Inspiring deals on popular supplies! Plus featured November artist…

We have some mid November inspiration for you! Read on for a bit on our featured November artist, and check out our deals and specials on art supplies through November 20th!

Did you know November 15th is Georgia O’Keeffe’s birthday? You can learn more about Georgia if you scroll below!

“Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven’t time – and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.”


We have AMAZING early deals on some of our most popular supplies for a limited time, now through November 20th!

 


All Fredrix stretched Canvas is 40% off! That’s right, ALL of it!

Fredrix Gallerywrap Canvas is a medium-textured, superior quality duck canvas. The acid free double acrylic primed surface is suitable for paintings in oils, acrylics, or alkyds. The canvas is mounted on 1-3/8″ heavy-duty stretcher frames for double the standard thickness. The canvas is stapled on the back to allow painting on all sides. It can hang with or without a frame.


Richeson Oil Paint 40% off!

Tradition, Quality & Stability

  • Rich color intensity, buttery consistency
  • 70 color line available in 1.25 oz and 5oz tubes
  • Finest quality with a friendly price tag
  • Made in small batches in Wisconsin
  • Each pure pigment is ground to its own
    degree of fineness
  • Exacting laboratory controls
  • Free from darkening, yellowing, fading and cracking
  • Made with the finest grade linseed oil, and pure,
    artist-grade dry pigments

 

 


Golden Fluid acrylics are 25% off!

Golden Fluid Acrylics’ pigment strength equal the intensity of GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics but with an even, flowing characteristic useful for dry brush application, fine details, pouring, spraying, staining techniques and many others.

Fluids are created by loading an acrylic polymer binder with concentrated levels of quality pigments for a wide selection of permanent and lightfast colors. No fillers or extenders are added to achieve the desired consistency, nor is the fluid quality achieved with additional water. GOLDEN Fluid Acrylics have the same pigment load as the Heavy Body Acrylics, but in a viscosity similar to heavy cream. Fluids allow for smooth flowing applications while retaining color intensity, tinting strength, film integrity, and adhesion.

Fluids blend easily with all acrylic colors, and readily tint gels, mediums, gessoes and grounds. Fluid Acrylics are extremely versatile, and ideal for fine brushwork, glazing, staining, water media techniques and many more. Mix Fluid Acrylics with Airbrush Medium for airbrush application of artwork including textiles.

Fluid acrylics are AMAZING for paint pouring techniques! A few little drops go a very long way with all types of pouring mediums!


M.Graham Watercolors are 25% off!

M Graham paint oil acrylic watercolor

These US made watercolors are delightful! Strong pigment strength and a unique blackberry honey binder make these watercolors unique. They are a great value too! See the color chart below for their enticing array of hues.


Princeton Refine Bristle and Imperial Synthetic Mongoose brushes are 25% off!

 

Imperial™ Series 6600 – Synthetic Mongoose

Once a popular choice for oil painters for it’s medium to firm touch, natural mongoose has become more tightly controlled by international governments. Fortunately, our synthetic mongoose is comparable to the original’s quality, yet more durable and affordable. Synthetic mongoose performs beautifully in all viscosities of oil paint.

Refine™ – Natural Bristle, Long Handle

Interlocked-bristle brushes with flagged tips (split ends) to control and hold more color, the Refine™ brush line combines quality, value, and variety in shapes and sizes to meet the creative needs of all oil and acrylic painters.


And now, more about Georgia O’Keeffe!

Georgia Totto O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowersNew York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O’Keeffe has been recognized as the “Mother of American modernism“.[1][2]

In 1905, O’Keeffe began her serious formal art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then the Art Students League of New York, but she felt constrained by her lessons that focused on recreating or copying what was in nature. In 1908, unable to fund further education, she worked for two years as a commercial illustrator, and then spent seven years between 1911 and 1918 teaching in Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina. During that time, she studied art during the summers between 1912 and 1914 and was introduced to the principles and philosophies of Arthur Wesley Dow, who espoused created works of art based upon personal style, design, and interpretation of subjects, rather than trying to copy or represent them. This caused a major change in the way she felt about and approached art, as seen in the beginning stages of her watercolors from her studies at the University of Virginia and more dramatically in the charcoal drawings that she produced in 1915 that led to total abstraction. Alfred Stieglitz, an art dealer and photographer, held an exhibit of her works in 1917.[3] Over the next couple of years, she taught and continued her studies at the Teachers College, Columbia University in 1914 and 1915.

“If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it – I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”  

She moved to New York in 1918 at Stieglitz’s request and began working seriously as an artist. They developed a professional relationship—he promoted and exhibited her works—and a personal relationship that led to their marriage in 1924. O’Keeffe created many forms of abstract art, including close-ups of flowers, such as the Red Canna paintings, that many found to represent women’s genitalia,[citation needed] although O’Keeffe consistently denied that intention.[citation needed] The reputation of the portrayal of women’s sexuality was also fueled by explicit and sensuous photographs that Stieglitz had taken and exhibited of O’Keeffe.

O’Keeffe and Stieglitz lived together in New York until 1929, when O’Keeffe began spending part of the year in the Southwest, which served as inspiration for her paintings of New Mexicolandscapes and images of animal skulls, such as Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue and Ram’s Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills. After Stieglitz’s death, she lived permanently in New Mexico at Georgia O’Keeffe Home and Studio in Abiquiú, until the last years of her life when she lived in Santa Fe. In 2014, O’Keeffe’s 1932 painting Jimson Weed sold for $44,405,000, more than three times the previous world auction record for any female artist. After her death, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum was established in Santa Fe.

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