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Have You Got Yours Yet? The DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog is HERE!

Deborah Burns — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:18:02 +0000

DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog with Kristina Hagman woodblock print "Night" on the Cover

Artists’ Mailboxes the past few days have been a source of delight as Artists have discovered their new DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog amongst ordinary mail. Our new DS Catalog will continue to be arriving in the mailboxes of everyone who is on our mailing list, so have You Got Yours Yet? If it’s because you are not yet on our mailing list, then you can request a catalog on our website.

This year we are “Honoring the Past” with Articles written by Artists acknowledging past Art Movements and Artists’ whose works have influenced Artists today. We hope you will enjoy reading the articles by this years’ DANIEL SMITH Reference Catalog contributors.

The first one (page 6) is “California Watercolor, the National Context, and Why the Medium Continues to Matter” by Paul J. Karlstrom which you can also find already on our website. The DS Catalog also has articles by Robert Amos writing about the influence of Canada’s Emily Carr (page 24), and Bruce Klein on Bay Area Figurative Painting (page 40) and its’ influence on his work. Our Cover Artist Kristina Hagman whose Cover Print “Night” is part of a series of woodblock prints called “Thirty-six Views of Mount Rainier” is based on Japanese Artist Hokusai: “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (page 88). I will have an interview here in the DANIEL SMITH Blog with Kristina Hagman soon.

PLUS, we have announced the winners of our 7th Annual Customer Art Contest Winners!

Grand Prize: “Travelers” by Barbara Wilson
Second Place: “Benny” by Carol Peterson
Third Place: “Morning Flight” by Mary Shea
Employees’ Choice: is “Head Over Heels” by Mimi Williams.

CONGRATULATIONS to our winners! There is an 8th Annual Customer Art Contest , deadline is February 1, 2010.

Of course the REAL reason for the excitement of our New DANIEL SMITH Ref Cat is the new art supplies (Goodies!) that we are introducing to You, our Artists! Just a quick overview of some of the major new STUFF because I will be featuring more on these new art (Goodies!) supplies in later blog posts:

Six (!) new colors in the DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks…including our new Lunar Black Watercolor Stick! We had a lot of customer requests for a black watercolor stick and now we have it for you.
Acrylique: Sennelier’s new Extra-Fine Acrylic paints. Sennelier has worked for a long time on perfecting their new acrylic paints and now you can get them at DANIEL SMITH…we are the first to have them in stock for you!
Revere Printmaking Paper from Cartiera Magnani: Magnani Revere. There is a lot of “Buzz” for this “New” paper in printmaking world, and we are thrilled to have it available to all you print-makers out there!
Fabriano Ingres Cover Heavyweight paper. Fabriano bought the recipe for the Ingre Cover Heavyweight paper so it is now being manufactured again.
Canson Infinity Inkjet Fine Art and Photographic Papers. These Digital Art papers are made with the same Canson Archival Art Papers: Arches, Montval, BFK Rives, Etching Rag, Mi-Teintes that have been used for many (some for hundreds of) years by Artists.
Ampersand in 3 new BIG Sizes! 2 inch deep Gessobord: 30″x40″, 36″x36″ and 36″x48″ and 2 inch deep Claybord: 30″x40″, 36″x36″ and 36″x48″. Just think of what you can create with these larger sizes! We had a lot of requests for these and now have them available to order in packs of two, they are packed by Ampersand in special packaging in twos and we leave them that way for safer shipping to you.

Well…have fun reading and marking up your DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog with all your new favorites-to-be as well as your place marking your standard Faves!

Every Day, Express Yourself with ART….

~Deborah Burns

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It’s Launched! Our New and Improved DANIEL SMITH Website!

Deborah Burns — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:57:40 +0000

Helloooo New DANIEL SMITH Website!

We are so excited to have our “New and Improved” DANIEL SMITH website up and running!

Now, you may not have noticed since we have kept the look of the website similar, but we hope your experience using it is better. Our easier to use website has been something we know you have been wanting for awhile and we are happy to now have it for you.

You should have an easier time searching for items AND finding them. I have done some “test driving” around the website and have found it easier to use after I got used to the ways it is different.

Bye, Bye Old DANIEL SMITH Website!

Now, I have found a few “bugs” that will need to be fixed and passed them on to be fixed, there is always some tinkering that has to be done when something of this scope is first launched. We have A LOT of wonderful ART SUPPLIES (aka Goodies!) on our website, so there are bound to be a few items that have gotten “missed” in the transition.

So if you find an issue, leave me a comment to let me know what you are having a hard time finding and I’ll pass it on to get it fixed!

One thing that is still missing off the DANIEL SMITH website (and hard to find at its’ ”temporary parking address” at danielsmith.realestatetomato.net ) is the DANIEL SMITH Blog…that will be fixed soon too!

Every Day, Express Yourself with ART….

~Deborah Burns

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* Update: The Blog address has finally been moved to it’s proper domain…danielsmithblog.com today on June 8, 2009…Yay! Now just have to wait for Google to figure it out!

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** Update #2: Today July 10, 2009, the DS Blog became linked to the DANIEL SMITH website! You can see it on the left panel below “Our Stores” in a new section called “Our Communities” along with links to “Follow us on Twitter“ and “Become a DS Fan on FaceBook“.

Happy Birthday DANIEL SMITH Artists’ Materials Blog!

Deborah Burns — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:21:40 +0000

Happy Birthday DANIEL SMITH Blog!

Today is the first anniversary of the DANIEL SMITH Blog!

When I wrote “Welcome to the Daniel Smith Blog !” a year ago today, we started on another blog platform (Blogspot.com) to give blogging a try. After a few months we began the process of building a custom blog, and eventually I moved over all the original posts to this blog, those posts you will see at the bottom: “Originally Published….” and a link to the original blog post.

I am so *excited* to be celebrating our First Year!

Now that we have arrived at this point, I am hoping to expand what I write about on the DANIEL SMITH blog to include more about what we are doing here at DANIEL SMITH Artists’ Materials, more information on our products and who knows! It will be fun, informative and have lots of ideas to help you to: Every Day, Express Yourself with ART…. So please come along with us, and as I wrote one year ago today: “We will be on a journey together!”

Every Day, Express Yourself with ART….

~Deborah Burns

Happy Birthday DANIEL SMITH Artists’ Materials Blog!

Welcome to the DANIEL SMITH Blog!

Deborah Burns — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:36:57 +0000

Art…here at DANIEL SMITH… we are all about helping You to express the creative, artistic side of You. Our blog will be an evolving place to share information, and creating conversations with You. I will be exploring lots of different topics on subjects that I find interesting about making art, DANIEL SMITH and our products, especially the ones we develop and manufacture, as well as subjects and questions You may have.

To begin our journey, we’ll start at the DANIEL SMITH Seattle store where the DANIEL SMITH corporate offices are as well.

This is also the location of the Call Center, where telephone catalog orders are taken, and where DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors , DANIEL SMITH Ultimate Acrylics , DANIEL SMITH Original Oils , and DANIEL SMITH Inks and Printmaking Supplies are Manufactured .

We also have our DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store , where I will also be visiting as well. The Warehouse where all your orders are full-filled, is in another location nearby. I will be visiting these places in the future to let you in on what’s happening, and how it all works.

There are also many FREE demonstrations as well as workshops at both stores. I will be attending some of them, and sharing some of the tips that the Artists share in their demonstrations. This is a place to learn, and I will be learning right along side of You the things about making Art that I have myself have not done (yet!). I studied painting and lithography in school, so there is much for me to learn about watercolor, acrylic, and other mediums as well. We will be on a journey together!

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Originally published March 19, 2008

http://danielsmithart.blogspot.com/2008/03/welcome-to-daniel-smith-blog.html