Welcome to Ampersand, Extraordinary Surfaces for your Art!
Ampersand's acid-free signature painting surfaces inspire great art in every medium from oils to watercolors. From the beautiful clay finish of Claybord™ to the fine canvas texture of the Artist Panel™, you are invited to explore, imagine and create without boundaries
Ampersand is solely dedicated to making quality wood panels for artists. We don’t sell paints, easels or canvas - our focus and passion is wood panels.
Central to our mission, is to ensure that our products do not harm the environment, or the artists who use them. Our Museum Series panels are made from FSC certified forest products, which promote sustainable forests. FSC certification is considered the most effective environmental standard for the protection of wildlife, plants, soil and water.
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The Artist Panel
The Artist Panel, is an acrylic gesso surface on MDF panel for oils and acrylics. Economically priced for students, leisure and budget minded painters, this surface has a wonderful canvas-like texture that gives artists the advantages of a panel with the feel of a fine canvas. Choose from three...
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Pastelbord™
Pastelbord is a clay and gesso coated hardboard panel with a granular marble dust finish comparable to a sanded pastel paper except more durable and more versatile. It can be used with wet or dry traditional pastel techniques or with acrylics, and more! The coating is pH neutral and non-yellowing,...
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Scratchbord™
Scratchbord is a clay coated hardboard panel for scratchboard that is coated with India ink. Comparable to traditional paper scratchboard, except better – it’s more durable and easier to scratch into for cleaner and crisper details and lines. For added dimension, colored inks can be added to the...
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Encausticbord™
Only Encausticbord has a ready to use surface formulated for the unique demands of encaustic painting and mixed media. Encaustic gesso is applied to Ampersand’s sealed Hardbord™ panel to form a bright, smooth and velvety surface that is ready to use with the ancient technique of encaustic painting....
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Aquabord™
Aquabord is a clay coated hardboard panel that gives watercolorists unprecedented freedom and control. Comparable to watercolor paper, this multimedia panel simulates the absorbency and texture of cold pressed but allows color to be lifted back to white easily while also leaving the richest, most...
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Hardbord™
If you want to prepare your own panel, start with unprimed Hardbord, seal it and apply your own oil or acrylic primers. Hardbord is the finest pressed wood panel available anywhere. Made in the U.S. from quality hardwoods, this panel resists warping and moisture penetration. Hardbord accepts all...
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Gessobord™
Save hours of applying and sanding gesso with perfectly hand-crafted Gessobord. The thick acrylic polymer gesso ground has been sanded to an exceptional finish you’ll love. Perfect for layering, glazing, alla prima and impasto in oils, acrylics, alkyds or water-based oils. The surface is pH neutral...
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Claybord™
This museum quality panel is coated with a smooth absorbent clay ground comparable to the clay gesso grounds used during the Renaissance. Archival, lightfast, and acid free, the panels are ideal for acrylics, gouache, tempera, egg tempera, pen and inks as well as for mixed media techniques,...
