Watercolour for Beginners: Choosing Your First Paints
Should you start with tubes or pans? Artist-grade or student-grade? This guide cuts through the confusion and points you towards the watercolours that will actually help you improve.
Vermilion: the pigment that painted the ancient world | Craft and Canvas
Few pigments carry the weight of history quite like vermilion. This brilliant red has adorned everything from ancient Chinese lacquerware to Renais...
Wallace Seymour oil paints: an independent stockist's review
Wallace Seymour make some of the finest oil paints produced in the UK — small batch, no fillers, no drying agents, ground into single-estate cold-pressed linseed oil. We stock the full range at Craft and Canvas, from Series 1 at £9.95 through to Lapis Lazuli and Genuine Vermilion at the top of the range. This is our independent stockist's guide to the colours, the mediums, and where to start.