams Free art Friday