small is beautiful
there has always been an interest in small brushes for decorative painting. It may have started from the hobbyists who needed mini brushes and elbow shaped liners for painting model trains, planes and automobiles. At one time, Heather Redick was able to import her liner brushes and they were a cute short burgundy handle with [...]
Book value
Its amazing how the Decorative painting book business seemed to torpedo itself into a black hole. Going back seven or eight years ago we were selling over 50,000 decorative painting books a year, which is not a lot, but significant considering it was all being sold to French speaking customers. Companies like Eas’l and Viking [...]
Pencil me in
One of the better moves of the last year was taking on a distribution of Winsor-Newton products in Quebec. We were pretty aware of the value of the Liquitex and Winton oil lines, as well as Reeves in the lower quality. However, we were never really exposed to Derwent which contains all the pencils. Its [...]
Spray and go away
Americana Sealer and Finisher has always struck us as a unique product, that we have never seen elsewhere, and its been around almost forever. What is unique about it is that it can be applied as a sealer, painted over, and then used used as a varnish to seal the final work. Its also been [...]
