Art Supplies products for sale online in Zambia

Get art and painting canvases, mat boards, art supply boxes, brushes, paints, fixtures, drawing and painting supplies to realize your unique creative vision. Canvases are available in fantastic value Multi-packs are also ideal for schools and artist clubs. Sketching - If you love sketching, you can find a great selection of artist sketch pad in A5, A4 and A3. sketching pencils, charcoals and more! Acrylic Painting - find a variety of colours for your art project. Find on The Best of Zambia all your paintbrushes, canvases and palettes.

Sennelier makes the absolute best oil and soft pastels, but Van Gogh, Koh-i-Noor, and Prismacolor are fine alternatives. Winsor & Newton makes wonderful watercolour paints and sets, while Derwent makes excellent watercolour pencils.

Supplies you need for art school

• Paper.
• Brushes A variety of brushes are important
• Tempera Paint Crayola Paint, Sargent or Prang Tempera Paint (all the same)
• Watercolor Paint Liquid watercolour (10 bottle sets) Note: Once you've tried liquid watercolours, it's hard to go back to the regular pan style.

Gesso is very similar to white acrylic paint, only thinner. It dries hard, making the surface stiffer. Gesso prepares (or "primes") the surface for painting, making the surface slightly textured and ready to accept acrylic paint.

Best Acrylic Paint Brands

• Blick Studio Acrylic Paint
• Golden Heavy Body Artist Acrylics
• Blickrylic Student Acrylic Paint
• Chroma Atelier Interactive Artists' Acrylics
• Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Acrylic Paint
• Winsor & Newton Professional Acrylics

Best watercolour paints

• M. Graham Artists' Watercolours
• Sennelier French Artists' Watercolour Half Pans
• Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolours
• Winsor and Newton Professional Watercolour Tubes
• Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolours
• Winsor and Newton Cotman Watercolour Half Pans
• Daler Rowney Aquafine Watercolour Tubes

A Mahl stick (also spelt “Maul” stick) is a tool that can be placed across a painting to steady a painter's hand or to provide protection against the dreaded “palm touchdown” on a painting's surface.

True tempera is made by mixture with the yolk of fresh eggs, although manuscript illuminators often used egg white and some easel painters added the whole egg. Other emulsions—such as casein glue with linseed oil, egg yolk with gum and linseed oil, and egg white with linseed or poppy oil—have also been used.

Traditional categories within the arts include literature (including poetry, drama, story, and so on), the visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.), the graphic arts (painting, drawing, design, and other forms expressed on flat surfaces), the plastic arts (sculpture, modelling), the decorative arts (enamelwork, ...