- Hello to my lovely art fam.
Today, I am going to be sharing
some of my favorite art supplies with you
that you can get on Amazon.
So this video is not sponsored at all.
This is just something that I really enjoy doing.
If you look back at my channel over the years,
I've already done this same video twice.
Well, my favorite art supplies changes over time
and with seasons, so I wanted to share with you
what I'm currently like really, really enjoying.
And I don't know, I hope this inspires you.
I hope that if you are looking at trying new art supplies
or wondering what I use in my videos
that this is helpful to you in some way.
I have this like massive pile right here.
Let's just start.
So before I jump into this
and share some of these favorites with you,
I'm just gonna preface this by saying
this is not a review video.
Like, if you are expecting me
to list off the lightfastness or pigmentation
and all this stuff of all these art supplies,
I would recommend going elsewhere
'cause I'm not really like a review channel.
I'm more of like an entertainment art channel
but I'm just showing you
behind the scenes of things that I love today.
And I will share things that I do
and don't like about these supplies.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that, let's move on.
Jump into the favorite supplies.
First things first,
we have these Caran d'Ache Luminance colored pencils.
This is the 76 set, it also comes with two blenders.
I enjoy these a lot.
These are probably the highest quality colored pencils
I have ever experienced.
These actually are highly pigmented.
They're very lightfast, yeah,
and they have like a bunch of information
about lightfastness and all that on the back of the box.
So if you like to geek out about that, there you go.
I like these though, because they're really pretty.
I just love the natural raw wood look
and then like the color at the bottom and the top.
It's just so pretty to me.
And there's different trays that lift out of this
and it's padded very well.
So like if you drop it, it's padded very well.
I have not dropped mine
and I hope to never. (chuckles softly)
But, yeah, I really love these.
I've used them in many videos in the past.
I would say the only things I don't like super much
about these pencils is the fact that
they're super, super expensive.
And that made me afraid to use them at first
but they're worth the money.
But another thing,
if you're somebody who's used to using Prismacolors,
and I grew up using Prismacolors,
I feel like there's a difference
with like layering and blending, it just feels different.
It's not as easy for me to blend and layer with these
as it is with Prismacolor.
It's just a small learning curve.
You get the hang of it and they're amazing pencils.
So the next one, I just actually mentioned Prismacolor.
I treated myself to this set for Christmas,
and this is the 150 count colored pencil set.
I kind of hated on Prismacolor for a short period of time,
but I'm back to loving them.
But look at this, look at this.
They're just beautiful, they're so beautiful.
There's six trays of colored pencils in here.
This is a pretty good deal for your money.
Like it's a lot cheaper than that Caran d'Ache set.
So, yeah, I really like these.
They blend like a dream.
If I were to recommend
any professional quality colored pencil to somebody
who wants to get into colored pencils,
these babies right here.
So this one here is like a really famous one
that got really popular on Amazon
over the last two or three years.
So I'll share it with you
'cause I'm still thoroughly enjoying it.
I thought it would just be like a trend or like a phase,
but I love these.
This is the Jelly Gouache set.
I don't remember how many are in here.
56 colors in this set.
And I really like this particular one
because I had a smaller palette
and it dried out so fast that, I don't know,
it just didn't have a good seal around the edges
but this one has a really good seal.
I just use a spray bottle with water and reactivate it.
Now, some people are concerned with mold with this palette,
like forming in the paint,
and I have never experienced that at all.
To me, this is really good quality for the price.
I mean, I don't think
this is professional quality gouache paint by any means,
but to have a massive palette of gouache
that I can just goof off
in my sketchbook with is really nice and freeing.
So if you're somebody who,
oh, and look at the handles, hmm, yeah.
If you're somebody who gets afraid to use expensive supplies
and you like freeze up and you never use them
and you just look at them
and you feel guilty if you try to use them,
I recommend something like this.
It is very affordable, there's a great color selection.
Yeah, I just love it.
Next, I'm gonna share my favorite brand of canvases with you
that you can get on Amazon.
I do really like Blick's canvases,
like they have really good ones at their store,
but my favorite, favorite canvases,
oh, Ampersand Gessobord.
This stuff, this is a panel that you paint on
but it's a cradled canvas.
Now you can get them like this too, just flat panels.
I love these things so, so much.
I love having a smooth surface to paint on.
These are really good quality, I love them a lot.
They're definitely like a staple in my studio.
Like, I have drawer full
of just a bunch of these little panels.
They also have Claybord like this, this is Claybord.
It's a lot smoother than Gessobord
but personally, I'm not a huge fan of the Claybord one.
But the Gessobord is really smooth
and it has a slight tooth to it
so your paint sticks to it nicely.
Really great, especially for acrylic painting.
I will say Claybord works really nice
for oil painting though.
I do like it for oil painting.
Downfall about these, they can be pretty pricey
but the quality makes it so worth it, I love these.
Continuing with favorite paints,
let me show you another one.
This basket you probably see
in the background of some of my videos when I show my desk
'cause it always sits on my desk,
which says a lot because not a lot of things
get the privilege of sitting on my desk
other than chapstick and a candle. (chuckles softly)
But this is like my baby.
This is Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint.
The pigmentation with this stuff is just phenomenal.
This is a professional quality paint.
It does run a little pricey,
but to me, it is worth it because I do art full time.
I sell my paintings.
So I try to use professional quality paints.
They do have the ASTM lightfastness information
on each tube too so if you are somebody
who really cares about that stuff,
Golden has a good reputation for lightfastness,
so, just saying.
You see those paintings behind me,
like any acrylic paintings that I do,
they are with Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paint.
I love this stuff so, so much.
And look at this, just have to share this with you.
They sell massive tubes of their titanium white
and I blow through this stuff so fast.
So I'm really thankful for that.
They also sell massive tubes in just about any color
but I usually just get whites with them
'cause a little bit goes a long way, honestly.
These tubes last a decent amount of time.
We are not done talking about paint though,
because you know me, paint is my favorite medium,
acrylic paint and oil paint,
that is my top favorite art supply.
I will share my other basket with you.
This basket here has been neglected because I am pregnant
and I am not using oil paint while I am pregnant.
Just wanna say that before people come for me
and assume stuff and, yeah, anyway,
I am being safe, don't worry.
But if you're curious about
what my favorite type of oil paint is
Winsor & Newton oil paint.
It is so, so good, and these little tubes,
a little bit goes a long way, a really long way.
So I love using this stuff.
I do have a couple tubes of Gamblin's oil paint
and it's really nice, I like it a lot.
I don't notice much of a difference
between that and Winsor & Newton, so, yeah.
(bright music)
I have another one and this is kind of a weird art supply
that is a favorite, but it is my baby and I love it.
I am also about to reveal some bad habits with you, folks.
This here is a butcher tray, like this,
and I love using this for my acrylic paints
because basically, it's like a nice mixing tray.
And when I use acrylic paint,
I love using a spray bottle with water
and it doesn't like pour out or anything.
I can use a palette knife or a brush
to mix stuff up in this.
And then, if I don't finish a painting in one sitting,
I can easily, again, spray it with water and just cover it.
Like, sometimes I just lay a book right on top of it
and it stays wet for days,
I'm not even joking. (chuckling loudly)
So I love this so much.
I do have other palettes with like proper lids
but I always go back to this one.
This one here is just really nice.
And I can also just like soak it in my sink
with some Dawn Powerwash and water in it.
And then, all this just peels off and it's so satisfying.
Okay, I have some miscellaneous favorites
for the end of this video
and I'm excited to share those with you.
So this favorite you have seen me use
for like years on my channel.
These are Posca paint pens and I love these.
This is what they look like.
They make a really satisfying sound if you shake 'em.
(paint pens clicking)
But they're really nice for just easy crafty projects
that you don't need to do a lot of blending with.
And it dries like paint.
They're really good for like customizing stuff.
I've customized Hydro Flasks, shoes,
I've drawn on wood with them, stuff like that in the past.
And it's just a fun time, I really enjoy them.
There's a lot of other companies
that offer paint pens now though like Caran, Arteza,
like a bunch of other places too.
So, yeah, do whatever you want.
I just use what I have and I really like these.
The next thing, these things here,
you might be wondering like,
okay, what is that? (chuckling loudly)
So I really love to do printmaking.
It's just a fun thing to do every now and then,
like here's one that I didn't rinse off
but it's probably good I didn't
so you can tell what it is in the video.
It's like an eye with a sun, and basically,
you carve the material out of your printing block
and, yeah, you create prints with it.
There's all these little attachments inside
that you can use to carve your artwork
into essentially a stamp, a massive stamp.
People refer to this as like block printing
or just printing, lino cutting, whatever.
I just really enjoy doing this.
For some reason, it is so therapeutic
to carve designs out of a material
and then just like play with the shavings afterward.
So this is definitely a favorite art supply
and I got at these on Amazon.
Okay, so this one I should have mentioned
in the paint section because I only use it when I paint,
but I will mention it now.
This here is called vine charcoal,
it is from Winsor & Newton.
I love this stuff because it's really good
for like loose sketches under your paintings.
And the beauty of it is you can paint right over it
and it just like disappears, it's awesome.
And if you make a mistake,
you just like brush your canvas and then boom, it comes off.
It is a very soft charcoal and I just love it.
I am not a charcoal person either,
but when it comes to sketches on canvas
or those Gessobords or whatever,
this stuff works wonders, highly recommend it.
I took a painting class in college
and my professor actually recommended this to us
for doing our sketches
before we go into the painting itself.
And it just like blew my mind when I tried it.
So highly recommend this.
I love it and it's very cheap. (chuckling softly)
Anyway, those are my favorite art supplies
that you can find on Amazon.
So, yeah, I will leave a list of links below too
and I hope it helps you.
I really love creating stuff with all these supplies.
Anyway, I hope you've found this video helpful in some way
or just like interesting.
I have not had energy to create art pieces
every single week, so right now,
I'm showing you some things that I enjoy using
and some behind the scenes vlogs and stuff too.
Anyway, I will see you when I see you,
and have a beautiful day, bye.