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content[0]='<img src="images/misc/acrylics.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>Acrylic Paints</b></big><br>The name acrylic paint is derived from acrylate resin, the vehicle or binder in which the pigments are suspended. It is this synthetic binder, consisting of an emulsion of extremely fine particles or fesin dispersed in water, which largely determines the differences in character and handling qualities between oil paints and acrylic paints.<p>Acrylic Paints, in contrast of Oil paints, are physically drying, which means that they dry rapidly through evaporation of the water contained in the binder. As the water evaporates, the acrylics-resin particles fuse to form a fairly compact paint film in which each minute particle of pigment is coated in a film of resin. The result is a permanently flexible paint film which is water-resistant, does not yellow and reveals no signs of aging.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques.'

content[1]='<img src="images/misc/colored_pencil.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>Colored Pencils</b></big><br>Colored pencils are made from a mixture of pigment, clay and filler, bound together with gum. The colored sticks are soaked in wax, which gives them their smooth-drawing properties, before being pressed into rods and encased in wood. Clean, quick and portable, colored pencils are very useful skteching and drawing tools. They allow you to work with the accuracy of pencil while involving color; they are soft enough to allow delicate shading, and they can be sharpened to a point for controlled lines.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques.'

content[2]='<img src="images/misc/conte.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>Conte Crayons</b></big><br>Conte crayons are similar in effect to charoal, but because they are harder they can be used for rendering fine lines as well as broad tonal areas. Although conte crayons are now available in a wide range of colors, many artists still favor the restrained harmony of the traditional combination of black, white, grey and earth colors - Sepia, sanguine (terracotta red) and bistre (cool brown). These colors impart a unique warmth and softness to a drawing, and are particularly appropriate to portraits and nude-figure studies. The traditional colors also lend to drawings an antique look, reminiscent of the chalk drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rubens or Claude.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques.'

content[3]='<img src="images/misc/studio.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>Studio Easels</b></big><br>A heavy-duty studio easel provides a sturdy support for work on a large scale. The painting rests on a ledge that also forms a compartment for holding paints and brushes, while a sliding block at the top holds the painting firmly in position. The height is adjustable. Some models are on wheels or casters so that they can be moved around the studio.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques.'

content[4]='<img src="images/misc/techpen.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>Technical Pens</b></big><br>Originally designed for use by professional illustrators and designers, technical pens deliver ink down a narrow tube instead of a nib. This produces a very even line of a specific and unvarying width, regardless of the direction in which the pen is moved. The fine, fragile strokes made by technical pens are appropriate for a controlled, graphic style of drawing. Like fountain pens, they are easily portable and contain their own supply of ink. But, unlike fountain pens, the ink flow is fine and even, and lasts much longer, so you no longer have to carry bottles if ink which can break, leak or spill.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques.'

content[5]='<img src="images/misc/gouache.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>Gouache</b></big><br>The term <i>gouache</i> originates from the Renaissance, when the Italian masters painted <i>a gouazzo</i> - with water-based distemper or size paints. The opacity of gouache and its matte, chalky appearance when dry, make it a quite seperate and distinct medium from pure transparent watercolor, but the equipment, supports and techniques used are similar for both media.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques.'

content[6]='<img src="images/misc/oil.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>Oil Paints</b></big><br>Oil Paint consists of dry pigments ground in a natural drying oil such as linseed, or a semi-drying oil such as safflower or poppy. Some brands of oil paint are matured and then remade with more pigment to achieve the right consistency, but most are given additives, such as plasticizers, driers and wax, to improve flexibility and make them consistent in texture and drying speed. Stabilizers may also be added to keep the oil and pigment from serparating in tubes during storage.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques.'

content[7]='<img src="images/misc/alkyd.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>Alkyd Paint</b></big><br>These are made from pigments bound in an oil-modified synthetic resin. They handle in the same way as traditional oil paints, but have the advantage of being much faster drying - in normal use, the paint surface is generally dry within and hour. Alkyds may be mixed with oil paints, which has the effect of speeding up the oils drying time and retarding that of the alkyds, so that all the colors dry at a fairly even rate. Any supports suitable for oil and acrylic paints may be used for alkyds, once primed with oil or acrylic primer.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques'

content[8]='<img src="images/misc/pastels.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>Pastels</b></big><br>Pastels are made from finely ground pigments mixed with a base such as chalk or clay and bound together with gum to from a stiff paste. This is then cut and shaped into sticks and allowed to harden. There are four types of pastels available: Soft and hard pastels, pastel pencils and oil pastels. They are available in different shapes - round or square, thin or chuncky.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques'

content[9]='<img src="images/misc/french.jpg" width="180" height="135"><p><big><b>French Easel</b></big><br>The French easel is sturdier than an ordinary sketching easel, but equally portable. It combines a palette, a deep drawer for storing paints & equipment, a collapsible easel and a carrier for canvases, all of which can be folded up into one compact unit, complete with a strong carrying handle.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=1D32C887-BF73-4C15-97AD7010281C3B43&parentCat=2412E563-470C-43AE-A4AC3B5ADE6259E5&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>Artists Manual</i></a> A Complete Guide to Painting and Drawing Materials and Techniques'

content[10]='<big><b>Cleaning Brushes</b></big><br>With quick-drying media like acrylic, wipe and wash brushes after each manipulatoin. With a slow-drying medium, clean them after each session. Never use hot water - it may expand the ferrule, causing hairs to fall out, and it can harden acrylic paint on the brush. Use water as a solvent for watercolor and acrylics, paint thinner for oils. Have two jars of solvent. Wipe dirty brushes, then rinse in one jar. Before using a new color, rinse them in the other.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=30CDBE04-916A-4443-9E927EDA02B7DC93&parentCat=C0EEB3BA-191B-4154-8CBD562EF45141D4&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>New Artists Handbook</i></a>Equipment Materials Procedures Techniques</td>'

content[11]='<big><b>Washes</b></big><br>The art of watercolor painting lies to a great extent in the artists ability to control the application of washes. A wash is a thin film of paint, well diluted with water, which can be applied to the paper in a number of ways. Washes can also be laid on over the other to create a range of different effects.A wash can provide a continuous, pale tone over the whole area of the paper, acting as a unifying background color for the other superimposed washes. The appearance of a wash depends on several factors such as the kind of pigment used, the amount of water added to the paint, the method of application, the nature of the paper surface, and whether the surface is wet or dry before the wash is applied.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=30CDBE04-916A-4443-9E927EDA02B7DC93&parentCat=C0EEB3BA-191B-4154-8CBD562EF45141D4&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>New Artists Handbook</i></a>Equipment Materials Procedures Techniques'

content[12]='<big><b>Wet-into-wet</b></big><br>Painting <i>Wet-into-wet</i> means applying color to paper that you have previously wetted - either with water or with an earlier color that has not yet dried. The resulting effects cannot be reproduced in any other medium - with the possible exception of acrylics.<p>...<a href="http://www.shoptheartstore.com/product_detail_single.cfm?productID=30CDBE04-916A-4443-9E927EDA02B7DC93&parentCat=C0EEB3BA-191B-4154-8CBD562EF45141D4&topCat=1157758E-ECD8-4A5E-9342D75B9CC88354" class="redbold"><i>New Artists Handbook</i></a>Equipment Materials Procedures Techniques'


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