#artistgiftguide

[dausy]

Heres my digital shopping wishlist for christmas. I'm not asking for anything just if I got to ask santa claus this is some of the stuff I was looking at.

Meanwhile theres a dog running amuck in the neighborhood and causing me and my dog grief.

Filming for youtube is weird always for yall who are like "no, I'm not going to film, I'm an artist!" and I agree with you! I legit ran to hobby lobby just for the intention of having some sort of background playing. Its really awkward!

[dausy]

Theres been an upper respiratory bug going around. Probably has something to do with the RSV outbreak thats made national news as well. All my coworkers had been complaining one by one of their kids getting sick and them getting sick and its been symptoms similar to the flu but all tests coming back negative. My husband, I'm pretty sure a couple weeks ago had a bad sinus infection. His symptoms were all snot and face related. Well I finally caught something. Started feeling like I had breathed in something bad /irritating when I got home from work Friday. Saturday I had the occasional cough and starting coughing up nasty tasting gunk. Yesterday, I felt ok in the morning but sounded worse by the evening and had a more frequent and irritating cough. Last night I went back and forth between sweating my proverbial balls off and soaking my sheets and being freezing cold at the same time. All my baby hairs all over my body hurts. I sat in bed until 4am before getting up and taking medication and now I feel better since its kicked in.

I just find it funny that I've made it through the entire 2020-til now era and never got sick while working in a hospital with direct patient care and now that Ive had my final day, I get ill.

The worst part is I dont feel well enough to do anything but my body hurts from just sitting still. I really cant couch potato well at all. I did watch a lifetime christmas movie yesterday...

anywho, I made a christmas guide before I got sick. Art materials I recommend.

[dausy]

(I filmed all these and put them on my tiktok @dausypoo btw)

So I wanted to do like a Christmas Gift guide for people looking for art related christmas gifts because at this point I'm such an art supply snob that I can talk about this all day long.

So I dun did a WATERCOLOR ONE first and provided links to stuff that I own and recommend and think would make a good christmas gift for people like me who like art supplies (*breathes*). This is not price specific.

First The Shinhan watercolor set. I'm a sucker for all things Pastel flavored if you haven't read any of my stuff before. Shinhan ofcourse does have other sets and larger and smaller set. This is one that I personally own and I love it and I use these colors all the time. It is one of my primary, most used sets a longside the art philosophy pastel set. Shinhan products are always impressing me. They have other supplies that I would love to try. They have a weird gouache/watercolor hybrid paint that I'd like to try. I'd love to own their markers if I could justify the cost. They have a new gouache set out that Im semi keen to own. I've purchased 2 of the gouache colors but weirdly..enough..I think they're ugly tubes and I do..judge..art supplies..on their covers. These watercolors however are ridiculously cute. The colors themselves are beautiful as well. The pastel ones in particular are pretty opaque..which..given that they're pastel and pastel colors tend to have white in them I'm not suprised. But I lay them on tinted watercolor and mix media paper with little issue.

Highly recommend. I'm sure the not pastel colors are beautiful as well. This set is about $70ish..dollars USD..which is..quite expensive..$ for beauty and all.

Link to amazon below

Amazon.com: SHINHAN SWC Tint Premium Professional Artist Grade Watercolor Paint Set 12colors 15ml : Arts, Crafts & Sewing

-----

Next

This is probably my most used and abused set. I love everything about it. I own the regular pastel set also but for the sake of space I just linked this one but I recommend both sets.

This one in particular..again because its pastel and has to have white in it the colors are pretty opaque for watercolor. That means they can add some really cool effects with layering that I really love. Plus they give that vintagey vibe..hence the name. The charcoal black in this set in particular is the ABSOLUTE PERFECT matte black. I use it to paint all of my animals eyes and lips. I feel like I use it so frequently but ofcourse those small areas it lasts forever

this is findable in big chain stores like hobbylobby but its usually sold out. About 30$USD in store/online.

Link below.

-----

NEXT!

Oh blessed holbein. I'm a number 1 holbein fan. I trust anything holbein. I love their packaging and I love their products. To me they look like candy and I want to collect all of them. The cool red box is very Christmassy too if I may say.

I actually personally own a pastel 12 piece set a specialty anime set. Both those sets though I believe I purchased from amazon japan itself and aliexpress. Looking at prices though.....omg..I didn't pay that much in price. The anime-y sets are pushing 80$ on aliexpress..I think I paid 25$ for the pastels and 40 for the anime one. Whoa. They're also really hard to find now. The anime ones are great for collectors but because of price I'm recommending the standard set instead which give a good load of intro colors. Holbein ofcourse does offer monster large sets and various tube sizes.

you can also ofcourse just buy open stock. I have a few 15ml tubes I purchased open stock. Namely white. You can never go wrong with TITANIUM White. It looks beautiful on colored watercolor papers.

Amazon.com: Holbein Artist's Watercolors Set of 12 5ml Tubes W401 : Arts, Crafts & Sewing

-----------------

NEXT

My bb. The hahnemuhle tinted watercolor book. I love the tan one best but theres a grey one as well as demonstrated in my most recent sketchbook tour. My only regret is that they don't have like an 8x11 or 8x8 sized journal because these are tiny.

st louis art supply does sell large lose leaf paper which I own but I like bound journals. I dont like keeping up with tons of individual paper.

I love this paper though and I love the tone it gives to ones paintings. The tan especially if you love that vintagey vibe (with the vintage watercolors above)

very inexpensive too

Toned Watercolor Book, Tan

One look at Hahnemühle's new Toned Watercolor Book and we were in love. The first thing you'll notice is the hardcover format, covered in wa

-----

Last!

so these japanese watercolors below are from Choosing Keeping in London. I did indeed pay for overseas shipping BUT LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE.

I got the spring one but theres 4 seasons and various mini sets sold by the same shop. A single season though is pretty pricey at around 76£.

japanese watercolors in general are pretty interesting in general. Real weird and filmy texture but the box sets are so cute I think it makes for a fun gift. If I were to visit England one day I'd hit this shop up.

Japanese Watercolour Set, 4 Seasons - Choosing Keeping

One of the possible byproducts of the situation we find ourselves in is a renewed heightened awareness of nature. The...

So thats it for right now. I do own more watercolors but these are the ones I think make for a fun gift with cute packaging and all.

Next I'll do my favorite topic of gouaches in a different entry.

[huiontablet]

Huion Store: https://store.huion.com/

Don’t forget to save this guide for choosing a best gift ! LY 😘

Need more advices ? Chat with me. 😉