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  • Staedtler Mars Lead PointerNZD $28.50 $19.95
    Rotary action sharpening for 2mm graphite and coloured leads. Includes point cleaner and automatic cutting stop. Adaptable for use with all makes of lead holders.
  • Professional Artist's LampNZD $25.50 $147.24

    This professional artist's lamp features a bright 18 watt bulb (included), flexible 600mm gooseneck arm and the position and reach of the lamp makes it easily adjustable. The rotating lamp shade can be adjusted to compensate for glare. It comes with 2 separate clamps: easel clamp and table clamp. Replacement bulbs available.1 items

  • Schmincke Soft PastelsNZD $9.00

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    Unmatched in their softness and consistency, Schmincke soft pastels were created using the finest artist's pigments and a minimum of binders. The softness of the pastels permits a beautiful dense application, and the extremely high pigment concentration results in great color intensity.

    Sticks are rich and buttery in texture. The pigments slide right off the stick without any crumbling or breaking. Schmincke Pastels are prepared by hand and by traditional machines, and also labeled by hand to help prevent breakage. Schmincke's generously sized full stick measures 2-5/8" long × 7/16" in diameter (67 mm × 11 mm).

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  • PanPastelsNZD $13.90

    PanPastel Colors are genuine artists’ quality pastels, uniquely packed in a pan format; available in a range of 80 colors.

    PanPastel Colors were developed so that artists can easily lift, apply and control pastel color, just like true painting! The pan format holds the color like paint for easy application. Loaded with the highest quality artists’ pigments; PanPastel Colors are made using a unique manufacturing process requiring minimal binder and fillers, resulting in a rich, ultra soft and low dust formulation. All of these professional quality colors are highly pigmented, have excellent lightfastness and are fully erasable. Each pan contains 35%* more material than the average pastel stick. PanPastel Colors are fully compatible with traditional pastel sticks, pastel surfaces, conventional fixatives and other artist's colors.

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  • PanPastel SetsNZD $58.80 - $219.70

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    PanPastel Colors are the softest pastels in the world. They are genuine artists' quality pastels, uniquely packed in a pan format, so that artists can easily lift, apply and control pastel color, just like true painting.

    Each set contains a selection of Sofft Tools.

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  • Escoda Perla 1430NZD $13.90 - $82.00

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    Escoda Perla Toray White is one of the finest quality synthetic fibers available for artists working with watercolors and acrylic.It keeps an excellent point and edge for a soft, yet controlled application. Escoda cures each brush to improve the spring and resilience of the hair.The short, lacquered wood handle is triple crimped to the nickel-plated brass ferrule. The nylon filaments vary in diameter to allow for a more natural appearance.

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  • Staedtler Lumograph Pencil SetsNZD $22.80 - $45.60

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    Premium-quality pencil for writing, drawing and sketching on paper and matt drafting film, the wide range of degrees makes Lumograph the ideal tool for artists and graphic designers.

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  • Rub N Buff 15mlNZD $16.95

    Burnish, Decorate, Gild, Highlight, Restore, Stencil. Rub n' Buff can be used to beautify hundreds of surfaces and is widely used to decorate picture frames using the fingertip application method.

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  • Escoda PrimeraNZD $14.50 - $50.50

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    Escoda Primera Teijin fiber is a synthetic with thicker and stiffer fibers for work with heavier bodied paints. It's a great brush for painters using gouache, egg tempera, and even acrylic paints.The Teijin fiber is maroon colored and holds its shape and edge extremely well even with thicker paints. It works well in watercolor for edge and snap, but holds less water.The short brown lacquered wood handle is triple crimped to the nickel-plated brass ferrule.

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  • Escoda Opera TakatsuNZD $16.50 - $54.40

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    Escoda Takatsu is a synthetic filament that has a feel that is almost identical to traditional sable, but much more robust.The extra natural spring and resilience of the blended filaments makes it an excellent choice for acrylics and oils. The Escoda curing process creates a brush head that consistently snaps back to its original shape.The long, red-lacquered wood handle is triple crimped to the nickel-plated brass ferrule.

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  • Arches Watercolour Sheets 560 x 760NZD $12.50 - $41.95

    A unique, manual gelatine-sizing process and painstaking manufacture make Arches watercolour paper the reference paper among artists and the world leader in 100% cotton watercolour papers.

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  • Steadtler Pigment Liner Wallet of 4NZD $32.00 $28.80
  • Paasche Model V Airbrush SetNZD $420.00 $199.00

    Paasche's Model V is a precision-type airbrush, perfect for detail, small area shading, and illustration. It is recommended for use with light fluids, inks, dyes, and watercolors.

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  • Art Spectrum Watercolour 10mlNZD $12.70 - $24.60

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    In accordance with proven traditional methods of production, all Art Spectrum Artists’ Watercolours are carefully stone milled to enhance the individual brilliance of each carefully selected pigment, and to maximize its handling qualities.

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  • Liquitex Heavy Body 59mlNZD $15.30 - $32.30

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    Liquitex, the prestigious brand of professional artists' acrylic colors, with high pigment content, are the inventors of artists' acrylics.

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  • Matisse 75mlNZD $13.60 - $52.60

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    Matisse Structure Formula is a rich impasto acrylic paint that is the preferred choice of professional artists. The intense, vibrant colours of the Structure Formula paints cover the full colour spectrum, including several uniquely Australian colours. Each colour is fully compatible with the range of Matisse Mediums working together to create a highly versatile painting system for all artists.

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  • Old Holland 40mlNZD $21.90 - $144.70

    Old Holland Classic Oil Colours has more than three centuries of traditional experience in the manufacture of artists' paint, and during that period it has proved that nothing beats the quality of traditional recipes.

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  • Atelier Interactive 80mlNZD $11.00 - $34.80

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    Atelier Interactive is the only paint that can be adjusted and blended longer than conventional acrylics.

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  • Jasart Lyre EaselNZD $220.00 $195.00
  • Rotring Template Architect 1:100NZD $77.00 $65.00
  • Rotring Template Architect 1:50NZD $84.00 $65.00
  • Old Holland Wooden Box SetNZD $590.40 $442.80

    This quality set includes 15, 18ml tubes of Old Holland Artist Oils, a wooden palette, an oil painting medium and artist's turpentine. Also, 3 Chungking bristle brushes, 2 brass painting cups and willow charcoal.

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  • Art Spectrum Artists' Watercolour SetNZD $253.20 $202.56

    12 Artists' Colours, 2 synthetic watercolour brushes, a natural sponge and a palette, all contained in a wooden box.

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  • Matisse Landscape SetNZD $142.60 $114.08

    This set provides all the colours that you as the artist need to create a great landscape. Rich vibrant browns provide the perfect company for the array of greens and yellows to create the ideal foreground, while the addition of Titanium White will allow you to create the low-key backgrounds regularly employed in landscape painting. The Matisse highly pigmented Phthalo Blue will provide a great base for the skies, and will give you even more range in your colour choices.

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  • Matisse Portrait SetNZD $142.60 $114.08

    This set includes the colours traditionally used by painters. Some of these colours have been enhanced purely for portrait painting. For example, the often used Raw Sienna has been superseded by a purpose developed Skin Tone Mid which will allow further mixing and development of colours than would be possible with a traditional Raw Sienna. Yellow Oxide and Matisse Red Light in the set allows you to bring vibrancy to the brightest areas of colour within the face, for the ears, cheeks, nose and lips. Together with the inclusion of the brilliant Phthalo Green all eye colour are achievable. With the strength of the colour in this set, mixed with Titanium White, you will achieve the perfect highlight colour for the forehead area of your portraits. In the case of darker flesh tones, mix a touch of Ultramarine Blue.

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  • Super Sculpey 453gNZD $34.00 $29.90

    Super Sculpey is a ceramic-like sculpturing compound that is shatter and chip resistant. Super Sculpey remains soft and pliable if stored in a very cool place. After baking, Super Sculpey becomes hard and is ready for painting and/or glazing. It can be carved, sanded and drilled.

  • Matisse Sampler Set of 12 (12ml tubes)NZD $49.90 $39.92

    This set contains the warm and cool primary colours you need to start painting. Included is a selection of unique and useful colours which will help you with your portrait, landscape or abstract work.

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  • Matisse Primary SetNZD $142.60 $114.08

    This Primary Set gives you all the colours you need to use a split primary colour mixing palette. With a little knowledge of bias colour mixing and a choice of warm and cool primary colours, bright vibrant secondary and tertiary colours will be easily mixed. The addition of Mars Black and Titanium White to the set allows for a huge range of tonal shades of these mixes as required.

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  • Matisse Intro SetNZD $83.10 $66.48

    An excellent set to get you started. The three primary colours in this set have been especially selected to give a huge range of clean and bright secondary and tertiary colours. Use Titanium White to develop form and shape through tonal changes.

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  • Prepaid A4 Satchel (nationwide): $5 per order
  • Local (North Shore): $5.50 per order *
  • Shorthaul (within 150kms): $7.50 per order *
  • Rest of North Island: $9.30 per order *
  • South Island: $10.40 per order *

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