Gifts Under $50

30,000 Years of Art

This lavishly illustrated volume is a visual timeline of world art. Featuring photos of recognizable masterpieces as well as surprising and lesser known works, this book makes art accessible to everyone!

Blick Artists' Acrylic Sets

Smooth, lightfast, and permanent, Blick Artists’ Acrylics are guaranteed to equal or surpass competing brands. These high-viscosity acrylics are suitable for any acrylic technique and dry permanently insoluble. Intermixable with water or other acrylics.

Blick Gift Certificates

Dick Blick Gift Certificates are available in denominations from $5.00 and up, and can be used to purchase from our catalogs as well as from our Internet site. A gift envelope and catalog accompany the certificate.

Books by Hand Albums

Create a beautiful keepsake worthy of your favorite photos, mementos, or CDs with these unique, easy to assemble kits from Books by Hand. The highest quality materials and acid free pages ensure that your memories are preserved for generations to come.

Daler-Rowney Artsphere Arts & Crafts Workstation

The Artsphere Workstation is a brilliant new concept in easel design. Its unique ball and socket joint allows a large 16½" × 11¾" (42 cm × 30 cm) detachable drawing board to move in any direction. The handle locks the board securely in place.

Derwent Coloursoft Pencil Starter Kit

If you haven’t experienced these superb colored pencils, now is the time! This set contains 10 Coloursoft pencils and a variety of other drawing materials, including a lacquered wooden mannequin.

Derwent Graphitint Pencil Set with FREE Sketchbook

Just in time for holiday gift-giving, this set includes 24 Graphitint Pencils and a free sketchbook for drawing on the go. Derwent's soft, smooth pencils combine the qualities of graphite with a hint of color.

Escoda Kolinsky Sable Pointed Round Set

Escoda brushes are designed to be long-lasting tools, with exceptional points and an unmatched ability to maintain their original shape. Five sable pointed rounds in sizes 0, 1, 2, 4, and 6 are housed in a clear, vinyl pouch.

Fabriano Tiziano Paper & Sennelier Pastel Set

A great holiday value, this set contains an 8¼" × 11¼" (21 cm × 29 cm) Tiziano Pad and 20 half stick Sennelier soft pastels. The 30-sheet pad contains six sheets in colors including: Sea, Tan, Ink, Mist, Slate, and Black.

Maimeri Venezia Watercolors

Maimeri Venezia watercolors provide good uniform coverage with a velvety matte finish and the maximum degree of lightfastness.

Mosaic Essential Kit

Easy to use, even for the novice, the Mosaic Essential Kit teaches the skills required for creating beautiful, unique, professional-quality pieces of art. The kit provides the tiles and tools needed, you provide the substrate.

Paint with Jane Starter Kits

Actor and artist Jane Seymour offers a refreshing perspective by encouraging beginning students to paint outside the lines, let the paint flow, and let "happy accidents" happen. These kits make a thoughtful gift for beginning artists of any age.

Pebeo Painting Sets

Pebeo has created the finest craft paints available to paint on glass, porcelain, glazed terracotta, or metal. All sets include ten 45 ml size colors and instructions. Deluxe Craft Box Sets also include everything you need to begin.

Prismacolor NuPastel Color Sets

Ideal for illustration and tightly rendered drawing. Harder than other pastels, also cleaner, due to slightly varnished surface. In sets to 96, plus refills.

Silver Brush Renaissance Red Sable Brush Set

Renaissance Red Sable Brushes feature short, gloss black hardwood handles. They offer natural spring and a generous color holding capacity.

Sinopia Pigment Sets

These sets are a superb introduction into the historical world of genuine earth tones, and ancient and contemporary pigments, such as Hansa Yellow, which are no longer being utilized by most major artist’s paint manufacturers.

Tilano Fresco Marble Coaster Making Kit

Using this kit and your imagination, creatively preserve and display favorite art or photos! An artistic alternative to traditional framing, coasters make ideal favors, placecards, and gifts.

Yasutomo Sumi Kit

Whether you’re just starting out or an experienced Sumi-e or calligraphy artist, this compact kit offers the basic tools to create the ancient art of East Asian brush painting.

Alex Magnetic Easel

This versatile hardwood table easel will host hours of creative fun. Use it as a magnetic board, as a wipe-off coloring surface, or as a painter's easel.

Alex Plaster Caster Activity Kit

Kids mix, pour, and spin plaster to create fantastic clay pieces with this fast-action sculpture factory. The kit includes all the materials needed to create six different molds — a plaster caster machine, splash guard, mixing cup, 21 oz of white plast

Art Games

These fun and educational Art Games teach through updated versions of classic games. A special set of art cards are used to play "Go Fish" and "Concentration" while the companion book explains the story behind each painting featured.

Artstraws

Creative fun for kids of all ages! Make animals, flowers, figures, mobiles, jewelry, castles, bridges, and dolls. Paper straws are easy to bend, cut, or color with markers and watercolors, and they stick with school glue.

Curiosity Kits Pottery Wheel

Affordable enough for beginners, this compact tabletop wheel is still powerful enough for small porjects and serious potters. It operates via a foot pedal and includes an AC Adapter. Also included are 2 lb of clay, sculpting and modeling tools, 6 colo

NEW! DeltaSand Lightweight

One material … thousands of possibilities! This unique, reusable substance from Sweden combines porous grains with a special non-toxic binding agent. This results in a material that feels like sand, but stays pliable and never dries out.

Faber-Castell Ultimate Sketching and Drawing Gift Set

This is the ultimate set for young artists on the go. The 117 piece set includes lots of colored pencils, watercolor pencils, and markers, plus a Tips and Techniques booklet to help kids learn how to use each drawing tool. Recommended for ages 7 and up.

Mosaic Coaster Mold and Kit

These reusable, high impact plastic coaster molds release stones from the molds with ease. This kit contains enough materials for twelve students to make a coaster

Mosaic Design Kits

Build a mosaic mirror, or a classic votive candle. Easy-to-use, these kits give you valuable techniques you can use again and again for creating professional-quality pieces of fine artwork.

Reeves Maxi Color Set

This 51-piece set includes colored pencils, oil pastels, watercolor tubes, and more, all in a beautifully stained hardwood carrying case. What a great gift for an aspiring young artist! Also included are brushes, an eraser, a sharpener, and a palette.