The Artist’s Marketplace

New Kids’ Products from Strathmore

 

Look for three new Strathmore Kids products to help keep the kids busy this summer with art activities:  Tracing Paper is an economical, semi-transparent parchment for tracing or sketching with pencil or pen, 40 sheets per pad.  Colored Art Board is highly fade-resistant, 14 point all-purpose art board for paper sculptures, signs, bulletin board cutouts, mobiles and block printing.  Colors are printed on one side and include:  red, canary, orange, light green, emerald green, azure, rich blue and black; 16 sheets per pack.  And white smooth-surfaced Art Board comes 25 sheets per pack.  www.strathmoreartist.com.

New Products from Artool

—The popular Artool Hobby Mask is now available in a MINI SERIES: 4” x 5 yd. This stretchable, solvent proof, repositionable clear masking film is perfect for all 1/8-1/25^th model scales, including RC cars, model airplanes/trains/cars, kits, figure models and a myriad of kustom airbrush applications.  It’s also great for use with sculpture, ceramics or any three-dimensional artwork.

—Artool Stretch Mask, a multi-medium, stretchable and repositionable clear low-tack adhesive masking film, is now available in the new MINI SERIES size:  6” x 10 yd roll.  This is especially suited to conform to curved and irregularly shaped compound surfaces such as motorcycle fenders, tanks, helmets and myriad kustom automotive configurations.  It will not bleed or flutter under airbrush spray or lift up paint when removed and/or repositioned.

—The new Artool Evil 3 Freehand Airbrush Template Set, designed by Craig Fraser, is the perfect embodiment of “See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.”  Now all of this fun has been combined into one package of various sizes.  You can create the same “skullicious” design on your model car, RC car, model plane, bike, hot rod or off-shore boat and not worry about scale! See your retailer and visit www.artoolproducts.com.

Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 17 No. 8 — June 2007