Great Holiday Gifts and ARCH Exclusive Sets

Support Your Local Art Supply Store This Holiday Season!

We have put together some great sets for artists of all types. From the beginner, to the professional, you can find what you are looking for at ARCH.  In addition we have a number of great gift sets, stocking stuffers, wraps, ribbons and cards.

You can purchase these sets online, but we encourage you to visit our store at 10 Carolina Street in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. We are open late during the week and from 12 to 5pm on Saturdays. We have plenty of off-street parking for our customers.

David's Mix-Media Illustration Kit
David's Kit features a variety of tools to facilitate the aspiring illustration or comic artist.
ON SALE - $29.00
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Mac's Oil Painting Kit
Explore the wonders of oil painting with this all-inclusive kit! Great for the beginner to intermediate artist.
ON SALE - $69.00
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Caryn's Travel Watercolor Kit
Everything needed for the nomadic watercolor artist on the go!
ON SALE - $45.00
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Armando's Watercolor Enthusiast Kit
Top of the line supplies for watercolor enthusiasts. Features a handmade swatch card from Armando himself!
ON SALE - $79.00
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New To Stock - Savoir Faire Opaque Watercolor Gouache Sets

Savoir Faire Opaque Watercolor Gouache:  10 Tube Set

We recently had the opportunity to play around with Savoir Faire's Watercolor Gouache sets.  With a choice of two sets, 10 colors or 20 colors, these paints offer impressive performance for a very low introductory price.

What is Gouache?

Gouache is designed primarily as an opaque medium, as it tends to be the bridge between watercolor and acrylic paint.  However, when thinned with water, gouache produces transparent watercolor effects.  Savoir Faire's gouache is no exception, these paints are capable of rich, flat paint strokes as well as thin washes and glazes.

We painted this study on a nice piece of illustration board

Savoir Faire's Watercolor Gouache Sets
We are very impressed with the rich pigment inside each paint tube and how easy it is to layer.  The flow of the paint is very consistent and the range of colors is more than adequate.  The finished look is suitable for sketching all the way up to finalized work.

While these sets do come with an included brush, like most "free" brushes included in paint sets, steer clear of this little guy, he sheds a lot.  There's lots of affordable brushes to choose from to get your gouache painting started on the right foot, including our Simply Simmons brushes (most sizes and shapes are only $2.82 each)

Savoir Faire gouache is capable of both transparent and opaque applications.

The Savoir Faire gouache sets are perfect for beginners and seasoned pro's alike.  We are blown away with how fun they are to use, how professional they look and the affordability of these sets. 

Stop in today to check them out!