what's new
KROMA news
New
colour: Transparent red oxide
New 15 colour
PLUS set
Escoda brushes
KROMA’s warehouse
space on the east side
Acrylic Gel and Gesso
in 250ml size tubes
BC Art Teachers Association
Annual Conference
New lids for
125ml glass jars
Eastside Culture
Crawl
April 2006
New colour:
Transparent red oxide
A warm earthtone useful for glazing techniques. Transparent
red oxide along with transparent yellow oxide are both ideal
for desaturating transparent pigments such as the phthalos
and quinacridones without diminishing their transparency.
Their transparency allows subtle, warm undertones to be
visible, creating more complex colours than their opaque
equivalents.
The Sienna pigments available today tend to be more opaque
than those available in the past. This means that transparent
red oxide and transparent yellow oxide can be seen as closer
equivalents to historical raw and burnt siennas than today’s
usually more opaque sienna pigments.
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April 2006
New 15 colour PLUS set
Introducing our latest group set. All the colours in the
fifteen colour set with the addition of Gesso and Clear
Gel and larger sizes of the colours you need most.
| 250ml: |
Gesso
Titanium White
Clear Acrylic Gel Medium
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| 150ml: |
Quinacridone Red
Phthalo Blue
Benzi Yellow |
| 60ml: |
Ultramarine blue
Naphthol Light Red
Hansa Medium Yellow
Mars Black
Dioxazine Violet
Phthalo Green
Arylide Yellow
Chromium Oxide Green
Red Oxide
Yellow Oxide
Raw Umber |
| Price: |
$80.00 |
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April 2006
Escoda brushes
We now have a selection of high quality brushes made in
Spain by Escoda.
Visit their website at www.escoda.com
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April 2006
KROMA’s warehouse space on the east
side
In 2004 KROMA expanded into a 2nd space in the Mergatroid
building at the corner of Vernon and Parker St. in East
Vancouver. Look out for us at the Eastside Culture Crawl.
If you are regular customer and would find it more convenient
to pick up your paint at our eastside warehouse, please
phone us at our Granville Island store and we may be able
to make an arrangement that will work for you.
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April 2006
Acrylic Gel and Gesso in 250ml size tubes
Our Gesso and clear gel is now available in a convenient
250ml size clear plastic tube.
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February 2005
BC Art Teachers Association Annual
Conference
Look out for our table in the marketplace area. We have
been attending this conference regularly for over twenty
years. Drop by to meet us. We will be happy to answer your
technical questions.
For more information go to www.bctf.ca/psas/bcat
 
School field trip at KROMA
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January 2005
New lids for 125ml glass jars
We have replaced the metal lids on our 125ml size glass
jars with plastic lids.
This change will mean fewer problems with stuck lids. Acrylic
paint does not adhere to this plastic as easily as it does
to metal. Stuck lids can be best avoided by keeping the
threads of the jar free of paint. If a stuck lid is still
a problem, the best way to loosen the paint stuck between
the threads of the jar and the lid is to immerse the jar
in hot water, or to run a stream of hot water over the edge
of the lid. This will soften the paint film and should allow
it to stretch and release the lid.
new lids
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October 2004 - November 2004
Eastside Culture Crawl
The Eastside Culture crawl is an annual event featuring
the studios of over 200 artists and craftspeople that live
in Vancouver’s Eastside. Our warehouse space is in
Unit 240 on the upper floor of the Mergatroid building,
985 Vernon Drive, on the corner of Vernon Drive and Parker
St. (The same building is home to Joe Blow’s glass
blowing studio.) During the rest of the year we use this
space for the storage of dry pigments and packaging and
to do the first stages of paint production. But for the
weekend of the culture crawl we open our doors to the public
and invite you to try our paint and to find out more about
us.
We will be open again for the next culture crawl, which
this year, 2005, will be held on November 18th to 20th.
For more information go to www.culturecrawl.bc.ca
culture crawl
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