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What is Marker Paper?

Marker paper has a smooth tight surface that makes colors brighter and uses less ink. A rough paper absorbs too much ink, bleeds along the edges and often puts extra wear and tear on your marker tips. Marker paper has two distinct sides. The finished side provides crisp, clean lines and intense color. The reverse side works well for soft tint effects, backgrounds and blending.

Marker paper’s translucence gives you the convenience and ease of tracing paper, but is much stronger and holds up to multiple layers of ink. Thanks to these qualities marker paper has long been the choice of illustrators and comic artists. You can shop Utrecht’s selection of marker paper, vellum, tracing paper and bond here.

 Markers: Blending & Layering

This month in the Utrecht Learning Center we’ll be working with Tombow Brush Tip Markers to do some blending and layering. Our favorite part of these sets is the Blender marker included in each. It cleans up easy (by scribbling on a scrap paper) and can give some very nice watercolor-looking effects. We put together a quick drawing sample that shows the layering process.

Starting with a pencil sketch and a quick color study that helps determine the markers that will be used in the final drawing. You can see some experimentation with the blender marker’s reaction to various colors at the top of the color study.

Next we’ll tape some marker paper over our color study and get the essentials down with a thin drawing pen. (Be sure to use a low tack artists’ tape to avoid tearing your paper.)

Now it’s time to start playing with color! Working from light to dark we add layer after layer, using the Blender marker to soften the edges and blend two (or three!) colors together. Remember that there is no “white marker” so any areas you want to remain white need to be left alone for the paper to show through.

Things are starting to come along and have a nice feel. We can now start working in some darker layers of color. (Keep an extra sheet of the paper you are using handy to test your markers and layers on. Another great thing about the Tombow Brush Tips is how nicely you can blend using a light colored marker as well as the traditional blender). We used a light yellow to blend the reds and oranges together with nice results.

The final steps of this marker comp involve adding the darkest color layers and doing a light treatment of the background. The shadow underneath our turtle is established by using the same blue from the sky and laying two different browns over the top. The fading in the sky is done by using a light blue marker to blend out a darker blue.

There is lots of room to experiment with these and different papers will give different results. Try marker paper, bristol, vellum and even right into your sketchbook. Good Luck and happy blending!

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Students,

Just arrived today: a larger selection of aluminum and brass rods, tubing, and strips.  Many more sizes available including 3/32″ and 5/32″.

Join MIAD (273 E. Erie St.) for two engaging opportunities: Tuesday, February 24 at 7pm, a Gallery Talk and Reception will be held for Personal Culture: New Art from Latin Americans, which runs through March 21. Participating are international artists Tatiana Parcero, Santiago Cucullu, Mirta Kupferminc and Victor Cartagena. On Thursday, February 26 at 7pm, Mirta Kupferminc will speak as the Guido Brink Visiting Artist on “Nowhere, Now-Here, A Visual Essay” referring to themes of immigration. Her work includes printmaking, painting, video and sculpture.

We are blowing out a bunch of stuff in our store at 33% OFF!!! Come on Down and check out the deals.

30×40 Canvas

11×14 Canvas

20×24Canvas

Webril cotton pads

Moleskin Cahier Kraft 3packs squared

x8x beinfanf pads

UHU Glue Sticks

Yarka soft Pastels set of 30 in a fancy wood box

#15 General’s Charcoal set

14×17 Tracing paper Pads

120Grit sandpaper

Pocket planes

Utrecht Canvas Portfolios

and much much more!

Join Us For…

A Screen Printing Demonstration and Hands-On Activity. There is no cost to Participate!

Demo: 11 am to 12 pm, come either day: 3/6 or 3/7 Our associates will lead an instructional demonstration on how to create a screen print at home.  We will take you through all the detailed steps needed to complete an image that can be screened onto t-shirts, bags, anything you wish to have a more personalized look!

Hands on Activity: come and go from 12pm to 4 pm, come either day: 3/6 or 3/7 All afternoon you are welcome to try a screen print of your own! We will provide the screen, ink, and squeegee.  All we as is that you bring something to print on.

Call or stop in the store, to reserve your spot for these activities.

We look forward to seeing you here!

Erin Brodersen will have a table set up to make valenitnes on Friday. Stop by!

Utrecht Art Supplies is pleased to announce an audience with
Gianni Maimeri, grandson of the late Italian impressionist artist of the same name and current CEO of Maimeri Fine Arts SpA. 

Gianni will be holding a candid discussion on his grandfather’s works, the modern role of the Fondazione Maimeri (the Maimeri Foundation) as well as his family’s philosophies in regards to the making of pure artists’ colors. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who is interested in art to not only hear about artists’ color from the perspective of one of the world’s most distinguished color makers but also to ask questions of Gianni in a small and intimate setting.

Each attendee will receive a beautiful, limited-distribution copy of the 2009 agenda book issued by the Maimeri Foundation, featuring several paintings of
Gianni Maimeri and the stories behind the featured work. In addition, Gianni will be handing out a small number of very collectable “I Musicisti- Visti Da
Gianni Maimeri” books, which detail his grandfather’s charcoal and pencil sketches of various musicians and conductors such as Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and Toscanini. 

Please call to reserve your seating at this special event. The time and location of the event is listed below.  There is no cost to attend. 

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