Outdoor Art Essentials
Go Create Outdoors!
Grab your favourite plein air painting supplies from top brands and get ready to create amazing art outdoors!
Outdoor Painting Essentials
Explore a curated selection of materials designed to withstand the elements and make transportation a breeze. Perfect for artists who love painting en plein air.
Acrylic Painting Outdoors
Acrylics are trustworthy and rapid drying. For longer sessions, use with a Sta-Wet Palette or an Acrylic Medium to prolong their drying time.
Watercolour Painting Outdoors
Watercolors and a sketchbook are easy to pack, ideal for spur-of-the-moment plein air painting. Toss in watercolor markers for added finesse!
Oil Painting Outdoors
Channel the masters like Sargent and Renoir with oil colors! Perfect for vibrant outdoor scenes, oil paint dries slowly so bring an oil medium for faster drying.
Drawing Outdoors
From a solo pencil in your back pocket to a box bursting with colours, capturing the world around us is easy breezy with pens, markers, and pencils.
Pastel Outdoors
Head outdoors with pastels, loved for their blend ability and pigmented colour. Let the open skies and magic of pastels paint the scene.
Must-Have Accesories
It's the little things that make art outdoors easy - like watercups, aprons, easels, viewcatchers, colourwheels, and more!
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Opus Art Supplies Opus Gabriola Small Sketchbox Easel TSSHX4
Opus Art Supplies Opus Garibaldi Sketchbox Easel DEM1FR02
Opus Art Supplies Opus Exhibition Pre-Stretched Canvas Surfaces - Slim MDPC1010
Canson Canson Plein Air Artboards CAN400061730
GOLDEN Artist Colors GOLDEN OPEN Acrylics Landscape Set GOL01977
Opus Art Supplies Opus Salt Spring Deluxe Aluminum Easel OPUSFE0072
Art Toolkit Art Toolkit Painting Palettes EXADPLSTDBLK
Opus Art Supplies Opus Essential Wirebound Sketchbooks OPUM8511K
Ampersand Ampersand Pastelbord Panels AMPPB05
Buzz (by Opus) Buzz Canvas Panels OPUCBZP1010
GOLDEN Artist Colors GOLDEN OPEN Acrylic Mediums 8 oz GOL0184OFMG
ColorWheel Co. Gray Scale & Value Finder CWC3505
ColorWheel Co. Viewcatcher CWC7002
Yasutomo Yasutomo Niji Waterbrush Premier - Set of 3 YASKWBPSET
Tombow Tombow Dual Brush Pens - Black or Grey or Blue TOM56515
GOLDEN Artist Colors GOLDEN OPEN Acrylics GOL73802
Strathmore Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media Pads STR462106
Winsor & Newton Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolour Sketchers' Pocket Box Set of 12 WIN0390640
Ampersand Ampersand Gessobord Panels AMPGBS05
Winsor & Newton Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolour Palette Pocket Pan Box 13 Piece Set WIN40WNWSB
Hahnemühle® Hahnemühle® Watercolour Zig Zag Books HML10625000
Stillman & Birn Stillman & Birn Delta Softcover Sketchbooks STI501350P
Stillman & Birn Stillman & Birn Beta Softcover Sketchbooks STI301350P
Stillman & Birn Stillman & Birn Zeta Softcover Sketchbooks STI901350P
Tombow Tombow Dual Brush Pen Set Primary Palette Set of 10 TOM56167
Hahnemühle® Hahnemühle® D&S Books HML10628323
Ampersand Ampersand Aquabord Panels AMPCBT05
Strathmore Strathmore 400 Series Watercolor Hardbound Art Journal 8.5" x 5.5" STR4675
Stillman & Birn Stillman & Birn Epsilon Softcover Sketchbooks STI701350P
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