by Cowling & Wilcox | June 13, 2019 | How To, Tips & Techniques, Tutorials
Learning the correct way to prime your canvas is a simple but crucial skill for artists working with oil or acrylic paints. Priming seals and protects the support, makes the canvas less absorbent, helps the colours stand out and can provide a smoother surface with...
by Cowling & Wilcox | June 11, 2019 | Featured Artists, Interviews
This week’s Featured Artist is Maddie Agnew, 45, from Holmfirth in Huddersfield. Maddie creates beautiful portraits of people and animals in oils and watercolour… How did you get started as an artist? I have immersed myself in everything art, since I was a...
by Cowling & Wilcox | June 7, 2019 | Featured Products, Ideas & Inspiration
Your go-to collection for your everyday note-taking needs, Moleskine Classic Notebooks come in a range of colors, sizes and page layouts. The thick ivory pages are waiting to be filled with your ideas, thoughts and lists, making them perfect for Bullet Journaling....
by Cowling & Wilcox | June 6, 2019 | Featured Products
Layer, smudge, blend and mix in your own individual style – intermixability allows you to combine any Liquitex Acrylics, Inks, Sprays, Markers and Mediums, any way you like. Liquitex products are made with compatible binders for maximum versatility and archival...
by Cowling & Wilcox | June 5, 2019 | Featured Products, Tips & Techniques
We’re big fans of the innovative selection of graphic markers available from Winsor & Newton. Their collection includes a variety of options to suit your every creative need, led by the Winsor & Newton Pigment Marker, a pen so revolutionary it will...
by Cowling & Wilcox | June 5, 2019 | Featured Products, Ideas & Inspiration, Tips & Techniques
Uni POSCA Paint Markers use water-based pigment inks to produce poster paint-like vibrant colours that can be used on almost any surface. This handy guide covers all of the different materials you can use POSCA markers on. You might have already heard of upcycling:...
by Cowling & Wilcox | June 4, 2019 | Featured Artists
We’re on a mission to celebrate artists of all types and abilities. Our Featured Artist profiles are here to help inspire you to get creative and maybe learn a thing or two as well. This week we’re introducing you to Jamie Kettle, 26, of Finsbury Park in...
by Cowling & Wilcox | May 24, 2019 | Ideas & Inspiration, Tutorials
For thousands of years, artists have been expressing themselves through the medium of watercolour. The use of watercolour has evolved over the centuries, from initial sketches to florals and even the making of maps. Like many mediums, watercolour emerged during the...
by Cowling & Wilcox | December 21, 2018 | Camberwell, Canterbury, FAQs, Folkestone, Highbury, Shoreditch
As you might expect, our opening times are a little different at this time of year to cater for the festive period. Read on below to find out when we’re open. Monday 24th December (Christmas Eve) Shoreditch, Camberwell & Highbury: 9.30am – 5pm...
by Cowling & Wilcox | November 30, 2018 | Events
Our 12 Days of Christmas event is back! Once again we’re offering a whole host of exclusive giveaways, freebies and bonuses to help you in the run up to Christmas. We’ve got a different offer for you each day, from Saturday 1st until Wednesday 12th...
by Cowling & Wilcox | November 20, 2018 | Events, Featured Products, Shoreditch
Leading art brand Daler-Rowney have appointed British fashion designers VIN + OMI as global fashion ambassadors. VIN + OMI are internationally acclaimed pioneers and leaders in contemporary sustainable fashion whose work has been seen on the likes of Beyonce, Lady...
by Cowling & Wilcox | October 19, 2018 | Exhibitions, Ideas & Inspiration
London is recognised worldwide as a cultural hotspot. Each year, thousands of priceless and innovative works of art are displayed in museums and galleries throughout London and the surrounding region of the South-East. Some of the buildings these masterpieces are...
by Cowling & Wilcox | October 2, 2018 | FAQs, Featured Products
We know how much our customers love using Winsor & Newton ProMarkers and BrushMarkers. That’s why we’ve put together this handy guide, which should answer some of your most frequently asked questions about these fantastic graphic markers. If you have...
by Cowling & Wilcox | September 5, 2018 | Featured Artists, Featured Products, How To, Ideas & Inspiration, Online Exclusives, Tips & Techniques
Fashion illustrator Scott W. Mason recently hosted a series of in-store workshops for us, demonstrating some of his favourite ways to use Winsor & Newton watercolours and accessories. In this tutorial Scott shows you how he uses masking fluid to enhance his...
by Cowling & Wilcox | July 18, 2018 | Camberwell, Canterbury, Events, Highbury, Shoreditch
Join fashion illustrator Scott W. Mason for a series of 1-hour hands-on workshops in store, exploring Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colours. Learn how to incorporate Water Colour paints and markers with a whole host of layering and masking techniques. Each...
by Cowling & Wilcox | June 20, 2018 | Featured Artists, Featured Products, Ideas & Inspiration, Online Exclusives, Tips & Techniques
We’re delighted this week to introduce you to Scott W. Mason, fashion illustrator extraordinaire, who will be demonstrating how to create material textures with ease using Winsor & Newton ProMarkers… “As a Fashion Illustrator sketching whilst...
by Cowling & Wilcox | May 23, 2018 | Featured Products, Ideas & Inspiration
Albrecht Dürer artists’ watercolour pencils from Faber-Castell provide artists with great versatility of expression when drawing, shading and painting in watercolours. High-quality materials, combined with over 250 years of experience, have resulted in pencils...
by Cowling & Wilcox | April 26, 2018 | Featured Products, How To, Ideas & Inspiration, Tips & Techniques
Oil paints have been most artists’ first choice for hundreds of years, with good reason. The colours are gorgeous, you can do anything with them and they last forever. Oil paints are slow drying, so you can remove what you don’t like while they’re wet or...
by Cowling & Wilcox | April 23, 2018 | Featured Products, How To, Ideas & Inspiration, Tips & Techniques
The possibilities for creating with watercolours are vast. It’s becoming increasingly more common for painters to experiment with manipulating watercolours through the use of mediums. Not only can you change the properties of the paints themselves, you can alter the...
by Cowling & Wilcox | April 19, 2018 | Camberwell, Canterbury, Events, Featured Products, How To, Ideas & Inspiration, Shoreditch, Tips & Techniques
With so many painting mediums available it can sometimes be difficult to make a decision about choosing the right one for your needs. Over the next week we’ll be bring you some handy guides to take you through the most popular mediums for different media –...
