Art supplies are a big and important part of my life and I always seems to go through little stages where I will use the same things over and over again. Today I am sharing a few of my current favorites.
p.s. I am giving away four $50 gift certificates to Dick Blick (my go to for supplies). Scroll all the way to the end of the post for more giveaway details!
White paint pens are a must for me and my creative process (I prefer Sharpies). I love adding pattern, text and markings to dark or colorful backgrounds and a white pen works perfect! I prefer oil based paint pens because they will work (and be permanent) on just about any surface. I typically buy my pens in bulk and keep a variety of each size on hand.
Pigma Micron pens are my favorite sketching pens. They come in lots of sizes (I prefer the 05) and the best part is that they are permanent so you can watercolor or use wet media over the top of them.
I always keep a handful of neon paint on hand, it is perfect for adding a really vibrant pop of color to a painting OR you can tone down the neon by mixing a little white paint. Pretty much any paint brand creates a neon option these days- everything from Apple Barrel craft paint to Golden Acrylics offer all kinds of bright colors.
I rarely splurge on art supplies but lately I cannot resist Golden's High Flow Acrylics. It has an ink like consistency and can be used for splattering and dripping, to fill daubers, used with calligraphy pens, water brushes and more!
While I love painting on canvas, I might love painting on wood just as much. Back in college I used to paint on plywood panels because it was cheaper than stretched canvas! These days you can find all kind of light weight wood panels in TONS of sizes. The surface is nice and smooth and really lends itself to detail work.
This is my birthday week and I thought it was a good excuse to have a little celebration here on the blog. Every day this week I've got a giveaway!
Today I am giving away four $50 gift certificates to Dick Blick
(No, Dick Blick did not sponsor this post, I just love them and want to share the love with you!)
Leave me a comment
Tell me what you favorite supply is
I will draw four names and announce the winner tomorrow (Wednesday)
MONDAY GIVEAWAY WINNERS-
Send me an email at alisaburke@gmail.com and I will get you the information for your online class season passes!
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 492 of 492My favorite supply are my watercolors!
Happy Birthday Week! Sometimes I give myself the whole month to celebrate. :). My favorite art supply - the one I can't live without - is kohinoor black ink in the .6 technical pen. But I might have to put the golden high flow paint on my wish list, because i love all kinds of inks and acrylics.
My favorite art supply is the Pelikan paint set in 24 transparent colors. It has a mixing tray and also two containers for fresh water that come apart and fit on the ends of the container itself. The colors are gorgeous and vibrant and it also contains a flesh color for faces. i am taking the Year of the Fairy Tale with Carla Sondheim, and this set was recommended.
I switch my favorites quite frequently, but right now I'm loving my colored pencils.
Happy Birthday Alisa!!!
I love Blick! I love walking up and down the isles getting inspired by all their product. My favorite supply these days is Winsor & Newton watercolors.
Happy happy birthday?
My favorite supplies are watercolors specially a 20 year-old pan watercolor case from Pelikan I bought in Arizona when I was living there...
Xoxo
Ana from Brazil
I love using markers and being able to draw and sketch without much preparation.
My favorite art supply right now is stencils. I love using them with my Gelli plate.
Happy Birthday! I love my paint brushes - I love the shape, the different sizes, and the feel as I hold them. They make every project fun!
Happy birthday!!! My favorite tool.....I like my brayer. It adds a layer of color when a brush intimidates me a brayer makes me commit and just keep rolling!! Thanks again for another chance!!
I'm entering this giveaway for my niece who is attending American Academy of Art in Chicago .. and her favorite store is Blicks! But I don't know what her favorite supply is :)
My acrylic paints run a close favorite to my watercolour paints...... So many supplies it is hard to love one more than the other......
Currently, I'm a sucker for porcelain paint pens!
I am loving empty spray monsters I can fill with adirondak and other inks. Have a great birthday week!!
I love empty little spray misters I can fill with pretty adirondak inks and spray through fun coffee break stencils. Sorry that's three things. :D
Hope you have a great birthday week! Shay.
happy birthday Alisa! mine was on sunday (3//9). :)
I don't really have a favorite at the moment, but nail polish is a classic. love using that on my art. :)
thanks for the chance to win!
Tiffany
Happy Birthday!!! Love your blog and I am loving Sharpie pens! I love all pens, pencils, & papers!!
My go too right now is Copic Markers. Great color coverage! Love them.
Luv sharpies, gold, Bronze, Slver and white! My daughter luvs Koi water colors and acrylics...
My favourite art supply at the moment has to be Daler Rowney FW Acrylic Inks! They have such great colour, and I like to get messy with them, and paint with my fingers!
I hope you're having a great birthday week!!
Empty little spray misters I can fill with pretty adirondak inks and spray through coffee break stencils area fun quick art supply I like for the tiny bit of time I have for art.
Thanks for the fun giveaway!
Patterned papers are my main stay but I'm oh so curious about the new high flow acrylics. I live in the desert southwest and paint dries so fast I'm forced to use mediums which isn't always ideal.
Best birthday wishes!
Happy Birthday Week Alisa!
Thank you for providing us with the opportunity of winning gifts on YOUR birthday week! My favorite art supplies includes everything from Golden's Fluorescent Paints from Dick Blick to homemade hot glue gun stencils! My favorite supplies also include the feather stamp collection I got from your store, my gelli plate, water color crayons, and dylusions' spray paints!
I love all types of old papers and wood. Also moving to Estonia soon so need all the help I cam get with buying some new art supplies- what to take and what to leave????
I love my set of Rapidographs, they were a splurge but worth it! Happy Birthday! You are so generous, I love how you always give back to your followers!
I just turned 39 last week! I love permanent markers. I use them all the time for sketches and coloring little random things.
What is my favorite depends on my mood but what I always go to or start with is a classic pencil!
Happy Birthday Week Alisa...
OMG, I just discovered Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Artists' Crayons, through the class, Life Book 2014, and I am in love with what they do. Add a Niji water brush, and you can go anywhere. I too love Blick. It's my kind of candy store. Yea.
I just love the neon paint! I have a project in mind already.
Hi Alisa - right now I'm making lots of cards for my daughter's shop. So I'm loving Japanese and mulberry papers and Twinkling H2Os.
Cheers
I am new to the drawing and painting art world, but love your blog. I don't have a favorite material yet. For Valentine's Day, I made my husband a sailboat with driftwood, using your post as a guide. Just this weekend I searched on your site for the best paint to use to make a "white" dog footprint on a dark canvas. I didn't find a suggestion on dog footprints - perhaps a future post for you.
Happy Birthday to you! My favorite would have to pen my Micron pens. I use them all the time. Love Dick Blick too. Thanks for the contest.
I love dick Blick! Right now my favorite new acquisition has been a few golden acrylic paints. I want to try the high flow acrylics! :)
Happy Birthday week... I totally love Sharpie Fineline Pens and Crayola Markers...and they are very hard to find here in South Africa. I usually ask friends to bring them over when they visit from the States.
Golden high flow acrylics-white and black
You can create anything with old packaging/envelopes, a pritt stick, scissors and some masking tape. For simple colour I still use the caran d'ache pencils my father gave me for Christmas 35 years ago. Some are just stubs now. T J D Allen
My favorite supplies are Golden paints, Neocolor II, Twinkllong H2O, Inktense pencils.
Happy birthday sweet Alisa!
Currently I'm really digging fountain pens, dip pens and beautifully colored inks.
I am in love with speedball easy carve for stamp making. It makes stamping quick and easy!
Happy birthday! I love your blog. I love using water color & white pens.
Happy birthday, Alisa! I hope you and your family are doing well. I'll bet Lucy will enjoy celebrating with you! It would mean so much to me to win a Dick Blick prize from you! I use my white Sharpie oil-based pen a lot, so I know what you mean. Another thing ... I love your studio!
Happy birthday! My current fave is Prisma Markers. I love them!!
Love, love, love Golden paints but they are so pricey. I need to start buying some neons. Love the bright colors. Thanks for the giveaway. Love Blicks!
Happy Birthday!! I hope you have a wonderful birthday Month!! Thanks for this post. We did a spending freeze for January and February, and I've been wanting to get a white pen, but have been slightly intimidated by all the choices!! Thanks for sharing your favorites!!
All the Best!!
my go to supplies right now is plain white paper and 0.7mm rollerball pens
I love my golden paints and my Sakura pens. Thanks for another great giveaway
I would love to try some of the paint pens, I love your doodles with the white paint pen on black. My glue gun is my favorite supply with glue sticks. Thanks
Happy Birthday! You share the same birthday with our son so it's a double special day! Hooray! I love the wood panels! So many fun things you can do with them!
Happy Birthday! I love you and your blog- you are a constant source of inspiration to me.
Also love, love goldens high flow acrylics!
I love Pigma pens. I'm a quilter and I use themn to embellish quilt blocks, or to sign my quilts.
Happy Birthday! My favorite supplies are watercolors and Sharpies, of course! :)
I love my shiny ink pens from Dick Blick!
Right now...I LOVE neon pink paint!
Happy Birthday, and how generous of you. I love Dick Blick and right now my favorite supply is the Micron pens, as I have been doing some doodling and line drawing.....thanks
Love my acrylics - look forward to trying out paint pens :)
Happy birthday!
White silk is my current favorite supply...
Happy birthday! I love all sorts of supplies too...art supplies anonymous anyone? Golden fluid acrylics are fabulous for so many applications. And my favourites for watercolour work are Tombow markers and Inktense, especially since Inktense works beautifully on fabric as well as paper, wood, canvas...
My favourite supplies are my Koi travel pack water colors, my wTer brush, my Pitt XS & S black markers, and my white Jelly Roll pen. I take them everywhere for art on-the go.
Hope you're having a wonderful birthday week!! My favorite supplies are the Kimberly Watercolor Pencils and Micron Pens. The Inktense Pencils are another favorite :) Thanks for a chance to win!! ~Sophia Vida
My favorite art supplies are Sharpies and water color paints - my children make the most lovely masterpieces!
Thank you for this giveaway!
Happy Birthday Alisa -- I love your blog and wish you loads of success in your coming year. I use acrylic paints (primarily Golden) but stumbled upon Lukas Cryl paints that are a cross between Golden Paints in the tube/jar and their High Flow paints.
Lukas Cryls come in a large squeeze bottle and are great to work with large canvases on.....I get a tarp and a few yards of unstretched canvas and start squirting paint all over the place. Sometimes I use a broom or mop to get the base down then bring out stencils or leaves/branches and spray paint.
The squeeze bottles let you make splatters in addition to random lines of paint.
They're quality paints from Germany and very inexpensive. I get them from Jerry's Artarama, my second favorite on-line art supply place next to Blicks (which just came to Sacramento - yay!)
Enjoy your birthday with your family and cheers to many more!
I'd love to win! I use the micropens, but I'd love to try the white paint pen!
Happy Birthday! May you have a blessed new year! I love ALL of my art supplies they just make me "happy" all the time! But right now I am in love with with Viva Colour Inka Gold Metallic Rubs! So smooth, buttery and fun!! Thanks for the opportunity!
Happy Birthday Alisa!! My favorite art supply is Portfolio Water Soluble Oil Pastels - I love how creamy, vibrant and blendable they are - and how inexpensive! I use them in my art journals often and sometimes on canvas works.
Happy Birthday! I love the New High Flow Acrylics!
I also love the sharpie paint pens and I also love a good Uniball white pen- next best thing!
Happy birthday! Thanks so much for sharing your favorites ... It's always inspiring:). I am loving my Copic black marker for making big fat lettering and doodling over it with my white gelli pen ... On glued together composition book paper:). What a generous giveaway! I've got a list of new supplies I'd love to play with ... $50 to Dick Blick would go far with helping to make that happen:)
Right this minute it is paint brushes to use with Chalk Paint.
Liquid watercolors I love. Thanks for the chance to win.
Happy birthday! I love anything watercolor related. My favorite supply is the Hydrus Fine Art Liquid Watercolor Sets by Dr. Ph. Martin's.
Oooh Happy birthday!! I love Prismacolor markers and pencil combination. The rich colors of the markers combined with the amazing depth of the pencils are wonderful.
I adore Bee Paper Company sketchbooks. The paper is sturdy at 70 lb., bright white, and the 5.5 x 8.5 format is so easy to carry around with me. Sakura Pigma Micron Pens work great on it, also good for pencil and other pen and ink.
At the moment I love the Pitt big brush pens for shading. Thanks for your blog...great ideas.
Right now my favorite art supplies is WATER COLOR PEN!! which I got from you! I had no idea they existed before and was nervous to try working with water colors because how unpredictable they can be but the pen allowed me to ease into it and enjoy the uncertainty. I LOVE watercolors now! Thanks Alisa.
I love Van Gogh's oils, but the thing I found most useful is a package of baby wipes for cleaning my hands and brushes
Happy birthday, Alisa! Hope you are on the receiving end of equal generosity for your birthday!
Happy Birthday week. It's so hard to choose one but I love my watercolor pencils.
Right now I am loving stencils. They make a great jumping off point for backgrounds. Trying to master stencils with sprays...
pens! i like the sakura gelly roll moonlight pens, ek success multisize black pens, & the sharpie paint pens too.
Just got to go to dick blick when I was in Chicago and I got the inktense pencils and just one of the golden flow paints and I love both!!! Been playing with them both!!!
Water color pencil and pastels!!! happy birthday
Inktense pencils. After I add a wash of water I add definition with micron pens.
My current favorites are watercolor pencils, pigma micron pens and any paint that finds itself within my reach.
At the moment I can't stop playing with my new Gelli Plate and deli paper.
YES YES YES! love sharpie paint pens and painting on wood :)
I love Micron pens so I can do water colour with no running. Also from your blog have learned to use many different materials. Thank you and Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday!
My favorite supply is my Sennelier pastels.
Happy Happy Birthday week!! We share some fav supplies in the paint pens and Golden fluids. Lately, I am working in ceramics. So, I am all in love with a variety of clay. :)
Happy birthday alisa by the way.. I love all products but I want to try pan pastels BADLY my near zero buddget wont allow the splurge!! My go tos are cara d'anche watercolor crayons though
Micron Pigma Pens are my current favorites. I am curious about other brands.
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