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Blick Art Materials is a family-owned retail and catalog business that supplies professional and amateur artists, students, scholastic art programs, and anyone requiring art supplies for business or pleasure.

Established as a mail order business by Dick Blick in 1911 and purchased by Robert Metzenberg in 1947, it is one of the oldest and largest art materials suppliers in the United States, as well as a primary supplier of mail order art supplies.

A craft is a pastime or a profession that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work.

In a historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small-scale production of goods, or their maintenance, for example by tinkers.

The traditional terms craftsman and craftswoman are nowadays often replaced by artisan and rarely by craftsperson (craftspeople).

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.

The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work, or a painting).

Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other items for which sturdiness is required.

It is also popularly used by artists as a painting surface, typically stretched across a wooden frame.

It is also used in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes.

Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film.

It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture to objects.

Paint can be made or purchased in many colors—and in many different types, such as watercolor, synthetic, etc.

Paint is typically stored, sold, and applied as a liquid, but most types dry into a solid.