Dala Craft Paints
Powder Tempura
Dala Powder Tempera is non-toxic, easy to use, water-soluble powder paint, which can be mixed to create a thin wash or a thick impasto paste.
Dala’s Powder Tempera has long been the paint of choice with both pre-primary and primary teachers. The powder offers the teacher the choice of creating their own paint variation enabling them the choice of working with a wash one lesson and a impasto paste the next.
Poster Paint
Teddy Junior Acrylics are versatile and non-toxic and ideal for use on inexpensive, less robust paper. Art classes can now enjoy huge savings, as the Junior Acrylic is far cheaper than existing temperas. All Teddy Junior Acrylic colours are pure and intense and mix beautifully. Teddy Junior Acrylic will never crack or peel and as only the highest quality pigments have been used in the manufacture of these paints, children’s precious artworks will last for generations to come.
Block Printing Ink
Dala Block Printing Ink is a water-based product, suitable for lino, mono or block printing. Printers have traditionally used solvent or oil based systems. These systems used to offer one major advantage over their water-based equivalents. Their ‘open time’ has until now been far superior. This means that they stay wet for longer, allowing you an unlimited amount of time to print before the ink dries on you image. Our ink has an extended open time, often in excess of 24 hours, depending on the thickness of the ink film and prevailing weather conditions.This will grant you the time to do multiple prints without having to wash the lino, block, rollers or roll out glass.Further advantage of the Dala water-based system is that it is much more beneficial to one’s health, as it eliminates problems with the use and disposal of solvents and that although the open time has been extended to beyond 24 hours on the block, the drying time on absorbent paper is approximately 40 minutes. Oil based inks are as slow to dry on the paper as they are on the block. Logistically this leads to problems in the classroom - what do you do with hundreds of drying prints? With the water-based system, the students can take them home or file them away at the end of the day
