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Let’s Make Art!
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items Inspiring Creativity with Artist Tools & Supplies I recommend for getting started on your Art journey.
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Painting Tools for Every Artist
Drawing Basics
Papers & Canvas
A Splash of Art Fashion and How To Books
Pigments and Hues in every material!
Painting Tools for Every Artist
Getting started made easy
These brushes are ideal for acrylics, watercolor, gouache, and tempera, and have natural filaments.
I love this versatile paint brush set!
What!!! A brush and water container in one! Great for watercoloring, rubber stamping, sketching and more.
Waterbrushes and Sets
These brushes are synthetic and very versatile.
Watercolor Brushes
These durable brushes are perfect for mixed materials such as watercolor, tempera, acrylics and more.
Acrylic Paint Brush Sets
Bleed proof white is an opaque watercolor for covering dye colors, markers, and designer colors. It’s great for pops of white in your Art.
Bleedproof White
This art masking fluid is a removable, non-staining, colorless liquid made of rubber latex. I use it to mask areas of work that need protection when color is applied in broad washes.
Colorless Art Masking Fluid
This modeling paste gives texture to paintings is waterbased, non-toxic, and formulated with 100% acrylic polymer emulsions.
Molding Paste Mediums
Non-toxic and lead free, dries to a flat, flexible film and cleans up with soap and water. Great Primer!
Artists' Acrylic Gesso
An excellent solvent for thinning and helping to paint with different mediums. It's also useful for studio and brush cleanup.
Odorless Mineral Spirits
Clear acrylic gel with small, densely packed glass beads. This medium adds texture and luminous effects similar to condensation on glass. The luminosity is beautiful!
Clear acrylic glass bead gel
Cotton Swabs make great tools for painting. You can use them for many task when painting for example dabbing away watercolor to create movement and texture.
Cotton swabs make great tools.
Great for traveling when you want to bring out your water color pad and you need some water to mix your colors or wash your brushes after a day adventure with your sketch pad!
Clear refillable pump spray bottles
This really helps when you are trying to adjust your perfect colors…it shows you the tones when adding darks or lights! I think this is a must for every artist tool box.
Color Wheels and Charts
Drawing Basics
Let’s Draw About It!
Mechanical pencils are great for technical drawing, sketching, writing, and note-taking. Easy for traveling too!
Mechanical Pencils and Accessories
Graphic Pencils are available in a full range of different density’s. Pencils are pre-sharpened and available individually and in sets.
Graphic Pencils and Sets
This versatile sharpener creates a perfect pencil point. Ideal for sharpening both standard pencils and draftsman's pencils.
Sharpener
These high-quality, latex free erasers remove graphite marks with very little pressure. These erasers won't crack or harden with age. Available in sets with blocks, squares and caps too!
Erasers
These premium quality fabulous erasers are long-lasting, won’t discolor paper, and perform with minimal crumbling.
Fabulous Plastic Erasers
With a pen-style body, a rubber grip for comfort, and a convenient clip, this stick eraser is great for on-the-go corrections.
Stick Eraser
Great for removing graphite, pencil and charcoal in subtractive drawing techniques. Kneaded erasers can be shaped for precision erasing and creating highlights. Available in three sizes, these kneaded erasers are latex-free, lanolin-free, and PVC fre...
Kneaded Eraser
Papers & Canvas
So many surfaces so little time!
This off white drawing paper offers a medium surface for sketching and finished work. Ideal for pen and ink, pencil, crayon, charcoal, light washes, and markers. It’s also Acid-free.
Drawing Paper Pads
Use Stipple Paper with dry media such as soft pencil, crayons, charcoal, and pastels. It's also excellent for detailed cartooning, sketching, and drawing.
Stipple Paper Pads
These watercolor pads contain 15 sheets of heavyweight, acid-free watercolor paper. Ideal for a variety of watercolor techniques!
Watercolor Pads
This watercolor pad features 30 sheets of quality paper that is ideal for a variety of watercolor and mixed-media techniques. The paper is acid-free with a cold press texture.
Watercolor Pads
Create beautiful watercolor invitations and greeting cards. My daughter in law uses this for so many of her art projects so I love that this paper is available to use!
Watercolor Cards and Envelopes
Aquabord allows colors to retain their purity and vibrancy in a way that even the finest watercolor papers can't match.
Aquabord
Cotton Canvas Panels are well made, affordable, and ready to paint. What an easy and economical way to introduce painting to beginners!
Cotton Canvas Panel
Canvas rolls are large sheets of unstretched canvas that are used to create stretched canvas. Artists can choose from a variety of canvas rolls in different materials, fabric weights, textures, and widths.
Canvas Rolls
Kids Craft Paper Rolls are fun and designed to keep the creative flow rolling for hours of fun!
Kids Craft Paper Roll
This paper is so versatile. It’s available in individual sheets and pads. Pastel papers also work well with charcoal, chalk, oil pastels, and other media.
Pastel Paper and Boards
Drawing boards are a great way to take your work with you, and protect it while you’re getting there.
Drawing Boards
A Splash of Art Fashion and How To Books
In the studio easy key essentials
Fashionable and Perfect for comfort and lots of pockets for your tools.
Overalls Women
An apron to protect your clothing when a quick paint idea pops in and it just can’t wait!
An Everyday Apron for painting…Yes!
Who doesn’t love a great bag when you gotta lug the things you need to make Art!
Art Supply & Pottery Bags
A true inspiration of hard work and dedication to his faith and community building. His Art is touching lives!
Art Backpacks
This is a great article if you’re just learning how to stretch canvas. It is definitely informative and helpful.
How to Stretch Canvas
Megan Wells teaches you how to unlock your creative confidence and make expressive floral art using a wide variety of art materials. No rules just Fun! Check her out on social media you won’t be disappointed!
Funky Florals: A Bend-the-Rules Approach to Making Bright, Bold & ...
The Art of basic drawing. Simple step by step techniques to begin your beginner journey on how to draw with a pencil.
The Art of Basic Drawing Techniques book
What does coloring pencils and markers with fifty 15-minute projects have in common? Encouragement to explore drawing in a relaxing, free and fun way. Each project can be completed in no more than six steps and will include practice pages, color swat...
Learning how to Draw, Color and Shade
The simple design of these classic frames make them versatile and ideal for galleries and wall collages. Black is always classic.
A Black frame with mat is always classic.
Pigments and Hues in every material!
Paint a colorful perspective!
Wonderful selection of individual pastels and sets including many colors for those who are just getting started or to replenish your existing set.
Pastels
More colors more Art!!! An expansive range of over 100 colors allows artists to create a palette that best suits their work.
Watercolor Tubes and Sets
These colored pencils are highly pigmented and smooth. They are ideal for blending and layering. Sets available in lots of sizes and color choices.
Colored Pencils and Sets
Perfect for getting started with mixed media. Watercolor Pencils are excellent for layering, shading, and drawing fine details. For flowing watercolor effects you can use a wet brush over your details.
Watercolor Pencils
These waterbased acrylic markers come in either a bullet or brush tip to suit your needs. The vibrant colors stand out on both light and dark surfaces and can be layered without blending or bleeding through.
Acrylic Markers and Sets
Artists can use these and learn the basics of drawing, coloring, and blending because they are ideal for beginners. They are also water soluble.
Washable Silky Gel Crayons
Colorful crayons for everyone who dreams in color!
Crayons are for everyone!
I learned about these photo coloring pencil when I was introduced to black and white photography. They are concentrated oils that adhere well to photo paper, and are acid-free and archival for long-term stability.
Photo Coloring Pencils