Gouache sits between watercolour and acrylic — water-based and brush-applied, opaque and layerable, with a distinctive matte finish that neither medium replicates. It can be painted light over dark, used on black paper, corrected by painting over mistakes, and reworked once dry. In this complete guide we cover what gouache actually is, how it differs from watercolour and acrylic, what it excels at, and the full range we stock — from the Seawhite Starter Set at £6.99 to professional Sennelier Artist Gouache at £24.95 for 100ml. All at Craft and Canvas, Hebden Bridge.

Montana GOLD is not conventional spray paint — it is a low-pressure, NC-acrylic lacquer developed with professional graffiti and mural artists in Germany, available in over 200 lightfast colours, and precise enough for detailed studio work as well as large-scale murals. In this complete guide we cover what makes Montana GOLD different from standard aerosols, the colour range categories, the Level Cap interchangeable nozzle system, the wide range of surfaces it works on, how to apply it correctly, and the Montana Acrylic Markers that extend the system into detailed mark-making. Montana GOLD from £9.95, Level Cap Set 1-6 at £3.99 at Craft and Canvas.

Brusho Crystal Colour is a dye-based watercolour powder made by Colourcraft in Sheffield since the 1940s — concentrated enough that a pinch activates into vivid colour with a small amount of water, and distinctive enough that each colour blooms into multiple tones as it spreads across wet paper. In this post we cover what Brusho actually is, why it behaves so differently from conventional watercolour, what makes the black colour so remarkable, the product range we stock at Craft and Canvas, and what it is best suited to. 8-colour pack £22.99, 12-colour starter pack £29.99.