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The new University term is here, and all you talented students of art and design will be building a collection of supplies to cover the varied projects you'll be immersed in this year.

To help keep the costs down, we've put together an essential list of art and design supplies to help you build confidence on day one.

First up, an absolute essential:

Winsor & Newton Artists Oil Colour Introductory Set 10 x 21ml

This popular introductory set contains 10 x 21ml tubes of Artists' Oil Colour. Each colour pigment is individually formulated to enhance its characteristics, ensuring the stability of each colour. Includes, Winsor Yellow, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine (Green Shade), Winsor Blue (Red Shade), Winsor Green (Phthalo), Yellow Ochre, Indian Red, Burnt Umber, Ivory Black, Titanium White.

SAVE 30% - WAS £71.00 / NOW £49.70
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Pro Arte Hog Wallet W7A Brush Set

Pro Arte provides an excellent selection of discounted brush bundles across their various lines. These sets come neatly packaged in a practical plastic case, making them a simple and budget-friendly option for building or expanding your assortment of tools. Pro Arte's reliable and proven watercolor brushes. Crafted using time-honored methods with gentle bristles, they excel at holding generous amount of paint, allowing for broad sweeps to cover expansive areas, or precise tips for intricate detailing.

The W7A Hog Wallet contains: Short Flat Size 1,3,5,7 and Round Size 1.

SAVE 31% - WAS £21.75 / NOW £14.36
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Daler Rowney Georgian Oil Painting Pads: 20 x 16in

Suitable for both art students as well as professional artists, Daler Rowney's Georgian Oil Paper Pad features acid-free, off-white pages with a linen-like embossed finish, weighing in at 290gsm and bearing FSC® certification. This textured surface mimics the feel of traditional canvas, delivering strong backing for oil-based media. Durable and weighty, the paper draws in oils uniformly while keeping hues vivid, saturated, and glossy. As it's primed for immediate application, it's perfect for oils as well as oil pastels.

SAVE 31% - WAS £34.50 / NOW £23.85
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Zest-It Oil Paint Dilutant and Brush Cleaner (1 litre)

Keep your brushes clean and extend the life of your paints and pastels, with the versatile Zest-it Oil Paint Dilutant and Brush Cleaner. It is a non-flammable and non-toxic solution, used for diluting oil paints, pastels and inks - and cleaning up your paint-squidged brushes. It is clean to work with and leaves no residue of itself in painted work. It can help thin oil paint as thin as ink, so you can create washes of under-paint on a canvas or colouring a surface. As this is an oil-based additive, please don't try to use with water-based paints, inks and pastels.

SAVE 15% - WAS £27.95 / NOW £23.76
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Zest-It Clear Painting Medium 500ml

This is a mixture of Zest-It Brush Cleaner and Linseed Stand Oil, which can be used to improve the flow of paint and reduce the consistency of your paint.

SAVE 20% - WAS £28.87 / NOW £23.10
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Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylic 12 x 20ml Tube Set

Winsor & Newton's popular, premium acrylic colours are made using a cutting-edge resin formulation. While typical acrylics tend to deepen in tone during the drying process, their innovative, clear-binding agent ensures true colour fidelity—what appears wet stays true when dry. This eliminates any hue variation allowing you to choose more concise shade selections. Plus, they provide a longer time for blending without sacrificing the quick-dry nature of acrylics.

Contents include:
Lemon Yellow Hue, Azo Yellow Medium, Naphthol Red Light, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue (Red Shade), Phthalo Green (Blue Shade), Olive Green, Yellow Ochre, Raw Umber, Mars Black, Titanium White.

SAVE 30% - WAS £54.05 / NOW £37.84
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Pro Arte Sterling Acrylix Wallet W6 Brush Set

Pro Arte offer a great range of special offer brush sets for each of their brush ranges. The Pro Arte Sterling W6 Set includes three top-tier synthetic brushes, designed for durability and lasting performance. Crafted with high-quality fibers, these brushes maintain their shape exceptionally well, offering you precise control for every stroke. The brush sets are presented in a handy plastic wallet and are an easy and economical way to start or add to your brush collection.

The Sterling Acrylix Wallet W6 contains: Short Flat Size 8, Long Flat Size 6 and Round Size 4.

SAVE 25% - WAS £21.25 / NOW £15.94
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Daler Rowney Stay Wet Palette: Small

This is clever, and could really help students working on paintings sporadically. The Stay Wet Palette is a specialised mixing tray tailored for acrylic artists, ensuring paints remain fresh and pliable for extended periods—often lasting weeks. This transparent, covered plastic container comes with three absorbent reservoir inserts and 12 permeable membrane sheets. The Stay-Wet mechanism relies on osmosis, so as surface humidity dissipates, it's continuously restored from the hydrated base layer via the semi-porous barrier that doubles as your blending surface.

Replacement inserts are sold separately.

SAVE 27% - WAS 32.50 / NOW £26.63
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Seahwite Cradled Wood Panel - A3 / 19mm Depth

When it comes to presenting your art, sometimes canvas isn't the best surface to show off a particular technique that you've discovered. As a sturdy substitute for traditional canvas, these cradled panels feature a 19mm-thick pine support structure topped with a smooth birch veneer. Seawhite's Wooden Painting Panels are crafted from premium components right here in the UK. The face is meticulously sanded for an ultra-fine texture that's not only firm and resilient but also built to withstand intense applications from brushes or palette knives.

£11.00
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Winsor & Newton Artists Acrylic White Gesso Primer - 474ml

Winsor & Newton's White Gesso stands out as a much loved, quick-setting acrylic base coat. It is ideal for readying all kinds of surfaces before applying acrylics, oils, or mixed media artworks. It delivers strong opacity with even moisture uptake, and an optimal grip (surface roughness) that improves paint bonding, resulting in a pliable, impermeable foundation. It is also flexible, meaning it dries to a flexible ground that won't crack over time, and provides a bright white, opaque surface that maximises colour contrast. 

Also available in 237ml and 946ml size tubs.

SAVE 38% - WAS 27.00 / NOW £16.70
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Winsor & Newton William Collection Ink Set

The WIlliam Collection Ink Set is one of our favourite products, and has hardly changed of many decades. A classic selection of 8 ink colours in 14ml bottles, with illustrations featuring some of the different techniques you can employ with drawing Ink. You can use inks to create rich and vibrant works using just the ink itself, or embellish your sketches, paintings and mixed media work.

This set contains the following colours: Black (Indian Ink) / Brilliant Green / Deep Red / Peat Brown / Purple / Sunshine Yellow / Ultramarine / Vermilion.

SAVE 41% - WAS 33.60 / NOW £19.95
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Pro Arte Prolene Wallet One Stroke W5 Brush Set

The Pro Arte Prolene W5 Set features three exceptional synthetic brushes, engineered for toughness and prolonged reliability. These tools preserve their structure effectively, sharpen to a keen edge, and demonstrate superior pigment retention. Equipped with nickel ferrules and elegant black handles enhanced by gold accents, they're optimised for watercolor applications, though equally suitable for inks, gouache, or watered-down acrylics.

The Prolene Wallet One Stroke contains: Round Size 8,12 and One Stroke Size 1/2in.

SAVE 25% - WAS £21.25 / NOW £15.94
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Winsor & Newton Black Indian Ink 500ml

A handy 500ml bottle of vivid black ink. Ideal for sketching, drawing, illustration and design work, Winsor & Newton first created their range of drawing inks in the 1890s, rising to prominence as a go-to source for artists, lettering experts, and creatives who cherished their signature little bottles.
Also available in 250ml and 14ml bottles.

SAVE 21% - WAS £42.70 / NOW £33.62
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Daler Rowney Bristol Board Pads - A3

Daler-Rowney's Bristol Board Pad is a great choice for art students, for one it is affordable, but also has versatility, making it ideal for building your skills without the frustration of inferior materials. The extra-smooth, 250gsm heavyweight sheets are durable and resistant to creases or dents from everyday handling—perfect for beginners who might be rough on their supplies during intense sketching sessions. The finely sized surface provides great control for precise techniques like pencil, pen and ink work, or even light brush applications. The pads allow students to experiment freely and create professional-looking results across dry and wet media. With 20 sheets per pad, it's an essential item budget-friendly for stocking up with at the start of term.

SAVE 33% - WAS £21.05 / NOW £14.04
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Joseph Gillot Manga Dip Pen Set

This collection features top-grade nibs tailored specifically for manga creation. With six ultra-fine tips, it's an excellent choice for illustration, line work, and doodling... not just for students, but even seasoned manga creators. The package comes with a pair of holders and a convenient carrying case. Included nib models from Joseph Gillott: 170, 290, 659, 2788, 404, and 1068A. For best performance, use on sleek surfaces like paper or panels.

SAVE 12% - WAS £10.99 / NOW £9.69
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Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache Paint - Introductory Set of 10 - 14ml

Winsor & Newton's Designers Gouache Starter Kit serves as a perfect option for students using Gouache paint. The Designers Gouache line consists of fully opaque water-based pigments, originally crafted for graphic professionals and still favoured by them today. The paints are embraced by studio artists seeking a solid, non-transparent watercolor medium, sometimes blended with traditional transparent varieties for added depth.

The set consists of ten 14ml tubes: Primary Yellow, Permanent Yellow Deep, Spectrum Red, Primary Red, Ultramarine, Primary Blue, Permanent Green Middle, Yellow Ochre, Ivory Black, Zinc White.

SAVE 19% - WAS £51.50 / NOW £41.50
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Pro Arte Prolene Set Wallet W3 set

A well-heard saying in the shop is "you can never have too many paintbrushes", so stock up on all the different brush sizes and bristles to give you total flexibility within your projects. Pro Arte provides an impressive array of discounted brush bundles spanning their diverse lines, which makes these a must buy. Packaged in a convenient plastic pouch, these kits offer a straightforward and cost-effective method to initiate or enhance your array of painting tools.

The Prolene W3 Wallet contains:Rounds in sizes 1, 3, 5, 7, plus a 3/8-inch One Stroke brush.

SAVE 41% - WAS £23.95 / NOW £14.25
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Daler Rowney Langton Watercolour Block Cold Pressed/NOT 140lb: 16 x 12in

For university art and design students kicking off the new term, this pad provides an accessible gateway to professional-grade performance - without the expensive price tag. Its even absorbency handles wet-on-wet techniques really well, minimising awkward buckling or warping during extended sessions, so you can focus on experimenting rather than fighting the medium. Versatile enough for gouache, thinned acrylics, inks, or even dry sketching, it supports everything from quick concept sketches to portfolio-worthy pieces. The paper will help give you confidence in your own processes. Stock up on this term-essential from Broad Canvas and watch your ideas take shape... without the frustration of poorer alternatives.

SAVE 34% - WAS £27.60 / NOW £18.23
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Jakar Flower Shaped Porcelain Palette - 6/7 Well

Mix up your style with this well made porcelain mixing palette. It is flower shaped with 7 mixing wells (6 petal wells and a centre well), measuring 6 inches diameter. Suitable for watercolour, oil colour and acrylics.

SAVE 25% - WAS £6.99 / NOW £5.25
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Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Water Soluble Wax Crayons - Set of 15

Caran d'Ache's Neocolr II water-soluble wax oil pastels gives students flexibility in their styles, combining the essence of classic crayons with fluid painting effects. Start by laying down hues directly from the sticks, then refine your work by dissolving and merging them with water to create vibrant new combinations of colour. These adaptable crayons work equally well in dry or damp states across different materials such as paper, card, glass, wood, leather, cloth, stone, and additional surfaces... experiment and see what happens!

The set contains one each of the following colours: white, black, yellow, orange, ochre, brown, vermilion, scarlet, purple, violet, ultramarine, cobalt blue, turquoise blue, emerald green and yellow green.

SAVE 19% - WAS £30.99 / NOW £25.10
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