

Ultimate Gift: 4 Piece Ultima Set with Canson Comic Art Board, Montana Black Spray Paint, and India Ink “I would love to have my own wheel and stool so I could make plates, bowls, cups – all at home.” Ultimate Gift: Speedball Clay Boss Pottery Wheel and Stool “I have a few Copic markers but if I had this set I would probably use them everyday!” Ultimate Gift: Copic Sketch Markers Set/72 “I want the biggest set of each because they are big, beautiful, and colourful!”” Ultimate Gift: Derwent Artbar Set/72, Derwent Inktense Pencils, and the Viarco ArtGraf Graphite Set
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The Series 7 brushes hold watercolour well and releases it evenly onto the paper.” “I’ve used Arches before and it’s just a really great paper to work on. Ultimate Gift: Arches Watercolour Block with Winsor & Newton Series 7 Brushes “I would want something too expensive to regularly buy myself, like a good set of watercolour and high quality brushes.” North Vancouver: Martin’s Watercolors Set/12 with Escoda Signature Watercolor Brushes “I would just paint something on the board and give it back as a gift.”īrianne – Watercolour, Acrylic, and Ink Artist Ultimate Gift: Gotrick Cradled Wood Panels and Golden Heavy Body Acrylics Also, the linen is a different texture than regular cotton canvas and I have always wanted to work on it because it’s just so soft.”Ĭharles – Acrylic Geometric Abstract Artist “I tend to paint on weird sized canvas, so a custom canvas would allow me to work in whatever size I want. Ultimate Gift: Custom Belgian Linen Canvas Having this set would force me out of that and just allow me to explore more with colour.” “I tend to go to black and white pretty easily. Ultimate Gift: Prismacolor Coloured Pencil Set/72 Being able to control that and have a consistent stream would be great, especially for early mornings on set.” “This one has a little adjustment knob to help control how thick or thin you want the splatter of paint to be. Ultimate Gift: Iwata Hi-Line HP-CH Airbrush Then when I was done playing I could just hang it up on the wall.” That way when the pieces were on the board they would reflect, giving the board a really interesting depth. “I designed my own board for the game called GO and I want to print it digitally and frame it using Facemounting. Because it is so compact it is great if you have a small working area, like an apartment.” Downtown Vancouver: It can go horizontal so you can apply glazes and watercolour washes. “It’s a little easel that does a lot of things. Ultimate Gift: Richeson Lyptus Wood Belmont Easel Heidi – Watercolour, Acrylic, and Oil Painter “Digital prints come from something you’ve made yourself and in that way you can give someone a permanent piece of yourself with a print.” Once the paint has dried I use Oilbars to create accents and highlights.”Ĭat – Digital Media and Installation Artist “I have use graphite to draw onto frosted mylar before painting overtop with oils or acrylics. Ultimate Gift: Winsor & Newton Oilbars Set/6 It’s also transparent so you can shine a light behind it and use it as a light box.” “It’s made out of glass so you can do cutting and sculpting with easy clean up. A good sketchbook is something I will always use and put to good use.”
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“I use sketchbooks to do full colour scale mock ups of my paintings. Ultimate Gift: RendR Sketchpad with Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache and Copic Sketch Markers “Both are perfect if you are sitting in the train and want to sketch out your ideas.” Ultimate Gift: Vintage Book Journals with the Pilot Hi-Tecpoint Grip Pen “It has a whole bunch of really detailed pictures which is great for doing transfers and for the bookbinding I have been doing lately.” Ultimate Gift: Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities So… what’s your Ultimate Gift? The Ultimate Gifts Granville Island: As you can imagine, their choices were as varied as the artists who selected them.įor inspiration to treat yourself or someone special on your gift list, watch the The Ultimate Gift above and read the full list below to find out what Opus staff chose and why. They could choose something as small as a pen, to something bigger like an easel, or even a variety of items that, when used together, would create their idea of the ultimate gift. We asked this question of our staff members. What if there were no limits? What would your ultimate gift be? With the holidays right around the corner, you may have already been asked, “What would you like for a gift?”.
