mymodernmet.com: If you’re a creative person, there are few better feelings than trying new art supplies. It’s always fun to get a fresh tube of acrylic paint or a set of drawing pencils, but did you know that there are tools and materials that fly under the radar? They are innovative and sure to help in your art and design, but they tend to have a cult following.
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Neat! I always like learning about new art supply inventions or innovations. It is good to see that there are still interesting things being made for artists that do not just work in digital mediums. I often think that the pieces of non digital 2D art get swept under the rug. Or they are thought of as lesser, somehow. So things do not get made for 2D artists as much as new software is made for digital artists. The art supply from this article that I like the best is the index finger exacto. Holding an exacto and pressing down with enough pressure to cut through whatever you are cutting gets tiring to say the least. I think this new, more ergonomic knife would help a lot of people combat their wrist fatigue when making models or just cutting in general. I will have to look into getting myself one of these, for when I start building my models for my thesis.
This article has become the love of my life. I have always loved to shop, especially stationary and art supplies. I do not know why but whenever I buy such things, I just feel satisfied and happy and utilized.
Ever since I was a kid, I have always loved to draw and paint with different mediums using different techniques. It just makes me feel like I have used my time wisely, trying to brainstorm the working of a particular medium or tool. For example, the first time I used water crayons for an assignment, I spent a good two days just trying to understand how the water crayons work properly enough for them to be useful in my assignment. And as difficult as it was, in the end, I felt nice that I had figured the uses and working of new medium, which makes working with water paints so much easier.
It is only because of this benefit that I love the prospect of trying new art supplies.
I really enjoyed reading this article, although I’m not an advanced artist, I feel like this article was very informative. I liked the fact that they specifically mentioned different types of textures and ways to achieve them. I never thought of using the materials they mentioned but now I open to use materials that aren’t normally used. With that, I feel like they did a good job at describing the properties of materials. I think this article would be especially valuable to people who are visual artists because there are some great tips throughout. Something else that appreciated was the fact that they simplified the materials. In a way I feel like this article was targeted to multiple levels of skill. They talk about materials that would make one's life easier when trying to create a piece. I feel like this article is extremely versatile and the videos and series really help with the informative aspect of this article. It also makes the process of creating a piece, in which for someone like me is a difficult thing to do, a lot easier and an enjoyable experience.
I clicked on Sara Barnes’ article because I’m interested in learning about, as the article is titled, “7 Innovative Art Supplies to Add to Your Studio Collection”. Her article was truly successful in offering me personally art supplies I haven’t used or have heard alot about. They will definitely help fill in the gaps when other supplies aren’t filling up role, these will do just that. The first supply that caught my eye was the Pebeo Paints. This paint often creating the effect of honeycomb and marbling, I can see myself using on a future project and experimenting with different results that I can achieve with this paint. Another paint related item I see myself buying in the future and using in my more recreational, art for me, uses is the uni-POSCA paint marker pen. I love creating lines and shape with additive and subtractive layers with different materials, and I see this art supply to be a cool addition in those types of creations. Beside those two I would definitely look into more, the acurit proportioner, the special effects palette knives and the index finger knife.
This art supplies is so cool! However my uses in them within school will be limited, I doubt Susan would let me make a colour wheel with watercolour crayons. This honeycomb effect paint reminds me of the short phase of nail polish which purposefully cracked, an interesting appeal. Some of the things on this article however, are uninteresting, such as paper cutters. These are artistic tools that can be used as cop outs. The proportioner is something I would love to have, for often I find myself trying to draw flash again but just can’t seem to get my sizes right. The finger blade is a great invention, and should become a standard. Many art supplies should be redesigned for comfort use, and not just accept that our hands must cramp up. Suffering for your art is cool and all but should be kept to what’s necessary.
Some of these tools are so interesting, useful, and clever. As I get more involved in visual art and model making, I think I would have a lot of fun with these. I have been told that one of the best ways for me to get more comfortable with art and artistic tools is to experiment with them and see what kind of journey that takes me on. Before this year, I’d only taken one art class, so a lot of things are brand new to me, especially some of the things on this list. The palette knives are only vaguely familiar to me because I believe Bob Ross used them in his videos, but should I ever need to create texture in a painting or sculpture, I think I’d turn to those. The paint pen looks like it could be fantastic for defining shapes in a painting without destroying the integrity of its style. I’d love to try some of these tools as I learn more about the world of visual art.
As a freshman Design and Production student at the School of Drama, I am always looking for tools that make my life and my work as a student easier to do. This article provides several examples of tools like that, however, I believe some of these are more common than believed by the author. For example, this author seems to think that watercolor pencils and paint pens are very revolutionary and not commonly used, which I believe is quite the opposite. Some of these other tools I also cannot imagine being as useful as stated by this author. For example, the hand paper punches are not nearly as useful for our uses, in general. I also do not imagine the index finger knife is as useful to us, as a regular knife would be, just because it lacks so much versatility. The palate knives, while cool, are also not very useful for us.
I truly love these types of posts about art supplies. Even when my job doesn’t really require any type of art making, I love doing things on my not so much spare time. I am really interested in the watercolor crayons, the index knife, and the “proportioner”. Having watercolor in crayons provide such a practical perk to that type of material, it would make them so much easier to carry around, and to travel with, without fearing they might puncture or make a mess in the rest of your art box. The index knife seems like a brilliant idea, it would ease the hand fatigue, especially for those who spend so much time cutting tiny things -I’m looking at you all, scenic designers, and props people-. Ultimately I am very curious about the proportioner, mainly because I don’t really understand how it works. I would love to learn more about it.
This article feeds right into my guilty pleasure of niche art supply shopping. While some products always end up being more useful than others, there is never a shortage of interesting materials and gadgets in the art store. The other day, the art store on campus had a sale of a bunch of items on a table and I walked out with a little bottle of japanese ink with zero intention of properly learning to use it. Of this list in the article, I could definitely find myself picking up the index finger knife. Having suffered through many hand cramps and tedious cutting with a normal X-Acto knife, I would pick this up in a heartbeat. I’ve also fallen in love with those watercolor crayons and the paint marker pens, though I’d have a hard time justifying the purchase. Fun and experimental art supplies always manage to get me excited about making art-- not in a serious and inspirational way, but in a playful and curious way.
I love articles like these because they always bring me a little bit of joy over finding a new cool thing to use to make art. I was especially intrigued by the tool that allowed you to measure and transfer drawings in a different scale. I am curious about the overall dimensions of the tool and it's range, because that wold have been most useful in drafting class a few times. I also really loved the markers that emulate watercolour because, while I have always loved using watercolour, I am not very good at it, and maybe these markers are a happy medium for those who want to achieve that effect for something simple and they don't have the time to learn how to watercolour at that level. I do worry that the exacto knife handle could be problematic, and likely does not fit on a lot of people's hands, but other than that I loved reading about all of these very niche, but cool, tools.
This article looked very exciting for me because I LOVE new art supplies and have no willpower whenever I go into an art store. However, due to this I already, unfortunately, knew about a lot of these tools. There were two, however, that I had not heard of before, that I am about to go buy on Amazon: the ACURIT PROPORTIONER and the UNI-POSCA PAINT MARKER PEN. They both sound like amazing tools that would be extremely helpful for my art - especially the proportioner. Whenever I'm trying to resize a picture I get so stressed out behind all of the math that I usually just give up and freehand it - this could solve all of my problems. The paint marker looks AMAZING mostly because I love mixing media and paint can get tricky in smaller spaces, so I having a marker for it is like having charcoal pencils for the little details in charcoal drawings (which yes, I already have).
I am such a sucker for new art supplies and tools in general. I love being able to play around with different mediums and seeing how different types of tool work. I’m not sure if I would ever find a real use for watercolor crayons, since I’m not a huge fan of crayons in general. Watercolors and watercolor pencils are good enough for me. I do like the look of the Pebeo paints, and I think there would be some cool things that I could create with experimenting with it. I don’t think I would use the paper cutters, but the rest of the art supplies listed in this article I would most definitely be able to use. The index finger knife? Where’s that bloody thing been all my life? There are so many projects that could have been easier and less painful if I’d known about this invention! I’ve already spent way more than enough on art supplies recently so I’m going to have to restrain from now jumping onto some online shopping platforms and spending another fortune on things I won’t get enough time to use at this school.
In this time of boredom at home with some free time on my hands, I have turned to simple crafting. Most of my free time is spent painting or coloring. This creative outlet is something small I am able to do while staying in quarantine. These tools are so fun and I hope I can try them soon. The title of the article is slightly incorrect, but that’s okay. The title claims that I have not heard of all of these products, but I have experienced many of these actually. That could just be a personal privilege, but so be it. I feel like many people have seen the little paper cutout tools. I grew up with some just laying around the house. Many were simple shapes such as squares or stars, but there was one that was a butterfly that I used to love to play with. I also am a big fan of these paint pens. Paint pens are something that can be so useful but if used wrong, it is a big mess. I also was shocked to see the watercolor crayons. I have watercolor colored pencils which I love to create unique color combinations, but I had never heard of this in a crayon before.
Although this is a very cool list, most of these I feel like are very common or I have seen before. Especially with the watercolor mediums, I think many artists have used, or seen other artists use watercolor crayons or markers or something along those lines. They are super nice because they are transportable, not messy, and easy to use. The paint markers I think are also super common, although personally I hate them. It’s always really difficult for me to get the right amount of paint out and not too much or too little. Also they say they won’t bleed but they definitely will. The Palette knives were something I hadn’t seen before which I thought were pretty cool, however I have no idea how to use palette knives, so I don’t understand how they would create the shapes they claim to make. I thought palette knives were just for mixing.
My thoughts on each unique supply:
The watercolors are very cool! I wonder if they would be useful on their own or if you don't have a watercolor base painting or another type of drawing. However, I do want these now.
I've always wanted to draw a comic book or storyboard an animation. However, I would instead make my own, so I can change the block sizes however I want.
I would love to try these watercolor crayons and compare them to the classic watercolor and watercolor pencils.
Pebeo paints seem like an excellent tool for abstract art; however, I can't imagine a use for them in a piece made to depict something specific. On the other hand, I bet if they could be cheaply bought in large quantities, they could be fantastic for theatre.
I loved paper punchers as a kid! Absolute classic.
I don't know who the target audience is because I have defiantly heard of POSCA markers. They are excellent paint pens for artists. However, their practical application otherwise isn't great.
Why and how have I never heard of special effect pallet knives? I would love to see pieces made only using these.
Water brush pens aren't my favorite, but I know some artists love them.
Where drafting and art mix: Acruit Proportioner.
I may get this index finger X-Acto knife! Who doesn't love an X-Acto?
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My Modern Met always has such interesting and helpful articles with insightful recommendations for artists wishing to learn more about their supplies and tips to work smarter, not harder! The products recommended here seem genuinely cool, including the glitter watercolors, (what a way to add a whole new layer to a painting!) Pebeo paints, which I have never heard of but look really fun, or the Acurit Proportioner to make drawing faces and facial features 10x easier. I always love trying new materials (Susan’s class has really challenged me to do this,) and these tools seem super interesting to test out. Posca pens are on this list, and I have used them for years now, and they are a game changer. They give the opacity of a paint but the ease and control of a pen, which has proven to be perfect for outlining projects or more of a pop-art look.
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