Back-to-School Art Supplies To Make This School Year The Best One!
We are back to that time of the year when the weather has started to cool down a bit, your social media is full of pictures from friends and family sipping on their pumpkin spice lattes, and an impressive list of school art supply is sent home.
Shopping for school supplies, specifically art supplies, can be overwhelming and confusing,particularly when your child is already a budding artist. You don't want to send them off with anything that would be instantly robbed or lost, but you really don't want their school supplies to impede their creative growth.
The year 2020 may appear to be somewhat unique as compared to the past school shopping years, but one thing is for sure that your kid will be starting the next grade and will require the right set of art supplies to unleash the creative side of their brains. You will without a doubt need to get a bunch of papers, colours and brushes, but worry not as we have curated a list of bestselling school art supplies for you to make this year the most productive year for your kids!
So be ready to buy lots and lots of art supplies that your children will anticipate utilizing,
regardless of how they are learning this fall.
“The quality of the Back-to-School supplies matters the most than its price.”
While you can find deals and discounts on major products this season, what attracts parents is quality and the variety of student art supplies. And at King’s Art & Framing Gallery you can get all of it - amazing discounts, great quality and a range of back-to-school art supplies. So, let’scheckout some of our best picks for this season of school,Best Brushes for Back-to-School Supplies.
Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolour Brushes
Cotman brushes are a collection of high quality pure silicone watercolor brushes made with the same techniques, produced over many years, as those used to produce the finest sable brushes. The brushes are made of a mixture of varying thicknesses of synthetic fibers. The thicker fibers contribute strength and spring so that your young artist can splash vibrant colours, while the thinner fibers improve the capacity to hold colors so that your child doesn’t have to dip their brushes into the colour palette every now and then.
What to expect:
★ High quality synthetic watercolour brushes
★ Blended synthetic fibres of differing thicknesses
★ Thick fibres give strength and spring
★ Thin fibres for colour carrying capacity
Cotman brushes are designed specifically for use with watercolour and water based media.
Simply Simmons Synthetic Watercolour Brushes
Clearly Simmons Brushes is ideal for beginners, amateurs, and pros as well, providing superior efficiency , durability, and value — all at one low price, no matter what the size. They are handmade by professional artisans to follow the same high quality that artists demand from the name of Robert Simmons.
What to expect:
Suitable for work in watercolors and inks
- Ideal for creating fine lines with outstanding spring, point, and colour keeping capability.
- High quality brushes for beginners particularly.
The Plastic Rigger short handle is constructed from a special combination of plastic filaments of several diameters — suitable for work in watercolors and inks.
Princeton 5400 Natural Bristle Long Handle Brushes
If your aspiring little artist loves to paint in oil and acrylic, the RefineTM Interlocked-bristle brushes are the best pick for them! They come with marked tips (split ends) to monitor and retain more colour. The Refine™ brush line combines quality, value, and variety in shapes and sizes to meet the creative needs of all oil and acrylic painters. It is a qualified RefineTM collection of Chungking bristle brushes that are supple 100 % natural. Interlocked flag hairs hold lots of color and keep their form well.
What to expect:
- 100 % natural. Interlocked flag hairs hold lots of color and keep their form well
- Exquisite copper-plate ferrules and hardwood handles
- Best for oil and acrylic mediums.
- Natural Chungking Bristle
- Interlocked for control and shape retention
- Widest assortment of shapes and sizes
Colours for Back-to-School Supplies
Jack Richeson Semi-Moist Tempera Set Of 12 Cakes
Jack Richeson Semi-Moist Tempera Cakes in Black Tray Set of 8 feature vibrant, bright colours that mix beautifully. The square cakes are easily wet with water so you can be worry-free of the mess created later. Not as messy or wasteful as liquid tempera paint, Tempera Cakes are great for classrooms and group art projects. You can get them in a set of 8 colour cakes and 12 colour cakes. Check it out here.
What to expect:
- Each Small Square cake measures 1¼ × 1 × ¼ inches.
- Long lasting, Semi-opaque brilliant colours
- Wets easily
- Paint is AP certified non-toxic.
Demco Powder Tempera
We can vouch for this like anything! Ideal for school use as it is super easy to clean. A high-quality range of opaque, non-toxic powder colours used in education where art, design and related studies are taught. The powder mixes readily with water to produce smooth creamy colours with excellent covering power and brushing properties.
What to expect:
- Ready to use, non toxic, bright opaque poster colours with a rich flowing consistency.
- Powder Tempera allows you to mix any amount of paint whenever you need it.
- Mix 1 part powder with 1 part water for best paint consistency.
- AP certified; non-toxic and safe.
- All colours can be freely inter-mixed to yield intermediate hues and shades.
A range of ready to use, non toxic, bright opaque poster colours with a rich flowing consistency. The covering power is excellent, it does not crack or flake when dry.
Art Advantage Watercolour Pencil Set
Imported from Taiwan, these watercolour pencils are made with high-quality pigments and dissolve easily with water to help you express your creative side as you brush and blend the colours together to form a masterpiece. Achieve subtle to strong tones by blending with water. Pencils are also excellent for dry media use and dry blending.
What to expect:
- Includes 36 watercolour pencils
- High-quality pigments and dissolve easily with water
- Case: 14'' W x 13'' H
- Wood casing
- Recommended for ages 7 years and up
Papers for Back-to-School Supplies
Fabriano Aquarelle Studio Watercolour Pads & Blocks
Fabriano Studio Watercolor Pads are priced for students and beginners yet contain what feels like a professional-grade paper.
Machine-made in Italy from 25% cotton and 75% alpha cellulose, the sheets have an improved cotton content, combined with professional internal/external sizing and slower production speeds, resulting in a surface that feels like 100% cotton rag, at a value price.
What to expect:
- Available in frame-ready sizes
- 25% cotton and 75% alpha cellulose
- Acid-free paper
Available in a variety of popular sizes, this paper is also ideal for greeting cards.
Cold Press — Available in two weights, this paper is ideal for a variety of media, including watercolors, gouache, acrylics, ink, and charcoal.
Hot Press — Available in two weights, this paper is ideal for a variety of media, including mixed media, watercolors, and gouache.
Strathmore 400 Series Toned Mixed Media Pads
The Strathmore 400 Series Toned Mixed Media Pads are recommended for high-school kids who like to experiment with various mediums.
It is available in warm tan and cool gray, this paper is intended specifically for use with light and dark media. This paper allows for a wider range of values by providing the middle value needed to clearly distinguish highlights and shadows. At 184 lb., this paper is heavyweight enough for wet media with a medium drawing surface for the finish of a drawing sheet. Heavyweight paper that has the attributes of a watercolour paper but with a vellum drawing finish.
What to expect:
- Heavyweight, 184 lb / 300gsm
- Medium drawing surface with the wet media characteristics of a watercolour sheet
- Available in warm tan and cool gray, for light and dark media
- 100% recycled with 30% PCW
- Acid Free
- Made in the USA
- Suitable for wet and dry media, these toned paper pads are ideal for artists working in multiple mediums.
Canson XL Recycled (Fold Over) Sketch Pad, 3.5" X 5.5"
Designed to appeal to students, Canson XL recycled pads combine quality, performance, and value with a concern for the environment. Featuring superior construction and heavier-weight cover materials than other value lines, they’re manufactured using environmentally friendly methods and are recycled using 30% post consumer materials.
What to expect:
- Ideal for quick sketches with pencil, charcoal, pastel, or felt-tip pen.
- Each pad contains multiple sheets of acid-free paper made from 100% recycled cellulose that is alkaline-buffered and contains no optical brighteners.
Strathmore 300 Series Tracing Paper Tape Bound Pads
Strathmore 300 is a highly transparent parchment tracing paper that accepts pencil, marker, and ink.
Strathmore 300 Series Tracing Paper is recommended for tracing images, sketching, preliminary drawing and overlays. This smooth parchment tracing paper has very good transparency.
What to expect:
- Best when you have to trace an image for the school-projects
- Great transparency
- Each top tape bound pad features 25 lb (41 gsm) paper. 50 sheets per pad.
Organizer for Back-to-School Supplies
Itoya Profolio Midtown Pouch Colours
Itoya Profolio Midtown Pouch is the perfect little urban zippered pouch to hold your markers, pens, school supplies, charging cables, and anything else you can think of that you use every day. Soft felt material makes the Midtown Pouch very unique and modern, but also extremely lightweight.
When you open it up, you find there are two separate compartments to keep your things nicely organized. Available in 4 beautiful colour combinations and 2 sizes (4"x7" and 5"x9").
The expectation of the school year is both energizing and overpowering for every kid. Getting them amped up for something as basic as school supplies is a simple method to facilitate their anxiety. Give them a rundown of art supplies, set them up on King’s Framing & Art Gallery’s website, let them peruse around and add to cart what they find useful. You and your children will both receive the rewards of readiness, maintain a strategic distance from the pressure of disorder and save time.
We hope we have made choosing art supplies for school easier and fun for you!
Happy new school year dear parents & children! Happy heART to you!
