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Mega Office Supplies offers a huge rage of Reeves Acrylic Paint & Oil Paint including Oil Pastels, Brushes, Papers, Pencils, Watercolour, etc. at an affordable cost in Australia. Reeves Tracing Paper is a great value for money quality tracing film in a convenient easy to tear-off pad. Ideal for drawings in pencil, markers, ink and pen, Reeves Tracing Paper is suitable for students and professionals.
Reeves Artists' Acrylic Paint is extremely versatile and comes in a range of beautifully vibrant colours. They are highly pigmented, flexible when dry and can be easily cleaned up with water. Reeves Acrylics can be used straight from the tube to create impasto effects and build volume, or can be diluted with water to use for water colour techniques.
This quality range of Acrylics Paints has excellent lightfastness and is suitable for a variety of Surfaces including Canvas, Paper, wood, fabric and glass. Perfect for student, amateur artist or accomplished painters requiring large quantities of paint for large scale Canvases.
About Reeves Australia
Reeves and Sons is an English art materials brand and a former manufacturing company established by William Reeves (1739–1803) in 1766. Reeves is credited with having invented the soluble watercolour. The brand is best known for its "Reeves" brand of artists' acrylic and watercolour paints. The firm went through various name changes during its history, listed as follows:
- Thomas Reeves and Son 1784–1799
- W. J. Reeves 1799–1800
- Reeves and Woodyer 1800–1816
- Reeves, Woodyer and Reeves 1817–1818
- W. J. Reeves and Son 1819–1829
- Reeves and Sons 1830–1890
- Reeves and Sons Ltd 1891–1976
In 1974, the company was acquired by Reckitt and Colman, and then merged with Winsor and Newton, following Reckitt and Colman's acquisition in 1976 of the latter company. In 1991, ownership of the "Reeves" brand was acquired by Wilhelm Becker, through American conglomerate Colart.
