New~Liquitex Free-Style & BASICS brushes

Arriving late April, the full line of Liquitex Professional Free-Style Brushes and the full line of new BASICS brushes. Takapuna Art Supplies will be the only art store in New Zealand carrying these two ranges. And, we will continue to stock the most extensive range of brushes available to New Zealand artists.

Art Spectrum Night

Thanks to Jack Borland of Art Spectrum and to all those who attended our Art Spectrum evening. It was very informative and successful, and the first of many similar events to come....

Art Spectrum Talk on the 16th of March

Step by Step Painting with Jim

Here are the materials I'll be using for my painting of Daniel:

Crescent Watercolor Board, an assortment of Liquitex and Matisse Acrylics, layed out on an enamel butcher tray on folded, wet paper towels.

Here I've laid in a background acrylic wash using a Hake brush.

Using reference, I start to pick out the negative shapes behind the large Macrocarpa Tree.

I'm working with the negative shapes, using red-orange colors to establish a complimentary color scheme.

Here, I'm starting to define the light areas on Daniel with a dry-brush technique.

The finished painting, after I glazed the entire painting using Liquitex Yellow Orange Azo to enhance the color harmony.

For a closer look, check out Jim's gallery page on our website.

Schmincke Soft Pastels Arriving This Month

The full line (400) of Schmincke Soft Pastels are on their way to our shop, expecting to land in a just few weeks. This should now fulfill the needs of our customers who like a mixture of pastels, ranging from hard to the absolute softest.

We also stock the full line of Faber-Castell Polychromo Chalks, Rembrandt, Art Spectrum and PanPastels.

Please check out our online store for more information.

Drawings In Steel by Frank Plant

A Collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis