SalesNotes

(PB) Princeton Catalyst Availability Update

Princeton will begin shipping orders for Catalyst assortments next week, however open stock will be delayed a bit in availability.  We should have the open stock in our warehouses ready to ship late June/ early July.  Lisa ex. 6620

(PB) Corrected Pricing on Princeton Catalyst Assortment

The retail pricing published on the NAMTA promotion for the Princeton Catalyst assortment was incorrect:

NAMTA PRICING
Retail = $4789.85

CORRECT PRICING
Retail = $4897.85

All orders placed on NAMTA promotion will be honored at the published pricing.  All orders going forward will be based on the corrected pricing.  Lisa ex. 6620

 

CORRECTION TO BTS BUYERS GUIDE

Please note there is an error on page 11 of our BTS Buyer's Guide

Rembrandt Sets # RB100516114 & RB100516115 are listed with an msrp of $6.00

The correct msrp for both is $16.00

We apologize for any confusion

 -beasleyx2406

 

(LE) Letraset new metallic markers delayed

Several colors of the new Letraset metallic ProMarkers that are featured in May What's New, were not available at the time of the initial shipment, so we are currently out of the following markers:

LEAM6C     METALLIC MARKER COPPER
LEAM6LG   METALLIC MARKER LIGHT GREEN
LEAM6P     METALLIC MARKER PINK
LEAM6R     METALLIC MARKER RED

 

The vendor has them now and ETA in our warehouses is June 5. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Vicky x6646

 

 

 

CANSON AT THE PLEIN AIR EVENT

The Plein Air Event was held in Las Vegas this month. Featured were seminars ranging from techniques on painting to how to sell & market your art work.

Scott Bates  - Canson Western Sales Rep, had the following comments:

"...We had an amazing booth that was at the main entrance of convention and we were by far the busiest booth there. We had sketch pads, Pastel pads, Arches Blocks, Rembrandt Pastel sets, Rembrandt Oil sets, the new Arches Oil paper and Cobra Rembrandt Oil.

The huge hits of the show were Cobra and Arches Oil paper. I was surprised at the number of professional painters that are using Cobra.

Arches Oil paper was also a huge hit.  One artist who is very well known is Alexey Steele. Alexey did a light wash on the paper and then did a sketch. He had not used the paper before and was amazed with the quality of the paper for oil and as a sketch paper. Alexey was also not shy in telling everybody how much he liked the paper, and that it would be the only paper he would going forward..."

-beasleyx2406

 

 

KRYLON DISCONTINUED LIST

Krylon has discontinued several 3oz & 6oz sizes sprays. There are larger size cans available that are more economical. Please note chart below. -beasleyx2406

	Item #	Description	Size of can
DISCONTINUED	KR0501	Artist Sprays & Clear Coatings - Triple Thick Glaze	6 oz. Aero
SUB ITEM	KR0500	Triple Thick Glaze	11 oz. Aero
	Larger can saves 12% per ounce or $0.04/ounce
DISCONTINUED	KR1321	Artist Sprays & Clear Coatings - Matte Finish	6 oz. Aero
SUB ITEM	KR1311	Matte Finish	11 oz. Aero
	Larger can saves 14% per ounce or $0.05/ounce
DISCONTINUED	KR7111	Artist Sprays & Clear Coatings - Low Odor Clear Gloss	6 oz. Aero
SUB ITEM	KR7110	Low Odor Clear Gloss	11 oz. Aero
	Larger can saves 9% per ounce or $0.03/ounce
DISCONTINUED	KR7121	Artist Sprays & Clear Coatings - Low Odor Clear Matte	6 oz. Aero
SUB ITEM	KR7120	Low Odor Clear Matte	11 oz. Aero
	Larger can saves 9% per ounce or $0.03/ounce
DISCONTINUED	KR331306	Paper Finishes - Workable Fixatif	3 oz. Aero
SUB ITEM	KR1306	Workable Fixatif	11 oz. Aero
	Larger can saves 51% per ounce or $0.31/ounce
DISCONTINUED	KR337011	Paper Finishes - Spray Adhesive	3 oz. Aero
SUB ITEM	KR7010	Spray Adhesive	11 oz. Aero
	Larger can saves 51% per ounce or $0.32/ounce

MIDWEST - THE SUPERIOR CHOICE!

As we all know, there is no comparison to Midwest for Quality, Environmental responsibility or the willingness to partner with MacPherson's!  Below is their mission statement for choosing Midwest products over any other in the market! -beasleyx2406

 

 

SZ8052(SCRATCHBOARD BLK 22X28 12PT) out of stock

Due to manufacturing issue, SZ8052(SCRATCHBOARD BLK 22X28 12PT) is out of stock and will not be available temporarily until the issue is resolved.   Christine, x6605

(WN) Derwent ArtBar eta's

Hi All,

we're still looking at en ETA into our warehouses of mid May at the earliest. Some of the accessories are starting to come into stock at Colart, but the open stock bars and sets are not yet available.

thanks, Joanne x6607

Update from Colart on supply issues

Hi All, please see the following update from Colart on their recent supply issues, thanks, Joanne x6607

 

To our valued customers,

I’d like to provide an update regarding our supply issues.   As most of you know, we consolidated our UK factory into our France operation, along with a considerable expansion of our France factory,  in 2011.  Art material factories consist of many different production lines, many of them with different technologies and skillsets.  While we were able to successfully transition in over 80% of our items that we offer for sales, there were transition issues on some of our lines and items, most notably in Mediums, Sets, and some of the series colors in some of the ranges.

Our factory and staff have been working around the clock to catch up and have reduced our order backlog to them by over half in the last few months.  For example, Medium production in the month of February and March was over double what our normal demand is and a considerable amount of product is on its way to us.  We expect to see continued improvement in April and be back to normal fill levels late April.

Thank you for your patience and continued support.  It is our partners that make us great.

Kind Regards

Doug Johnston