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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 Medium Drawing Academy Supplies

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An amazing personal pencil sharpener for graphite or colored pencils.

Battery Operated Pencil Sharpener

ESSENTIAL

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

Hake Brush

ESSENTIAL

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

Three Ring Binder

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

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

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

T-square Ruler

OPTIONAL

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

Micro-size Retractable Erasers by Mono Zero

SECONDARY

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

Color Wheel

SECONDARY

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

Verithin Colored Pencils

SECONDARY

These are the best brushes ever! This is a good variety set. They are often on sale which makes them reasonably priced.

Original Gold Variety Brush Set

WATERCOLOR

The best watercolor paper out there! Buy these books or pick up full sheets available at many art stores.

Arches 140# Cold Press Watercolor Paper

WATERCOLOR

This is a great travel watercolor set or for the Multi Media Academy.

Koi Watercolor Set

WATERCOLOR

Tape or staple your wc paper to keep your paper from curling up. It's quite expensive online so we've bought it in bulk so you can purchase it from us!

Mounting Board for Watercolor Painting

WATERCOLOR
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These lifts can be stacked together for a variety of heights. Perfect for watercolorist and great for drawing on an angle as well.

Angle lifts for drawing & watercolor

WATERCOLOR

An inexpensive set of oil painting brushes.

Ebony Splendor Long Handle Round Brushes

SECONDARY

Masking Tape or Artist tape to use for applying to mounting surface. You will need this of the frog tape.

Masking Tape

WATERCOLOR

These are the best round brushes ever! They hold a tip and are very durable. They are often on sale at kingartco.com, which makes them reasonably priced. Make sure you have a variety of some kind of round brushes.

Original Gold Max Round Brushes

WATERCOLOR

You'll need a spray bottle to keep handy while painting! You can something simple like this or the continuous spray bottle listed as optional.

Spray Bottle

WATERCOLOR

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

Circle Maker

PEN & INK

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

Pigma Micron Pen Set

PEN & INK

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

Brush Marker Set

PEN & INK

An inexpensive ink pen. Love these!

Onyx Pens

SECONDARY

These eraser are great for charcoals and pastels

Variety Erasers

CHARCOAL

Blending sponges

Charcoal/Pastel Blending Set

CHARCOAL

An inexpensive set of charcoal pencils that also includes white charcoal.

Charcoal Pencil Set

CHARCOAL

These are soft charcoals. You can use the tip or the side of them. It's a great way to cover a large surface.

Vine Charcoal (soft)

CHARCOAL

11 X17 charcoal paper for use with charcoals and pastels

Strathmore Charcoal Paper

CHARCOAL

Great for working on an easel, and covering a large surface-- but it's messy!

Charcoal Powder

CHARCOAL

A harder type of charcoal.

Compressed Charcoal

CHARCOAL

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

Electric Eraser

CHARCOAL

A additional drawing tool for charcoal.

Peel & Sketch Charcoal Pencils

CHARCOAL

A large variety of fun markers.

Alcohol Art Markers

ALCOHOL MARKERS

An easy way to burnish your colored pencil layers together.

Colored Pencil Blender Marker

COLORED PENCILS

The poster putty acts as an eraser for colored pencils.

Poster Putty (CP eraser)

COLORED PENCILS

This is an upgrade from the standard set of professional colored pencils that is on the list. If you can afford these, it's worth it!

Prismacolor Colored Pencil Set 150 ct

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A colored pencil with no pigment to blend colors!

Colored Pencil Colorless Blenders

COLORED PENCILS

A great set of professional colored pencils, but if you already have some colored pencils, check with us and we will see if they work!

Prismacolor Colored Pencil Set 72ct

COLORED PENCILS

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

COLORED PENCILS

A great student-grade mixed media paper!

Mixed Media Book

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

An amazing way to organize all your colored pencils!

Colored Pencil Organizer Bag

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A great sketchbook for the artist who has everything!

Nice Art Sketchbook

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

Sometimes the 12" ruler is just not long enough!

18" T-square

OPTIONAL

A larger, smooth finish paper for fine art drawings.

Large Bristol Drawing Pad 19 X 24

OPTIONAL

A fancy spray bottle for all watercolorists.

Continuous Spray Bottle

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

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

Rechargeable Tracing Light Table

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

Handy clipboard to hold your sketch paper.

11X17 Clipboard

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

This soft, smooth paper is amazing for sketching.

11x17 Hammermill Color Copy Paper

OPTIONAL

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

Proportional Divider Tool

OPTIONAL

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

Blank Comic Book

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A small pencil pouch to keep your supplies together.

Small Pencil Pouch

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

To protect all your clothing, use a lab coat instead of an apron!

Lab Coat

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

This is a great tote to carry a variety of art supplies. You'll need a bag of some kind.

Large Art Tote Bag

OPTIONAL

You'll need some type of holder to carry your paintbrushes in to keep them from getting damaged.

Paint Brush Roll Up Container

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

A great smaller size drawing pad.

9x12 Drawing Pad (spiral)

ESSENTIAL

A great way to protect your clothes!

Art Apron

OPTIONAL

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

A great way to add color to your artwork.

Watercolor Pencil Set

OPTIONAL

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