Interesting Facts

Did you know that Adamstown Art has the most extensive range of watercolours in Australia. Lots to choose from.

Renesans have earth & people safe oil mediums. Non toxic is better for all.

Turner Japanesque Acrylic Gouache mimics the feel of traditional Japanese pigment paints.

You can support the Red Cross Appeal for Ukraine by purchasing Rosa watercolours. Help Ukrainian families by using beautiful watercolours.





Boutique Fine Art Supplies

Artists seek out Adamstown Art for their dependability, good prices, friendly advice and quality range of fine art materials. Learn more about Adamstown Art.


 

20% Off Winsor & Newton Watercolours

All 5ml, 14ml & 37ml Tubes and Half Pans

Winsor & Newton are a watercolour you can rely on, consistently providing excellent quality. The range has a large number of single pigment colours and is renowned for the transparency of the watercolours.

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15% Off Umton Pan Sets

Umton is the leading artist paint manufacturer in the Czech Republic with a history dating back to 1910. Fine grade pigments and the brightest gum arabic combine to give the Umton watercolours their presence on the paper. Umton is a watercolour that has excellent mixing characteristics, good control on the paper and strong honest colour.

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New: Papier Artyst Watercolour Paper

Papier Artyst is a Polish company that prepare artist quality watercolour paper in convenient pad sizes and sets. The pads are 100% Cotton and 300gsm with a Cold Press surface. The sets are available in both 300gsm and 400gsm 100% Cotton or 300gsm 100% Cellulose. All of the papers have a really nice Cold Press surface.

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15% Off QoR Single Tubes

QoR offers incredibly smooth transitions with good flow and liveliness on the paper. The density and vividness of colour in QoR watercolours is most pronounced after drying. When dry QoR, with the unique Aquazol binder, provides greater resistance to embrittlement and cracking. You will notice that a little goes a long way with QoR.

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20% Off Kusakabe Single Pigment Sets

The Single Pigment range from Kusakabe includes 3 sets of six colours giving a choice between cool or warm granulating colours and the staining colours. Used separately, the granulating colours produce a rough, granular texture whilst the staining colours have an almost ink-like effect which creates smooth, uniform colour. Although beautiful to use on their own, the real fun begins when you start to mix them. An almost endless range of complex, separating, granulating and translucent colours can be created. They are a fun watercolour to use.

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20% Off Amatruda Blocks

The Amatruda Acquerello Blocks contain 10 sheets of 340gsm pure cotton handmade watercolour paper. Each sheet is glued on 4 sides with one corner left open so you can easily remove the top sheet when you have finished painting. The paper is suitable for all watercolour techniques and also very good with art inks. The paper has a natural rough grain similar to many Cold Press papers.

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15% Off Leonard Sable Pointed Brushes

These pointed round brushes have excellent spring and water retention whilst the fine point allows for fine and detailed strokes. Leonard have been handcrafting artists' brushes in Saint-Brieuc, France since 1779. The synthesis of tradition, knowledge and modern methods produces brushes of the highest quality.

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15% Off Holbein Luminous Watercolour Sets

15ml Tubes and Sets

Holbein have a range of 12 Luminous Colours. The luminous colours are really vibrant, bright and intense. Whilst not lightfast, they are wonderful to experiment with and perfect for those works which are intended to have a shorter life.

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25% Off Schmincke Supergranulation Set of 40

40 Supergranualating Half Pans in a Travel Case

Schmincke Super Granulation watercolours provide intense granulation and colour separation, giving wonderful effects that you can use to enhance your paintings.

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15% Off Cardinal Watercolour Pads

The Cardinal pads are available in three sizes, each of which has ten sheets. Cardinal is a natural white watercolour paper with a different grain on each side. One side has a cold press grain whilst the other has a rough grain. You can paint on both sides. The paper is 300gsm and is made with a combination of cotton and cellulose.

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20% Off William Mitchell Liquid Gouache

Liquid Gouache has excellent smooth opaque coverage and lightfast qualities. Being in a liquid form it is very convenient and easy to paint out. Available in 12 colours including Gold and Silver.

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15% Off Sennelier Gouache Single 21ml Tubes

Sennelier Gouache is a true artists gouache being made using the same high quality pigments present in the Sennelier watercolour and oil paints. The colours are selected for their opacity and have exceptional covering power.

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15% Off Renesans Cover Set of 12

The Cover Gouache is available in a well balanced set of 12 colours. Cover uses an exclusive water based binder which maintains the advantages of traditional tempera and gouache whilst providing significantly more pigment in every brushstroke. Luminosity, brilliance and colour intensity are imbued throughout the range.

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New: Canson 300gsm Mixed Media Artist Pads

The Canson Mixed Media Artist pads are suitable for gouache, light watercolour, ink, marker and pencil. The paper is 300gsm and made with a mix of cotton and cellulose. It has a light grain on one side and is smooth on the other. Each pad contains 25 sheets.

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20% Off Monteverde MP1

The MP1 is designed for really easy refills from ink bottles. It has an internal piston mechanism which will draw up the ink by simply rotating the end cap of the pen which can be locked in position after filling. The barrel and grip are crafted in one piece and feature translucent resin whilst the caps are anodised aluminium. The pen is fited with a No6 German Jowo nib providing reliable ink flow.

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Pastel Specials



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15% Off Art Spectrum Round Soft Pastels

15% Off Blockx Sets

15% Off J Luda Singles

15% Off Schmincke Set of 36 Half Sticks

20% Off Sennelier Black Box Set of 120 Half Sticks

15% Off Townsend Terrage Sets

Old Style Pan Pastel Compact Sets of 20 Now $149.95

15% Off Uart Pads

Best Price for Unison Pastels















 

15% Off de Atramentis Artist Inks

De Atramentis Artist inks are lightfast waterproof inks that will flow through a fountain pen making them perfect for both writing and sketching. Apart from fountain pens, the inks can also be used with dip pens and brushes. There are 18 colours in the range which are intermixable, allowing you to create your own colours.

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15% Off Rohrer & Klingner Indian Inks

High quality pigmented inks which use shellac as a binder. They can be thinned with distilled water and are waterproof and eraser-proof when dry. The inks flow extremely well from different kinds of drawing utensils and light and dark effects are easily achieved. The Sepia and Bistre shades are transparent inks whilst the Black is opaque.

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15% Off Renesans Coloured Indian Inks

Indian Ink is indispensable in drawing and calligraphy and can be used with a brush, dip pens or other drawing implements. Renesans have a range of eight intense colours which become waterproof after drying. The ink can be thinned with water if necessary and is available in a 20ml dropper bottle or a larger 100ml bottle.

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25% Off TECH Ink

A transparent, lightfast and archival ink designed specifically for use with technical pens, calligraphy pens, and drawing pens which also works extremely well with brushes and airbrushes. The ink is acid free and waterproof when dry. Ideal for design and illustration as well as artistic endeavours.

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10% Off Golden High Flow 30ml & 118ml Bottles

Golden High Flow Acrylics are a very versitile ink like acrylic paint. You can use them with brushes, pens, refillable markers and airbrushes or just pour straight from the bottle. Many effects can be achieved from fine to broad strokes, staining, colour levelling, glazing, inking, lettering and traditional calligraphy.

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20% Off Aqyla Single Tubes

Aqyla is a water based alkyd resin paint which combines and enhances the benefits of both oil and water based paints to give you a totally immersive painting experience.

The greatest attraction of Aqyla is pure, rich & smooth colour. Concentrated levels of high performance pigments with no extenders provides exceptional colour whilst the water based formula gives Aqyla its fresh texture and smoothness.

Features of Aqyla are:
Use Aqyla by itself or in conjunction with Oils.
The surface dries in approximately 30 minutes. Quick but not rushed.
Multi surface - use paper, canvas, glass, porcelain, metal, cloth, plaster and some plastics.
Dilute with water. Wash up with soap & water.
Pleasant to use with low odour and no cadmium, lead or mercury used.

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15% Off Langridge Oils

Langridge Handmade Oil Colour is a high performance professional grade oil paint developed to excel in saturation of colour and physical handling qualities. All of the colours are made without extenders, modifiers, opacifiers, fillers and anything that may interfere with the clarity and true brightness of the pigment.

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15% Off Renesans Extra Oils

The Oil Extra range uses high quality saffron oil and exclusively inorganic pigments such as natural cadmiums, cobalts, and iron oxides. The special formulas and careful production provides a unique product with nice consistency, clean intense colour and strong expression.

Available in very affordable 20ml tubes.

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New: Umton Oils

Umton oil colours are designed for professional painters. They are made from high quality pigments, refined linseed or safflower oil and a special natural stabaliser. This approach to making the oils allows the nature of each pigment to shine as there are no fillers, additives or impurities. Of note is the excellent consistency of the oils, soft enough to be easily brushed out whilst being firm enough to retain brush strokes and texture as required.

Umton is the leading artist paint manufacturer in the Czech Republic with a history dating back to 1910.

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20% Off Chungking Bristle Brushes

Bristle brushes are very good for sketching out, impasto, scrumbling, drybrush techniques and general brushwork. The Leonard Chungking bushes have interlocked fibres making them resistant to fraying and providing the strength needed to apply thick paints easily and smoothly.

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15% Off Golden Fluid 118ml Bottles

Golden fluid paints are highly pigmented permanent acrylic colours which provide the advantage of allowing you to use a thin paint which offers fine dispersion, very intense colour, flexibility and good adhesion.

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20% Off Leonard Azure Brushes

Leonard Azure are a range of firm synthetic brushes encompassing round, flat and bulb shape. The Azure fibre is firm with good spring and is an excellent general purpose brush. The brushes have a striking appearance with blue aluminium ferrules and patterned blue handles.

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15% Off Calli Ink Set

Calli is an acrylic-based range of pigmented, water-resistant inks, designed specially for use in calligraphy, where optimum flow characteristics from the nib or brush are essential. The set contains one of each of the Calli colours.

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15% Off Speedball Pen & Nib Sets

Speedball have been manufacturing nibs since 1899 and have nibs for calligraphy and art. The range includes both broad edge nibs and pointed nibs for drawing and writing.

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15% Off Amatruda Writing Sets

Amatruda is from the historically important paper making region of Amalfi in Italy. Using traditional Amalfi techniques, Amatruda produce luxurious handmade cotton paper that is both beautiful to the eye and touch. The paper is Ph neutral, untreated with chemical substances or bleach. It is made to achieve maximum durability, making it suitable for official documents. Amatruda papers are very fountain pen friendly.

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15% Off de Atramentis Writing Inks

The Noteable Artist Series

de Atramentis are well known for for their top quality fountain pen inks which are handmade in Germany by Dr. Franz-Josef Jansen. The high quality of the inks ensure thay can be used in any fountain pen. The Noteable Artists Ink collection honours some of the greatest painters in history.

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15% Off Rohrer & Klingner Dokumentis Inks

Dokumentus is the first fountain pen ink conforming to the resistance requirements of ISO 12757-2. This allows it to be used by registrars for official documents. New technology and the highest quality raw materials have achieved a permanent, waterproof and archival ink. Apart from replacing the cap on your pen, no special care is needed.

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