If you are an art enthusiast or an artist, you would know the importance of good and essential art supplies. In this article, you’ll learn all about the essential art supplies and their significance in the creation of art.
Here are the 7 essential ones:
Watercolor paints
Watercolor paints can be bought in dry form – in a palette and in the form of a cream, watercolor pencils are also available in a palette and in tubes. Blanks are sold in tubes of different sizes, both individually and in sets. But they are very different in a way that you can create just out of the box art or even present abstract art in a better way.
Dry and oil pastels
Oil pastels come in stick form, can be purchased individually or as assets, and come in a wide range of colors. Oil pastels can be thinned with turpentine for a painterly effect. Dry pastels are available in the form of simple sticks or sticks with a square section. We can also buy pastels in pencils. There are many companies that produce pastels, they offer both whole sets and individual samples. Better get wholesale art supplies to avoid going to the market or buying again and again.
Oil, acrylic, and watercolor
There is a very large selection of paints and a large selection of manufacturers on the market. Paints are available in a very wide range of colors. Oil paints are sold in tubes of different sizes, separately, as well as in whole sets, acrylic paints are available in tubes and jars – glass or plastic.
Thinners
Thinners – in oil painting, the most popular thinners are linseed oil – which is greasy and dries for a long time, as well as turpentine, which is degreased and dries quickly. After finishing the work with oil or acrylic paints, it is worth protecting the drawing with varnish. Here we have a choice, depending on what kind of finish we want: matte lacquer or glossy.
Fixative
A fixative is a resin that has been dissolved in a colorless alcohol solvent. It prevents the smearing of drawings made with pencil, charcoal, or other soft pigment materials. When sprayed onto the design, the alcohol solvent evaporates and leaves a thin coating of resin that binds the pigment dust to the support. Once fixed, even the eraser cannot change the drawing. However, it is possible to work on top of a fixed blueprint, and it is common practice to periodically freeze a blueprint while it is being made.
Paper and substrate
There are three different paper surfaces. Roughness is, as the name suggests, paper with a highly textured surface. Best for bolder, more expressive work using charcoal, crayons, pastels, and soft graphite. Paper with a very smooth surface is known as “hot-pressed” due to the fact that during manufacture the pulp dryer sheet is passed through hot steel rollers.
It is more commonly used for pen and ink work, drawing washes, and fine pencil finishing, and is less comfortable when used with softly pigmented drawing tools such as charcoal and chalk. This is because pigment dust needs a textured surface to cling to.
Drawing boards and easels
If you are working on separate sheets of paper, you will need to secure them to the drawing board. This may seem obvious, but make sure the board is large enough for your paper and that the surface is smooth. Instead of using drawing pins to secure the paper to the board, use a pair of spring-loaded board clips. You can buy a target drawing board from a good art store, or use a sheet of plywood or MDF.
