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BackBack toto SchoolSchool SaleSale 20182018 Amsterdam Lascaux Fixative Ampersand Acrylic Sets Gessobord only $26.16! & Claybord 30% off MSRP! Museum Series 12 Color Set SALE $20.27 35% 40% OFF MSRP! # 17820412 MSRP $28.95 off

24 Color Set SALE $31.47 MSRP! # 17820424 MSRP $44.95 # 301060 MSRP $40.25 Unprimed Basswood Artist Series Lascaux produces the finest fixative available… nearly invisible spray protection with virtually no 50% OFF MSRP! color shift or darkening for , charcoal drawings, watercolors, and more. Even better, it’s 35% off MSRP right now! # 301060 300ml Lascaux Fixative $26.16 (MSRP $40.25) Art Alternatives Gamsol Gallons Gesso Gallons only $35.97! only $34.99! # AA90128 40% MSRP $59.99 off MSRP! All POSCA

# 00099 Markers MSRP $59.95 20% off! Includes all styles and colors! 2 Wet Paint Back to School Sale 2018 Aug. 15th thru Sept. 30th Fabriano Artistico Tara Fredrix Watercolor Paper 22x30 Sheets Gallery 70% OFF MSRP! 50% off Four BIG MSRP! 1-1/2” deep sizes! 90lb: SALE $3.90 MSRP $7.80 Wet Paint #5088T 24x30” $20.44 (MSRP $68.13) #5090 24x36” $23.17 (MSRP $77.22) 140lb: SALE $5.38 MSRP $10.75 stocks #5093 30x40” $28.97 (MSRP $96.58) #5082 36x48” $35.79 (MSRP $119.29) CONTAINERS! 300lb: SALE $12.25 MSRP $24.50 while supplies last! Fabriano Studio 11x14 Professional Watercolor Pads Relief Ink only $19.99! 140 lb. cold press or hot press- 30% off! MOLESKINE 50 sheets per pad! HOT PLANNERS Deal! Academic or 2019 10% OFF! MSRP=Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price Wet Paint Back to School Sale 2018 Aug. 15th thru Sept. 30th 3 Holbein Duo All Golden Acrylic Water-soluble Oil 40% off MSRP! NEW colors 35% off MSRP! for 2018! If you love the feel, control, and rich appearance of classic oil paints, but don't like using toxic solvents, these are the paints for you! Vibrant, highly pigmented colors with outstanding color strength, uniform drying times & buttery consistency, plus they clean up with soap & water! 2018 Custom Schmincke consistently sets the standard for quality and Horadam 1/2 Pan Watercolor Set innovation in products. Included in this sale are: Heavy Body only Acrylics, Fluid Acrylics, Iridescent & Interference Colors, Open $75.00! Acrylics, and High Flow Acrylics. MSRP $235.15 Holbein Acryla It’s a Wet Paint Exclusive, and only here while supplies last! 35% off MSRP! BRUSHES Holbein Acryla Gouache moves, reacts, blends and feels like Two new brush lines and the return of an old favorite highlight the sale brushes traditional gum arabic gouache, but is water resistant once for back-to-school this year! dry. It has a velvet matte finish and does not shift in color tone from liquid to dry color. Available in 107 highly pigmented For the watercolorist, may we present Da Vinci’s Casaneo, a thirsty synthetic colors in 20ml tubes. brush that features a unique extra soft filament with high elasticity and an extremely high water absorbing capacity- like your favorite squirrel hair, but with lots more snap! Constructed with a silver ferrule and black lacquered Montana Gold handle, these brushes feel as good as they look. Plus, they are available in a variety of unique shapes and sizes- including travel brushes! We’ve been selling Spray Paint only the heck out of these since they arrived in late summer…come see what all the excitement is about and get ‘em at 25% off MSRP thru the end of September. $6.99 a can! Regular price $10.50/can Aspen synthetic bristle brushes from Princeton Artist Brush combine the spring & snap of your favorite natural boar bristle brush, with the shape and The flexible, acrylic-based matte formula of Montana Gold point retention of a high quality synthetic brush. Aspen works well with any works well on wood, concrete, metal, plastic, canvas, glass bodied paint – acrylics, oils, or water-mixable oils – and looks good doing it, and many other surfaces. And there are almost too many with distinctive black & blue handles a black, non-glare ferrules. Brand new at colors to choose from! Wet Paint, meet Aspen at a 50% off MSRP introductory discount until September 30th! The supply chain seems to have righted itself, so we are pleased to reunite with Williamsburg Oils our old favorite Robert Simmons Signet boar bristle brushes at Wet Paint! The perfect mix of paint retention & release, durability, and value, Signet is the 40% off MSRP! brush of choice for many oil painters. It broke our collective heart to say Beautiful handmade oil color from our friends at Golden Artist goodbye; reunited, though, feels so good. And 45% off MSRP thru Septem- Colors in NY. This sale includes all tube color and all mediums. ber feels even better!

All sale prices valid August 15 thru September 30, 2018, unless otherwise noted. We are not responsible for typo-graphical 4 or printing errors, or incorrect artwork. Product availability is limited to stock on hand. Not all pictured items may be available. Two new brush lines and the return of an old favorite highlight the sale brushes for back-to-school this year! For the watercolorist, may we present Da Vinci’s Casaneo, a thirsty synthetic brush that features a unique extra soft filament with high elasticity and an extremely high water absorbing capacity- like your favorite squirrel hair, but with lots more snap! Constructed with a silver ferrule and black lacquered handle, these brushes feel as good as they look. Plus, they are available in a variety of unique shapes and sizes- including travel brushes! We’ve been selling the heck out of these since they arrived in late summer…come see what all the excitement is about and get ‘em at 25% off MSRP thru the end of September. Aspen synthetic bristle brushes from Princeton Artist Brush combine the spring & snap of your favorite natural boar bristle brush, with the shape and point retention of a high quality synthetic brush. Aspen works well with any bodied paint – acrylics, oils, or water-mixable oils – and looks good doing it, with distinctive black & blue handles a black, non-glare ferrules. Brand new at Wet Paint, meet Aspen at a 50% off MSRP introductory discount until September 30th! The supply chain seems to have righted itself, so we are pleased to reunite with our old favorite Robert Simmons Signet boar bristle brushes at Wet Paint! The perfect mix of paint retention & release, durability, and value, Signet is the brush of choice for many oil painters. It broke our collective heart to say goodbye; reunited, though, feels so good. And 45% off MSRP thru Septem- ber feels even better!

All pads & journals are at least 20% off our everyday price!

New at Wet Paint! When we write these “New at Wet Paint” newsletter articles we’re always -ArtBoards the finest available cradled natural maple panels are back at Wet surprised how much new stuff we’ve added in a relatively short amount of time! Paint, and so is the finest gesso for panels ever made! Here’s what we’ve brought in over the last three months: -Stabilo BOSS Highlighters tired of marking up your books with exhausting colors? -Containers Wet Paint now stocks a wide variety of glass and plastic contain- These distinctive highlighters have a chisel nib for ers, jars & bottles. Hold your paint, ink, powders, essential oils, multiple line widths & mark with a mellow hue. dye…whatever! -POSCA Glitter & Fluorescent Paint -New Watercolor Papers from Hahnemühle Harmony is the new student Markers eye-catching new colors from grade watercolor paper from Hahnemühle and we’ve got it in a variety of blocks everybody’s favorite paint marker in both hot & cold pressed surfaces. Great value for a good paper. Also from -Fancy German Crepe Paper for Making Hahnemühle, watercolor postcards packaged in fancy metal tins…love those Paper Flowers plus floral tape & wire, too… rounded corners! sign up for the paper flower making class -Clairefontaine Goldline Sketchbooks Handsome, hard-bound books with (see Events on page 7)! fancy French paper that’s perfect for mixed media. Available in 3 sizes. -Magazines Check out our expanded selection -Montana Vintage Filter Spray a solvent-based finish that imparts a of periodicals the next time you’re in… yellowed, old-timey look to whatever you spray it on. Aesthetics, Tate, Artillery, Apollo, Frieze, Bomb -Marabu Graphix Aqua Ink a naturally transparent, highly lightfast liquid and more have joined old favorites like ArtForum, watercolor that’s great with pen or brush. Elephant, Connoiseur and Juxtapoz. Read a magazine tonight! -Artist Greenbord a revolutionary art -DaVinci Casaneo & Princeton Aspen Brushes (see the brush article on board constructed from recycled and page 4) biodegradable material, Artist Greenbord is -New Wave u.go and Sienna Pochade Boxes (see the easel article on a perfect, inexpensive substrate for page 6) encaustics and more. -Pathfinders Ancient Siege Engines & That’s a lot of fun stuff! more create your own working Roman ballista or catapult, Trojan Horse, or lift bridge (yep, there’s a picture of Duluth’s on the box).

MSRP=Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price Wet Paint Back to School Sale 2018 Aug. 15th thru Sept. 30th 5 EASELS 1/4" tripod mounts, so get your camera tripod out of the closet, buy yourself a Back-to-school season means cooler temperatures, beautiful autumnal colors, new easel and u.go outside and paint! and – of course – plein air ! If you’ve been stuck indoors in your dark, Sienna Plein Air Easels from Jack Richeson are as beautiful as they are messy studio while the precious days are growing shorter, do we have a functional, and they’re brand new at Wet Paint. Durable, versatile, and easy to proposition for you: get yourself a beautiful, new pochade box and take it use, Sienna boxes are built with strong finger joint construction using poplar, outside! maple, and Baltic birch components. A beautiful cherry stain and lacquer finish The u.go™ Anywhere™ Pochade Box was make these painting tools into pieces to be designed for travel from sea to summit and admired as well as used. Each of the three Sienna anywhere in between. These new, high function, pochade box models comes with a palette high design easels are manufactured by (tempered glass for the “M” & “L” models, birch New Wave® in Pennsylvania for the “All-In-One”) and brush tray, and a …yes, the same folks that make universal tripod mount is built into every box. that fantastic palette you have (or wish you had!). These beauties are great for oil or acrylic New Wave handcrafts each pochade box to emphasize the source tree's inherent painting, but can be modified with accessories sold separately to accommodate beauty; the grain lines, knots, and varying wood tones combine to create an item watercolor or pastels, too. Maybe you need a wet canvas carrier or a new tripod that is uniquely yours. Hand sanded Baltic Birch is finished with New Wave® to go with your new box? Don’t worry…Sienna has those, too, so you can get proprietary wood finish for a furniture-quality finish and maximum durability. outside and paint! The finish is non-porous, dense, and resistant to water as well as standard artist No discussion of outdoor painting tools would be complete without mentioning solvents and mediums. In addition, the finish is crack proof, chip proof, and Guerrilla Painter. Carl Judson’s venerable outdoor painting outfitter sets the non-yellowing. Strong rare earth magnets are used for the box closures and gold standard for indestructible utility in a pochade box. With many styles adjustments and unique friction hinges allow for sturdy, stable movements of up available – from the teeny 6x8” ThumBox to the original Guerrilla Box – there’s to 180 degrees…clean, stylish, and efficient! Each u.go Anywhere™ Pochade a box and box accessory for every outdoor painter’s need. Box comes with a high density plastic palette; oil paints can be removed with solvents, and dry acrylic paint peels off. You can also add a glass palette or a ALL EASELS AND ACCESSORIES FROM u.go, SIENNA, and GUERRILLA side tray for your u.go (sold separately). u.go’s are compatible with universal PAINTER ARE ON SALE THRU THE END OF SEPTEMBER! PRINTMAKING of Professional Relief Inks…more on these below. Mr. Hernandez is based in Houston where his full-service printmaking studio, Burning Bones Press, is Back-to-school season means cooler temperatures, beautiful autumnal colors, located. He has served as an instructor of Screen Printing at Rice University. In and – of course – printmaking! Well, maybe not always printmaking, but this addition to their extensive teaching credentials, both men have exhibited their year there’s lots to be excited about in the multiples department, and it starts work nationally and internationally, and are hugely regarded in the printmaking and ends with our friends at Speedball. Speedball has been manufacturing community. If you’re a college student – and you can’t make it on the 9th – quality artists’ supplies since the beginning of the last century, but it took check with your school to see if Bill & Carlos are visiting…don’t miss the until 2018 for them to offer printmaking presses that they felt were good chance to meet these fellows! enough to carry the Speedball name. Partnering with Ravi Engineering Works, Speedball has introduced a range of high quality – yet affordable – presses As mentioned above, Bill Fick developed the designed for both intaglio and relief printing, and appropriate for school, black ink for Speedball’s Professional Relief Ink home or studio. You really need to see them in person to appreciate the range to meet the demands of his practice…and quality…and you can, at Wet Paint! Check out the 12x24” gear driven press you know it has to be good ‘cause his artwork in our classroom. Love it? Speedball presses are available in two sizes graces the can! The other nine single-pigment (24x36” is the other), two bed types and two gear types…there’s a press colors follow suit, all manufactured from the option for most any need. Perhaps you would like to see the presses highest quality, lightfast pigments and with no fillers. They roll out consistently demonstrated by internationally renowned printmakers? Read on… and transfer beautifully, resulting in intense, crisp, archival prints. There’s also a Transparent Base, for extending your inks & increasing their transparency. Best Wet Paint is honored to host artists Bill Fick and Carlos Hernandez for an of all, these professional-grade inks clean up easily with soap and water or evening of printmaking talk on Nov 9th (see Events page for details). traditional window cleaner. Plus, best of all Speedball’s Professional Screenprinting, relief, and – yes – presses will be just some of the topics of Relief Inks are 30% off MSRP thru the end of September for all of discussion. Mr. Fick joins us from Durham, NC where his studio, Super- your BTS printmaking needs! graphic, holds regular printmaking workshops and artists’ co-op studio time. He also created the flagship color, Supergraphic Black, for Speedball’s series

6 Wet Paint Back to School Sale 2018 Aug. 15th thru Sept. 30th Events at Wet Paint Registration and complete details online at wetpaintart.com. Click on the events tab. Printed catalogues of our fall classes and events are available in the store. You may also register in the store at 1684 Grand Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 or by phone 651- 698-6431 AUGUST 8/17 Wet Paint Postcard Project Party 5-7pm Outside Wet Paint FREE 8/18 Holding it All Together: Long Stitch Book Binding with Cave Paper Covers Taught by Bridget O’Malley 10am-1pm 8/19 Sunday Sketch-In 1-4pm FREE 8/20 Jacquard Jagua Temp Tattoos & Henna Demo with Sarah Stackley of High Five Henna FREE 8/21 Shibori Printing on Paper taught by Jean Manrique 2-5pm 8/24 Painterly Drawing taught by Monica Fogg 10am-1pm 8/26 Bullet Journal Meet-Up with Jessica Chung 1-3pm FREE 8/28 Drawing Pet Portraits in Pastel taught by Suzann Beck 10am-5pm

SEPTEMBER 9/5-10/3 Harvest Bounty: Beginning Watercolor taught by Tara Sweeney 10am-1pm 9/7 Artist Talk at Lyngblomsten: Jim Robinson on Norman Rockwell 10:30am-11:30am FREE 9/7-10/12 Meet Your Creative Self: The Artists Way taught by Tara Tieso 10am-12pm 9/9 Sunflowers: Crepe Paper Flowers taught by Paper Florist Anna Gaseitsiwe 1-4pm 9/10 Who am I Now?: Organizational Journaling for pre-retirement and retirement taught by Deb Schanilec 6-7:30pm 9/14 Explore : Watersoluble Graphite and Colors with Cris Franchevich 5:30-7:30pm 9/15-9/29 Real Doesn’t have to be Realistic: Abstract Urban Sketchbook taught by Tara Tieso 10am-12pm 9/16 Sunday Sketch-In 1-4pm FREE 9/25 Mandalas that Rock: POSCA Paint Markers Mini Class with Cassie Brehmer hourly from 3pm

Coming up later in Fall,watch our website for details! October 26-27 Master of Urban Sketching Don Colley returns for Faber Castell Drawing Materials Intensives at the store and Sketching outings in the world. November 8-10 Printmaking rock stars, Bill Fick of SuperGraphic and Carlos Hernandez of Burning Bones Press bring their Speedball Road Show to town with Relief and Screen printing demos. 651-698-6431 Hours: wetpaintart.com Mon-Fri 10am - 8pm 1684 Grand Ave Sat 10am - 6pm St. Paul, MN 55105 Sun 12am - 5pm Celebrating over 42 years as your [email protected] neighborhood art supply store!

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