Oil pastels are starting to get popular again. I remember when I was a kid, oil pastels were really a popular art supply.

However, I was very pleasantly surprised at the vibrancy of colors, softness of the cores, and the blending capabilities.

Arteza is a relatively new art supplies company and they have a huge line of products that seems to be growing bigger every day.

These pencils are a nice budget set for hobbyists or beginning professionals.

Budget friendly colored pencils are very popular for adult coloring and there are a lot of new brands out there.

Jane Davenport is a very popular artist and she has her own brand of art supplies and books. Her art supplies are innovative and unusual.

Prismacolor is known for its regular wax based colored pencils, but they have recently introduced a new product line

There is a good selection of colors in the 72 set. I think there are 96 colors total in this line.

The colors are a good selection and metallics are included. Each pencil has a color name and number on it.

When you use these wax pastels without water they are similar to oil pastels. When water is added the pigment dissolves.

Cutie Boots and I are always looking for comparable colored pencil brands that are similar to Prismacolor colored pencils.

Copics are the most popular and well known brand of alcohol markers in the world. They blend together very smoothly.

In this post I want to focus on an oil based colored pencil brand, Schpirerr Farben.

Castle Art is a new brand that is starting to branch out with different art supplies. They also have watercolor pencils, watercolor markers,

Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils are high quality and oil based. They are mostly lightfast or light resistant. In this post I take

The Prismacolor Premier pencils have a color name and number on the side. A lot of these colors are lightfast and most are light resistant.

Since Holbein colored pencils are some of the most expensive colored pencils out there, I just purchased a small set to try out.

Continuing onward with my exploration of alcohol markers, I took a look at Winsor Newton Brushmarkers. These markers are dye based and there

Ohuhu markers are a very popular and economical alternative to Copic Markers so I wanted to see how they performed. These markers are not as

These supplies are very affordable and I wanted to see what kind of quality they were.   I purchased a set of 24 Arteza watercolors, a set o