List of all the tools I use
Here is a list of all the tools I use! Most of these are Amazon affiliate links, so if you purchase anything with these links, I will earn a commission at no cost to you :)
Disclaimer: I think your most important tool is your brain and hands. You can acquire all the best tools but I think it is how you use them.
📃Watercolor Papers📃
- Saunders Waterford cold press paper: I actually buy large sheets of this through the Blick website more than from amazon
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Arches Cold Press Watercolor paper: this paper is great but smells like wet dog. Saunders is my favorite alternative
🎨Paints🎨
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I started with Winsor & newton Cotman watercolor half pans and eventually started to buy the 8ml tubes to re-fill the pans. Here is a list of every color I use: Purple lake,
Alizarin Crimson Hue, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Red Pale, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ocher, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Viridian Hue, Sap green, China White, Cobalt Turquoise.
- Winsor & Newton field set I can't find an empty version, but this is the pan holder I use
- Bianyo Watercolors I use these sometimes for the blues and vibrant pink and green
- Knicker Poster Color
🖌️Brushes🖌️
A lot of my brushes are random ones I've gathered over the years. Most are synthetic and round. Here are some brushes I know I have:
- Artify 12pc Nylon Watercolor Brushes
- Winsor & Newton Series 150 Bamboo Brush-Round I use the size 8 and 11
- Round Brush Set Golden Taklon by Craft Smart
✏️Other painting tools📐
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Pencil Grip my favorite tool! I put these on everything to help hand pain
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Prismacolor Colored Pencils how I do lineart on my paintings
- General Pencil Charcoal White Pencils I love this pencil for adding higlights to my paintings! works better then any gel pen I've tried.
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SAKURA SumoGrip Pencil
- Red & Blue Pentel Lead I use this lead plus the sumogrip pencil to transfer my paintings. The lead breaks easily though, so you have to draw carefully
- Magnetic Light Box for Tracing use this to transfer my paintings
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Paint Brush Holder
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Lichamp Kraft Paper Packing Tape tape I use for stretching my paintings
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Hair dryer
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Apple Pencil 2
- 2018 Ipad pro
- Epson EcoTank ET-2800 Printer
- 1TB Portable External Hard Drive
- Overhead Camera Desk Mount Stand
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Canon R50 Camera I use the kit lens with this camera
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Big Pen for Nintendo 3ds
- Finger Exerciser, Grip Strength Trainer Your hand health is important! Exercise and stretch them to avoid injury
- Swingline Guillotine Paper Cutter this tool is super useful but I've had it for about 3 years and its starting to get dull. And i'm not sure if it has replacement blades. So not sure I'd recommend this model.
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Color and Light by James Gurney Art
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Soft Linoleum Block for Printmaking
if you see me with any tools not listed above, odds are I've upgraded to one of these
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Kuretake GANSAI TAMBI Watercolor Paints I hear great things about this paint
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ARTEZA Inkonic Fineliners Pens
- Canon RF16mm lens
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Canon RF35mm lens why are camera lenses so expensive 😭
- uni Color orange 0.5mm Lead want to see if this lead is less brittle
- Watercolor Paint Brush Set
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Kuretake White CARTOONUST Brush Pen
- Procreate
- Canva
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Premier Pro
- After Effects
- Instagram Edits
- TvPaint
- Flipnote