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Art the creative mind
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items I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. vincent van Gogh
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color pencils and markers
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I love painting with new colors and these brands are my favorite
The oil paint set have multiple colors. I have bught this set before for mostly more for my art clases. I awlays buy more then one set.
Winsor & Newton™ Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colour™ 10 Color Paint Set | Michaels
I know this is just one oil paint tube but the great thing about this one it does last longer. If you do end up useing the same color over and over aging it will last a litte bit longer.
Winsor & Newton® Winton Oil Colour™ Tube, 37mL | Michaels
I love watercolor, the great thing about watercolor, is when add water to the paint its buildable. You can keep blending the color together and the color will be a litte color. If add lese water the color will be a dark color.
Kuretake GANSAI TAMBI™ 24 Color Watercolor Set
Metallic watercolors are beautiful colors that have a bright light pigment. If you want a bright or an glitter color effect for a drawing. This metallic set is great it has all the colors you need.
Arteza® Metallic 24 Color Watercolor Half Pan Set
color pencils and markers
when I take my art class these are my go-to brands
This brand of Prismacolor sets has different varieties of colors, I always buy a new set every time I run out.
Prismacolor® Premier® Soft Core Colored Pencil Set
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The great thing about makers the color set ones, is that you can outline the colors you are using to make the color look bigger and brighter.
Crayola® Signature™ Brush & Detail Dual-Tip Markers
This set comes with everything you need to start your drawing journal, 2 pencils, 4 charcoal pencils, a bending stick, an eraser, and a pencil shape.
Newton Studio Collection Artist Pencils, Sketching Pencils, Set of 10
when starting a drawing class, you will go through a lot of charcoal sticks mostly white and black colors to get the dark and light shadows. This set will be great for that contrast.
Compressed Charcoal Sticks by Artist's Loft
Canvas
learning to building your canvas.
I remeber when, I took my first live art classs. I hade to build my own canvas. This roll canvas is long enough to make a couple of canvas you like and all you need to add is to a frame to stretch your own canvas.
63" Wide x 6 Yard Long Canvas Roll - 100% Cotton 7 Ounce Un-Primed Artist Painting
These stretcher bar pairs are for canvas rolls or canvas quilts, now there are different kinds of stretch bars. To stretch out the canvas but I do prefer getting a stretch bar pair kit which this one dose have, easy to use and assemble.
Masterpiece Vincent Pro Stretcher Bar Pair & Cross Brace Kit, 7/8" Profile, 12"
These mini canvases are great for parties and gift bag ideas too.
Hello Artist!™ Mini Canvas with Easel Party Pack
The paint set is so cute and it keeps your kids busy. My son loves butterflies. I always buy a paint sets with different designs, he loves them and puts them in his room as decorations.
Butterfly Plywood Surface Paint-by-Number Kit by Artist's Loft™
The black canvas are great for chalk paint, they bring out the bright color of the pigment.
2 Pack Black Canvas Value Pack by Artist's Loft® Necessities™
I have used theses canvas papers for class. These ones are great for practicing with oils and acrylics paint. The paint will have this nice smooth finish to it. Its great for beingers.
Strathmore® 300 Series Canvas Pad
sketchpad
sketching, painting, and illustrations
This drawing pad is for sketching, perfect for illustrations and final drawings. I have used this drawing pad more than once.
Strathmore® 400 Series Drawing Paper Pad
This is the best quality paper for watercolor. Great for beginners and intermediate watercolor artists.
Canson® XL® Watercolor Pad
This mixed media pad is a popular choice when drawing, sketching, inking, coloring, painting, etc.
Canson® XL® Mix Media Pad