Find Art Supplies Online

Buying art supplies online is almost as exciting as spending an hour at the local art store - there's always something new that catches your attention or gives you a creative nudge.

Many of the largest suppliers of paints, pencils, papers and other goodies are found online. I've listed many of them for you here. You will see that they often offer discount prices, and just like "real" stores, they have occasional sales.

My personal favorite is Dick Blick Art Materials , because they have good prices, very good service, and a full selection of art supplies for beginning artists.

I have recently started buying all the Super Sculpy I need for my new wall plaques from Dick Blick , because the prices are about half what I would have to pay at my local store.

Aardvark Art Supply - http://www.aardvarkart.com/
Offers watercolors, oil paints, brushes, pastels, easels, and canvases. Their poduct lines include Yarka brushes, canvases, charcoal and pastel sets, and paint. They also sell Richeson brushes and Academy and Best Easels.

AOE Art Supply Discount Art Supplies - http://www.aoeartworld.com/
Offers media, furniture, and tools for use in painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, and airbrush. They have an extensive colored pencil collection, including Faber-Castell, Albrecht Durer, Prismacolor and Stabilo. For the young artist in your family, consider the Jon Gnagy original “Learn to Draw” set.

Art & Frame of Sarasota - http://www.in2art.com/
Features media for painting, drawing, and sculpture. Also offers furniture and framing materials. Some of their product lines include Golden Acrylics, Liquitex, Van Gogh and Winsor & Newton Galeria Acrilics. Of special interest to our Drawfluffy.com visitors are the dog and cat Manikins. These are great for creating original drawings of werewolves and gryphons - or whatever mythical beast you might fancy. Even better, when I checked their website, the dog and cat manikins were on sale for less than $10.00.

Art Supplies Online NZ - http://www.artsupplies.co.nz/
Features painting, drawing, printmaking, fibre arts, and craft materials. Located in New Zealand. Even if you don't live in New Zealand you should visit this site and check out Ron Gribble's Artist Tips.

Art Supply Warehouse - http://aswexpress.com
Offers materials for painting, drawing, and graphic arts. Also offers furniture and framing supplies. This site offers an impressive number of different art supply lines, many of them quite affordable for the art student. Their watercolor pencils include Raffine Painting Pencils, Caran D'Arche Neocolor II Crayons, Cretacolor Aquastic Crayons, and pencils from Derwent, Faber-Castell, Koh-I-Noor, Prismacolor, Staedtler and Van Gogh.

Art Xpress - http://www.artxpress.com
Offers a range of items including children's, painting, graphic arts, and studio furniture. This site features Mary Whyte watercolor brushes and Charles Reid watercolor supplies. They have a nice collection of drawing supplies, and a kid's art section.

Artsuppliesonline.com - http://www.artsuppliesonline.com/
Features materials for graphic arts, drawing, and painting including furniture and portfolios. They feature an extensive selection of Kolo journals, photo albums and scrapbook supplies.

Artsupply.com - http://www.artsupply.com/
Extensive selection of supplies for artists, draftsman, teachers, and students, includes online ordering and retail store information. They also have a real person, named "Justin," who will help you find the right supplies and the right technique for the project you're working on. This is a real-world store in Chicago that also sells online.

Discount Art Supplies - http://www.discountart.com/
Features materials for painting, drawing, and graphic arts. Discount prices on art supplies and fine writing instruments from Grumbacher, Holbein, Daler-Rowney, Princeton Brush, Fredrix, Badger Air Brushes, Stanrite, Trident Easels, Rotring and others.

London Art Limited - http://www.londonart-shop.co.uk
Offers items including paints and mediums, easels, drawing boards and canvas. Located in the UK.

McCallisters - http://www.mccallisters.com/
Offers materials for drawing, painting, parchment craft, and graphic arts.This Midwestern store features the rather unique Snapping Kolinksy Brush Kit. According to their site, these brushes have a Spring Activated Action Mechanism that snaps the special tapered Kolinsky Sable point to a sharp, tight tip every time you flick. This might be worth a visit to their site, to see it in action.

Meininger's Art Supply - http://www.meininger.com/
Offers materials for painting, drawing, graphic arts, airbrushing, sculpture, and ceramics. Also features art education information. This site will be of special interest to art teachers and young art students. They even have several lesson plans for your next class.

Olympia Art and Frame - http://www.opasinc.com/
Offers an extensive range of fine art materials. This rather unique site offers supplies for Ukrainian egg decorating, carving tools for stone and wood, and fabric dies. Of course, they also offer drawing, painting and scrapbook supplies.

Reuel's Art and Frames - http://www.reuels.com/reuels/
Offers materials for painting, drawing, graphic arts, sculpture, printmaking, and crafts. Also offers portfolios, books, and furniture. They feature a rather extensive collection of paint-by-numbers kits. The finished paintings that they show online, such as the Tiger and Cubs, and Underwater Dolphins look suprisingly nice. These might make a nice present for someone who loves to create, but isn't yet an acomplished artist.

Rex Art - http://www.rexart.com/
Features materials for painting, drawing, graphic arts, crafts, and presentation. This company features art supplies from Daler-Rowney, Robert Simmons, Maimeri, Jack Richeson, BEST, Prismacolor, Sanford, Grumbacher, Liquitex, Masterpiece, Fredrix, Golden, Paasche, Winsor and Newton, Old Holland, Kohinoor, Loew Cornell, Faber-Castell, Princeton, Strathmore, and more.

Seattle Art Supply - http://www.seattleartsupply.com/
Features drawing, painting, graphic arts, printmaking, and sculpture materials. I was a regular shopper at Seattle Art long before they went online. Their website features a monthly prize drawing. They don't say what you'll win, but I'll bet it has something to do with art.

Simply Painting - http://www.simplypainting.com/
Sells brushes, instructional videos, books, pigments, and prints of Frank Clarke's artwork. Offers a free online lesson.

SAA, The Society for All Artists - http://www.saa.co.uk/
This is an organization that sells art supplies from their UK store. You can also join and share your artwork with other members from around the world, and purchase instructional DVD's to help you be a better painter.

The Easel Studio Fine Artists' Supplies - http://www.easelstudio.com
Features easels, and painting and drafting supplies. Some of the products they feature are easels from El Greco and Museo easels, Euro sketch boxes, Coronado portable drawing tables, and the Colores artist/architect sketch box.

Art Supply Manufacturer's sites

Many of the art supplies you find at discount prices in the websites listed above come from the following manufacturers. Their sites are worth checking out, if for no other reason than to see their outstanding graphic designs.

Grumbacher paints - http://www.grumbacherart.com

Utrecht painting materials - http://www.utrecht.com

Crayola - http://crayola.com/

Faber-Castell - http://www.faber-castell.com/

Prismacolor - http://prismacolor.com/

Stabilo - http://stabilo.com/index_fl.php

Golden artist paints - http://www.goldenpaints.com/

Liquitex - http://liquitex.com/

Winsor & Newton - http://www.winsornewton.com/

Caran D'Arche - http://www.carandache.ch/

Cretacolor - http://www.cretacolor.com/one.html

Kolo photo albums and journals - http://kolo.com/