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Drawing Materials: Handy Tools for Sketching
However, if you don’t know a darned thing about drawing materials, what they look like or what they do, or if you need encouragement, understanding, wit, or just like to look at art stuff, read everything on this website. It’s free.
https://watercolorpainting.com/drawing-materials/
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Get Started Drawing with Basic Supplies - Dummies
If you’re new to drawing, you’ll want to gather a few must-have supplies. But these drawing basics aren’t any old pencils, erasers, rulers, and paper. Here are the basic supplies you need to have in hand to get started drawing.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/get-started-drawing-with-basic-supplies.html
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A Guide to Drawing Supplies - About
All you need to get started is a sketchbook or paper, a few pencils, an eraser and sharpener.
http://drawsketch.about.com/od/suppliesbooks/bb/drawingsupplies.htm
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Drawing Materials - Everything You Need to Get Started
Welcome to the drawing materials section. Some of the most common e-mails I get are the ones asking which materials I use and would recommend. This section is intended to give you an overview.
http://www.dueysdrawings.com/drawing_materials.html
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10 Essential Drawing Materials and Tools for Beginners
Most of us started drawing when we were young. Back then, materials and tools were not that important to us. Perhaps, they weren’t even considered. A standard pencil on some notebook paper would often "do the trick".
http://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/10-essential-drawing-materials-and-tools-for-beginners
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Which Art Medium Is Right For You? - Art is Fun
Art medium refers to the art materials or artist supplies used to create a work of art.
http://www.art-is-fun.com/art-medium
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The Materials and Techniques Artists Use - Khan Academy
Learn how the ancient Greeks fired their ceramics, how renaissance artists created luminous oil paintings and the techniques developed by modern masters.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/artists-materials-techniques
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11 Artists Doing Amazing Things With Recycled Materials - Mental Floss
We all know that you're supposed to reduce, reuse and recycle, but for artists, reuse and recycle often have totally different meanings than they do for the rest of us. Here are 11 artists specializing in making trash into artistic treasures.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/13046/11-artists-doing-amazing-things-recycled-materials
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9 Mind-Blowing Pieces of Art Made With Ridiculous Materials - Cracked
Let's face it -- we've all tried to build a house of cards or make a sand castle at some point in our lives, but most of us get bored within a few minutes and give up. For others it may take an hour, or maybe even a few days... and there are those who devote their lives to making hugely pointless yet amazing things out of small, ridiculous materials.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19204_9-mind-blowing-pieces-art-made-with-ridiculous-materials.html
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BBC - GCSE Bitesize: Experimenting with Materials, Techniques and Processes
A secondary school revision resource for GCSE Art and Design, focusing on how to use resources, media and materials.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/art/aos/ao23.shtml
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Materials and Techniques of Design and the Fine Arts: Media
The choices a designer or artist can make are determined by the characteristics of the materials used, and the techniques applied to those materials. The combination of materials and techniques used are also referred to as the medium used.
http://char.txa.cornell.edu/media/intromed.htm
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The Materials of Painting - Sharecom
The materials of painting and their effect upon visual art.
http://www.sharecom.ca/fenton/materials.html
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Materials and Techniques: A Beginner's Guide to Ancient Egypt - Khan Academy
Read and learn for free about the following article: Materials & Techniques.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/egypt-art/beginners-guide-egypt/a/materials-techniques
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BBC - GCSE Bitesize: Drawing materials
A secondary school revision resource for GCSE Art and Design, describing the course structure.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/art/practicalities/mediaandtechniques1.shtml
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Notebook - Note Access
Art Materials and Methods. A Notebook of art references and resources which develop a context for understanding visual arts experience through broad areas of consideration, which include Dimensions, Approaches, Relationships, Modes, Themes & Topics, Materials & Methods, Disciplines, Courses, and there are Directories to valuable resources on the web.
http://noteaccess.com/MATERIALS/index.htm
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List of Artistic Media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the arts, a medium is a material used by an artist or designer to create a work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artistic_media
