Gift Guide: 2023

This is my 2023 gift guide for artists & creatives — practical items they'll love and actually use! From traditional art supplies to innovative tech, discover elevated essentials that will keep their creative juices flowing.

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✦✦✦ Books & More ✦✦✦

Books

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin: amzn.to/3NdITsW

• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles: amzn.to/47YiOGV

• The Alchemist: amzn.to/3NdL13P

Sketchbooks

• Moleskine art collection 165 gm: amzn.to/4aamxTg

• Leuchtturm Notebook: amzn.to/4837XuN

✦✦✦ Everyday Goods ✦✦✦

Marble Tray: goodies.la

Notepads & Stationary

• shopshorthand.com

• crush-la.com

Lip Balm

• Laneige: amzn.to/3TcsdG1

• Organic Lanolin Lip Balm: amzn.to/3Nb6dYk

Cutting Tools - Stainless Steel Olfa Blade: amzn.to/4a12RkB

Paper Scissors - studiocartashop.com

✦✦✦ Drawing Tools ✦✦✦

Mechanical Pencil - Pentel GraphGear 1000 Mechanical Pencil: amzn.to/3T9DpTS

Colored Pencils - Prismacolor Pencils: amzn.to/3TatGfY

Pencils - Blackwing: amzn.to/3GOS6od

• Blackwing One-Step Long Point Sharpener - amzn.to/3uNUxEI

Brass Pencil Sharpener - amzn.to/3Nfum05

✦✦✦ Electronics Goods✦✦✦

iPad Pro: amzn.to/4a114vX

Apple Pencil: amzn.to/46JMjuC

Apple Pencil Tips: amzn.to/3Nehzem

Procreate App: procreate.com

Mechanical Keyboard: amzn.to/41gPLLZ

Headphones- Sony WH-1000XM4:amzn.to/3TfM1s7

✦✦✦ Premium Paints ✦✦✦

Acrylic

• Golden: amzn.to/417YJLA

Gouache

• Holbein Acryla: amzn.to/41dinpA

Watercolor

• Case for making: caseformaking.com

• Winsor and Newton: amzn.to/3GvlQWM

✦✦✦ Inks ✦✦✦

Fountain Pen ink

• Platinum Carbon Black: amzn.to/4aaAH6P

India Ink

• Dr. PH. Martin: amzn.to/4a4hzHt

Liquids Acrylic

• Liquitex Acrylic Ink: amzn.to/417Bscs

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