Painting
Block Printing for Kids
Here’s a new craft for kids of all ages (and if you think you are too old for this, you aren’t), with a fun introduction to Lino printing. These kits contain everything you need to get started…
Make your own Stained Glass for Christmas
For Christmas 2024, you can find a range of craft kits in store including Pyrography and calligraphy or even Rock Painting, but for this update we’re focusing on stained glass. There are always a range of ink…
Canvasing the Neighbourhood
There’s a new range of canvases and painting equipment in at Art and Craft Valley – but mainly Canvases. Daler and Rowney Stretched Canvas are available in a range of sizes, so many in fact that they…
A Warm Glow for Bonfire Night
With Halloween just behind us and Bonfire Night parties incoming from Friday the 1st to November the 5th, why not go for a safe glow? There’s a full range of Glow in the Dark paints, and make-up,…
Spraying away
Art and Craft Valley have a new stock of spray paints in. Montana Cans Gold NC-Acrylic Spray paints are some of the best around. A drip-free acrylic paint, it is quick-drying, so over-painting can be done quickly…
Painting with Pens
There’s a new stock in at ACValley, to add to the existing range of artists’ marker pens and fineliners. Posca Paint markers are paint in a tube, designed to work on most mediums. As they are paint,…
Curios – Another Rarer Manikin
In one of our previous Curios posts we featured a wooden horse manikin. Meant as an artist’s aid and reference for drawing horses, this is rather rarer than the standard human form and human hand artists models…
Curios – An Artist’s Wooden Horse
In the decades that Art and Craft Valley has been in Coulsdon, the shop has accrued some rare and rather unusual items. Rather than covering an individual craft, for these Curios posts, we thought we’d feature some…
Design your own T-shirts or Shrinkles
If you’re looking for a fun thing to do as the summer rolls on, why not design your own T-shirts or Shrinkles? Art and Craft Valley have T-Shirt Transfer Paper for designing your own t_shirts. Simply make…
Summer By the Numbers
Painting by Numbers is something we’ve all done as children, and which we can now introduce another generation to. It doesn’t just have to be for children though. The Royal & Langnickel range cover ages 8 and…