Jackson's Art Supplies

A comprehensive explanation of how to draw and paint using perspective covering key types of persspective and recommended reading.

While ready-made stretched canvases are a convenient choice many artists require the higher quality of custom canvases where you can also choose the size and characteristics. Jackson’s offers a reasonably priced bespoke service or you can stretch your own canvas.

Find out about and see mixes using Jackson's Professional Oil paints three new colours: Indigo, Emerald Green and Lamp Black.

Jackson's occasionally expand the colours in the Jackson's Professional Oil Paints range when we think a colour would be really useful. We've recently added four new colours: Brilliant Pink, Sap Green, King's Blue Deep and Manganese Violet.

Adebanji is currently running a project which involves painting 250 portraits of people. They are of anyone he knows, meets, volunteers, iconic people.

Useful for artists who wish to tape off an edge in their acrylic painting composition for painting shapes with hard edges.

For several years Jackson's has been donating to Scottish Charity 'Trees for Life' and we have recently reached an impressive donations milestone.

Cobra Water-mixable Oil Paints are artists’ quality oil paints that are designed to be mixable with water instead of traditional oil paint solvents like turpentine or white spirit. Water-mixable oil paints can be thinned with water or with a water-mixable oil medium. Cobra make four mediums that allow you to modify the thickness, drying time and oil content of your paints. Even if you don’t use water to thin your paints the benefit of cleanup with just water saves a lot of time and avoids the need to have harsh solvents in your space. Max Hale is a painter who has won many awards, shown in London galleries, writes regularly for magazines and demonstrates to art societies. He attended Harrow School of Art where Ken Howard OBE RA was one of his tutors. His website shows his teaching programme which is regularly updated with new courses, holidays and related events. He produced a DVD on painting with water-mixable oils, that we stock at Jackson’s: First Steps In Water Mixable Oils. Max Hale uses Cobra Oils in his practice and his workshops and has written here about how he uses the paint. Cobra Water-mixable Oils by Max Hale Cobra is genuine ...

Curator and artist Michelle Gibbs explains why tonal value is important in painting and how it improves a piece, illustrated with charts and grey scales.

Jackson's Open Painting Prize 2019 - 9th Commended Entry is Sundown, White Coppice by Michael Ashcroft from the Landscape/Seascape/Cityscape Category.

Two watercolour bird artists discuss their practice, methods, inspiration and work ahead ahead of their joint bird exhibition Feathered Friends on in March.

Interview with Kerry Ann Lee; Artist and Designer from New Zealand and Expert Judge on the panel for the Jackson's Open Painting Prize 2019

The colours of moorland landscapes certainly stick in one’s mind but capturing them can be difficult. Unison Associative Artist, Robert Dutton has developed an entire set of soft pastels for Unison Pastels so you can enjoy these gorgeous colours taken from the landscape. He explains his inspiration for the palette and how to use the individual moorland colours to produce a particular atmosphere. The Colours of the Moors in Soft Pastels By Robert Dutton As a professional artist, I feel very lucky to live in ‘Gods own county’ – Yorkshire with inspirational painting locations pretty much on my doorstep and within easy reach of my studio in North Leeds. I am particularly drawn to creating two types of paintings – moody paintings that add a sense of the dramatic or paintings full of energy and colour. The continual changing seasonal character of Yorkshire creates such diversity that whatever the weather the landscape is always inspirational and delivers! I find that colours of Yorkshire throughout the year have the ability to evoke a deep emotion connection to different areas – be they coast, moor, valley or dale. Last light on the moor can create a sense of calm, whilst the energy ...

Find out how artist Jane Northcote goes about urban sketching the towers of london and about her new exciting exhibition being held at the Barbican Library.

Interview with artist and Haidee-Jo Summers ROI ARSMA; Painter, Author and Expert Judge in Jackson's Open Painting Prize 2019.

Jackson's Open Painting Prize Commended Entry of the Week is Michelle Wilson with Lumi - a portrait of a much loved family cat.