Painting Supplies Shopping List for London
Thursday June 16, 2005
One of the great things of a visit to London is access to well-stocked art supply stores. Many brands simply aren't available in South Africa, where I live, and the range of papers, sketchbooks, brushes is quite limited. So what's on my shopping list?
Top is some tubes of Golden acrylics. The colours of this top-quality USA brand are spectacularly intense. I've a colour chart which was handpainted (thanks "BB", whoever you are!) rather than printed so you can see actual paint samples of each colour.
I'm going to buy some more Golden nickel azo yellow, chromium cerulean blue, and cerulean blue deep (the latter two are great 'sea' colours), which I've already used, and am going to try some green gold and transparent pyrrole orange.
Then I'm going to buy Liquitex's Prussian blue (a powerful, deep blue) and Turner's yellow (an earthy, 'dirty' yellow).
Why do I intend to go? Firstly to Atlantis in east London, which has very competitive prices and has the feel of a 'student store'. Then to John Jones in north London, which seem to have everything. Last time I was there I truly felt like a kid in a candy store, unable to decide what to choose because there were so many options! (I came out with a only few drawing pencils...!)
And to Cornelissen & son, just off Oxford Street near the British Museum, which is like stepping back in time. Cornellisen was established in 1855 and the shop feels like it's little changed since then with bottles of pigments sitting on dark wooden shelves. But it's not just a gimmick, it's also carries a huge range of the finest quality art supplies.
Top is some tubes of Golden acrylics. The colours of this top-quality USA brand are spectacularly intense. I've a colour chart which was handpainted (thanks "BB", whoever you are!) rather than printed so you can see actual paint samples of each colour.
I'm going to buy some more Golden nickel azo yellow, chromium cerulean blue, and cerulean blue deep (the latter two are great 'sea' colours), which I've already used, and am going to try some green gold and transparent pyrrole orange.
Then I'm going to buy Liquitex's Prussian blue (a powerful, deep blue) and Turner's yellow (an earthy, 'dirty' yellow).
Why do I intend to go? Firstly to Atlantis in east London, which has very competitive prices and has the feel of a 'student store'. Then to John Jones in north London, which seem to have everything. Last time I was there I truly felt like a kid in a candy store, unable to decide what to choose because there were so many options! (I came out with a only few drawing pencils...!)
And to Cornelissen & son, just off Oxford Street near the British Museum, which is like stepping back in time. Cornellisen was established in 1855 and the shop feels like it's little changed since then with bottles of pigments sitting on dark wooden shelves. But it's not just a gimmick, it's also carries a huge range of the finest quality art supplies.
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