Graphics & Painting Accessories

The expressive arts encompasses incredibly complex areas of artists’ material almost too numerous to list and extremely difficult to place under individual headings.

Sketching and drawing is catered for extensively from graphite pencils, pastel pencils to water-soluble pencils. Inks are not just confined to the finest traditions of drawing and calligraphy, for today coloured acrylic inks have been developed to create fascinating effects including metallic and pearlescent finishes. Chinese ink sticks, painting sets, papers and accessories are also available.

Where artists’ materials are the backbone of Picturecraft’s business, there is a section devoted to crafts including Plasticine, Fimo, Das air-drying clay and modelling tools. Coloured papers, cartridge and tracing paper, thin card and even mount card are all held in stock.

To ensure every aspect of painting can be totally supported places high demands on the availability of a comprehensive range of accessories. Picturecraft has been fastidious and caters in providing smocks, manikins, easels, luggage, daylight bulbs, brush cleaners, mahl sticks …. to name just a few.