I'm going on a $1000 art supply shopping
spree on Amazon, and my only two rules are that I can't purchase anything I already
own, and each item needs to be a higher price than the item before it.
Ah...Where do we start?
Art stuff.
Bond classic movie poster, not really what I was going for.
186 piece Deluxe art set.
Glow in the dark acrylic paint... Sort by price.
I can buy a single oil pastel for a dollar.
Should I do it? I've never tried oil pastels.
Oh...It's temporarily out of stock.
Maybe we should just buy it in hopes that it eventually shows up.
Add to cart, we're doing it!
Let's try art supplies. Kneadable eraser would have been a great option!
Not allowed to buy anything that I already have.
Oh...Paul Rubens pastels!
Shane, can you remind me to come back to Paul Rubens in three minutes?
No. 20 colors stackable crayon.
Wait, 20 colors, stackable crayon, coloring pencil, pens,
cute graffiti pens, oil painting, drawing, multicolor, I don't think
this product knows what it is.
Twelve to six weeks later... Kind of feels like a pez dispenser gone wrong.
The only crayon that isn't absolutely
horrible to use is the crayon that was already in the front of it.
Am I not supposed to pull all the colors out?
One star review from me.
Oh, I want a pig eraser!
They're so cute - Oh it's out of stock anyway
We've hit the price of a single
Prismacolor pencil and I'm not getting very far.
Maybe I need to change my search.
Diamond painting pen.
I thought it would be easier to find cheap
stuff, but it's not. Doggy butt coloring book. Mixing palettes,
I don't have like a nice wooden palette and I kind of want one to decorate.
Not to actually use just to, like, decorate.
$7. Inspired by your browsing history.
Pooping animals,
a funny coloring book for adults?
No, no, Now I'm just getting recommendations
for coloring books with animal butts and farting animals.
There's an arts and craft section! Gold leaf? Hmm!
I wonder if you could put gold leaf on coloring pages.
Clear acrylic paint palettes.
I just bought a wooden paint palette, but I kind of want to buy clear ones too.
Is that?...I don't need them.
No, I don't need both.
Oh but the price just dropped.
That price is like, way dropped. Prices going up.
I didn't think about how this is all going to add up.
These are like mini canvases.
Pretty sure I wouldn't be the first person
to do a video about painting on mini canvases though.
Pen adapters for the Cricut ooh!
I have no current art project in mind for something like this.
But I kind of just really really want to buy it
because I actually really like steampunk and if I was ever to do like resin crafts
or anything, I would love to do something like this.
So we're just going to do it.
I just found keys as well.
$12.80 and I just spent $12.90.
Edible glue?
Definitely lots of diamond painting options in this price range. Makes me
wonder if I should do another diamond painting video soon.
Everyone keeps telling me to buy Gesso, clear. Ah it's $12.95!
I think at some point I'm sure that I'm going to find a reason to make my own
watercolor paints or just my own paints of some kind.
I found some more steampunk keys at $14.99,
Add to cart and I think we can definitely squeeze in a
color wheel.
We're at our first $100, okay.
And it's getting more expensive per item
so it's going to be a little bit more strategic now.
I haven't really been strategic
at all, so I don't even know why I just said that.
Would you believe I have never tried oil pastels before?
Add to cart. Scissors that look like
the Eiffel Tower, boxes in boxes and you know what they'll arrive in, right?
Boxes.
I was just saying to Shane that I need a hot glue gun.
All the hot glue gun sticks are now
disqualified by price so we're just going to have to figure something out.
Liquid gold paint markers extra fine,
I'm curious! Add to cart. Sakura markers as well.
I think we should give them a go.
$40 for two pens and $25 delivery.
No way.
That can't be right!
Got to be a mistake.
$60 for one marker.
I think for an $84 product you could
at least get a picture that's not blurry on Amazon.
World's best transparent acrylic Gesso.
Well if it's the world's best, buy it again in toys.
I know we already have oil pastels
on the list, but I've heard good things about Paul Ruben's and these are just
within the price range right now so they are going in the cart.
Fine glitter,
ooh I have children, that's a bad idea.
Resin kit is so tempting, but I feel like I want to learn how to do it first.
I don't want to get the wrong stuff, so there were a few more expensive items
that I really wanted to include on my list.
After all, if I'm going to spend $1,000
on art supplies, I'd rather buy at least a few things I actually want to use,
not just a bunch of random art stuff that I've never heard of.
The first on my list is the Karin Brush markers, can't go for the 200 one.
I think we're going to go for the $75 option.
And to fit these final things in my list, I did a cheeky little bit of maths to make
sure I purchased them in the right order so I didn't break my rules or my budget.
The rules never said I couldn't plan ahead.
This is the most expensive item on my list
and the last item to be added and it's on sale!
I was actually going to buy this a month ago, and I'm glad I didn't because
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Shane, do you want to know the total?
I did say we would spend $1,000 today,
and our total is $1016.00 Australian dollars, but, but! They all have free shipping.
This order contains a gift.
This entire order is a gift, basically to myself.
Well, I have to wait a month for all this stuff to arrive right now.
But you don't have to. It's here now.
I guess it's time to finally unpack. Paint palette.
This feels like Christmas. Hot glue gun, that's those Cricut adapters.
Mini canvases.
World's best transparent acrylic Gesso.
What is that?
Glassine?
I can't show you what that one is yet... That's a special one
This must be the giant drawing easel.
But I don't know what these extra things are because I didn't order these.
A kneaded eraser, a pencil extender, a stanley knife, some blending stumps,
a collection of graphite pencils in a wrap, and a random paint palette.
Okay, that is one big rubber band!
Alright, how does this thing work?
This will definitely help me with my back
pain and my neck pain from drawing on a flat surface.
We just need to try it.
So these go with the DIY watercolor paint kit.
Although I'm a little bit confused because
the number of them doesn't quite line up and they don't really fit flush.
There's going to be a really odd amount compared to the side,
but then there's a little bit it's like, do I put more in the middle?
Okay, so this is the proper way, and they're just out and that's for your brush.
This bothers me. Spares!
Okay, that's the correct way.
Oh, they all loose.
Don't let go, Sarah.
I thought they were together in, like,
a booklet, but they're all like individual loose sheets.
I was about to drop them all.
So these are our gold leaf. Look at that.
Underestimated how fragile this would be.
That is cool.
I definitely want to use that on a picture.
So thin, and so many of them.
How much was this?
That is going to be so fun to use in a video.
And then... Woah! They're so tiny.
I did not expect the keys to be so small. Look how little they are.
Okay, I actually like this a lot more than I expected.
And I already have an idea for the keys.
I think I'm going to use these keys as a reference photo for a start, for some
of the new coloring pages I'm going to use in my 2023 coloring planner.
And then, I don't know,
I'm really excited to find some excuse to use both of these in some kind
of mixed media or resin project or something in the future.
But I just like them.
I think there just really cool.
Pockets color wheel mixing guide.
So this works of red, blue and yellow as the primary colors.
So it shows you that this color,
adding black will get you this color
and as you turn it around it gives you an example of each one.
This color, adding white, will get you this color.
That's really cool.
And you've got your tint, your tone and your shade.
Simple but useful.
I got a little bit carried away in the oil pastel category because I have been
meaning to try oil pastels for a very long time.
So I bought some Paul Rubens,
I bought some Faber Castell and we got that really good deal on that single oil
pastel that I didn't think would actually arrive.
But it did. Hang on!
There's like five oil pastels in here.
Now that was definitely a bargain.
I've never used oil pastels ever. Whoa.
That feels cool.
Gee that's a different experience to a chalk pastel.
I've never used any kind of medium like this before.
Wow, look at this vibrancy of that!
I wonder if they would be like really opaque on black paper as well.
Whoa.
Yes, look at that.
I've never used oil pastels before so
trying these for the first time was an interesting experience for me.
They are completely different to the chalk pastels I've used in the past.
They feel buttery and soft and I can imagine they would blend really nicely.
I'll use these to create something with a little more detail later in this
video, but for now I just want to see how these brands compare and I'm really
impressed at how bright both these brands are, especially the Paul Rubens pastels.
I realize now that I've bought the pastel
range of the Paul Rubens, so I'm lacking some of the brighter colors.
In this set that they offer in their other sets.
But other than that, I think the Paul Rubens are my favorites here.
Look at how well they perform on the black paper.
Wow, if your someone who works with oil pastels
I would love to hear from you in the comments,
what are some of the brands that you recommend?
What are some of the good oil pastel brands that I should keep an eye out for?
And what are some of the techniques or tricks that you would recommend
for someone who is a beginner in oil pastels to learn?
What I am excited about is our collection of gold pens.
We have Pen-touch, we have Decocolor and we have Kuritake.
Ooh! The lid flew off!
So the Pen-touch and the Decocolor do work very similar.
The Decocolor is slightly easier to use and let out just a little bit more paint.
But on the downside, it also has a much stronger smell,
and I know that is a turn off for a lot of people.
The Kuritake Brush marker is quite different to the others.
It's not that metallic,
shiny gold like they are, but I also don't know if I'm using it
correctly because the instructions are in Japanese.
I think I was supposed to remove something.
Guess we're going to find out.
All right... um,
It's coming out,
it doesn't feel like it's enough.
So maybe I just need to let it sit for a minute.
Shake it.
Okay. Well, we're not leaking paint everywhere.
That's a good thing.
But overall, these are all really cool
and I'm glad that I had a chance to try them out.
So I wasn't really sure what these were at first when I bought them,
and I think I've actually bought a different set to what Chloe Rose
and Moriah Elizabeth recently used in their videos.
But the Brush Marker Pro are a water based
marker that they somehow blend really well.
The only other markers that I have in my own collection at the moment
comparable to something like this would be my Tombow markers,
So I'd be interested to see how they compare against something like this.
And maybe check out if there are some
other markers out there that are water based markers, not alcohol based,
because water based are much better for things like coloring books because
they're not going to bleed through the other side.
And if you can create blends like this with a water based marker,
that just brings in so much more potential to be creative.
So out of first impression, I'm really impressed with these and I'm
really excited to explore these more in a future video.
There are not many items left and I know you've been waiting to see what I spent
the most money on, but before we do, please leave a like below if you've
enjoyed this video so far and subscribe for more fun videos like this.
This really is just like art Christmas. Arrtx Jelly Gouache.
It's so pretty.
I've never even seen jelly Gouache in real life, oh they're all sealed.
If I open all these, will they last? There we go,
now we can see the colors.
Look at all these colors.
They're all like tubs of jelly because it's jelly Gouache.
I feel like if my kids were here, they would actually try to eat this.
I really want to open these all now
and at least find out what the jelly Gouache feels like.
But I am worried that they're going to dry up before I have a chance to use them.
So I will wait and we will do a jelly Gouache video in the future.
Now we are down to our final three items.
The Caran d'Ache Neocolor Wax Pastels.
So these are water soluble wax pastels.
In other words, like a very very expensive crayon.
These are really, they smell like candles.
Apparently you can mix these with water,
so this is interesting and definitely something I can't wait to explore.
So they're a lot drier than the oil pastels.
They feel quite nice to work with.
They do feel like a very expensive crayon! That says wax oil pastel,
that says permanent wax pastel, that says Caran d'Ache classic.
That just says Caran d'Ache. Different packaging.
It's like old branding and new branding.
It's like a mixed pack.
Not sure how I feel about that.
When I bought a new product, I kind of expect them to all be the same.
Buying a mixed one kind of feels like I bought this second hand.
They are pretty nice to use, though.
I mean, if coloring brings you back
to your childhood, this kind of really amplifies that.
I do feel like I'm a little kid coloring with crayons again, except that my crayons
are just way better. But they blend really well together.
But that is not all I bought from Caran d'Ache.
So I've been talking about getting into watercolor pencils for a while,
and I get so many requests on this channel to compare different watercolor pencil
brands, but I don't own any, except for the Derwent Inktense,
but they're technically not a typical watercolor pencil.
So today we have bought our first set and I took all your recommendations
and went for one of the best right away, the Caran d'Ache Museum Aquarelle.
But this wasn't the only brand that people recommended.
So it's time to show you what the most expensive item was in today's haul.
Yes, I did it.
I bought the 120 set of the Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer
I don't know how to say that, I'll call them Albert... The Faber Castell Watercolor Pencils.
One of the things that excites me about
this particular set is that every single color in the Faber Castell watercolor set
is a match for the Faber Castell Polychromos set that I have behind me.
So if we're going to test out these
watercolor pencils, we might as well test both brands together.
In all the research I've been doing about watercolor pencils, these two brands were
recommended time and time again as some of the best. You can use
these pencils dry, but the colors really come to life when you add water.
You really don't need much water.
And these pencils both have such vibrant colors and seem really nice to use.
Let me know in the comments if you'd like
to see me learn watercolors in a future video, although I do want to at least give
them a little go now, along with some of these other supplies.
So I'm just going to dabble and try drawing some flowers with both sets.
I don't really know if this is the best
approach with watercolor pencil but it seems to be working.
I don't seem to need to add as much pencil
down because the water really spreads the colors out.
These colors do look a little different when they are wet so it would be worth
swatching them out first - like I didn't do today.
This looks a little unfinished so I think it needs some details or just more layers.
Time to get out the oil pastels and maybe even the Neocolours.
I think I prefer the oil pastels
on a mixed media project like this I like the rough texture and imperfect shapes
which is totally different to my usual realistic style of drawing.
I like how opaque these pastels are
and while I have no idea if I'm using these correctly, I'm having fun trying
something new and to finish off we need some gold.
Although it turns out using a fine point
marker on top of oil pastels is a really quick way to block your markers.
I think I've completely ruined this marker already, so it's time for plan B.
So I obviously have a lot to keep myself busy now let me know which of these things
you would like to see in future videos and if you have any tips for me because
most of these are supplies that I have not personally used. I enjoyed this so much I
think we should do it again but maybe with a higher budget?
No.