Gifts for artists ~ the ultimate Christmas gift guide
Gifts for artists
If you need inspirational gift ideas for artists, but don’t know where to start – read on. We’ve done all the hard work for you and have chosen some of our best sellers and products that your creative friends will love.
Buying gifts for artists has never been easier whether they are total beginners, amateurs, professional artists or young artists. We have creative gifts to suit every budget. Browse our GIFT IDEAS web page here.
Gifts for artists ~ oil painters
We sell a whole range of paints and accessories for oil painters from student quality to professional artist oil sets. Sets always make good presents and can offer better value. Water mixable oils are also something to consider as a popular alternative to traditional oil paints. View all of our oil painting sets here.
Sets for oil painters
Schmincke College oil painting set £55
Sixteen tubes of 35ml student quality oil colours.
Schmincke Norma oil painting set £55
Seven tubes of 35ml professional artist oil colours.
Royal Talens Cobra water mixable oil painting set £44.99
Ten tubes of 40ml professional artist colours.
Michael Harding oil paints introductory set
Six tubes of 40ml artist oil colours.
Williamsburg oil paint set, signature colours ‘The Best Sellers’
Eight tubes of 11ml professional artist colours plus a 37ml titanium white £39.99
Oil painting accessories
Palettes
Our large selection of palettes are available in a variety of sizes, made from both wood and Perspex. View our full range of palettes here.
Rosa gallery ergonomic wooden palette
12” x 16” £11.99
18” x 23” £28.75
Daler Rowney giant palette knife set £29.95
Metal twin dipper with lids £6.95
Easels
We have a large selection of easels available online from sturdy studio easels, lightweight field easels and tabletop versions. Giving an easel as a present is both generous and practical. Our Cappelletto easels are all handmade in Northern Italy. View our full range of easels here.
CS100 KIT Basic £137.00
CC32 Half Size £195.00
CT7 giant H frame £80
Brushes
Giving a beautiful brush is a brilliant gift idea for artists. We sell a huge variety of single brushes and also brush sets, which make excellent presents. Prices range from £2 – £150. Here are our top picks for brushes for oil painters. View the full range of brushes here.
Ten assorted round and flat brushes £19.99
Da Vinci oil and acrylic brush set
Four shapes for oil and acrylic painting £19.99
Da Vinci Maestro short flat size 20
Beautiful, single hand made German brush £31.14
Gifts for artists ~ watercolour painters
Watercolour is our most popular medium and watercolour painting sets are a firm favourite at Christmas time. It is such a lasting and considerate gift and one that your friends and loved ones will enjoy enormously.
We also sell single tubes of watercolour, pans and all sorts of accessories and sketchbooks. Read on for our top picks of watercolour sets for amateurs and professionals. View our full range of watercolour sets here.
Sets for watercolour painters
Van Gogh National Gallery watercolour pocket box
Twelve pans and a brush for £16.75
Winsor & Newton Cotman watercolour sketchers pocket box
Twelve half pans £18.30
Van Gogh National Gallery watercolour tube set
10 x 10ml tubes £19.99
Daler Rowney mini travel set – the perfect stocking filler gift for an artist of any age!
Ten half pans and a small brush £9.95
Schmincke Horadam ‘watercolour box of delights’ £99
Everything you need to start watercolour painting. Twelve half pans in a limited edition tin, size 3 travel brush, painting apron and coffee cup, Hahnemuhle block of watercolour paper, Da Vinci brush soap all in a giant pan shaped box!
Royal Talens Van Gogh pocket box metallics and interference watercolours
Twelve half pans of metallic watercolours + size 6 round travel brush £31.25
Watercolour accessories
Pegasus Art are fine art paper specialists, selling a large variety of handmade watercolour, drawing and printmaking papers. Our selection includes some beautiful papers for watercolour painters. We also sell oil painting paper, pastel paper, packs of card, large sizes of sheet paper and Khadi papers. We stock hundreds of sketchbooks of all sizes and paper weights. It can be daunting to decide which paper to choose for a particular project, but we are here to help you. You might like to read our blog post on art paper: https://www.pegasusart.co.uk/types-of-art-paper.irs
Here are our top picks for watercolour sketchbooks:
Sketchbooks and pads
Goldline watercolour studio pad
100 sheets 200gsm NOT 24 x 32cm £16.99
25 sheets of 300gsm HOT pressed watercolour paper also available in rough and NOT surfaces. £36.00
Handbook Journal Company landscape watercolour sketchbook
3.5” x 8.25” £15.00
Handmade in India, lovely sketchbooks available in rough and smooth surfaces 13cm x 32cm £16.80
Easels
Loxley Avon table top box easel
Great price, very practical size and application. £26.75
Great price and very useful A2 size. £36.00
Cappelletto adjustable drawing board
70cm x 50cm Great investment easel, very high quality. £87.00
Gift ideas for artists – Brushes
Da Vinci traditional wash brush with metal drawing tip
A state-of-the-art painting tool designed by German brush makers, Da Vinci. £55.00
Da Vinci Maestro size 11 sable watercolour brush £108
A luxury brush is a great idea for gifts for artists, this handmade brush is made from Siberian Tobolsky Kolinsky Red Sable with a black polished handle.
1 x quill round wash brush size 2, 1 x oval pointed size 12, 1 x slanted edge size 10 £52.00
Three beautiful watercolour brushes in a lovely gift box. The Casaneo range is synthetic, made to mimic the superior qualities of squirrel hair.
Da Vinci Botanical Watercolour Brush Set ~ florals
3 x brushes £27.00
Gift ideas for acrylic painters
Fans of acrylic paint and mediums will not be disappointed by our wide range and gifts for artists. There are options to mix and match with Golden products, Cranfield acrylics, Jo Sonja, Daler Rowney, Atelier Interactive, Primacryl, Schmincke and Amsterdam. There are some very good value sets available and here are our top picks for acrylic painters:
Cranfield acrylic paint set
Six 60ml tubes £26.99
Daler Rowney System 3 introductory set
Good quality student quality colours. Ten 22ml tubes £13.88
Amsterdam acrylic primary colours set
Five 120ml tubes of student quality paints. £14.99
7 x 80ml tubes £38.50
Daler Rowney System 3 Acrylics Set in a wooden box
10 x 22ml System 3 acrylics, 2 x 22ml acrylic mediums, 50ml soluble gloss varnish, 2 x System 3 brushes, palette knife, wooden mixing palette £41.60
Royal Talens Amsterdam acrylics set
12 x 20ml tubes £13.95
Brushes
Daler Rowney System 3 brush set
Ten short handled brushes in a zip up case, made specifically for acrylic painters made specifically for acrylic painters.
£32.50
Da Vinci Topacryl acrylic brush set
Three shapes round size 4, filbert size 8 and flat size 12. £18.15
Graduate acrylic and oil brush collection
Ten long handled brushes (smaller sizes) in a zip up case. £22.88
Accessories for acrylic painters
The encyclopedia of acrylic techniques by Hazel Harrison £12.99
Clear kidney shaped palette for acrylic painters
£8.15 Looks great and practical too!
Gift ideas for gouache painters
Painting with gouache is becoming increasingly popular and we offer a good selection of single colour and sets to suit a variety of skill levels.
Twenty four 12ml tubes of student quality gouache £13.50
Caran d’Ache studio gouache set
Fifteen colours in large tablets + a tube of 10ml tube of white gouache £29.99
Winsor & Newton designer introductory gouache set
Ten 14ml tubes £46.50
High quality gouache paints in ten, 15ml tubes £64.00
Gift ideas for pastel artists
We are supplied by the very highest quality pastel producers – Sennelier, Royal Talens, and Unison. Munygo is a very well priced student quality alternative. This year, Royal Talens have produced smaller packs of hues grouped together in lovely sets. At £5.99 they would make brilliant stocking fillers. Here are our recommended products for pastel artists:
Unison starter set of 18 pastels
£56.00 Sets are also available in portrait colours, landscape colours, greys and botanical selection
Rembrandt Pastels ten half sticks
£9.99 Available in a variety of colours
Rembrandt Pastels five half sticks
£5.99 Available in a variety of colours – highly recommended stocking filler gifts for artists
Mungyo soft pastel starter set
Sixty four half square sticks – great student quality starter set £16.99
Rembrandt Pastels in lovely wooden box
Thirty half lengths for £39.99
Conte a Paris Carres Assorted colours set
£11.00
Also available in sketching colours.
Conte Carres Crayons in a matchbox Recommended stocking filler!
£4.99
Pastel pads
Pastelmat paper pads 360gsm 24cm x 30cm
£22.50 Pads are available in both warm and cool colours
Gift ideas for artists who love to draw
Drawing is the cornerstone of any artists practice. For colouring pencils artists, we have a large selection of watersoluble, pastel and graphite pencils. Here are a few of our favourites:
Caran d’Ache Luminance set of 12
The creaminess of a permanent lead combined with unbeatable light resistance.
£35.00
Bruynzeel Rijks Museum ‘The Milkmaid’ set of 24
These pencils can be used to apply colours in many layers, creating both subtle and deep dramatic tones. The pretty metal tins make a lovely present.
£15.95
Derwent Metallic Pencils Gift Set
Celebrating two decades of eye-catching design and generations of Derwent innovation, the new metallic range has been restyled and expanded. Non-soluble but highly pigmented for maximum effect, the extended colour range includes twenty colours.
Bruynzeel Rijks Museum ‘The Night Watch’ set of 50 coloured pencils
Bruynzeel pencils are made from quality pigments and have good vibrant colours at an economical price
£50.00
Faber-Castell Polychromos Colouring pencils set of 36
The name Polychromos, meaning many colours was born in 1908 and became known across several continents. Today the name still stands for best of class quality including; unsurpassed lightfast pigments, break resistant tips and waterproof. Oil based lead, water-resistant and smudgeproof crayons which give a dense satisfying depth of colour. Highly Recommended for Illustration and Botanical drawings.
£61.50
Bruynzeel Vincent Van Gogh watercolour pencils set of 24
These watercolour pencils offer the artist the freedom to go from drawing to painting. The pencils can be used to shade on dry paper, then wash over with a wet brush to get a blended effect.
£14.00
Faber-Castell Drawing Pencils 9000 set of 12
These smooth pure graphite pencils are never scratchy and are available in 16 degrees of hardness for writing, drawing and sketching. Range includes softest and darkest pencil 8B through to the hard 2H and amongst others includi es the favourite F, popular with watercolour artists.
£14.50
Staedtler Red/Black Sketching Pencils set of 6
Softlead pencils for Sketching and Drawing. Especially break-resistant thanks to a super-bonded lead. Easy to erase. Set includes 6 degrees from 6B to 2H plus eraser and single metal sharpener.
£4.90
Gift ideas for the artist who has everything
Gift Vouchers
Buying gifts for artists isn’t straight forward – many creative people are loyal to particular brands or colours. The obvious solution is to buy your friend or loved one a Pegasus Art gift voucher, sold in various denominations from £5 to £100. We post your voucher in a high quality Pegasus Art gift card for the recipient to spend online or in store. If you run out of time, we can happily send the voucher by email for last minute presents for artists. Gift vouchers are redeemable on day workshops.
Buy your Gift Voucher today.
Art Books
We pride ourselves on stocking a large selection of Art Books which make the most wonderful gifts for artists at any time of year. From large, weighty tomes to instructional guides and fun childrens books, browse our online shop and we can gift wrap and send it direct to a friend or loved one. Browse our complete range of Art Books here.
Our recommended Art Books:
The encyclopedia of oil painting techniques by Jeremy Galton
£12.99
The encyclopedia of pastel techniques by Judy Martin
£12.99
The complete guide to anatomy for artists and illustrators
£50
Arctic Light – an artists journey by David Bellamy
£25
The complete guide to painting water in watercolour
£19.99
We stock so much more…
This blog includes a sample of our full range of products ~ there are too many products to mention including pens, inks, marbling kits, clay, printmaking equipment, portfolios, frames and mounts, charcoal, art bars and blocks, canvases, canvas fabric, stretcher bars, rolls of paper, mediums, primers, sealers, varnishes, metal leaf and more!
Beat the rush and order your Christmas gifts for artists today!
Be happy in the knowledge that you have purchased a high quality gift from an independent retailer. Pegasus Art has been selling the finest art materials since 2005.