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| AMPERSAND CLAYBORD |
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This museum quality panel is coated with a smooth absorbent clay ground comparable to the clay gesso grounds used during the Renaissance. Archival, lightfast, and acid free, the panels are ideal for acrylics, gouache, tempera, egg tempera, pen and inks as well as for mixed media techniques, airbrush, and collage. The surface is additive and subtractive. Remove paints to add contrast, texture, tonal value and fine details. Perfect for any artwork that requires an extremely smooth surface. Claybord is available in a 1/8" flat panel, a 3/4" cradle or with a 2" Deep Cradle.
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Claybord Flat & 2" Cradled panels are available in larger sizes -- contact sales@wetpaintart.com for shipping & pricing.
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AMPERSAND GESSOBORD
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Save hours of applying and sanding gesso with perfectly hand-crafted Gessobord. The thick acrylic polymer gesso ground has been sanded to an exceptional finish you’ll love. Perfect for layering, glazing, alla prima and impasto in oils, acrylics, alkyds or water-based oils. The surface is pH neutral and acid free.
Gessobord is available with Ampersand's innovative and elegant cradles that provide extra support and presentation all in one. The DEEP Cradle panels come with 2" birch plywood strips that are attached flush with the back edge of each panel.
The original cradled panels come with the thinner 3/4" birch plywood strips and can be framed like a standard size canvas or can be hung directly on the wall without additional framing. The plywood sides can be stained, painted, gessoed, waxed or left unfinished to customize and enhance your work.
Both cradle versions can either be used to paint on directly or as supports on which to mount watercolor papers, photographs, fabrics and prints. The cradled panels will save you valuable painting time, as well as framing and carpentry costs! |
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Gessobord 2" Cradled panels are available in larger sizes -- contact sales@wetpaintart.com for shipping & pricing.
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| AMPERSAND AQUABORD |
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Aquabord is a clay coated hardboard panel that gives watercolorists unprecedented freedom and control. Comparable to watercolor paper, this multimedia panel simulates the absorbency and texture of cold pressed but allows color to be lifted back to white easily while also leaving the richest, most vibrant color possible. This reworkable surface provides natural looking highlights, fluid glazes, transparent subtle layers, and the ability to lift color while the surface is wet or even after it is dry.
The truly amazing part is that finished watercolors can be sealed with Claybord Fixative and displayed without glass! |
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CRADLED 2" |
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| AMPERSAND HARDBORD |
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If you want to prepare your own panel, start with unprimed Hardbord and apply your own oil or acrylic primers. Hardbord is the finest pressed wood panel available anywhere. Made in the US from quality hardwoods, this panel resists warping and moisture penetration.
Hardbord accepts all types of commercial and handmade gesso grounds. Complete priming instructions inside product labeling. Available 1/8" flat, 1/4" flat, cradled with 3/4" strips or with 2" DEEP cradle. Hardbord is also an excellent surface onto which paper can be mounted. |
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| AMPERSAND PASTELBORD |
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Pastelbord is a clay and gesso coated hardboard panel with a granular marble dust finish comparable to a sanded pastel paper except more durable and more versatile. It can be used with wet or dry traditional pastel techniques or with acrylics, and more! The coating is pH neutral and non-yellowing, making it a truly permanent museum quality surface.
Available here in Gray, Sand and White. |
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| AMPERSAND SCRATCHBORD (Claybord Black) |
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Scratchbord is a clay coated hardboard panel for scratchboard that is coated with India ink. Comparable to traditional paper scratchboard, except better – it’s more durable and easier to scratch into for cleaner and crisper details and lines. For added dimension, colored inks can be added to the white areas and then scratched again for additional highlights and volume.
Artwork can be sprayed with Claybord Fixative allowing the finished scratchboard to be framed without glass! |
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| The Ampersand Story |
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Did you know that Wet Paint owner Beth Bergman was one of the very first retailers in the country to bring Ampersand’s Claybord into her store nearly 13 years ago? That’s right. This trend setting store took a chance & introduced artists to what would become one of many popular surfaces offered by Ampersand Art. Elaine Salazar, president of Ampersand, fondly recalls trying to pitch this “unique” surface to Beth only to find that she had already discovered it! Beth said to her, “Do you mean ‘Claybord – Really Neat Stuff’?” That was the name & catch phrase on the first package that artist Charles Ewing had created when he & his wife Barbara started to market the surface that he had created for his own use.
After producing a few batches of Claybord in his shed, in 1993, Charles Ewing & Elaine Salazar founded Ampersand Art Supply to manufacture & market not only Claybord, but to create a movement to revive the time-honored tradition of panel painting. Up to this point, no one had ventured into this area to research wood substrates & figure out how to seal & coat them with grounds that artists would love. With a steadfast commitment to archival principles, Elaine & Charles tested countless wood surfaces to find the most dimensionally stable base for their grounds & developed a unique method for sealing their premium hardboard.
Then came the fun part: creating wonderful grounds such as Gessobord, Aquabord & Pastelbord that are the hallmark of their panels. All of Ampersand’s Museum panels are hand made in their small factory in Austin, Texas where an employee (not a machine) has created & touched each panel with the same tender loving care that Elaine & Charles used to create the first Claybord. |
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