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Which art supplies would you recommend for a 9 year old? Where to purchase?
My friend’s daughter is very interested in art and would like to experiment with different mediums like drawing, painting, and sculptor. Where is the best/cheapest place to buy these items? Also, what items would you recommend as a starting artist? We wanted to buy some supplies for her for Easter.
(Michaels is expensive, and she’s been to Craft Depot)
My daughter is 9. I am an artist. I have exposed her to water color and have taught her the difference between regular water color and watercolor gouche paint. She prefers the gouche because is prevents transparancy. She is not ready for acrylic because acrylic requires working with speed since the paint dries quickly. She not ready for oils since it is very messy and I dont want to clean everything with turpentine including her little fingers. Pastels and charcoal are also too messy. I’ve introduced her to “kneeded eraser” which is gentle to paper and doesnt leave the standard eraser type mess. I’ve introduced her to the different desities of pencil (the artist pencils that range from 6H, 5H,…across to… 7B, 8B).
I’ve introduced her to different types of paper. She uses and I recommen the following as a guide:
Tracing paper,
Sketch pad paper,
Watercolor paper,
(and for creative arts and crafts) Contruction paper and foam.
Colored pencil (not dollar store colors and not crayola) maybe a 12 set of prismacolor (not “verythin”)
Graphite pencils 6B, 4B, 2B, HB, 4H
Any gouche watercolor paint for now (and paintbrushes)
I dont know much about sculpting so I’ll leave that to someone else.
I go to Utretch or Pearl Paint for most of my supplies. I have found the following at Staples and staples .com.
Prismacolor pencils, good drawing pads, Staedler brand drawing pencils (kits), kneeded eraser.
Good Luck