Almost a Year and We're Still Growing!

As each shipment comes in, it seems that we have less time to let our customers know. Every request and every suggestion is noted and we've been adding these items to our orders as we go. If you haven't been in the store in the last month, we've increased our variety of offerings considerably.

We've just restocked our oil painting section with the popular Cennini products:
OPTICAL WHITE (a zinc white ground with hollow nanospheres that won't desaturate your colors!) and
CLOVE OIL (add a drop to paint to slow the drying, add to emulsions and glues to prevent mold and bacteria. Wonderful smell that fills the studio!).

We're now also carrying their TITANIUM & BLACK OIL Primer that likewise is formulated with nanospheres for much improved resistance to cracking, and Black Oil that insures a trouble-free surface. This primer is a bright white that dries to touch over a weekend and cures quickly. Neither too absorbant (like acrylic primer) or too slick, the dried surface accepts paint beautifully.

Our Handmade and Decorative Papers are constantly being renewed with new papers every month. Come and see our fresh selection.

For all you pastel artists, in addition to our growing selection of Unison Pastels, we just received some sets of semi-hard Richeson pastels. Also, a very useful tool called a Pastel Shaper that can sharpen/shape your soft pastels and retain the shavings for reuse. To carry all those delicate pastels, we found some great empty boxes with segmented foam inserts for storing and protecting 18 and 72 pastels. We are growing our selection of our ever-popular, locally-produced, nationally-touted UART sanded pastel paper. We've gotten many requests for their mounted sheets on 4 ply conservation board; our orders for this product should be arriving next week.

For hanging your art we carry a full line of OOKS, the best hardware to use on plaster walls without damage. For those doing architectural modeling we now have chipboard. For all your presentation needs we have presentation boards and kits with lettering and headers and foam-core up to 4 feet x 8 feet sheets. Plein air painters, we have many different options for handling your wet-canvases. Erasers of every type and glues galore.

There's a lot of activity going on in our neighborhood- and Newburgh at large- click on our ARTS CALENDAR link on the right and bookmark it. We'll be open 1 year on the 26th of this month. Since then Liberty Street has become a magnet for new and relocating businesses and several more are soon to open. Come out and support local business- we're reinvesting in the local community!