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NEW!

Fluid Colour. Solid Value.

Pour, spray and play with luscious colours! Opus Essential Fluid Acrylic Colours have the same pigment load as our heavy-body Opus Essential Acrylic Colours, with the smooth, flowing consistency of heavy cream.

Produced in small batches in North America with a quality-first approach, our exciting new paint line features high concentrations of permanent, intense, and reliable pigments that suit a variety of painting techniques!

Their ultra-low viscosity makes  them superbly suited for painting with acrylic and watercolour techniques, pouring directly onto surfaces and mediums, and even for use as inks for refillable paint markers, allowing you the creative freedom of endless mixed media techniques. You can use  them for airbrushing, too: simply combine equal parts of this luscious paint with an airbrush medium, fill up your airbrush and spray with impressive colour intensity.

Use these paints on any oil-free surface: they are ideal for use on canvas, paper, wood, or plastic, and dry to a semi-gloss or gloss finish.  With 28 popular colours, there is no end to the possibilities of creative play!
Click to view Colour Chart (PDF)

Draw your paint on!

Versatile tools for all artists, this collection provides excellent colour that works on most surfaces. MOLOTOW markers are a top-quality acrylic-based hybrid paint marker.

Whether you're using existing colours or are mixing your own with MOLOTOW Refill Inks, you're bound to fall in love with its bold and vibrant colour.

NEW!

Introducing Opus Finest Raw Stretched Canvas. Crafted to the same specifications as our Custom Stretched Canvas, this locally-made surface features strength and beauty in one.

Each canvas starts with 1 ½″ deep, heavy-duty pine stretcher bars, with the larger sizes cross-braced for extra stability. All corners are secured with gussets to strengthen and square the joints, creating a fixed strainer frame.

Over the strainer, we have stretched our heaviest canvas - #10 Duck (14.75oz / 500gsm). This 100% cotton canvas features a tight weave and the thick thread used in the double filled, plied yarn produces excellent tensile strength resulting in a heavyweight and durable canvas.

The raw canvas has a warm natural tone, ranging from off-white to cream in colour, and is ready to be primed. We recommend at least two coats of Opus Essential Gesso when painting with acrylics, and a minimum of 4 coats for oils.

Available in four sizes: 24″ × 36″, 36″ × 36″, 36″ × 48″, and 48″ × 48″.

Click here to view Opus Finest Raw Stretched Canvas sizes available for mail-order.

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New and Improved!

Opus Essential Gesso is an artist quality gesso perfect for preparing unprimed surfaces such as canvas, linen, wood and paper. This heavy-bodied bright white gesso has maximum opacity, adhesion, and water resistance and dries to a non-yellowing, flexible matte finish. Opus Essential Gesso contains high levels of titanium dioxide, calcite grit and acrylic resin. Apply 2–4 coats as desired.

 

These 140 page Canadiana notebooks have beautiful covers with iconic Canadian scenery, including bears, mountains and much more. Each page is blank on the left side, and lined on the right, decorated with a small maple leaf.

Printed with vegetable based inks on 100% recycled paper, this paper is manufactured using a Totally Chlorine Free (TCF) Bleaching process.

The covers are printed on recycled, FSC certified paper made with 30% post-consumer waste fibres, and are hand-embossed with beautiful gold letters in-house by Smitten Kitten.

This pliable, non-hardening modelling clay shapes easily and is excellent for building finger strength and fine motor skills. Non-staining formulation for easy clean up. Non-staining formulation for easy clean-up. AP Certified Non-Toxic.

A quality and economic fignerpaint designed for pre-school and elementary school use, making it perfect for the creative enjoyment of youngsters. Demco Fingerpaint is a combination of the finest materials and pure pigments blended into a rich, creamy, consistency. They are thicker than tempera so the colors are easier to spread by hand yet can be watered down to use with a brush. All colors are non-toxic, soluble and uniform in texture.

Luscious Colour. Outstanding Value.
 
NEW Opus Essential Acrylic Colours are the latest addition to our house brand art materials, a professional-quality, heavy-body paint at an outstanding value.

Produced in small batches in North America with a quality-first approach, they feature high concentrations of permanent, intense, and reliable pigments.

Creamy and thick in consistency, they have the capacity to retain brush strokes and are perfect for carving with a palette knife. These colours can also be thinned liberally with Opus or Golden Mediums to increase their flow, or alter their sheen, without sacrificing intensity of pigment.

Use them indoors or outdoors for fine art applications, craft projects, and murals.

28 luscious colours in 5 series in 150 ml and 473 ml sizes, and 6 colours in 946 ml.
Click to view Colour Chart (PDF)

Note: A small number of colours in this line may occasionally have some clear separation; this is not unusual for paints with high pigment loads. Do not pour off this separation as it contains ingredients that are integral to the paint. Instead, remix into the paint.

Increase your acrylics arsenal with artist-quality acrylic paint in a spray can! Quickly lay down base colours for your acrylic paintings, use wet-in-wet with other acrylic paints and mediums, or create indoor or outdoor murals with low-odour, water-based Liquitex Professional Spray Paint. Use it freehand, with a stencil, or in mixed media work – the possibilities are endless!

Enjoy consistent, top-quality colour through a variety of viscosities: 50 of these Spray Paints are matched to the core Liquitex Professional Heavy Body Acrylic, Soft Body Acrylic, and Acrylic Ink colours with hues (black or white mixed into core colours) added for a comprehensive colour system. The scale from 1–8 (darkest to lightest) on the back of each can identifies the composition of each colour: core Liquitex colours fall in the middle of the scale, between 4 and 5, 1–4 indicates a hue which has had black added, 5–8 indicates a hue which has had white added.

The sprays are chemically compatible with all Liquitex acrylic lines allowing them to bond properly with each other to help ensure the integrity the finished work. This high-quality spray paint will not crack or flake over time when applied to flexible surfaces such as stretched canvas.

This versatile paint offers durable, permanent, and weather-proof matte colour when dry, and easy soap and water clean up when wet. Use them on almost any surface including canvas, masonry, Styrofoam^TM (polystyrene foam), glass, wood, and metal.

The highly pigmented, lightfast* colours are formulated using artist grade pigments to ensure the cleanest and most brilliant colours possible. These artist's colours dry at a slower rate than solvent based spray paints, allowing you to work your application over a longer period of time.

Create a variety of effects using Liquitex Caps (3 different replacement caps available: Super Skinny, Standard, and Fat) and paint tools, and try them with acrylic mediums too. Ensure your artwork will stand the test of time by finishing with a  Liquitex or other varnish.

It is recommended that you use these paints while wearing a protective mask, as spray paint produces paint dust.

100 colours in 2 series. Each 400 ml can yields approximately 2 m² of coverage.

*lightfastness I or II except fluorescent colours

Click here for the Liquitex Professional Spray Paint colour chart.

Jacquard Acid Dyes are an extremely brilliant and colourfast hot water dye that yield the most vibrant results possible for protein fibres, such as silk, wool and alpaca*.

These dyes eliminate the challenge of producing uniform colour when immersion dyeing. In addition to yarn or garment dyeing, Acid Dyes may also be used for painting and printing application using a steam setting.

Available in 39 luscious, transparent colours.

*Notice of correction: Our July 16, 2014 Email mentions the use of this product on cotton and linen, however this is a misprint. Acid Dyes are used for protein and nylon fibres only, which do not include linen and cotton.

We carry a wide selection of dyes for a variety of fabrics. If you are looking for dyes for natural fibres like linen and cotton, we recommend Jacquard Procion MX Dyes or Jacquard iDyes.