I expected masking tape to be on the list! It's one of my essentials for painting. I also recycle brown packaging paper to lay out and paint on to make less of a mess. Hairspray is also an essential for pencil work. Exacto knives are also essential for a lot of detailing with paper that you don't want to have to fold to cut where a hole puncher won't reach. I feel like sponges are also kind of essentials since they're honestly so multi purpose. If I were to sit and really think, I'd probably be able to come up with at least 10 more tools that make life making art easier 😂
Roxanne - Hairspray? If you're using it as a fixative, that's going to destroy your work in the long run. I recommend getting some Krylon workable fixative instead.
I was just about to get rid of a little bar fridge we have downstairs-you caught me just in time. It will now be my new art supplies storage fridge! Thank you so much.
As a waterdropper I use these fish that come with sushi, filled with soysauce. ☺️ Also: it Sparks joy everytime I use it. Thanks for this nice video! ☺️
I use colored lead for my note taking (another form of art). I have a mechanical pencil with a color coded finger cushion. I also have another set where the barrel color matches the lead. I find Pilot has the softest and richest color. I LOVE my color coded pencils and thank you for letting me rave about them. My secret joy ☺
Lots of great ideas! I'm definitely going to look for a brush. One thing that's a must have for me is a roll of blue shop paper towels to clean my brushes between colors. Just one towel will last a really long time.
So many great recommendations and tips! Loved the tip of using wax paper for temp palettes and easy clean up/no sticking. Love my butcher trays and will def be using that tip along with the plastic wrap tip for masking fluid.
I might need a dusting brush. I use a dry paint brush or makeup brush but the dusting brush covers more surface area! I buy cheap packs of washcloths from Target, (there's a cheap brand that has something like 6-8 washcloths in it for around 2 bucks) to use as my working cloths for cleaning brushes while painting, lifting paint on watercolors, cleaning up the surface when I'm done, etc. Better than wasting paper towels. When they get too dirty, into the washer they go.
I use a hairdryer when I carve for linocuts. The heat softens the linoleum a little making it easier to carve ( less chance of slipping and slicing my fingers) My mentor originally told me to use an iron& fabric put I was too scared, so I used a hairdryer instead and have ever since no matter the size of the print
I USE BINDER CLIPS FOR EVERYTHING. What most people don’t realize about the basic black and silver ones that makes them 10x more useful: those little silver wire handles are removable! Say you want to hang something up, but tape or sticky-tack isn’t ideal (though I do love sticky-tack too). Just remove a handle, slip it in there, and put the handle back on to the binder clip. Voila, super portable and attachable item! It’s really versatile, and I actually use this a lot with my mesh backpack, almost in a reversed way. I attach one side of the clips to the inside of my bag, and then I use the clips to hold wires and other small items up high away from the bigger shit in the bottom of my bag. Not portable, but definitely helpful for organization.
I went to an office supplies store and bought a handful in various sizes from tiny to huge. I usually have some either on my desk or in my top drawer unless my kids have stolen them again!
Omg these are all so great ! I love the pencil extender 😍 and the tip about keeping your art supplies in the fridge is so true! I literally have a mini fridge in my art room specifically for my paints... and wine.
Yes, I like the pencil extender but it looks like you need to push too much into the holder (or am I wrong, is it spring-loaded and can hold very short e.g. 1cm?) so you can't really use them much more than I do anyway.
@@jennyhughes4474 It's not spring loaded. You're right , it needs a good amount of the pencil to hold onto, despite that I really like mine because it makes holding shorter pencils more comfortable.
Although I actually already use most of these things you have given me more ways to use them. Like I turn my hair dryer to cool and and use it to move my paint around.
apart from making filling in/transferring paint between pans or wells easier, a palette knife is also great for lifting tapes, stickers, papers you applied glued on liberally, and cutting paper tapes when you can’t use a scissor or cutter or xacto knife
I had a favourite coloured pencil as a child, and I used it up till there was only wood left. Without any extender, I’m amazed at my dedication back then and remember it being a pain 😂
i have a couple of pipettes but i also have a ton of 10mm syringes still in their sterile packaging (long story) but my docs don't want them back so i just use those for watercolor. i feel like i get better control of the water from a syringe than a pipette, especially with the smaller tip that the syringes have.
i love stuff like this!!! the REAL art hacks lbr. for plastic wrap options, here are my suggestions: if you dont have an airtight palette and wanna keep paint wet (im thinking of acrylic and gouache here), you can use a regular plate as a palette and then put another plate upside down on top of it. something i do that isnt necessarily time-saving, just thrifty, is save glass jars from food items and use them for storage, to hold pens and paint brushes, paint water, painting mediums etc. a for real time-saver though is having a lot of paint brushes for oils and acrylics - i can keep several going while im painting and then still have more next time even if i dont have time to wash the last ones i used.
Yes, pipettes! It made me laugh how you use the word 'bunch' quite a lot as a word to describe a lot of water or paint and for other things which aren't flowers or hair (hair bunches in the UK)!
I didn't have the fancy pencil extender, but you can use the eraser shaped like a pencil cover (dunno if it has a specific name to it) to put my pencils in it.
Pentel has a rainbow lead variety thing that i buy in 2m for my 2m mech pen. Its saved so much time since my mech pen has a sharpener built in. I love and use it ever day. Changing out colors isnt hard.
Now Alice, did you only do nine things because you wanted us to give you the final item for top 10? I was really hoping to catch you out on at least one thing and say oh this is so unnecessary but each time you revealed your choice I had to agree. My tenth is a kneaded eraser, more than 1! I would also say you can use a porcelain plate as a watercolor palette. In fact if you look in your kitchen in your cookie sheet storage? Or plate storage maybe you’ll find your other butchers tray, perhaps from someone who helped you move and thought it belonged there. That is where my extra pallets disappeared to when my sister-in-law helped my wife clean up one Sunday afternoon! Good luck and thanks for the lovely video.
I love sketching in color and hate graphite except as a mixed media medium, so I use Prismacolor Col-Erase pencils. Erasable color pencils are 👌🏻👌🏻. I also use a kneaded eraser to avoid pencil eraser dust, unless I’m working on a detailed piece, then I use a Pentel clicky eraser stick thing to erase detailed mistakes. I definitely need a pencil extender!
Helpful list, Alice! Though the plastic wrap stings a little. It might be useful and help us take shortcuts, but it's plastic waste that can't be recycled or reused in most cases 💔
@@muskndusk It may not be applicable with art supplies, depending on how things are arranged, but at least in the kitchen I've replaced my plastic wrap with Bees Wrap! It's a reusable fabric covered in beeswax that sticks to itself and other things but is easily removed when you're done :) It might work for palettes as long as it doesn't rest right on the paint!
You can buy a large chip brush at the hardware store for about $1 that works just like the fancy dusting brushes. Make sure to not get the foam ones, but the ones that are actually brushes.
I definitely need a good dusting brush. I mainly use colored pencil and sometimes the dust from the lead can smudge into other colors where you don't want it. I use a cheap 2 inch paint brush, but I need a big guy like these.
6:00 so should I be keeping my copic markers in the fridge? It makes sense since you don't want them to be exposed to sunlight, but why don't I see other artists do it? This video changed everything for me 🤯
I don't think you need to keep the copics in the fridge, that might not be great for them tho it's good for paint, they should be okay so long as they're capped. But it definitely wouldn't hurt to keep them in a darker and cooler cupboard! For artwork, keep it out of direct sunlight. If it's framed get UV protectant glass! If you don't hang it up, just keep it in a portfolio so it's not exposed to light. I have the pro-folios and they're really nice :) I hope that helps!!
Or if you don’t have a pipette and you don’t want to go get one then you can use a medicine the pet thing that people use for medicine! They’re pretty much the same thing!
a hairdryer bring damage to the paint. my art supply shop told me and demonstrated me the difference in time dried paint and hairdryer dried paint and they put the hairdryer on cold air even. I already didn't used hairdryer anymore as the time I used it I noticed what it did with the paint as well
Fun video, there were some helpful tips, somehow those waterdrop things and colored led are quite hard to find around here actually! Do I have to say, I hope you'll find some useful ideas to keep the usage of plastic down. There is already way too much out there in the world, we don't need more.
You mentioned that you live in a super dry place, as do I, so I'm hoping you might have a solution to my dilemma: I use a Sta-Wet palette to keep my paints wet, which works great, but it's so incredibly dry where I live that the water on my brush dries in the time it takes me to dip my brush, then dip into the paint, then put brush to paper - literally in seconds. Have you found an effective way to be able to use gouache in a ridiculously low-humidity environment?
I think they mean instead of a regular one that you get dust from when you use. The kneadable erasers are great, but they don't work to remove masking fluid and I can't use them for all of my erasing needs. I use them when I don't want to remove an entire sketch and just want to put line art on top. Even then, I tend to use a regular eraser to get rid of everything afterward.
Apparently it is in America, but I've confirmed with my mother who was a microbiologist, that it is pronounced PIP-ette in England. Not everyone is American :)
you know when your eraser is just covered in charcoal or graphite and you really want it off well you can not wast your eraser and use soap and water. I have no idea if this works on a kneaded eraser never tried it. That said soap get off 80 percent of whatever you put on it.
Try the magic eraser, works great at removing watercolor without ruining the paper. Use it to make Birch trees or light streams and other cool effects.
HulloAlice even my friends from the UK don’t say it that way lol. Look it up in a dictionary. You’re pronouncing as a French person would. Just a recommendation that when you teach a large audience a “fun” word you teach them correctly. Cheers, lass. No hard feelings.
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I would add kneaded eraser to this list!
For sure! I couldn't function without mine while I'm drawing.
Omg ikr! Drawing wiff waffles would be proud!
!!! I had no idea that colored mechanical pencil leads exist ! Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
I expected masking tape to be on the list! It's one of my essentials for painting. I also recycle brown packaging paper to lay out and paint on to make less of a mess. Hairspray is also an essential for pencil work. Exacto knives are also essential for a lot of detailing with paper that you don't want to have to fold to cut where a hole puncher won't reach. I feel like sponges are also kind of essentials since they're honestly so multi purpose. If I were to sit and really think, I'd probably be able to come up with at least 10 more tools that make life making art easier 😂
Roxanne - Hairspray? If you're using it as a fixative, that's going to destroy your work in the long run. I recommend getting some Krylon workable fixative instead.
I was just about to get rid of a little bar fridge we have downstairs-you caught me just in time. It will now be my new art supplies storage fridge! Thank you so much.
As a waterdropper I use these fish that come with sushi, filled with soysauce. ☺️ Also: it Sparks joy everytime I use it.
Thanks for this nice video! ☺️
that's such a cute idea! and portable if you keep the lid. thank you for sharing, i'm going to use those now ^^
Yes they are great
VollMondMaedl what a cute idea and I kept my last one too. 🤗
I have no idea what your talking about but it sounds cute. I’ve never seen thqt
What a great idea!! :) *starts gathering a stash of tiny fish pipets*
My wife was pissed when she came home and the fridge was in my studio.
I use colored lead for my note taking (another form of art). I have a mechanical pencil with a color coded finger cushion. I also have another set where the barrel color matches the lead. I find Pilot has the softest and richest color. I LOVE my color coded pencils and thank you for letting me rave about them. My secret joy ☺
I use a fluffy makeup brush for eraser dust.
Lots of great ideas! I'm definitely going to look for a brush. One thing that's a must have for me is a roll of blue shop paper towels to clean my brushes between colors. Just one towel will last a really long time.
I use a syringe as a water dropper. :3 it's mainly for the cute menhera aesthetic
So many great recommendations and tips! Loved the tip of using wax paper for temp palettes and easy clean up/no sticking. Love my butcher trays and will def be using that tip along with the plastic wrap tip for masking fluid.
I might need a dusting brush. I use a dry paint brush or makeup brush but the dusting brush covers more surface area!
I buy cheap packs of washcloths from Target, (there's a cheap brand that has something like 6-8 washcloths in it for around 2 bucks) to use as my working cloths for cleaning brushes while painting, lifting paint on watercolors, cleaning up the surface when I'm done, etc. Better than wasting paper towels. When they get too dirty, into the washer they go.
I use a hairdryer when I carve for linocuts. The heat softens the linoleum a little making it easier to carve ( less chance of slipping and slicing my fingers) My mentor originally told me to use an iron& fabric put I was too scared, so I used a hairdryer instead and have ever since no matter the size of the print
I USE BINDER CLIPS FOR EVERYTHING. What most people don’t realize about the basic black and silver ones that makes them 10x more useful: those little silver wire handles are removable!
Say you want to hang something up, but tape or sticky-tack isn’t ideal (though I do love sticky-tack too). Just remove a handle, slip it in there, and put the handle back on to the binder clip. Voila, super portable and attachable item! It’s really versatile, and I actually use this a lot with my mesh backpack, almost in a reversed way. I attach one side of the clips to the inside of my bag, and then I use the clips to hold wires and other small items up high away from the bigger shit in the bottom of my bag. Not portable, but definitely helpful for organization.
I went to an office supplies store and bought a handful in various sizes from tiny to huge. I usually have some either on my desk or in my top drawer unless my kids have stolen them again!
Really never thought about pipettes and they pencil holder is genius.
TFS
Ooh, the plastic wrap for masking fluid tip is going to help me a ton! Thanks!
Omg these are all so great ! I love the pencil extender 😍 and the tip about keeping your art supplies in the fridge is so true! I literally have a mini fridge in my art room specifically for my paints... and wine.
"... and wine" 🤣🤣🤣
Renée Dixon important. Lol
Yes, I like the pencil extender but it looks like you need to push too much into the holder (or am I wrong, is it spring-loaded and can hold very short e.g. 1cm?) so you can't really use them much more than I do anyway.
@@jennyhughes4474 It's not spring loaded. You're right , it needs a good amount of the pencil to hold onto, despite that I really like mine because it makes holding shorter pencils more comfortable.
Although I actually already use most of these things you have given me more ways to use them. Like I turn my hair dryer to cool and and use it to move my paint around.
apart from making filling in/transferring paint between pans or wells easier, a palette knife is also great for lifting tapes, stickers, papers you applied glued on liberally, and cutting paper tapes when you can’t use a scissor or cutter or xacto knife
5:42
That looks like an ice cube tray! It’s kind of Ionic because you said to put it in the fridge to lol
"Pretty easy to find" :0 have never seen colored graphite woah, time to start opening my eyes and looking
I used my favourite pen with the pencil extrender until the pen was just 1 centimeter long... i love the pencil extender
I had a favourite coloured pencil as a child, and I used it up till there was only wood left. Without any extender, I’m amazed at my dedication back then and remember it being a pain 😂
i have a couple of pipettes but i also have a ton of 10mm syringes still in their sterile packaging (long story) but my docs don't want them back so i just use those for watercolor. i feel like i get better control of the water from a syringe than a pipette, especially with the smaller tip that the syringes have.
i love stuff like this!!! the REAL art hacks lbr. for plastic wrap options, here are my suggestions: if you dont have an airtight palette and wanna keep paint wet (im thinking of acrylic and gouache here), you can use a regular plate as a palette and then put another plate upside down on top of it. something i do that isnt necessarily time-saving, just thrifty, is save glass jars from food items and use them for storage, to hold pens and paint brushes, paint water, painting mediums etc. a for real time-saver though is having a lot of paint brushes for oils and acrylics - i can keep several going while im painting and then still have more next time even if i dont have time to wash the last ones i used.
Heat guns are a good alternative for hair driers because they don’t blow- I have one for heat embossing :)
I knew watching this video would make me want to go art supply shopping.... oh well 🤣
Very helpful ideas! Thanks Alice. :)
Yes, pipettes! It made me laugh how you use the word 'bunch' quite a lot as a word to describe a lot of water or paint and for other things which aren't flowers or hair (hair bunches in the UK)!
I didn't have the fancy pencil extender, but you can use the eraser shaped like a pencil cover (dunno if it has a specific name to it) to put my pencils in it.
Was watching this video and heard you say Meininger and got so excited that we live in the same area!!! Hurray! Helpful video!
Pentel has a rainbow lead variety thing that i buy in 2m for my 2m mech pen. Its saved so much time since my mech pen has a sharpener built in. I love and use it ever day. Changing out colors isnt hard.
Thank you, really helpful for a new artist.
Now Alice, did you only do nine things because you wanted us to give you the final item for top 10? I was really hoping to catch you out on at least one thing and say oh this is so unnecessary but each time you revealed your choice I had to agree. My tenth is a kneaded eraser, more than 1! I would also say you can use a porcelain plate as a watercolor palette. In fact if you look in your kitchen in your cookie sheet storage? Or plate storage maybe you’ll find your other butchers tray, perhaps from someone who helped you move and thought it belonged there. That is where my extra pallets disappeared to when my sister-in-law helped my wife clean up one Sunday afternoon! Good luck and thanks for the lovely video.
I didn't set out with a specific number it just ended up being nine hahaha!!
Pipettes give me traumatic flashbacks from my pre uni chem lab welp
I love sketching in color and hate graphite except as a mixed media medium, so I use Prismacolor Col-Erase pencils. Erasable color pencils are 👌🏻👌🏻. I also use a kneaded eraser to avoid pencil eraser dust, unless I’m working on a detailed piece, then I use a Pentel clicky eraser stick thing to erase detailed mistakes.
I definitely need a pencil extender!
I'd need a fridge just for my art supplies. Lol
Helpful list, Alice! Though the plastic wrap stings a little. It might be useful and help us take shortcuts, but it's plastic waste that can't be recycled or reused in most cases 💔
You're right and I totally didn't think about that! Thanks for calling it out 💜💜
@@HulloAlice it's hard to keep track of everything these days! There's so much in art in general that isnt eco-friendly.
So true!! I don't use the trick too often but I'll make sure to reuse my plastic wrap & look for some alternate options too
I've been wondering about this too because it's so useful. I've consider wax paper but it doesn't cling to itself so lovingly :)
@@muskndusk It may not be applicable with art supplies, depending on how things are arranged, but at least in the kitchen I've replaced my plastic wrap with Bees Wrap! It's a reusable fabric covered in beeswax that sticks to itself and other things but is easily removed when you're done :) It might work for palettes as long as it doesn't rest right on the paint!
You can buy a large chip brush at the hardware store for about $1 that works just like the fancy dusting brushes. Make sure to not get the foam ones, but the ones that are actually brushes.
Great tips! 2 question - why not a heat gun instead of a hair dryer? Also, why take the plastic wrap out of the box? Just curious. :)
I definitely need a good dusting brush. I mainly use colored pencil and sometimes the dust from the lead can smudge into other colors where you don't want it. I use a cheap 2 inch paint brush, but I need a big guy like these.
I got one for brushing off the little wax bits from my colored pencils. it was definitely worth it.
6:00 so should I be keeping my copic markers in the fridge? It makes sense since you don't want them to be exposed to sunlight, but why don't I see other artists do it? This video changed everything for me 🤯
I don't think you need to keep the copics in the fridge, that might not be great for them tho it's good for paint, they should be okay so long as they're capped. But it definitely wouldn't hurt to keep them in a darker and cooler cupboard! For artwork, keep it out of direct sunlight. If it's framed get UV protectant glass! If you don't hang it up, just keep it in a portfolio so it's not exposed to light. I have the pro-folios and they're really nice :) I hope that helps!!
Or if you don’t have a pipette and you don’t want to go get one then you can use a medicine the pet thing that people use for medicine! They’re pretty much the same thing!
pencil extenders have come in so handy when I only have a very tiny bit of colour left and cant get to the store for more pencils
a hairdryer bring damage to the paint. my art supply shop told me and demonstrated me the difference in time dried paint and hairdryer dried paint and they put the hairdryer on cold air even.
I already didn't used hairdryer anymore as the time I used it I noticed what it did with the paint as well
1 view 1 minute 2 likes? Eh love your videos your inspiring many plus me!
I use normal waterdroppers because I use them to nurse orphan rodents❤️
Now this is what I need
Fun video, there were some helpful tips, somehow those waterdrop things and colored led are quite hard to find around here actually! Do I have to say, I hope you'll find some useful ideas to keep the usage of plastic down. There is already way too much out there in the world, we don't need more.
You mentioned that you live in a super dry place, as do I, so I'm hoping you might have a solution to my dilemma: I use a Sta-Wet palette to keep my paints wet, which works great, but it's so incredibly dry where I live that the water on my brush dries in the time it takes me to dip my brush, then dip into the paint, then put brush to paper - literally in seconds. Have you found an effective way to be able to use gouache in a ridiculously low-humidity environment?
I used to use a little vegetable glycerin mixed in when I was in a dryer climate! Much slower evaporation rate
@@skersto thanks for the suggestion! Where do you get vegetable glycerin? I've looked for it in art supply stores to no avail...
My local Michael's carries the Wilton brand in the candy making aisle but I've also found it at my local grocery store
@@skersto thanks so much for the info - I'll give this a try! 😁
Good luck! :)
but... what's a binder clip train??
Doodle date made a video on making a gouache palette using vegetable glycerine - I did it and they keep my gouache wet so well!! Check their vid out!
1:24 I got them at a nail polish store and use them for my water brush pens. 2:39 🤔
My fine liners stop working almost straight away, how do I get more use from them? I suspect I’m doing something wrong.
Hi Adelia, how are you storing the pens and which brand are they?
Where do you get pipets at?
HaleyBrooke'sArt I buy them on amazon but I’ve seem them at some art shops
Why not just use a kneedable eraser?
For taking off masking fluid?
I think they mean instead of a regular one that you get dust from when you use. The kneadable erasers are great, but they don't work to remove masking fluid and I can't use them for all of my erasing needs. I use them when I don't want to remove an entire sketch and just want to put line art on top. Even then, I tend to use a regular eraser to get rid of everything afterward.
The Pentel lead has all the basic rainbow colors .
I thought it was pronounced "Pie-Pet"
TheWaysOfTheArtist I work in a lab. You are correct
Apparently it is in America, but I've confirmed with my mother who was a microbiologist, that it is pronounced PIP-ette in England. Not everyone is American :)
HulloAlice yes it’s absolutely pronounced PIPette on this side of the ocean.
HulloAlice Definitely pipette in UK. Never even heard of pie-pet but then I’m not American 😜
Pie-pet in australia :)
you know when your eraser is just covered in charcoal or graphite and you really want it off well you can not wast your eraser and use soap and water. I have no idea if this works on a kneaded eraser never tried it. That said soap get off 80 percent of whatever you put on it.
I just put another eraser to use and erase the stuff off the eraser 😁
@@Thirikalee well find another to stick it inbath of choarcoal and find out
Nail color?
Essie Mochachino!
No subtitles on this video.. 🙁
I prefer a heat gun to a hair dryer, because I need the heat to dry, but not the "blowing".
Totally going to try the plastic wrap thing with masking fluid!
Take a shot every time she says wet and you’d die.
Try the magic eraser, works great at removing watercolor without ruining the paper. Use it to make Birch trees or light streams and other cool effects.
Science experiment 😂 -they are used in science labs 😂
Hello, hi this video was recommended to me but I wanted to say don't leave paint brushes in your water it damages the brush
take a shot every time she says useful
RIP to anyone who tries this hahaha!
Please please please stop saying pipp-ette lol
That's literally how you pronounce it in the UK where I'm from sooooo.... No
HulloAlice even my friends from the UK don’t say it that way lol. Look it up in a dictionary. You’re pronouncing as a French person would. Just a recommendation that when you teach a large audience a “fun” word you teach them correctly. Cheers, lass. No hard feelings.
First?