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A Quick Look At Art Supplies For Beginners by Darell Belen





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Locating the right source for art supplies for beginners is an easy task as they are widely obtainable in stores and online. New art students should find it productive to begin with drawing tools, as drawing skill is considered the basis of artistry. Supplies needed to work in a range of media can be procured either in a kit or separately. Those who are interested in advancing to higher levels of skill may want to acquire instructional DVDS or books.

It has been observed that nearly all people go through the same stages when developing their visual perception abilities, which explains why children and adults respond in a similar way when first exposed to art instruction. Teaching art making to a beginner is not much different for a child or grown up so the supplies would tend to be the same. A substantial portion of the art supply market is designed with those at the beginning level in mind.

Some popular items that are good choices for the beginner might not seem obvious, but graffiti art kits and face painting kits are two that people with little art background might pick. One selection always high on the list is a paint kit. These are complete kits suitable for the beginner.

Most art teachers would agree that drawing is the basic skill that all other artistic ability depends upon. With access to drawing tools and proper instruction, most students will respond favorably. Good drawing paper respectively for graphite pencil, and charcoal and ink along with the appropriate drawing implements and tools like an eraser, ruler and compass are the basic necessities for art students. Templates and french curves are a nice touch.

Pencil being perhaps the most basic drawing tool, there are other media including charcoal and pastels, which are important tools necessary to build the skills of rendering and shading tonal drawings. Gaining experience in these differing media is a good way to learn much of the visual vocabulary of marks used to build up a drawing.

Trying out pastels and markers may awake the interest of artists in training in taking it to the next step and learning the necessary lessons to become skilled at painting. There is a wide selection of very good quality, affordably priced painting supplies available for student artists. Good art kits are on the market which contain everything needed to begin to paint, including easels, brushes, paper and canvas.

Watercolors, gouache, tempera and acrylic paints are all types that the neophyte may wish to try. Since they are all water based, they are particularly easy to work with and to clean up. Student quality oil paints and brushes can also be easily located, though this medium may require more effort to master and is more complicated to work with and clean up after.

While having the proper supplies is imperative and practice is of great importance in learning to create art, most people can only progress so far without some formal art instruction. Those interested in advancing to a level of creating high quality or sophisticated art should find it helpful to take a look at some online resources when buying art supplies for beginners and consider obtaining some instruction books or DVDs.

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