I’m so excited about these special holiday offerings that I wanted to give you a heads-up so you can plan your gift navigation (for yourself and your field arts buddies!). These are all in the works and on the way (including from Italy), in stock by around the 10th of December. Limited numbers of all, and they are worth it!
Italian Rosewood Palette with Travel Brushes and Paints
I’m thrilled to be stocking a limited number of these gorgeous Tintoretto rosewood palettes directly from Italy, where they are made. Clever design houses nine paint pans and a mixing tray on one side with a hole in which to set a brush upright, and on the flip side, a storage compartment for three travel paintbrushes. I’ll also stock two models of Tintoretto travel brushes, a larger squirrel mop and a small synthetic detail brush.
Priced from $125 for the palettes (without paints), and brushes will start at $30.
Century-old Brass Drawing Compasses
Most of you probably know I love vintage art tools, and was so chuffed (an Englishism) to find a stash of these beautifully machined British drawing compasses, many with their original Staedler Noris pencils. Helix invented this clever little tool in 1894 and by the 1920s and well through the 1970s most British school kids had one (friends confirm this).
Priced from $18 (based on age, condition). Only six available. (These are selling on eBay and Etsy for anywhere from $18 to $116!)
Creative Skies Kit
A complete field arts set to create beautiful daytime and nighttime skies in your journal. Included is a tin with a spray bottle for refreshing paint in pans; six sky-perfect watercolors in pans and a white gouache in a tiny lidded container (to keep it it moist and ready to go; I found that pan-dried gouache does not cover as well as fresh); a white colored pencil; a white Signo gel pen (the best one out there!); and several pages of black art paper cut in the round so you can make a little night sky round journal. I even will include some black waxed linen thread to sew it up if you like; or, paste single pages in your exiting journal. $52, limited edition.
Free Folding Field Arts Knife with Purchase of Any Two Items
BONUS! Pre-Christmas orders only: Buy any two items from our shop and you will receive a beautiful Opinel folding field knife engraved with the Field Arts logo. This classic French knife is perfect for sharpening your pencils, trimming a quill to make a pen, or slicing cheese and charcuterie for a picnic lunch while you work in your field journal.