Paint and Mediums

Artist Paint and Painting Supplies

   

Blick offers a wide range of fine art paint, painting supplies, and paint mediums for artists of all experience levels, from the youngest artist to the most experienced professional. From oil paint, acrylic paint, and watercolor paint to innovative painting media such as encaustics, fluid acrylics for paint pouring, and watersoluble artist crayons, Blick carries the top brands of painting supplies for artists.

  

Recent innovations in paintmaking technology include cadmium-free oil paints, acrylics, and watercolors that offer the working properties and performance of cadmium paints without the safety concerns. High-quality spray paints are great for creating special effects such as stone, crackle, and glow-in-the-dark, plus glitter, metallic, and chalky effects.

   

Our affordable kids' and classroom paint sets for beginning artists, classrooms, schools, and other learning environments include watercolor and tempera paint sets, and student-grade acrylics.

   

Pigments and metallic powders can be added to many paints to create new colors and effects. And Blick offers many choices of acrylic paint mediums, oil paint mediums, and watercolor paint mediums for adding texture and structure, creating special effects, or for retarding, extending, or increasing paint flow. We also have a variety of gessoes, primers, and grounds for preparing painting surfaces for acrylic paint, oil paint, and pastels. Blick sells specialty paint such as airbrush paints, furniture paint, craft paint, face and body paint, sign paint, fabric paint, even sumi inks and accessories.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What's the difference between professional and student-grade paints?

    Professional-grade paints have a higher pigment concentration and less filler, and generally use a wider variety of pigments, resulting in a larger color range. Usually made with a single pigment, they mix more cleanly and have better tinting strength than lower-grade paints.

    Student-grade paints have working characteristics similar to professional paints but with lower concentrations of pigment and a smaller range of colors. More expensive pigments are generally replicated by hues, which may not have the same mixing characteristics as pure colors. They don't cover as well as artist-grade paints, but they're usually more affordable.