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Open your phone book yellow pages and find "Arts and Crafts". Go to a smaller store if you can because their salespeople are probably more knowledgeable than you would get at Michael's. Big Box stores and the Internet are frankly penny wise and pound foolish. The one exception would be Pearl Paint which I am not linking to. Open your phone book, find the nearest small arts store, go and talk to a real person face to face. That relationship can be worth a lot more than what you would "save" on line or at a big box store.