Thursday 23 December 2010

Merry Christmas to all our customers and readers!


Thank you to our lovely customer Romaine Dennistoun for this fantastic hand-drawn, humourous festive scene!

I thought this would be a fitting way to say Merry Christmas to all our customers and readers, who have helped make 2010 another successful year for Chromos. We think it is important to support local buisnesses like us, and we are very grateful for your continued custom and passion for Arts and Crafts in all its splendid diversity. We are happy to continue supplying all you talented and creative people out there with the tools for your artistic endeavours.
Hope to see you all in 2011!

Fragonard Artist's Quality Linen Canvas by Pebeo - canvas of the month!

Pebeo Artist's quality Fragonard Linen Canvas is one of the loveliest and best quality readymade canvases we supply. They are made with 340gsm 100% linen canvas fabric, stretched onto a professional quality frame - providing a very sturdy, 'weighty' product that very rarely warps or curves. The canvas is side-stapled to the frame in the traditional manner, so if left unframed these will be visible when the finished piece is hung.

The Linen canvas fabric is woven with pre-washed long fibres, which gives it its clean look and very good regularity.The Pebeo research laboratory has formulated a new type of acrylic coating, guaranteeing the stability of the canvas, good colour adhesion and total protection of the fibres. The canvases are double-primed with this coating, and can be directly painted onto without an additional layer of primer. This is a particular advantage if you prefer to work onto the lovely linen colour rather than a white surface.

At Chromos we supply these canvases in a range of 14 sizes;

- 5 square sizes:
20x20cm, 30x30cm, 40x40cm, 50x50cm and 60x60cm.

- 2 double-squares and 1 triple-square:
20x40cm, 30x60cm and 20x60cm.

- 6 traditional continental sizes of Figure 5, 6, 8 ,10, 12 & 15:

The 'figure' sizes were worked out many years ago and are traditional French standard canvas sizes. We often receive enquiries as to the actual measurements of these figure canvas dimensions.... So here they are:

Fig. 5 - 35 x 27 cm
Fig. 6 - 41 x 33 cm
Fig. 8 - 46 x 38 cm
Fig. 10 - 55 x 46 cm
Fig. 12 - 61 x 50 cm
Fig. 15 - 65 x 54 cm

Final verdict? Fragonard is definitely worth the extra expense if you are looking for a great, superior canvas upon which to create your masterpiece!

See our previous blog on Pebeo 3D Linen canvas if you are looking for a deep-edge quality linen readmade canvas.

Chromos is on the Channel 4 website!


Check us out... We have recently found out that we are featured on the Channel 4 website, in the Craft Suppliers Directory - 4th no less!
Onwards and upwards...
Just a little extra note - we do actually supply a lot more than just PVA Glue and Varnish, and we can in fact supply you with materials for all the activities mentioned on the directory list (namely: decoupage, Guilding, Glass Painting, Paint effects, Papercrafts and Craftmaking, Printing and Stencilling... not to mention our friendly, helpful and sometimes quite knowledgeable staff!)

Hampshire Artist - Dallas Maughan

Moody Blues

Minstead

Stephanie I


Blueberry Hill

We are delighted to introduce the work of Dallas Maughan - one of our lovely Chromos customers - who was kind enough to get in touch recently and show us some of her beautiful and unique works of art.
Dallas descirbes her work as 'paper-fusion', and uses collage to combine and bring together various papers, beads and other media. She then mounts the final work onto canvas or paper.

We love her delicate, intricate and vibrant designs.
Thank you for sharing Dallas!