We have a lot of NICE things for you in our new Winter Sale Catalog, “Handmade for the Holidays” Art Projects AND the catalog is “Stuffed” with Great Sale Prices on lots of wonderful Art Supplies!  We’re talkin’ NICE Prices!  We also have new items debuting in this catalog….so you will have fun curling up and savoring our new Winter Sale Catalog.  I’d suggest making a nice cup of cocoa to enjoy while leafing through the catalog pages and marking your favorite things!

 

We have 13 New colors in our DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks bringing us to a total of 31 colors.  Three new DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors:  Azo Yellow, Roasted French Ochre and a PrimaTek, Mayan Blue Genuine.  We are also introducing our new DANIEL SMITH Masking Fluid, which comes with 5, fine-point tips.

 

To find all our Nice Prices, look for the light blue “Sale” symbol with the white snow dots outlined in red that you will find on many pages.  A few I can’t help but point out: Dan Smith Autograph Series 44-14 Kolinsky Sable Watercolor Round and Dan Smith Autograph Series 44-09 Kolinsky Sable Watercolor Brushes, Not only did some of these drop in price in our Reference Catalog last August, but they are also On Sale at new, even lower prices for this catalog.  Be sure to spend a little extra time in the brush section to discover all the Nice Price Sale Art Supplies.

 

More Nice Prices to help you get ready for the Holidays, Strathmore Blank Cards, Decorative Papers (many other papers too) and selected Frames (pp 85 to 87) because who wouldn’t want a framed painting of yours as a Holiday Gift!  There are lots more wonderful things in our 2009-2010 Winter Sale Catalog, and I’ll let you have the fun of discovering your favorites.

 

We know you will celebrate all the cool, new Art Supplies, “Handmade for the Holidays” Art Projects, and Nice Prices that you will find in our New DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Winter Catalog…you will probably need a second cup of cocoa to thoroughly savor all the enticing Art Supplies! 

 

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~Deborah Burns
 
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“The Magnani paper mills are among the oldest in the world dating back to the 15th century, producing papers for a vast list of clients, including Napoleon, Picasso, Fontana, de Chirico, Salvatore Fiume, Annagoni, Morandi, Viani, Possenti, D’Annunzio and many others. Today the old tradition of craftsmanship continues and worldwide prestige is maintained with Magnani producing only the highest quality banknote, fine art, and deluxe limited edition papers to meet the demands of sophisticated and talented artists worldwide.”

In our new DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog we have 15 new patterns of Yuzen Chiyogami papers for you to use in your Art projects.  

 Historically these lovely patterns were painstakingly carved onto multiple woodblocks, one for each color, and hand printed onto fabric for kimonos, or onto paper for paper dolls or small paper boxes.  Today, the brilliant colors are silkscreened, each color separately, onto strong kozo/sulphite paper with crisp detailed patterns making the gorgeous papers.  These lush papers can be used for bookbinding, gift wrap, collage, lampshades, origami, card-making, framing, scrapbooking, or wherever your artistic expression leads you!

 

Tip – if you collage the paper onto a lampshade, use DANIEL SMITH Acrylic Medium in Gloss or Matte to apply the papers to the outside surface of the lampshade.

 

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~Deborah Burns
 
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This past last week of July in preparation for our new DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog, we had product training with Reps from Canson to show us their new Canson Infinity Papers: the “Best Paper now becomes the Best Inkjet Receptive Paper“.

 

These Canson Infinity Inkjet Fine Art and Photographic Papers have recently been developed (over a period of several years) for “Technical Excellence” in Archival Fine Art Reproductions.  Canson has developed these Digital Art Papers using their famous archival printmaking paper (Rives BFK & Etching Rag), watercolor papers (Arches Aquarelle & Montval Aquarelle), pastel paper (Mi-Teintes) and a new Photographic Rag paper as the base for their Inkjet papers.

 

It’s important to know that when you use these Digital Art papers you are using the SAME paper that Canson has been making for years, sometimes hundreds of years (the original company began making paper in 1492) for Artists.  So the Digital Arches Aquarelle Rag is the same as the watercolor paper and so on.  The Canson Infinity comes in:

There is even a variety pack called the Infinity Discovery Pack so you can try out all of the above types in 8.5×11. 

 

If you are making Digital Fine Art Reproductions of your original pastel painting, then it makes sense to use the Digital Canson Mi-Teintes paper, and so on for each of the different mediums.  The Canson Infinity website has very extensive information about these papers including an Ink Jet Printer compatibility chart.

 

Canson Infinity Digital papers are designed to provide Artists with proven, traditional archival papers to use when making Fine Art Reproductions.  We are happy to now have these available at DANIEL SMITH.

 

We originally offered our DANIEL SMITH ExtraFine Watercolor Sticks as a set of six colors: Hansa Yellow medium, Quinacridone Coral, Sap Green, French Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber and Quinacridone Burnt Orange. 

 

Now we have expanded our color selection in the new Watercolor Sticks to include 4 more colors: Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Phthalo Green, Cobalt Blue, and Burnt Sienna.  You can now buy the new colors as well as the original 6 individually at the DANIEL SMITH  Seattle and Bellevue Stores (coming soon to the catalog too) for $12.49 each!  

 

There was a time machine at the DANIEL SMITH Seattle Store yesterday when Annie Van Engelen was conducting a “Hands On” special event & demo for the new DANIEL SMITH ExtraFine Watercolor Sticks …that took everyone back to kindergarten! 

 

The new DS Watercolor Sticks seem to bring out the playfulness in people when using them, and there was a cheerful, sense of fun when everyone began playing with the Watercolor Sticks.  People were at the tables with paper trying out the various techniques that Annie had shown and talked about at the beginning of the demo. 

 

I moved around from table to table chatting with different people about what they were finding interesting about painting/drawing with the Watercolor Sticks.  They were trying out different watercolor brushes such as the Niji Waterbrush (a hit!) and on different watercolor papers like Yupo.  I saw a wide range of fun, expressive artwork that people were creating while playing around with the DANIEL SMITH ExtraFine Watercolor Sticks…yep, everyone was playing like they were kids again making Art!

 

I invite you to stop by the DANIEL SMITH Stores to give our Watercolor Sticks a try, because right now we have them out to try.  We will also be offering them in more colors and open stock soon too!

 

This weekends’ FREE demos at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store are all about two very different kinds of DANIEL SMITH ExtraFine Watercolors . 

 

Saturday, March 28th, has Butch Krieger at 11am and 1:45pm for 1 hour FREE demos using DANIEL SMITH PrimaTek Watercolors to create warm flesh tones in watercolor.

 

Sunday, March 29th, is with Annie Van Engelen from 12 to 2pm introducing our new DANIEL SMITH ExtraFine Watercolor Sticks !  The 2 hour Special “Hands On” Event will have Annie demonstrating some of the cool things you can do with the Watercolor Sticks….  Then You get to get Your “Hands On” them and play with the Watercolor Sticks yourself!  Come and have some fun this Sunday.

 

Every Day,  Express Yourself with ART….
 
~Deborah Burns

Our new DANIEL SMITH ExtraFine Watercolor Sticks are very portable and are a great alternative solution to tube watercolor paints.  These are made with the same high quality pigments as our regular DANIEL SMITH ExtraFine Watercolors and with just enough gum Arabic to form the pigment into a solid, easy to hold, stick. 

 

To introduce them, we have them in a 6 stick pack for $68.95.  The colors are:  Hansa Yellow Medium,  Quinacridone Coral,  Sap Green,  French Ultramarine,  Burnt Umber, and  Quinacridone Burnt Orange.  

 

You can make very expressive lines when you “draw” with the Watercolor Sticks, then using your wet watercolor brush dissolve the line into color with your brushwork.  You can apply the Watercolor Sticks to wet or dry paper for different effects.  Wetting the end of the watercolor sticks and drawing directly onto your paper makes a different line, and you can take up color onto your watercolor brush by drawing it across the the tip of the wet Watercolor Stick.  The Watercolor Stick can be used on your palette by dissolving a bit off the tip in water from your palette’s well, and…..? 

 

There are very likely more wonderful ways you can paint with our new Watercolor Sticks…just take some time and remember to play with your DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks!

 

Every Day,  Express Yourself with ART….
 
~Deborah Burns