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The Best Charcoal Sketch Sets for Inventive Drawing
From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and
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The Best Charcoal Pencils for Rich Effects With Less Mess
Love charcoal but hate the mess? Pick up a charcoal pencil, which is composed of compressed charcoal inside a protective layer, typically wood. Suitable for drawing, sketching, or smudging, a…
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The Best Casting Resin Kits for Molded and Sculpted Works
Resin is so versatile—you can use it to coat easily scratchable surfaces, create highly detailed molded pieces, or sculpt it as a medium all its own. In nature, trees secrete this viscous liquid…
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The Best Art Supply Travel Bags for Transporting Your Tools
Traveling with your art supplies can be cumbersome and even harrowing—unless you have the right bag to pack them in. If you’re a painter, you probably want separate pouches for your brushes that…
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The Best Art Sets and Gift Boxes for Adults
If you want to make a creative friend smile, give him or her a set of art supplies. There are kits that cater to a specific medium but also beautifully put-together boxes that allow users to…
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The Best Adaptive Scissors for Support and Comfort
Most of us take for granted the ability to pick up a pair of scissors and cut. But the fine-motor skills needed to use scissors are learned through practice, and often children need extra support
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The Best Acrylic Paint Sets to Bring Your Canvases to Life
Acrylic is a favored painting medium for both beginners and professionals alike for its easy setup, quick-drying properties, and malleable nature. Made out of pigments suspended in acrylic polymer
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Find the Best Oil Pastels for Landscapes, Still Lifes, and Portraits
Made from pigment mixed with nondrying oil and a wax binder, the first oil pastels were invented by the Osaka-based company Sakura in 1924 for use in Japanese schools. While oil pastels never caught
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Add Bright Color to Your Art Projects with the Best Liquid Watercolors
Similar to ink, liquid watercolor is a concentrated dye- or pigment-based solution providing brilliant, transparent color that can be diluted with water to achieve varying hues. Valued for their…
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To Get a Painterly Effect Without the Mess, Here Are the Best Oil Sticks
Like oil paint in a convenient, easy-to-hold form, oil sticks consist of a blend of pigmented drying oil and wax. These chunky tools are softer than oil pastels, so using them feels more like…
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