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Art Supplies

Our store occupies over 10,000 square feet. Described as "one of the last real art stores on the West Coast," we carry the gamut. Below is a sampling of our stock and as much as we try to keep it up to date, it may not reflect recent changes to inventory.

Paints·Dyes·Pigments·Mediums
Brushes
Adhesives
Printing
Pencils
Markers·Pens·Inks
Drafting
Sign Making
Canvas·Bars
Easels
Sculpture
Crafts
Paper
Framing
Matboards
Airbrushes
Books
Graphic Materials
Miscellaneous

PAINTS·DYES·PIGMENTS·MEDIUMS

Watercolor:
  • Winsor & Newton Artist (tubes and half-pans)
  • Daler-Rowney
  • Holbein
  • Schmincke
  • Winsor & Newton Cotman
  • Talens Van Gogh
  • Grumbacher Academy
  • Liquitex (Discontinued, Limited to stock on hand.)
  • Reeves (sets)
  • Pelican (sets)
  • Prang (sets)

Oil:
  • Winsor & Newton Artist Oils
  • Winsor & Newton Winton Oils
  • Winsor & Newton Griffin Oils (Alkyd)
  • Talens Rembrandt
  • Talens Cobra (water-soluble)
  • Talens Van Gogh
  • Talens Amsterdam
  • Michael Harding Oil Colours
  • Gamblin
  • Holbein Duo
  • M.Graham
  • Daler-Rowney Georgian
  • Winsor & Newton Artisan (water-soluble)
  • Pelikan MasterColor (water-soluble, limited supply)
  • Reeves (sets)
  • Winsor & Newton OilBar (oil sticks)
  • Shiva Paintstiks (oil sticks)

Acrylic:
  • Liquitex
  • Golden
  • Winsor & Newton Artists' Acrylic
  • Talens Amsterdam Expert
  • Grumbacher Academy
  • Liquitex Basics
  • Daler-Rowney DR Acrylics
  • Talens Amsterdam (Formerly "Van Gogh")
  • Cal Western (mural paints)
  • Reeves (sets only)

Pastels:
  • Sennelier (soft and oil)
  • Schmincke
  • Rembrandt
  • Winsor & Newton
  • Holbein
  • Unison
  • Art Spectrum
  • Faber Castell
  • Daler Rowney
  • Nupastel
  • Pentel (oil)
  • Van Gogh (oil)
  • Cray-Pas
  • Reeves (sets only)

Gouache:
  • Winsor & Newton
  • Daler Rowney
  • Grumbacher (very limited)

Casein:
  • Shiva

Waterbased Enamels:
  • Liquitex Glossies

Tempera Paint:
  • Pro-Art (The best quality brand on the market.)

Fabric/Textile Paint:
  • Jacquard

Silk Dyes:
  • Jacquard
  • Sennelier (limited)

Fabric Dyes:
  • Jacquard Procion MX
  • Jacquard iDye

Raw Pigments:
  • Gamblin
  • Jacquard
  • Demco

Airbrush Paints:
  • Createx
  • Jacquard
Sets of paints.
  • Artist Grade, Student Grade. From Deluxe Wooden Box sets to keychain watercolor sets.

Painting Mediums and Thinners. For oil, acrylic, casein, and watercolor.

BRUSHES: We have approximately 10,000 brushes in stock! Artist brushes, foam brushes, sets of brushes. Winsor & Newton, Isabey, Princeton, Connoisseur, Robert Simmons, Grumbacher, DaVinci, Richeson, Demco and more.

ADHESIVES: Masking tapes, Scotch tapes, double-sided tapes, ATG tape, archival hinging tapes, document repair tape, 3M spray adhesives, liquid glues, rubber cement, adhesive sheets, etc.

PRINTING: Screen printing materials and inks, Screen printing sets, etching inks, scribes, linoleum blocks, linoleum cutters, brayers, block printing inks, etching inks, etching tools.

PENCILS: Graphite pencils (Turquoise, General's, Cretacolor, Design, Derwent, Stabilo), wax/oil-based colored drawing pencils (Prismacolor, Derwent, Faber Castell), colored drawing pencils (Berol Verithin), water-soluble colored pencils (Caran D'ache, Cretacolor, Derwent, Stabilo) and water-soluble colored crayons (Caran D'ache), drafting pencils.

MARKERS·PENS·INKS: Markers and Writing Pens (Sanford, Pentel, Tombo, Uchida, Pilot, Niji, Marvy, Berol, Zebra, Itoya, etc.), Technical Pens, Inks (Pelikan, Higgins, Koh-I-Noor, Dr. Martin's, Winsor&Newton, F.W., Liquitex, Sennelier Shellac, etc.), Nibs (calligraphy, writing, sketching), etc.

DRAFTING: Vellum, Mylar/polyester, triangles, T-squares, scales, Drafting Tables and Parallel Boards, rulers, compasses, protractors, lead holders, leads, drafting dots, etc.

SIGN MAKING: Vinyl Letters, Sheets of Form-X adhesive Vinyl, Custom-cut Vinyl letters up to 2" in height, Stencils, etc.

CANVAS·BARS: We stock well over 1,500 canvases! Prestretched canvases in several bar weights also available with linen (rectangles, squares from 3"x4" to 4´x6´ and ovals too), canvas rolls, primed and unprimed canvas by the yard. Stretcher Bars from 5" up to 72" in standard weight, heavyweight bars from 24" up to 80" and cross-braces. Plus our frameshop can stretch custom sizes for you.

EASELS: Full range from tabletop to deluxe double-mast studio easels. Best, Testrite, MABEF, Trident, Pro-Art, Winsor&Newton, etc. At least 40-50 on display at any time.

SCULPTURE: Wood, Plaster, Ceramics, and Stone Carving Tools, Ceramics clay, oil-based and oven hardening clays (Sculpey, Fimo, Premo), air-hardening clays, etc.

CRAFTS: Plaster gauze, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, resin, liquid latex, wood-burners, shaped punches, etc.

PAPER: Rolls, Pads, Specialty Papers, Watercolor Blocks, Origami Papers, Hardbound Sketch Books, Watercolor papers, Drawing Papers, Bristols. Strathmore, Canson, Arches, Winsor&Newton, Rowney, etc.

FRAMING: A room devoted to pre-made frames and mats, sectional frames (5" to 40") in metal and wood, a variety of mat cutters (Logan, Dexter). We also have a full-service professional custom frame shop.

MATBOARDS: One of the largest retail selections of Matboards in the United States (Bainbridge, Crescent, and Canson brands), foam-core (on sale cheap!) up to 48"x96", railroad boards, illustration boards, poster boards, Museum Boards (Strathmore, Rising, on sale at over 50% off of list price!), presentation boards, science project display boards.

Brush
AIRBRUSHES: Paasche, Badger, Thayer & Chandler (now out of business, but line purchased by Badger), Richpen, plus lots of parts, hoses and compressors. Friskette films.

BOOKS: An entire section of art books. Art technique books, featured artist books, children's activity books.

GRAPHIC MATERIALS: Pantone color matching products (fans, books, sheets, markers), Letraset dry transfer lettering sheets and line tapes (limited), Formatt products (limited), proportional wheels, X-Acto knives and blades, registration pins, rubylith, etc.

MISCELLANEOUS:

  • Storage: Portfolios, Presentation Cases, Art supply boxes.
  • Manikins: Man (various sizes), Woman (various sizes), Horse, Hand
  • Palette Knives, Mouth Atomizers, Opaque Projectors, Magnifiers, Jaunting Tools, Hand Waxers, Candle Wax, Candle Scents and Coloring, Lettering Guides, Storage Tubes, Rubber Cement Pick-ups, Flexible Curves, etc., etc., etc., etc. Lots more.

Art Resources local to Santa Cruz County.

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