Welcome to the S&S Creativity unlimited website.
We have endeavoured to make this site as informative and user-friendly as possible. Here you will find information on our best-selling products, tips and techniques to help you get the best out of your art materials, stockist locator, a comprehensive colour chart library, Material Data Safety Sheets, upcoming workshops and more.
S&S is a family owned company and have been in the business of supplying Australian artists and schools for over 50 years. We are dedicated to supplying our customers (and their customers) with top quality products from manufacturers throughout Australia and the world. Along with our highly knowledgeable and friendly staff, online ordering facility and quick and efficient distribution distribtuion channels to all parts of Australia we offer our customers an easy and pleasant ordering experience.
S&S Creativity unlimited is a passionate supporter of the art community and art in all its forms – painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, digital art and everything in between. Whether a professional, student, hobbyist, amateur or beginning artist we support and encourage art in the local and wider community. We are an Associate Sponsor of the NSW Dept of Educations Art Express and the Creative Generation award in Queensland; sponsor various school, local council and local art society exhibitions as well as providing workshops to teachers and the public.
Our product range contains upwards of 15 000 lines from many and varied suppliers – both local and overseas, so whatever your creative urge you’ll find the materials to satisfy it here. We are wholesale suppliers of Australia's widest range of fine art, educational and creative materials. We offer you such renowned names as Bruynzeel, Cretacolor, Daler-Rowney, Derwent, Fabriano, Maimeri, Richeson/Shiva, Sakura and many more of the world's leading creative materials.
We stock an extensive range of acrylic, oil, watercolour, goauche, casein, poster and tempera paints to suit artists of all levels, manufactured by world leading colour companies such as Daler-Rowney, Jack Richeson & Co and Maimeri of Italy plus leading Australian manufacturers. Our range of paints is complemented by a range of high quality accessories including Daler-Rowney and Nuart brushes, Maimeri Artists pigments and a complete range of Artist mediums for all styles of painting. We have recently introduced the Zest-It range of painting mediums - the safest and most environmentally friendly painting mediums available on the market today!
Our canvas range offers you the opportunity to create your masterpiece on premium, artist quality canvases from manufacturers such as Tara-Fredrix, Daler-Rowney and Jack Richeson & co. Not only do we offer these premium surfaces but also a range of other painting surface to suit artists of all levels. Additionally, we offer some unique and hard-to-find painting surfaces such as watercolour canvas and Naturecore painting boards from Fredrix and the famous Daler boards from Daler-Rowney. Our canvas is available in rolls, stretched and gallery styles, on panels and boards, in linen or cotton, primed and unprimed. Take your pick!
Our selection of drawing materials is second-to-none. We are the exclusive Australian importer and distributor of the world-famous Derwent Pencils as well as Cretacolor and Bruynzeel drawing materials. These companies are among the most innovative when it comes to drawing and sketching materials. Derwent, manufactured by the Cumberland Pencil Company in England are the world leaders when it comes to innovation and quality in pencil manufacture. They are the manufacturers of the Graphitint, Inktense pencils, Inktense blocks, Tinted Charcoal, Artbar, Coloursoft, Aquatone, Drawing ranges of pencils as well the famoud Derwent Artist, Derwent Pastel and Derwent Watercolour pencils. With their Karmina and Marino ranges of coloured and watercolour pencils Cretacolor have produced a premium, artist quality range of pencils that producde magnificent results yet are simple and easy to use. Through their "Artist Studio" range Cretacolor are able offer artists of all levels top quality materials at a very economical price.
Our paper range covers everything from printmaking and drawing paper through to watercolour, painting and digital paper. S&S are suppliers of Fabriano, Daler-Rowney and Stonehenge artistic papers. We have paper for artists of all levels. We also offer you a wide selection of inks, pens, markers, easels, adhesives, books, cutting tools and painting and drawing accessories.
In addition, we supply everything you could possibly for need for printmaking, sculpture, airbrushing, technical drawing, screen prinitng, fabric decoration and craft.
If you are account customer you have access to our online ordering system for quick and easy ordering. If you would like to become a customer, simply fill out the application form in the Retailers section.
S&S is a wholesale supplier only, so for your convenience we have added an S&S stockist locator in the Artists section of the website. If your local art retailer doesn’t carry the product you want please ask them to order it in for you. We will help as much as we can to get the products you want into your hands.
