Pencils are easy and convenient to use, paints a little less so. But there’s a high quality colour pencil that you can paint with as well, so you can enjoy the best of both worlds. Derwent Watercolour can be used wet or dry, on wet or dry paper, to achieve a wide variety of effects. Soft in texture so easy to blend and layer.

Derwent Watercolour Pencils are available in 72 classic colours, which retain their full intensity however you use them. For sheer versatility, Derwent Watercolour is unmatched.

Available individiually, in packs of 12, 24, 36, 72, and in wooden boxes of 48 and 72.

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A pigmented liquid composed of rubber latex and pigment, for masking areas of work needing protection when colour is applied in broad washes.

Slows the drying of water colours, allowing more time for blending. Extends working time even in hot climates.

A pale coloured solution that controls the spread of wet colour, reduces staining & slows drying.

Allows dry colour washes, including staining colours, to be easily lifted from paper with a wet brush or rag.

This increases the granulation of colour, giving a mottled appearance to colours which usually give a smooth wash (e.g. Winsor Blue), or enhancing the effect of granulating colours (e.g. French Ultramarine).

Since 1832 when Henry Newton and William Winsor introduced the first moist water colours to the world, much of our reputation for supreme quality has stemmed from the Artists’ Water Colour range.

Since then Artists’ Water Colour continues to be formulated and manufactured according to our founding principles; to create an unparalleled water colour range which offers artists the widest and most balanced choice of pigments with the greatest possible permanence.

Each colour within this wide and balanced spectrum of 96 colours, has been selected and formulated to offer the greatest choice so that artists can use a unique palette that best suits their work.

Available in 5ml and 14ml tubes.

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Use Gummed Paper Tape for stretching watercolor paper sealing silk screens or wrapping packages. Brown kraft water activated acid-free paper tape.

Cotman Water Colours are a range of water colours that are made to Winsor & Newton’s normal high quality standards but costs are kept to an economical level by replacing some of the more costly pigments with less expensive alternatives.

The range consists of 50 colours in tubes, which possess good transparency, excellent tinting strength and good working properties, including genuine cadmiums and cobalt.

Available in 8ml and 21ml tubes.

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We stock a variety of Royal brand sponges; synthetic, wool and silk. Available in singly and in packs.