Links

Some (hopefully) useful sites; contacts, suppliers of art materials, and other artists’ websites are listed here.

ART MATERIALS

Cornelissen & Son This wonderful shop looks like it has been transported straight from Dickensian London and is known throughout the world as a specialist supplier of art materials. Their Miniature Sables are the best brushes I have found.

Rosemary & Co She makes lovely sable brushes of extremely high quality - and they are very reasonably priced too.

Jackson’s Art Supplies What can I say about this site? I love it and spend far too much money on it. I buy all my paper from them, they will cut it if necessary but I like the Full Imperial sheets and cut them myself.

Studio Art Shop Faber Castell's fabulous Polychromos oil-based coloured pencils are good value from this site, along with lots of other artists' neccessities.

Daniel Smith Art Materials This US company makes some very fine tube watercolours and I find their Hansa Yellow Medium a delight to use. I also like their Sap Green and mix it with Prussian Blue to get some excellent dull greens. I've recently ordered a couple of their miniature sable brushes to try out. Not sure yet whether I like them as much as the Cornelissens I normally use.

Dick Blick Art Materials Another fabulous US artists' site. It is a treat to browse but beware of shipping costs if your purchases add up to more than about $30.00. If you are into oil coloured pencils rather than watercolour, this is one site where you can obtain the gorgeous Prismacolor range.

William Cowley Vellum suppliers. As far as I know, the only company in the UK still producing vellum by traditional methods.

GENERAL CONTACTS

London Graphic Centre I've bought daylight lamps, a lightbox and many other useful tools of the trade from this site.

Art Discount Store When I needed a better work-surface I looked at this site and very much liked the professional drawing boards on offer. Many other goodies also online here.

Stiffy Bag - The Art Bag Weird name but great bags, especially good for transporting framed works. Off-the-shelf or made-to-measure from extremely heavyweight shiny silver bubble-wrap.

Keith's Plant Books This chap has more botanical books and books about plants on offer than anyone else I’ve found online. Nothing antique or second hand though.

ASC Direct custom packaging I discovered this site by accident when I was trying to mail a framed picture to the US and could not believe the prices charged for packaging by the well-known shipping companies. If you use their ‘boxbuilder tool’ and fill in the dimensions of your desired packaging ASC will send you a beautifully made and very sturdy box by return. They also supply sacks of puffy little packing chips made from recycled materials.

Regent Envelopes Ltd Good quality greeting card envelopes in a wide range of colours and very reasonably priced, but you have to order lots at a time.

Rapid Supplies For paper, card, cellophane card bags, envelopes, etc.

Spink and Thackray Ltd Manufacturers of Solander Boxes. I’ve tried various Solander Box makers and this company offers a very good quality product at a very reasonable price. They are also helpful if you are not sure quite what size to order and are happy to chat about special requirements. I like them very much. They can also emboss your name or other information on the lid in snazzy gold letters.

BOTANICAL ARTISTS

Martin J Allen has a long list of botanical artists on his site which I love browsing through, particularly when my work isn’t going so well and I want to feel inspired. So I copied his idea onto my site. I hope he approves.

Susan Christopher-Coulson