Every paint you'd want and everything you need to use it. Our painting range covers acrylics, oils, watercolours and gouache, alongside brushes, mediums, gesso, palettes and ready-to-go paint sets. Whether you're blocking in your first canvas or glazing the final layer of a commission, there's a paint here that will do exactly what you're asking of it.

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Choosing your medium

Acrylic is the most versatile place to start. It dries fast, cleans up with water, and sits happily on canvas, board, paper, wood and fabric. Add a retarder if you want longer blending time, or a flow medium for smoother coverage.

Oil paint stays workable for days, which makes it unmatched for blending, glazing and building depth slowly. It needs solvents or a specialist medium for thinning and clean-up, and rewards patience with a richness that's difficult to imitate.

Watercolour is transparent, luminous and built on the white of the paper showing through. It's portable, quick to set up and endlessly subtle — though it asks you to plan your light areas in advance.

Gouache behaves like watercolour but dries opaque and matte, so you can work light over dark. Illustrators and designers love it for flat, even colour that photographs and scans beautifully.

Brushes, mediums and the rest

The brush matters as much as the paint. Stiffer bristles and synthetics hold their shape under thick acrylic and oil, while soft natural hair, sable and squirrel carry the water a wash needs. Rounds give you line and detail, flats give you edges and coverage, filberts split the difference, and a fan is there for blending and texture.

Beyond brushes, our range includes gesso for priming your own surfaces, gloss and matte varnish for finishing and protecting, mediums for adjusting body, flow and drying time, and palette and painting knives for mixing or applying paint directly. We also stock craft paints for fabric, leather, metal and porcelain, plus acrylic, alcohol and watercolour inks.

Paint sets and paint by numbers

If you're starting out or gifting, a paint set removes the guesswork — a coordinated range of colours, often with brushes and a surface included. Our paint by number kits and paint & sip bundles are made for exactly this: a complete, relaxed project in a box, with everything included and nothing to research first.

FAQs

Which paint is best for beginners? Acrylic. It's affordable, dries quickly so you can correct mistakes by painting over them, cleans up with water, and works on almost any surface. A starter set with a few brushes and a canvas is the simplest way in.

Can I mix acrylic and oil paint? Not in the same layer. You can paint oils over a dry acrylic ground, but never acrylic over oil — the acrylic layer won't bond properly and will eventually lift or crack. The rule of thumb is fat over lean, and acrylic under oil.

Do I need to prime my canvas? Most stretched canvases and canvas boards come pre-primed and are ready to paint. If you're working on raw canvas, wood, board or a surface you've built yourself, apply two coats of gesso, sanding lightly between coats for a smoother finish.

How do I clean my brushes? Rinse acrylic brushes in water before the paint dries — dried acrylic is very difficult to remove. Oil brushes need solvent or brush cleaner, followed by soap and warm water. Reshape the bristles and dry the brush flat or bristles-down, never standing upright in a jar.