I haven’t written in the previous years threads but I’m just so happy of the gift I got yesterday for New Year’s from my father so here I am

It’s the full 84 set of the Neocolor II crayons! Those and the Neocolor I are pretty much my favourite art supplies ever so this is a very big deal for me

I can’t wait to use them!

Hey all im Spike and im an art supplies addict and this holiday season and these past few weeks have been very good to me. Ive gotten alot of art supplies as gifts, bought a lot of stuff on clearance in art stores, stocked up the stufio and got a ton of new supplies on a new art supply site i have found with really good prices .

I will posts pics later but recently i have got a full set of prismacolor premier colored pencils, a full set of art stix and prismacolor watercolor pencils, some colorless blenders.

On the new site i found called Arteza (im not affiliated or anything just psyched to find new supplies) i got a set of 24 woodless colored pencils (actually recieved two sets of these because originally one pencil came broken i called them up about it and free of charge they sent a whole new set talk about good customer service!!) the set was only 10$ and claims to be lightfast too along with all their other supplies i asked a million questions to customer service and got quick replies in emails. A set of 72 fineliners that can be watersoluble for 20$ 48 watercolor brush markers made of brush hairs instead of the typical brush nib only 30$ two pads of markwr paper, and 6 waterbrushes for 9$

At michaels they had a clearance on grumbacher pretested oils so i grabbed a ton at 3 and 4$ And woodless ebony penicils to sketch with and canvases for commisions i just revieved

At blick i got a 8 round watercolor brush some new blick pastels and spare nupastels to add to my collection, just got a big strathmore cp pad, a set of some cheap loew cornell white nylon gesso brushes i love for acrylic painting and some pastelbords to sell some work and blick studio acrylics that i love to use to work big and some of their artist acrylics and utrecht acrylics as well as an xl watercolor pad 7*10 that ive been using to make studies for paintings and water media sketching in and some metal sharpeners and a black big pitt pen

And lastly amazons great too and i got some big sargent art beushes for murals a full aet of derwent graphic pencils, a tin set of derwent watersoluble pencils and i think thats all for now art supply addiction was in full on fever this last month ill post pics later

I love the blick studio acrylics theyre pretty good quality i think slightly better than the liquitex basics and when i want to stretch them out more i add some matte medium . And at 4.75 for a 8 oz tube its perfect. From what i tested the waterbrushes are awesome so ate the derwent watersoluble, arteza woodless watercolor pencils!

Interesting. I have Koh-I-Noor Progresso woodless colored pencils, have also had a set of 72 Cretacolor woodless watercolor pencils. I liked those. They last a long time, they’re reasonably soft, very good pencils – the Cretacolor ones make a good kit if I only bring one set of pencils anywhere because of that. I didn’t know Derwent had any woodless ones, or do you mean Arteza has its own brand of woodless watercolor pencils? Oh right, Derwent had those really great woodless ones in a 24 color range. I used to have those and loved them. Then I couldn’t get them any more.

Got my package in!

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The two little plastic bags above the pencils have 3 each of size 5 and size 6 Speedball C nibs for dip pens. Chisel tip nibs, actually small enough to do good calligraphy at a reasonably small size. There’s also 15 of the Elegant Writer Calligraphy pen markers, three of them for me and my grandkids, a dozen for my upcoming calligraphy class. They are 2mm chisel tip ones.

Center and brightest thing in the order, 30 Supracolor Soft watersoluble colored pencils! I love these. I had just one to sample them and wanted some for ages ever since, hadn’t gotten around to getting any till now. Here’s a photo of the tin wide open:

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Love the colors on these!

The range of 30 is good enough for anything I’d want to do on the fly. There’s all the important hues plus some nice extras like Bluish Pale and both a red cast violet and a blue violet.

So sorry bad with grammer and typing, arteza has their own line of woodless watercolor pencils which are so cool. Arteza is slowly becoming one of my fave brands for their prices and unique supplies. They also have woodless regular color pencils. Their colored pencils are very similar to the progressos pencils. The arteza woodless watercolor pencils are much softer than their own line of woodless colored pencils and much softer than the progressos as well im thinking a similar softness to the prismas perhaps.

I also have derwent watersoluble sketching graphite pencils in a small tin set of 6 didnt specify properly sorry; which i love i made some sketches with thise while out at museums and use the waterbrushes over. I also under a acrylic painting am gonna try it out.

Another thing i forgot was a 72 set of watercolor pencils by arteza which was an impulse buy online as i wanted free shipping so i loaded it all up in the cart and didnt want to pay for shipping on multiple orders. 72 watercolor pencils which claim lightfastness and have ratings on each pencil. Ill have to take pics i just got off from work, its been a long day and few days with catching sick ess and the snowstorms and shoveling.

Its an online only site and yes im in the US in New York wouldnt want it any ither way . Their shipping is a bit much but if you look or google search their can be discount codes or free shipping codes. So far with Arteza if theres been any problems in my three orders they fix it and they reply very fast over email and answer almost any questions ive had. I think they might be a new company or something because every few weeks or so it looks like they add a new range of supplies to their line and theyve emailed me saying they plan on adding more. Ill send you some links. I really hope my taste in supplies is a good one.

Those supracolor soft pencils look amazing. I love soft colored pencils , I have just noticed im getting a big preference towards soft

stock up on acrylics

almost all these oils were at a local michaels for between 3.29 and 5$!!! Never tried them out yet lmk if you guys have yet

the arteza woodless cps and woodless watercolor cps , both look identical and they have the same
Color range as eachother but youll know by softness which is which and initial packaging says. They got cool review videos on their sites thats what dragged me into them ughhh art addiction.

amazon had this palette knife set for 4$!
fineliners not overly thrilled about these but i didnt have drawing pens so i had to for 17$
waterbrush set various sizes very convenient for sketching on the go it seems, theyre the first waterbrushes ive tried so dont take my word here
watercolor brish markers took a few practice scribbles to get used to but man these are intense and fun https://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/Uploader/upload_image_save2.php# sargent brushes loew cornell abd a clearanced Simmons

So sorry if I posted too much i got more pics but thats all its letting me for now hope i didnt break any rules:(