Crescent Artists
Art Board Landing

 


For over 100 years, Crescent has served the art and framing communities, establishing a reputation for quality art, illustration and mounting boards that is unequaled. Whether your customer is a professional artist or a novice; working on a school project or corporate presentation; mounting an open reproduction or a priceless original, Crescent has a collection of products suited to meet their needs.
 
This section highlights Crescent's extensive range of products designed for the creation, presentation, and display of artwork.

The convenience of an extra-thick, stable board that eliminates the need for stretching and mounting of watercolor paper. These watercolor boards feature a 100% rag, heavy weight surface paper mounted to an extra heavy weight surface paper mounted to an extra heavy weight core. Uniform surface sizing and internal sizing provides maximum durability for wet on wet techniques, reworking and erasing. Available in hot press and cold press surfaces with standard gray cores or premium white acid-free cores.

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For all illustration media and techniques. Feature high quality surface papers mounted to a rigid gray core. Ideal for professionals as well as students. Cold press boards have textured surfaces and hot press boards a smooth surface.

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Heavy-duty poster boards feature rigid cores for extra strength. Clay-coated one side with gray imprinted backing. Quality clay coated surface is bleed and
 fade resistant and accepts all sign painting media and vinyl lettering. Intended for use with tempera or acrylic paints, pen and ink, markers, airbrush, silkscreen and other printing mediums.

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Professional quality line, wash and airbrush boards. A complete range of hot press and cold press boards with professional surfaces for numerous illustration media and techniques.
Cold press or textured surfaces are preferred when working with charcoal, crayon or pastel or other media that require some "tooth" to the surface. Hot press boards are ideal when smoothness of application is preferred as when using marker and pen and ink techniques. Several 100% rag or acid free surfaces available.

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