What art supplies are best for beginners?

What makes good art supplies? It’s such a loaded question. Good on what level?

Price?

Ease of use?

Archival quality?

Accessibility?

Figuring out what art supplies are best can be a bit of a minefield, especially for beginners!

A bit of googling and you will most likely collect multiple opinions probably contradicting each other. So ignore other people’s opinions and let’s figure out which art supplies are going to be best for you.

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