Hey guys, sorry I haven’t uploaded, at all this week, I have barely had the chance to even look at anything art related, let alone work on any of my art. I was out of state the past week, due to a family emergency, but I’m back with a massive review post, with some of my favorites art related products, and where I got them from. Sorry in advance for the ridiculously long post and I hope you enjoy!
Okay, lets get my favorite out of the way first, before everyone runs away at the length of this: Washi Tape. Who isn’t addicted to washi tape right now? It’s like the internet has found it’s new favorite crafting item, and I got to say, I’m totally aboard the washi train. Molshine has a set of 22 rolls for $19.98. That’s less than $1 per roll, and there is a cat print one. Need I say more? This brand has so many different sets of washi available on their Amazon page, and I want to buy them all. The set I got can be found here, but don’t limit yourself to just this set, get them all. Go!!! Are you back from buying washi tape? Awesome! Let’s move on then. Now, every painter needs a good set of paint brushes, and my favorite detail paintbrushes I got from Bianyo here. For only $12.99 you can get 15 brushes, that are great for fine details, and thin lines. When I’m not needing fine lines, I use a paintbrush set by Feathers that are super lightweight, and great for painting for long periods of time. You can find them here for only $19.99, and they come with 17 brushes, a storage case (great for travel, but lets be real, I tossed mine in my storage bench, there’s no room for that in my desk), as well as a gift box and a bonus plastic palette. Of course, I can’t use paintbrushes without the paint, and while before I claimed Golden Acrylics were my favorite acrylic paints, I found these amazing heavy bodied paints, that were inexpensive, but still great quality. The Golden paints were still really good, but I had tried their fluid acrylics, which is different than heavy bodied. Anyway, Mont Marte makes a set of 36 heavy bodied acrylic paints, that can be found here for $35.95 that I totally recommend, like, I want to purchase multiple sets just so I never run out. There are swatches of these paints attached above in a photo, as well as the two sets of brushes, and everything else I’m including in this review as well. Actually, there is one item I don’t have a photo of, and it is the easel I’m using, and its from Bianyo (I get a lot of their products, and love most of them, doesn’t that say something about that brand? Go check it out!!). It’s aluminum, lightweight, and folds up into a small travel case so it’s great for if you want to paint outside, of nature or something, though I honestly just use mine inside, I’m not an outdoors person, unfortunately. Anyway, that can be found here for $18.99. Moving on from the painting supplies, every artist needs a good set of fineliner pens. And of course, everyone loves and recommends the Sakura Micron pens, and I have to say, they are kind of awesome. I got my set of 11 from Meeden on Amazon for $21.99 here. Now, colored pencils, my favorites, that aren’t crazy expensive are the Marco Renoir colored pencils. You can find them from many different places, but I got mine here from Huhuhero for $39.98, though like I said, they can be found in other places, for varying prices. I store mine in my 3 drawer organizer from Swinsonbox, you can fit up to 92 colored pencils per drawer, and it’s only $21.99, so I like it, though I think there are probably better options available elsewhere, you can look at the one I have here. And that’s all for now. So many reviews. Hope you can find at least one item here that you like, and if you try any of these out, please share your thoughts with me!
