Christmas Offers & Gift Ideas

It's our final fortnight of special Christmas offers, with a roundup of the team's favourite art supplies. There's paints, easels, pastels, pencils and more. We are running these offers up until 14th December while stocks last... so start adding to your baskets now to ensure everyone gets what they want.

If you're scratching your head when it comes to purchasing the perfect arty Christmas present, then we also offer a selection of gift cards ranging from £10 to £50.

View our selection of Gift Cards here.

Our last day for ordering online for a delivery before Christmas*, is Friday 19th December.
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Daler Rowney Artists Watercolour - Wooden Box Set of 30 Half Pans

An ideal gift for any true watercolourist. Daler-Rowney Artists Watercolour is a professional watercolour based on the finest modern and traditional pigments, precisely formulated to offer unparalleled performance and permanence. It is available in an extended range of brilliant colours, designed to create perfect washes of pure transparent colour without hard edges.

Artists’ Professional Watercolours deliver vibrant, richly pigmented colours prized for their clarity and permanence, crafted with carefully selected, high-quality pigments, offering excellent lightfastness and a smooth, consistent texture that reactivates easily with water. All the products in this set are housed in an attractive, highly polished, mahogany finished, fully lined chest.

Contents include: 30 x Daler Rowney Artists Watercolour Half Pans, 12 x Sketching Pencils, 3 x Brushes (Series 40), 2 x Daler Rowney Artists Watercolour Tubes, 1 x China Palette with 5 Wells, 1 x Langton Watercolour Paper Pad 10x7in, 1 x 75ml Art Masking Fluid, 1 x AWC Cleaning Cloth, 1 x Lift-out Wooden Palette of Half Pans, 1 x AWC Information Leaflet, 1 x Wooden Box (31.5 x 28 x 7.5 cm).

SAVE 29% - WAS £345.00 / NOW £245.00
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Old Holland Oil Colour - Wooden Box Set No9 - 11 x 40ml

The number 9 set from Old Holland is a practical little set of premium oil colours, contained in a stain resistant beech wood box. The box is lined with an adjustable tin tray and small palette. The choice of paints – manufactured with the finest pigments and binders, adhering to recipes from 1664 – provides a balanced selection of colour for all subjects.

In the lid of the box are two adjustable slots for holding and transporting a small canvas panel. It would make an ideal gift, or would also be useful for travelling or attending classes and workshops. For ease of transportation the box has a strong padded leather handle attached to the top of the case. Ideal for travelling, classes and workshops.

The set consists of the following colours and products (one each of the following): Titanium White, Scheveningen Yellow Light, Scheveningen Red Light, Alizarin Crimson Lake Extra, Ultramarine Blue Light, Manganese Blue Deep, Scheveningen Green Deep, Yellow Ochre Light, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Ivory Black Extra, 2 x Mediums in Glass bottles, 3 x paint Brushes and 2 x lidded dippers for mediums.
 

SAVE 10% - WAS £295.00 / NOW £265.50
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Unison Soft Pastels - Starter Set of 72

Sets of Unison Soft Pastels made up by Unison Colour creating an easy way for you to start working in these beautiful Soft Pastels. The 72 sets are a comprehensive set of colours, presented in a large black box with sponge inserts.

Unison Colour Soft pastels allow for ease of use with a highly blendable texture. Our soft pastels have a smooth buttery texture and are water soluble. These intensely pigmented pastels have superior lightfastness. These completely hand made pastels retain all the qualities of the original pastels developed by artist John Hersey in the early 1980’s. They are mixed to John’s meticulous recipes and are based on traditional pigments such as cadmiums, cobalts and natural and synthetic earths.

The difference in the manufacturing process, hand rolling rather than extrusion, gives Unison Colour Soft Pastels a unique texture, delivering a consistency of response across the colour spectrum that is unmatched and much loved by artists.

SAVE 25% - WAS £375.99 / NOW £281.99
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Sennelier Oil Pastels - Picasso Wooden Set of 50

Sennelier Oil Pastels were made at the request of the creative genius Pablo Picasso. Gustave Sennelier created them in 1949 when Picasso requested intense colours that he could use on as many surfaces as possible. Sennelier Oil Pastels bring not just a luxurious lipstick-creamy texture, but an extremely high pigmentation that provides excellent coverage and is fully lightfast.

This set contains an extensive selection of 50 colours presented in a wooden box. Sennelier oil pastels use top quality, highly concenrated pigments, with an extremely pure synthetic binding medium and mineral wax, meaning they have a high colouring and covering potential, excellent brightness and a high degree of light stability.

SAVE 25% - WAS £161.70 / NOW £121.46
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Caran d'Ache Pastel Pencils - Set of 76

Caran d'Ache Pastel Pencils are excellent tools for professional artists. They are made with the finest materials with a high pigment concentration making them vibrant and smooth to apply with exceptional lightfastness.

This set features an extensive range of 76 colours enabling users to enjoy the full potential of dry pastels with a very wide range of colours perfect for both detailed finishing work, and generous blurring. It also includes a Grafwood H Graphite pencil (hard), and a charcoal pencil (soft) to further push creativity. Carefully selected by leading pastel artists, this pastel pencil assortment is intended for both beginners and experienced amateur or professional artists. The set comes in a sturdy foam-lined box to prevent damage in during travels.

SAVE 19% - WAS £354.99 / NOW £287.54
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Mabef M/23 Sketch Box Easel

This Beechwood sketch box easel contains a folding wooden palette and storage tray with metal adjustable dividers for paints and brushes. Constructed of oiled, stain-resistant beech wood. Canvas holder can be adjusted to any angle between vertical and horizontal. It features a folding palette, four tin-lined sliding accessory drawers for storage, and adjustable leather shoulder straps for backpacking. Perfectly ideal for watercolour, acrylic and oil painting.

Mabef's tradition of thoughtful Italian design, spanning nearly 70 years, has allowed them to perfect and innovate supports for different painting styles, and more importantly, to satisfy the most demanding artists. It's well worth your investment.

Maximum canvas size: 84cm (33") Height : 1.88 (73") Weight : 4.5kg (10 lb).

SAVE 35% - WAS £415.00 / NOW £269.00
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Mabef M/34 Table Easel

The Mabef M/34 table easel is a heavy duty easel constructed of oiled, stain-resistant beech wood. The canvas can be angled from vertical to a horizontal position and fold completely into its base. The canvas holder height is adjusted in five positions by two wing nuts at either side.

The easel is ideal for painting in oil, acrylic and watercolour and would also be perfect for calligraphy work, sketching and drawing. The canvas can be angled from vertical to a horizontal table position, giving you a more comfortable working environment. It features both top and bottom canvas supports, a wooden backing to accommodate paper and light-weight panels, and can be used on any flat surface.

Made in Italy, MABEF products are made from solid beechwood sourced from certified geographical areas where reforestation is controlled and guaranteed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC certified).

Height: 25inches or 63cm Width: 19inches or 48cm Depth: 15inches or 37cm Weight: 4lnbs or 2kg Maximum canvas height: 21inches or 54cm.

SAVE 33% - WAS £120.00 / NOW £80.00
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Mabef M/32 Large Field Easel

The Mabef M/32 large field easel is the sturdiest folding sketch easel available. Like the others in this list, it is constructed of oiled beech wood and folds up into a compact unit weighing only 9lbs. In addition to its light-weight design, a leather carrying handle makes the Mabef M/32 easel readily portable. A single, heavy-duty wing nut adjusts the rakes angle to any position between vertical and horizontal, for optimum working conditions.

Mabef produce excellent quality easels, so you know you'll be investing in one that, with care, will last for many years to come.

Height: 105inches or 268cm Width: 32inches or 80cm Weight: 9lbs or 4kg Maximum canvas height: 78inches or 200cm.

SAVE 30% - WAS £195.00 / NOW £136.50
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Derwent Coloursoft Pencils - Wooden Box of 72

Perfect for sketching, drawing, illustration and design work, Derwent Coloursoft Pencils offer the boldest colour range in the Derwent colour pencil collection. 72 strong and vibrant colours presented in a beautiful wooden box. The velvety softness of the core releases rich, dense colour at a stroke and is perfect for mixing and blending. Despite its soft texture, Coloursoft sharpens to a fine point and works equally well for detailed illustrations or bold, contemporary still-life drawings and portraiture.

With the quick and easy application, you can produce vibrant colours and bold, expressive drawings. Due to their enhanced formulation, they have a really soft texture which brings out the richness of the colour that, together with their nice wide colour strip, allows you to build up colour really quickly. So, if you like doing bold still-life drawings or contemporary landscapes then Derwent Coloursoft is the range for you.

SAVE 26% - WAS £190.00 / NOW £139.99
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Caran d'Ache Supracolor Soft Pencils - Wooden Box of 80

80 Caran d'Ache Supracolor Soft coloured pencils presented in a beautiful wooden box... an ideal present for any artist! The box features pencils that will satisfy both amateur and professional artists, illustrators, graphic designers and teachers thanks to the soft pigment range in both dry and water-soluble pencils.

Supracolor pencils use super soft but very strong 3.8mm water-soluble lead, with exceptional covering power and excellent light fastness. The pencils are constructed fro premium FSC certified birchwood and beechwood with a protective varnish.

Ideal for large-scale drawings with large areas of colour.

SAVE 19% - WAS £334.99 / NOW £271.34
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