Looking for a perfect present for a creative friend or family member? Congratulations, you’re half way through! It is much easier to find the right present for an artist, just because you know the hobby of the person to start with!
Moreover, artists always need something: good quality brushes, different sort of paints, sketchbooks or painting canvas. But we decided to come with 15 more specific ideas, on what can become a perfect gift for your creative friend.
1. Botany for the artist.
Do you know what is your friend’s favourite subject to paint or draw? In case its flowers, we’ve got you covered! “Botany for Artists” is a book will help to develop all the skills artist needs to master botanical painting or drawing techniques. Every page of this book is filled with colourful photographs and images from the author Sarah Simblet. After reading this book you just won’t be able to resist picking up a pencil and draw, as the inspiration will follow you with every flick of the page.
2. Sketchbook
Every artist needs a sketchbook and trust us, there is never too many of those! Especially if it’s as stylish as this one! Perfect to use on the go with pens, pencils or marker pens.
3. Artist’s Starter Gift Set
What if the artist is only a beginner? Most likely he wouldn’t have much of an art supplies? Why not to buy him an art set that would have a little bit of everything to start with. Check out this 39 piece acrylic artist set, looks like a perfect match!
4. The art puzzle book
This book is a fun way to learn more about the world’s famous masterpieces with puzzles, riddles and trivia, which make is quite a unique gift for artists!
The Art Puzzle Book turns art history on its head and tests your brain power using some of the world’s most-loved paintings. Solve riddles based on the peculiar scenes of The Garden of Earthly Delights, find hidden flowers in Botticelli’s Primavera and reassemble the Mondrian.
5. Primrosia Dual Tip Marker Pens
This beautiful set has 60 colours, which is more than enough for any artist from amateur to a pro! With that many colors you can turn any idea into a beautiful illustration! These art markers have dual tips, a beautiful colour vibrancy and they can be blended!
As a bonus this stunning tube with gold foil stamped little bees and lettering would make it even a better present ! Elegant when sitting on a desk or kitchen table. It’s fantastic for drawing, illustrations, calligraphy, card making, stamping, colour books and bullet journalling, limited only by your imagination!
5. Box Field Easel
As an artist myself, I remember wanting one those since I was a kid! Surely each artist would need an easel and they would most likely buy for themselves out of necessity, but a box field easel is always a little dream, as it’s on of the best art easels! So why don’t make this little dream come true!
A wooden box easel that you can carry around and keep all your art supplies in. That way a studio can be set up anywhere! And what can be better then the one set outside? The inspiration will always follow you around too!
6. Waterbrush Artists Set
Looking for something small and cool at the same time?
How about a waterbrush?! A perfect gift for someone who is always sketching on the go! No need to carry a water pot anymore. This brush has comes with a container that keep water. Perfect for watercolours and watercolour pencils, handing for little plein-air sketching or just a quick sketch at the studio!
7. Shiva Oil Sticks
Oil sticks, but not quite oil pastel sticks. They are bigger in size, super smooth and oily. Those sticks can be combines with oil paints, adding a different style to the painting. Also Perfect for underpainting, fabric arts, craft projects, stencilling, that way becomes a perfect gift for any creative.
8. Texture Medium
There are quite a few different types of texture mediums on the market nowadays. In a nutshell, imagine you have “ structure of sand” or “ concrete” in a jar. This kind of medium can be an ideal gift for an artist who is exploring different textures in their technique and would like to add something new to their style. It can be used on a canvas before applying colour, when it comes to oil paint mixed up with the paint itself, if it’s acrylic.
9. Pencil Extender.
When it comes to pencils, there never too many and unfortunately they run out quite fast. Good news their life can be extended! Most of the times you have to let go pencils just because they’re too short to hold! Here comes a pencil extender! Small, but very efficient gift idea, specially for artists who use pencils in there art quite often, in this case even those extenders can never be too many, so you won’t get it wrong! Those come in different shapes and colours!
10. Brush Case or Wrap
Brushes are one of those things that go missing all the time! So it’s a good idea to keep them organised. A brush tube case or soft canvas wrap is a perfect way to keep them all together, in the studio or on the go! You artist-friend will be happy to receive one of those!
11. Tumbler with an Illustration
Not all the presents for artist have to be directly connected to art! A tumbler is a prove to it!
What can be a better way to boost creativity and productivity by keeping a hot cup of coffee next to you! Why not to use a normal cup will you ask? Well artists tend to accidentally dip their brush to a coffee cup, plus imagine spilling on a almost finished art piece!
To make a gift more personal, you and print out one of your friend’s artworks and put it in to one of those “create your own” travel cups.
12. Light Box
Some time ago people used to use windows to be able to trace the images, then they made tables with light to race through! But it is much easier to trace now, with a little gadget called “light box”! It’s light in all it’s ways, which makes it easy to store and easy to draw!
13. Wooden Manikin
Artists are always thinking of new poses and to be able to draw it you need to either make someone pose for you and lookout for the photos in the Internet. Unless you’ve got one of those figure mans! It’s equipped with movable joints to allow for posing, so your artist friend and fully play to their imagination!
14. History of Art Clock
Not only a stylish interior element, but also a present with an artistic humorous meaning! What time is it now? Quarter past cubism!
15. Socks for Artist
Who said that famous art is for wall only? Ever thought of placing it on your feet? These fun socks with the images of the famous artworks can be a perfect present for your artist friend weather it’s male or a female! Just like with sketchbooks, never can be too many of these!
We hope you liked those ideas and it was helpful for you! Good luck with picking the best of the best ideas for your artist friend!
