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Made from 100% recycled polypropylene-plastic water bottles, these roomy and beautiful Eco Tote Bags are both eco-friendly and stylish. Striking quilt imagery is featured on each bag. They are sturdy with reinforced stitching all around, a secure zipper and a wide, reinforced bottom panel. The shoulder-length handle makes it easy to carry. Totes measure 15½" × 15" × 8".

Also available is the Eco Messenger Camo Quilt Bag which features a pattern image from a modern quilt called Triangle Jubilee, made with recycled military uniforms. It is durable, waterproof, tear-resistant and comfortable to carry with an adjustable shoulder strap. Contents will be secure with the interior pocket and Velcro closure.

Until the end of the year, get one a free Eco Tote Bag with the purchase of $50 or more of the items from Wonton’s holiday gift ideas. Just make sure to ask for it when you check out, and we’ll help you pick one out.

This special Prismacolor Colored Pencil Gift Set has 48 of the Premier Soft Core colored pencils in a beautiful, black premium box. The soft, thick cores of Premier Soft Core colored pencil create a smooth layer lay down for superior blending and shading. We also have Prismacolor pencil sets with 12 or 24 colors, and Prismacolor marker sets with 12 or 24 colors. All of the Prismacolor sets are 40% off for a limited time. (And there’s a special 15-color Premier Colored Pencil Portfolio Set in our clearance rack just begging to be stuffed in someone’s stocking.)

Get your young artist started on the path to lifelong creativity! This Junior Brush and Smock Set is ideal for tempera and poster color painting sessions. Designed for ages four and up, the child’s smock is 100% cotton canvas with rayon trim and will keep color where it belongs – on the brushes, palette and canvas, but off of clothes. It loops over the head, ties in back and has three front pockets – the middle pocket has seams to hold the brushes. The set also includes eight kid-sized brushes with soft white bristle hair and colorful short handles in graduated sizes, plus three nested white plastic palette cups with a lid.

The Studio Acrylic and Studio XL Oil paint sets already made the list, but we also brought in a selection of sets of some of Pebeo’s craft lines.

Arti’stick Paints can be painted on to a non-stick surface (like glass) and after they dry, they can be peeled off and repositioned like a window cling. The set contains five 75ml tubes of paint.

The Setacolor Opaque Discovery Set has six colors of high-quality fabric paint and the Setacolor Opaque Workbox contains ten colors along with a paint brush, sponge, mini-palette, and a tube of Touch Textile paint for a little extra punch.

Whether its our locally-manufactured Raw Materials brand canvas, or the Art Alternatives canvas that’s part of our Canvas Truckload Sale, you can’t really go wrong by getting canvas for any painters in your life. And if you buy more canvas, you’ll save more on your whole purchase.

Last year, Brush Caddie Sets from Royal Brush made the list (and they were so popular, we kept them in stock year-round). This year, we’ve brought in Painting Art Sets from Royal Brush with Acrylic, Oil, or Watercolor paints. Each set comes in a tin box, includes painting boards, paints and drawing tools, brushes, and a palette. These sets are great for the beginning artist, artists on the go or any artist who likes supplies all contained in one box.

And if you buy the oil or acrylic sets, you also get a free 11" × 14" Raw Materials brand canvas.

Moleskine has come out with a line of accessories to go with their well-known notebooks. The Moleskine Accessory Set holds Moleskine pencils and pens in style, including three slip-on grips made of flexible silicone to make writing and drawing more comfortable.

The Moleskine Roller Pen is a natural travel companion for Moleskine notebooks, designed to stay attached to Moleskine notebook covers via a simple clip. The roller point is spring-loaded and the black gel ink was developed specifically for Moleskine paper. The rectangular shaped pen cap and body are made of ABD plastic with a matte black finish. The pen includes 24 adhesive labels to personalize it. Refills with black, blue, green, red, and violet ink are available.

The Moleskine Pencil features a rectangular shape with rounded corners and is made of cedar wood and high-quality 2B lead. It can be clipped onto most Moleskine notebook covers with the included cap, and also comes with a black plastic sharpener with a high-quality German blade.

Want a gift of paints that makes a statement? These meter-long sets of forty 20ml tubes of Pebeo Studio Acrylic or Studio XL Oil paints will do that.

Developed with precision for the student of art or high volume user, Studio XL Acrylic colors feature deep and rich pigments and dry to a satin matte finish with good lightfastness. They are very adherent and indelible once dry and they are suitable for most surfaces and can be easily mixed and blended. They have a thick consistency and retains the brush or painting knife mark, making them particularly suited to work in dimension.

Studio XL Oil colors are designed to meet the needs of contemporary artistic expression while being affordable, and are ideal for studies and larger works. They provide intense, permanent colors that resist thermal and photo-oxidation. They dry to the touch approximately three to six days after an average application. They perform well with a variety of techniques, from glazes to thick layers and may be used in conjunction with the mediums and auxiliaries. The Dyna colors are formulated with interference pigments that allow the colors to change depending on the angle of light refraction.

Get two free 11" × 14" Raw Materials brand canvas with each set while supplies last.

How about a lump of coal? You can come close with this large 250g handmade ArtGraf Water-Soluble Graphite stick that is intended for use on large-scale projects. It contains blended graphite and binders allowing it to be used dry for drawing, or wet to achieve a wide range of washes and graphite grays ranging from the deepest blacks to more subtle, transparent grays. The graphite is erasable once dry and is great for adding texture and depth to sketches and watercolor paintings.

This comprehensive Liquitex Artists’ Workshop Set contains the essentials for acrylic artists to set up a studio and explore the medium. It includes an engaging, in-depth instructional DVD that presents essential skills needed to successfully complete an acrylic painting. Along with the DVD, the set contains a table easel, two brushes, an 8" × 10" canvas board, a plastic palette knife, a gum eraser, a sketching pencil, a plastic palette, a 4 oz. bottle off gloss medium, a 4 oz. bottle of gloss varnish and six 2 oz. tubes of heavy body acrylic in yellow medium azo, naphthol crimson, yellow oxide, phthalo blue, dioxazine purple and titanium white.

While supplies last, get the set for 20% off and get two free 11" × 14" Raw Materials brand canvas.