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Find all your creative supplies listed below. Academy students should plan on buying all supplies marked "Essential" unless they already own something similar.

Multi Media Drawing Academy Supplies

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This eraser can be molded to erase tiny areas. You can press and lift instead of rubbing, and you can knead it to clean it!

Kneaded Eraser

ESSENTIAL

My favorite standard graphite pencil set.

Prismacolor Graphite Pencil Set

ESSENTIAL

A great small sketch book for warm up exercises in class or on the go!

Small Sketch Book

ESSENTIAL

A great inexpensive brush for getting eraser and pencil crumbs off your paper without smearing!

Hake Brush

ESSENTIAL

An inexpensive, nice white eraser. I prefer this brand but any brand will do.

White Pearl Eraser

ESSENTIAL

A retractable eraser for smaller areas.

Retractable Eraser

ESSENTIAL

A great smaller size drawing pad.

9x12 Drawing Pad (spiral)

ESSENTIAL

A great thin leaded, soft colored pencil that works well for sketching!

Verithin Colored Pencils

ESSENTIAL

A variety of extra soft, soft and medium charcoal along with a white charcoal.

Charcoal Pencil Set

ESSENTIAL

An amazing personal pencil sharpener for graphite or colored pencils.

Battery Operated Pencil Sharpener

ESSENTIAL

A better-than-most watercolor paper for kids and watercolor sketching.

Student Grade Watercolor Pad

ESSENTIAL

A larger, smooth finish paper for fine art drawings.

Large Bristol Drawing Pad 19 X 24

ESSENTIAL

These are soft charcoals. You can use the tip or the side of them, so I start by teaching with these first.

Vine Charcoal (soft)

ESSENTIAL

A large variety of fun markers.

Alcohol Art Markers

ESSENTIAL

A great inexpensive T-square ruler for getting perfect horizontal and vertical lines.

T-square Ruler

ESSENTIAL

A variety of tips and sizes. A great marker set.

Pigma Micron Pen Set

ESSENTIAL

Three ring binder to hold handouts and charts. If you have one at home, just use that!

Three Ring Binder

ESSENTIAL

A great heavyweight, textured paper for mixed media.

Canson Mixed Media 7X10

ESSENTIAL

Smooth paper for final drawings.

Bristol Paper 9x12

ESSENTIAL

This mid-value paper is great for charcoal, colored pencil and graphite art!

Toned Paper (tan)

ESSENTIAL

A great way to soften your strokes.

Blending Stumps

SECONDARY

Student grade pencils that are great for art journaling, coloring and more!

Scholar Colored Pencil Set of 60 ct

SECONDARY

You'll use these to blend your watercolor pencils and also for watercolor sketching.

Watercolor Brush Pen Set

SECONDARY

A tool to help you resize your drawing from the reference.

Proportional Divider Tool

SECONDARY

A great set of alcohol markers for adding color to your artwork.

Brush Marker Set

SECONDARY

A flat smooth drawing panel. Helps you work on a tilted surface.

Drawing Board

OPTIONAL

Some of the nicest drawing surfaces I've used. Especially good for colored pencils and portrait drawing because of the smooth texture.

Stonehenge Paper Pad

OPTIONAL

This is a great spray to use on graphite and charcoal drawings and you can continue working on it if desired.

Workable Fixative

OPTIONAL

If you want to easily see the values in something that is full color, you can hold this over it and see only values.

Red Transparency Sheet

OPTIONAL

A set of tiny ended rectangular and round retractable erasers. Great for tiny areas!

Micro-size Retractable Erasers by Mono Zero

OPTIONAL

A great way to add color to your artwork.

Watercolor Pencil Set

OPTIONAL

Sometimes the 12" ruler is just not long enough!

18" T-square

OPTIONAL

This soft, smooth paper is amazing for sketching.

11x17 Hammermill Color Copy Paper

OPTIONAL

A handy little tool to help you get a variety of different size circles.

Circle Maker

OPTIONAL

An inexpensive ink pen. Love these!

Onyx Pens

OPTIONAL

This handy pocket color wheel will be a great tool as you create with color!

Color Wheel

OPTIONAL

I love this rechargeable light table! Makes a great drawing surface and there's no cords.

Rechargeable Tracing Light Table

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A great student-grade mixed media paper!

Mixed Media Book

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A cute bracelet all female artists are sure to love!

Art Bracelet

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A large 15x18 backpack style art bag.

Art Bag

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

These are great for quick studies- projects and charts

Postcards for Watercolor

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A great sketchbook for the artist who has everything!

Nice Art Sketchbook

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A fun artistic keychain!

Art Keychain

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A great book to use as a drawing reference.

Who's Who in Disney

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A blank multi-media art journal.

Blank Creative Journal Book

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

Handy clipboard to hold your sketch paper.

11X17 Clipboard

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

Create your own comic strip with this fun blank comic book.

Blank Comic Book

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

This eraser is great for erasing or lightening wax based colored pencils.

Battery Operated Eraser

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A small pencil pouch to keep your supplies together.

Small Pencil Pouch

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

This is a great tote for teens and adults to carry a variety of art supplies. A little too large for younger kids.

Large Art Tote Bag

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

This is a small zippered tote. Great for carrying to class.

Zippered Tote Bag

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

If you enjoy drawing or painting from life and want to do still life, this is a great tool to help you get the lighting right.

Photo Box with Lights

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

I use this case to hold my drawing pencils, charcoal pencils, verithin pencils, and a few markers! I love it!

Large Pencil Organizer Bag

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

This is an amazing set of buttery soft drawing pencils with a wide range from 10H to 10B. An upgrade from the Prismacolor brand.

Mitsubishi Graphite Pencil Set (Hi-uni)

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

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