Coated with an emulsion made with real seashell powder!
- Unique characteristics open new exciting creative avenues
- Works well with dry art media and wet media including watercolors and fluid acrylics
- Ideal for block printing, screen printing, monotype printing, pen and ink, marker, crayon, pastel, charcoal and stamping techniques
Shell Paper is a multi-media paper made with actual shell emulsion, specially designed to accept acrylics, watercolors, inks, pastels, and even oil pastels! The paper mounts easily to any board surface to make unique plein air painting boards. Imported from Vietnam, this paper is sure to change the rules and open new creative avenues for artists everywhere. The colors are made using organic pigments, and natural white adds a beautiful pearlescent effect to transparent washes. Surface is lustrious and semi-absorbant. In fact, the calcium in the shell coating allows for wet media techniques, making Shell Paper the ideal surface for multimedia expressions using a wide array of media from crayon and charcoal to fluid acrylics and inks.
The paper is handmade sheet by sheet, so each piece of Shell Paper is unique and somewhat different than the next. A complete selection of colors is available along with the natural coated sheets which have no pigments mixed into the shell emulsion. All sheets are 20 × 24" in size and are available in 5 sheet packs in resealabe clear bags and in packs of 25 sheets wrapped in paper.
8 Sheet Multi-Pack - Includes 4 sheets of Natural and 2 sheets each of Light Red Brown and Light Warm Grey. 10×12" cut sheets.
22 Sheet Multi-Pack - Includes 4 sheets of Natural and 2 sheets of all 9 other colors. 10×12" cut sheets.
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