Give the gift of creativity with a gift voucher for The Drawing Room! The perfect present that ensures that special person gets exactly what they want. Available in $10, $20, or $50 denominations. To purchase multiple gift vouchers, simply keep adding to your shopping cart. Please note physical gift vouchers are sent via courier. If you would like any special message included with your gift vouche…
From $15.99 Professional Acrylic is Winsor & Newton’s finest quality acrylic paint range and represents a breakthrough in acrylic colour technology. The unrivalled colour brilliance is evident straight out of the tube with Stronger colours, Single high grade pigments, and no colour shift from wet to dry finish. Professional Acrylic Paint dries quickly, allowing artists to over paint within minutes…
From $11.49 Designers Gouache colours are a range of opaque water colours, mainly used by designers, illustrators and commercial artists to create vibrant illustrations in solid colour. Gouache is also widely used in fine art as an opaque water colour. Can be used thinly for a wash at the start of a painting then applied in thicker layers towards the end. Unlike transparent water colour, where you…
Staedtler Pigment Liner Assorted Nibs Set contains 6 black fineliners in a variety of sizes. Perfect for your on the go sketching and writing needs. Staedtler Pigment Liner 308s have a long metal tip, ideal for use with rulers and templates and can be used on tracing paper, with no bleeding when highlighted. This incredible fineliner pen can be left uncapped for 18 hours without drying up and stil…
Head Sculpture with Sculptor Javier Murica Weekend Workshop Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th April 2021 9am - 6pm An accomplished figurative and portra itsculptor, Javier Murcia pushes human anatomy to its ‘outer’ limits while elevating the grace, strength and potential energy of the human form. His work dances on a knife edge, as noble and reverential as it is fervent and impassioned. It is a deft-def…
The Simplified Figure with Sculptor Javier Murica Weekend Workshop Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th April 2021 9am - 6pm An intense class to have the opportunity to wor kalongside Javier, and see his methodology and philosophy of work. The end goal is to provide strong foundations to lead students towards creating the confidence they need to make their own work. Javier Murcia has more than 20 years of…
Create high gloss artwork with Liquitex Pouring Fluid Effect Medium. Apply to your acrylic paintings to achieve a water-resistant glass-like finish, or mix with your favourite acrylic media to create fluid effects. It can even be poured onto your artwork to form even "puddles". This medium lowers the viscosity of heavier bodied paints, giving increased flow. When used with acrylic paint, the origi…
COPIC Ciao Markers are the perfect choice for beginning artists. These round shaped pens are made specifically for those who want to try markers for the first time. Ciao Markers feature a solid polypropylene body which is both smooth and comfortable, for a perfect and controllable grip. Sets are an ideal way to begin your Copic colour collection or to expand on your current range. They come in a c…
This great set contains 12 Premium Jasart lead pencils in assorted colours. These Premium Colour Pencils have extra smooth brilliant colours with soft, break resistant leads. They offer excellent colour laydown and are non-toxic & acid free. Ideal for students, artists and hobbyists. Packaging may vary.
Jasart Studio Colour Pencils have extra smooth brilliant colours with soft, break resistant leads. These colour pencils offer excellent colour laydown, are non-toxic & acid free. Ideal for students, artists and hobbyists. Available in tins of 12, 24, 36, and 72. Packaging may vary.
Kent Craft Knife 16 Piece Set contains three knives, one each for cutting of lightweight, medium and heavyweight materials such as paper, cardboard, balsa wood, vinyl and wallpaper. The Kent Craft Knife 16 Piece Set also contains a set of twelve assorted interchangeable Kent knife blades which includes chisel, scoring, deburring, angled, fine point, general purpose and carving. The knives and blad…
Kent Spectra Graphic Design Markers are perfect for creative thinkers such as designers, illustrators, students or hobbyists. Ideal for illustration work and colouring in. Use on paper, art board, canvas and more. The markers feature a triangular anti-roll barrel. Acid-free and non-toxic. Kent Spectra Graphic Design Markers are dual tipped containing quality alcohol-based ink. The fast drying ink…
Liquitex Professional Acrylic Ink is a range of extremely fluid acrylic paints that use super-fine, lightfast, artist-quality pigments in a state-of-the-art acrylic emulsion. No dyes. No fade. Just pure, permanent color. And like all acrylics, it dries quickly and permanently, with no smudging or bleeding when rewetted or layered. These are water resistant and non-clogging, making them ideal for a…
Contains an assortment of brush shapes and sizes ideal for water colour. Made of high quality synthetic fibres. Ideal for full-bodied colour. These brushes are suitable for a beginner to the experienced artist. Pack includes 7 brushes.
Sakura Pigma Micron Markers are water-based pigment markers ideal for illustration. Ink is of archival quality- waterproof, chemical-proof and fade resistant. Ink dries quickly, does not bleed through paper. Suitable for using with watercolours. Made in Japan. Set contains 6 black markers.
From $74.99 Staedtler Triplus Fineliners feature a superfine, metal-clad tip for precision drawing and writing. Their ergonomic triangular shape allows for relaxed and easy writing. • Dry Safe- can be left uncapped for days without drying up • Water-based ink • Washes out of many textiles • Line width approx. 0.3 mm
Cotman Water Colour offers artists a range of water colours that have been made to Winsor & Newton's high-quality standards, at a more economical price. Perfect for artists, crafters, and hobbyists. The Cotman Water Colour Studio 45 Set is a large set containing 45 Cotman half pans covering the full range of colours plus one extra of each of the most popular colours. Actual contents may vary.
From $20.99 This reliable favourite is a general purpose semi gloss medium which speeds drying, improves flow and reduces brush stroke retention. - Halves the drying time of conventional oil colour (touch dry in 1-6 days depending on colour & film thickness). - Resists yellowing. - Not suitable as a varnish or final coat.
Perfect for studio storage or drawing on the go, this mixed marker wallet allows you to explore 12 graduating tones of Promarker, six of Promarker Brush, three of Promarker Metallic and three of Promarker Neon at once. The promarker and promarker brush pens contain alcohol based dye ink. While the promarker neon and promarker metallic markers contain water based pigmented ink Contains 12 x Promark…
About The Drawing Room
We are a Christchurch owned & operated business operating for over 25 years. We have a comprehensive range of art supplies catering from the beginner through to the more experienced, our incredible team offer specialist advice and competitive pricing.
Proudly locally owned and operated, The Drawing Room is the largest art and graphics supplier within the South Island.
We are known for our huge variety of stock and product brands, and we offer a variety of leading international art brands such as Winsor & Newton, Daniel Smith, Atelier, Matisse, Liquitex, Fabriano, Reeves, Faber Castell, Staedlter, Copic (and many more!) as well as a variety of surfaces on which to create your masterpieces!
Our team are friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. More importantly we have a real passion for all things art related. We are here to help artists to find the right mix of products for the goals they wish to achieve no matter if they are professionals, hobbyists, students or just starting out. If you have any questions, give us a call or an email.
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