Lori McNee Product Review “New Wave Products are fine for sure.” “New Wave Fine Art Products truly live up to their name… their products are fine for sure.”  That is a quick snippet of a excellent product review by professional artist, blogger and writer Lori McNee of the popular blog Fine Art Tips (www.finearttips.com). Lori writes about the New Wave products, specifically the Grey Pad® disposable paper artist palette (NW00401 and NW00402) and Easy Lift® peelable artist palette (NW00303), both carried by MacPherson’s.  Lori McNee is considered by many as a social media guru.  She has been named “Top 10 Up and Coming Women Bloggers,” currently ranks as one of the “Most Influential Artists” on Twitter and “The Top 100 Most Powerful Women on Twitter.”  Her sway among artists from coast to…

Spraying Acrylic Paints! Thinning acrylic paint for spraying through an airbrush or other spray painting systems is a common practice, but what is the best way to thin acrylic paint for spraying? Mike from GOLDEN Product Support takes you through the options and exposes the advantages and disadvantages of each. Learn more by watching this new YouTube video: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZzNHRgB29s&feature=c4-overview&list=UU7Q21sJbaAVOIylhu3E7row

Mischievous Markers Take over New York Fashion Week starring Ruffian Art can take on a life of it’s own, and apparently so can the tools we use to create it! What happens when Prismacolor Premier markers break into the studio of Ruffian designers, Brian Wolk and Claude Morais’ studio in NYC during SS’14 Fashion Week? Mischief is in the air! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmxSYfhDarQ Learn to Paint with Prismacolor Watercolor Colored Pencils Ever wondered how to master the watercolor painting technique? Artist Diana Garrett shows you how to use Prismacolor Watercolor Colored Pencils. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjhnULoWK9U Sharpie’s 50th Anniversary in 2014! Sharpie turns 50 years old in 2014! Stay tuned for an exciting “50 ways to use a Sharpie” campaign throughout 2014…

Pastel Beauty, Pencil Control Derwent wood cased pastel pencils have a soft, powdery texture which produces a velvety smooth finish, ideal for mixing and blending. All the qualities of a pastel with the control of a pencil. Derwent Pastel Pencils come in 72 naturally water-soluble colours and have a round 8mm barrel and a wide 4mm soft core. Pastel pencils are extremely popular for portrait work and are available in a handy tin of 12 especially selected colors, ideal for all skin tone portrait work.  Also available in tins of 12, 24, 36, 72, a wood box of 72, plus beginner sets of 6 on a blister card and a mixed media blister of 8 products. Derwent Pastel Pencil Sets…

Strathmore Artist Papers™ is pleased to introduce a new product line – Artist Tiles, for pattern drawing and meditative art. Now artists can experience the emotional benefits of art more conveniently with affordable, pre-cut artist tiles in appropriate paper surfaces and sizes. Items include papers from the 300 Series and 400 Series offering that are suitable for common techniques and media used in patterning and meditative art. The new line was developed in response to growing popularity of pattern drawing where artists combine repetitive marks, circles, lines, and forms to create small pieces of art. This easy-to-learn art form is credited with helping individuals clear their minds, and become more focused and relaxed. Some of the benefits and features of Artist Tiles items are: · …

New OPEN Acrylics Landscape Set from GOLDEN! GOLDEN OPEN Acrylics continue to be adopted by more and more artists who are finding these innovative slow-drying acrylics to be the perfect acrylic for their painting style. OPEN Acrylics are ideal for: • Representational art • Subtractive techniques • Printing techniques • Mixing with standard acrylics To engage even more artists with OPEN Acrylics, GOLDEN is introducing a new OPEN Acrylics Landscape Set. The OPEN Landscape Set is designed to catch the eye of the traditional painter looking for an alternative to oil paints, or simply to those painters who identify with a more representational approach to painting. Since OPEN Acrylics will remain wet far longer than other acrylics, color…

Art Alternatives got a great shout-out for 4 of its terrific kid-friendly items from the hugely popular mom-inspired blog called Metropolitan Mama… just in time for this vey short holiday gift-giving season! MacPherson’s is already cleaned out of many gift sets so you will be happy to note we have plenty of stock on these great gifts. Here they are: The Art Alternatives Junior Brush & Smock Set (AA11111) Rainbow Marker Sets (AAV-FAN, AAV-FANMINI)   and the Artist’s Value Pack (AA75001) Here are some facts about the blog/website: Metropolitan Mama {est. January 2007} is a travel and lifestyle site for moms and moms-to-be. • Website Grader currently ranks Metropolitan Mama as being in…

Check out Pentel’s new inking center products in the Pentel Arts Inking Center Retrofit Kit: Add the 6 new inking products to the best-selling display of the last few years – the Pentel Inking Center. Pentel has developed 6 new products for the Inking Center: +  A Bold Point Brush Pen with water-soluble black ink. +  A Fine Point Brush Pen with water-soluble black ink +  A Fine Point Brush Pen with permanent, pigmented ink. +  Duopoint, a double-ended water-soluble Brush Pen. +  Slicci .25mm Black Gel Pen. +  Finito Porous Point Black Pigmented Ink Pen. Pentel makes it easy to upgrade to the new assortment for the Inking Center.…

Prismacolor Back-to-School Merchandising Contest Winners announced! Over the back-to-school selling period Prismacolor ran a merchandising contest designed to drive incremental off-shelf sales of key Prismacolor items while fostering creativity and generating excitement amongst retailers across the country. Congratulations to the winners! 1st Place – Jerrys Artarama – Deerfield Beach, FL 2nd Place – Dick Blick – Berkeley, CA 3rd Place – Art Supplies Ink – Aptos, CA Prismacolor goes to New York Fashion Week! Prismacolor recently announced a very exciting partnership with NY-based fashion label, Ruffian! Hear how Prismacolor helps designers Brian and Claude take their designs from sketches in a sketchbook to runway ready! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO4Ve3ikTS0 Prismacolor NEW 44 Premier Art Marker Color Charts now available! Prismacolor Premier Brush-Fine DoubleEnded Markers Colors Prismacolor Premier…

Although temperatures are still hitting 90 degrees in parts of the nation, it’s getting darker earlier. Soon enough Daylight Savings ends in most states (Sunday, November 3rd @ 2:00 am) and we’ll be reminiscing about the warm, sunny days of summer. So what to do with that extra hour? How about a stroll through the lighting department? Take a look at the floor models. Are they out dated? Are you stocking the best selling SKUs? Is this department a destination? In conjunction with Daylight Savings, Daylight Co. is introducing “ The Best of the Best “ Drop Ship Assortment which features top-selling lamps and display models at an unbeatable price.…

Premium Artist Drawing Materials by Viarco Since -1907 Viarco is a family owned business located near Porto in northern Portugal. They have developed unique and proprietary blends of graphite, carbon and binders to produce some of the highest quality sketching materials available to artists today. AS SEEN AT NAMTA! Based on the success of individual ArtGraf products, a contemporary, and functional, P.O.P display (GL500AST / GL500DSP ) was developed to house all the Viarco products in a convenient  14.5”  footprint.  Featured in the Holiday Buyer’s Guide (pg. 53)  at 62.5 % off. Contents  within the assortment : Item # Description Qty.               MSRP GL500102 ARTGRAF WS GRAPHITE STK 2/CD 12                        $8.95 GL50048/2 ARTGRAF SOFT CARBN PENCIL 2/CD 8                           $4.95 GL503335 ARTGRAF WS CARBON DISK 8                        $10.95 GL500226       NEW…

Derwent Charcoal pencils & Compressed charcoal + Charcoal set Charcoal is one of the oldest drawing tools; a natural classic made from carbonised wood. Whatever your drawing style Derwent has a charcoal product to suit you. Charcoal Set for Mixed Media This charcoal collection has been specially selected to include a comprehensive range of charcoal media: 1 dark Charcoal pencil for intense lines, 2 Tinted Charcoal pencils in Glowing Embers and White for some natural colour and highlights, 3 compressed Charcoal blocks for larger drawings, 2 strips of Natural Vine Charcoal for organic mark making, 1 Natural Chunky Willow Charcoal to make broad expressive strokes and 1 paper stump for effective blending. Item number WN2300675 retails for $19.99. Charcoal Pencils The…

Now Available…GOLDEN High Flow Acrylics Demo in a Box! Golden has heard a number of success stories about stores offering High Flow demonstrations as a way to get customers excited about the possibilities of this versatile, super low viscosity acrylic paint. If you need a little help getting an easy, but effective demonstration set up, Golden has a new tool to assist you in that process. Introducing the High Flow Demo in a Box Kit (095-0)!  This kit comes complete with: o   Select 4 oz. High Flow Acrylic Colors o   A 4 oz. Fluid Acrylic to illustrate the viscosity difference o   Branded demonstration cards o   An empty dauber-style refillable marker o   Step-by-step guide on how to conduct the High Flow demonstration (includes…

The Derwent XL range comes in two types:  XL Charcoal in rich natural color and XL Graphite in dense graphic tones of water-soluble color. These chunky blocks are 0.787” square and 2.26” long – so they are big and bold! XL Charcoal is available in 6 colors; Ochre, Sanguine, Mars Violet, Sepia, Black and White, all traditional drawing colors, and a must for life drawers and landscapers alike. They produce broad sweeping marks to the most delicate lines, blend easily and layer over eachother. Charcoal is naturally water-soluble, so splash some water on there and experiment! XL Graphite is also available in 6 colors; Olive Green, Dark Prussian, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Soft and Very Soft. These last two are dense…