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 QoR Mini Sets of 6 Half Pans

There are four mini sets available; Urban Sketching, Reflective Colours, Intense Colours and Granulating Colours. 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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15% Off Turner Watercolour Sets

A true professional watercolour with suberb transparency and flow. Only the highest quality pigments, the clearest gum arabic, and wetting agents are used to achieve vivid, brilliant colours.

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20% Off Kusakabe Harmonia

Granulation and Colour Separation

The special includes both sets and single tubes. The very natural and beautiful Harmonia watercolours are created by mixing colours that, are often, at opposite ends of the spectrum. Rather than clashing, as you may expect, the colours blend and separate to create colour that is in harmony.

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20% Off Holbein Chroma Shine 5ml Tubes

Chroma Shine are shimmering metallic watercolours that gradually change colour when viewed from different angles. Semi-opaque with good covering power and vibrancy regardless of the underlying colour. Can be used on their own or mixed with regular colours.

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15% Off Hahnemuhle Sugarcane Blocks

The Hahnemuhle Sugar Cane watercolour paper is made from 70% sugar cane fibre and 30% cotton rag. This bright natural white paper is 290gsm and has a distinct linen type grain which could be categorised as Cold Pressed. The paper is suitable for all watercolour techniques and also makes a great surface for mixed media.

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15% Off Kuretake Gansai Tambi Sets

Traditional Japanese watercolours. The paints are very opaque when used like a gouache but increase in transparency as more water is added. Perfect for painting, sketching, illustration, sumi-e and western calligraphy. The pans are very large being 48mm x 28mm which allows you to use larger brushes straight from the pan.

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20% Off Flamboyant Blocks

The unique surface of this paper is random, extra rough and open. It has a soft feel to the touch. This paper is particularly well suited to rough and abstract work as it will allow you to create effects not possible with the more traditional surfaces. Due to the open nature of the paper it is not suitable for use of masking fluid. The paper is made of 50% Cotton and 50% Cellulose. It has the attributes required of an artist quality paper being natural white, 300gsm, Ph neutral, acid free and free from optical brighteners.

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15% Off Umton Single Pans

Fine grade pigments and the brightest gum arabic combine to give the Umton watercolours their presence on the paper. There are 59 colours in the range, all of which are lightfast and available in large 2.6ml pans. Umton is a watercolour that has excellent mixing characteristics, good control on the paper and strong honest colour.

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15% Off Turner Japanesque Acrylic Gouache Singles

The Japanesque range reinvents traditional Japanese paint in an acrylic form. Turner have used traditional colours and also ensured that the slightly textured surface is prominent. The textured surface mimics the slightly grainy feel of traditional Japanese paints which were made from finely ground materials such as shells, corals, semi-precious stone and pigments. The paints have all of the handling qualities of the regular Acryl Gouache colours.

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15% Off Renesans Gouache Set of 12

Cover uses an exclusive water based binder which maintains the advantages of traditional gouache whilst providing significantly more pigment in every brushstroke. Luminosity, brilliance and colour intensity are imbued throughout the range. The opacity of the colours is achieved through high levels of pigment rather than by additives. Cover will create deep matt uniform areas of colour, and can be used by itself or mixed with other gouaches and watercolours.

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15% Off Schmincke Calligraphy Gouache 20ml Tubes

Especially developed for calligraphy, the colours are brilliant and largely opaque with a consistency that is ideal for calligraphy. An artist quality gouache that will stand the test of time.

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20% Off William Mitchell Dip Pen Sets

William Mitchell has an extensive range of dip pen sets for calligraphy covering all of the popular writing styles. William Mitchell was established as a nib manufacturer in 1825 and has been designing and manufacturing exceptional calligraphy products for almost 200 years.

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15% Off Brause Caligraphy Practice Pad

Practice pad for learning calligraphy. The pad has the following features:
- 90gsm smooth off white paper
- 50 sheets
- Numbered margin guides and 5mm lines
- 3 guide sheets with different slanted grids
- an introduction to the main calligraphy alphabets.

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15% Off Flametree Journals

Apart from the stunning cover designs the journals are also very practical. The journals feature two ribbon markers, a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts, 176 pages of robust, lined ivory paper and a magnetic side flap to keep everything neat and tidy. The paper is fountain pen friendly. The journals are A5 size which measures 210 x 148mm.

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Pastel Specials



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15% Off Blockx Single Pastels

20% Off Sennelier Sets of 30 Half Sticks

10% Off Art Spectrum Round Soft Pastel Singles

New: Peel & Stick Uart Paper

10% Off Sennelier Pastel Card Pads

New: Schmicke Number 2, 60 Half Stick Set

15% Off Holbein Set of 144

15% Off Renesans Soft Pastel Sets

15% Off Colourfix Warm & Cool Pads

15% Sennelier Oil Pastel Sets

Best Price for Unison Pastels















 

Feature: Golden Open

Golden OPEN is a range of slow drying full body artist acrylic paints. The increased working time of the colours allows you to use traditional techniques once only possible with oils. Blending, glazing, shading and softening are greatly enhanced. Colours stay wet on the palette for a long time and sealed palettes can be used over many days.

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15% Off Alpha Soft Body Acrylics

A fluid artist's paint which has excellent flow and levelling qualities. The fluid nature of the paint removes the necessity to water down heavy body paints to achieve smooth application.

Alpha are the quiet achievers of the art materials world. Carefully crafted products, beautiful colour ranges and excellent quality set them apart. Alpha Color established their paint manufacturing facility in 1968 and pioneered the production of artist's acrylic paints in Korea. They have earnt an enviable reputation, well deserved.

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10% Off Golden Fluid Acrylic 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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15% 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 Renesans Oils for Art 60ml Tubes

Oils for Art are made using a sophisicated process that matches the variety and mixture of linseed or safflower oil used to each pigment. The pigments are then pre-covered with oil before the paints are produced, just like the old masters would have done. This has resulted in a range of artist quality oils with excellent lightfastness, strong colour and a great workability. The Oils for Art range is also excellent value for money.

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Feature: A Safer Oil Painting Studio

The toxic petroleum based solvents used in traditional oil paint thinners, mediums and cleaners are the main cause of the health issues faced by many oil painters. To address this problem Adamstown Art has curated a range of the best non-toxic and low-toxic products for oil painting.

The range includes the People and Earth Safe products from Renesans, the Green for Oil range from Sennelier, Low Toxic products from Langridge and travel safe traditional mediums from Schmincke.

We would encourage you to make your studio healthier.

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15% Off Kusakabe Luster Oils

The Luster Oil range includes 5 polarised pearl colours and five rich metallic colours. The polarised pearl colours change colour depending on the viewing angle and the way the light hits them. The metallic colours are made with aluminium metal powder and will maintain their deeply rich tones over time without darkening. Ten very beautiful colours aimed at enhancing the final layers of a painting.

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15% Off De Atramentis Document Inks

De Atramentis Document inks are waterproof inks that will flow through a fountain pen. The inks are well suited to both writing and sketching. There are 28 colours in the range which are intermixable, allowing you to create your own colours.

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25% Off Schmincke Aerocolor 250ml Bottles

Aero Color Professional are liquid, intensely coloured and highly lightfast acrylic inks. They can be used for acrylic painting, sketching, airbrushing and mixed-media techniques. They are suitable for application by brush, dip pens, technical pens, pouring and with an airbrush. Aero Color is water resistant when dry and dries with a satin finish.

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15% Off Golden High Flow Sets

The High Flow Acrylics are a very versitile acrylic ink. You can use them with brushes, pens, refillable markers and airbrushes or just pour straight from the bottle.

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25% Off Dr Ph Martins TECH Inks

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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15% Off Rohrer & Klingner Writing Inks

The writing inks feature high-class, brilliant colourants, specially treated water and minimal amounts of additives. This well-balanced nature of the ink provides optimal flow characteristics for fountain pens. Of note are the two Iron Gall inks in the range. The colour of the iron gall inks intensifies over time and they are considered permanent.

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20% Off Faber Castell Ambition Fountain Pens

The Ambition line of fountain pens have strong design elements, providing a touch of luxury. Available in either wooden or precious resin barrels with a stainless steel nib, chrome plated end caps and a spring loaded clip.

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15% Off Aldo Domani Fountain Pens

The Aldo Domani have a reputation as a durable and comfortable pen to use. The pens are well weighted and balanced. The structure of the pen is in brass which is lacquered to achieve the final finish. The pens come with an ink convertor for bottle filling but can also be used with cartridges.

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