Becky Robertson
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Despite (or maybe because of) my experience with Prismacolor, when I needed to update my colored pencils recently I decided to go out on a limb and get the slightly more expensive Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils.
A couple of years ago my daughter wanted a set of paints for Christmas, so instead of going for a cheap set of Crayola watercolors, I got her the Koi Watercolor Postcard (24 color) Sketch Box. It was a good choice.
Being that I am an avid pattern collector (Zentangle patterns that is) and doodler, I needed a system that allowed me to quickly add new patterns to my collection and carry them around with me for quick reference or inspiration.
Pigma Micron pens are acid-free and archival, making them ideal for any application requiring precision and permanance. Pigma ink is derived from a single pigment to ensure color consistency, and is fadeproof against sunlight or UV light.
About once a year I get a new
Faber-Castell Pitt Wallet Set of 8 Black Artist Pens because I use them as often as I use my Microns. I also have a set in Sanguine and another in Sepia. I've even been known to buy them for the Kids as Christmas gifts!
The Ohto Graphic Liner Needle Point drawing pens produce the same kinds of lines as your typical fiber-tipped drawing pens, but with a sturdy metal needle point instead! This means that you'll never have to worry about smashing the pen tip in over time, and can use every last drop of the waterproof, archival-safe pigment ink.
This Copic fountain pen style drawing pen provides a permanent line that won't bleed when used with COPIC or other drawing markers. The pen has a stainless steel tip perfect for inking and drawing.
, Set 1, Letraset ProMarkers provide flawless color laydown, consistent coverage, and no streaking, making them ideal for design, illustration, comic art, and crafts. I have 120 colors that I purchased mostly as open stock, and I absolutely love them!
Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens feature pigmented India Ink in multiple nib sizes and the 48 colors brings great versatility to pen-and-ink drawings requiring lots of intricate details. The ink is waterproof, unsurpassably lightfast, acid-free, and pH-neutral.
Tim Holtz Distress Markers contain waterbased ink in a variety of colors that match the Tim Holtz stamp pad palette, great for creating vintage, stained, and aged effects.
The
Tombow Dual Brush Pens have two tips - a flexible brush tip and a fine-point, hard nylon tip. Both tips are fed from the same ink reservoir ensuring exact color match. Tombow's odorless waterbased inks blend to create any color desired.
Filled with opaque white India ink that is waterproof, permanent, and archival, the Pitt Big White Artist Pen is great for large format artwork. The odorless ink won't bleed through paper.
Highly pigmented and smooth water-soluble artists' crayons, the
Lyra Aquacolor Crayons dissolve and produce creamy color blends. Apply dry and release with water from a brush or blender.
Shizen Watercolor Paper is handmade in India from 100% recycled cotton materials using a pollution-free process. This acid-free white watercolor paper is 100% cotton and internally sized, with a rough surface.
Strathmore's best selling fine art papers are now available in official
Artist Trading Card size so artists can create, swap, and collect art around the world.
Well known for their superior quality, the
Cretacolor Fine Art Graphite Pencils are made by mixing and then grinding together different types of graphite with high-grade fireproof ceramic clay. This special clay gives the graphite high breaking strength.
The
Cretacolor Ecologic Wooden Lead Holder fits 5.6 mm round graphite and chalk sticks in a shape designed to fit easily in your hand while you draw. The varnished natural wood makes the holder as beautiful as it is functional.
The super-bright, maintenance-free LED lamps of the
Artograph LED LightPad provide cool, even illumination and last up to 30,000 hours. The surface is double-layered for firmness, and encased in a durable extruded aluminum frame.
Twinkling H2Os transmit refractive light and color, adding sparkle and shine to your project, and they come in over 200 beautiful colors.
Add lustrous glow to paintings, drawings, jewelry & sculpture. Mix
Jacquard Pearl-Ex Pigments into any viscous medium like oil, acrylic, gouache, varnish, wax, paper pulp, or clay. Also for collage and mixed media art, printing, and pottery.
Noodler’s Ink has the lowest cost per volume in stores that carry it and it’s 100% made in the USA from cap to glass to ink. In fact, every ink is hand-made one batch at a time! As a personal note, I love this ink, every single color that I own (nearly 20 so far), but my favorite ink is the X-Feather Black. I use X-Feather for "black work" which is my term for large areas of black in a piece. Honestly, this is just great stuff!
Pearlescent Liquid Acrylic Artist's Inks are lightfast, waterproof, watercolor inks in shimmering, iridescent colors. They're ready to use straight from the bottle with dip pens and brushes. Colors can be intermixed.
The Gelatos Color Gift Set includes all 28 colors of Gelatos, a Water brush, 2 Smudge Sticks and 2 Foam blending tools in a beautiful slide-out gift box that does double duty as a storage container for in the studio or easy on-the-go use.
Beautiful, wonderfully functional watercolor palettes that are made right here in the United States by Robax Engineering. As of yet I haven't been able to do much with mine other than load up all my paint, but I've been in love with it since I took it out of the box!
The Tim Holtz Distress Stains are fluid dyes in a dyes in a dauber top bottle that make it easy to quickly cover large areas. You can mist it with water to lighten the color and create a mottled effect. I like to use them on wood and stone projects as well as on paper.
