We've put together this list of gift ideas for ya trying to keep all types of makers in mind. From the serious painter to the sculptor, we're here to help you find the right items for everyone on your list.
STOCKING STUFFERS
Astrology Eraser
Perfect for the astrology buff and artist in your life, these cute pastel colored erasers each have an astrological sign on the packaging and come with a "wishing marble".
Yellow Owl Stamp Sets
From full alphabets to little gnomes and mushrooms, these little stamp and ink sets are great for making gift cards, writing snail mail and so much more!
Yellow Owl Socks and Jewelry
What cute thing doesn't this company make?! Fun socks, different options in each store, as well as necklaces, rings, clips, and earrings are a great way to top off a stocking.
Brush Cleaners
Both the Master's Brush Cleaner and Bristle Magic brush cleaner come in perfect tiny sizes to fill up a stocking! The Bristle Magic is good for dried acrylic and oils whereas the Master's is a great bristle conditioner and restorer.
Hahnemühle Mini Zig Zag Sketchbooks
These incredibly small accordion fold sketchbooks can fit in the palm of your hand and are made with high quality paper. Perfect for mix media artists and folks of all ages!
Walker Supply Bags
These supply cases are made up in San Francisco and will last you absolutely forever! They also come in tons of different colors, combinations and sizes.
Paint Pucks
One of the most useful tools for any artist - the Paint Puck! These little silicone scrubs are meant to sit on the bottom of your paint rinse cup to help grab left over paint from paint brush bristles. Available in many different colors and two sizes!
Posca Acrylic Paint Markers
These paint markers are incredibly popular and it's easy to see why - they're easy to use, opaque, and can be used on almost any surface. They come in tons of different colors and tip sizes. Available individually or in sets!
Holbien Palette Paper
Available in ultra small postcard sized pads, this disposable palette paper is great for any painter in your life!
Itoya Punilabo Cases & Scissors
These animal themed pen cases and scissors are not only so cute, they're also very functional! The case's silicone material is easy to clean, long lasting, and the scissors are surprisingly sharp and compact. Hard to go wrong with this one.
Handmixed Split Sticks
These markers are like having a rainbow in your hand - with many color combinations and two sizes they're an excellent choice to fit in a stocking. Also the water based option is great for kids too!
FOR THE SKETCH ARTIST
Faber-Castel Pencil Sets
Available in many different options, these very high quality graphite sketching pencils are sure to please any obsessive drawer in your life.
Brass Pencil Sharpeners
Beautiful, simple, and well-designed sharpeners are a great choice for your artist loved one. Since they're made of solid brass, they have a nice heavy weight in your hand and make lovely desk objects as well.
Kunst & Papier Sketchbooks
These German Sketchbooks have a lovely sketch-weight paper on the inside and are bound with an open style binding that allows them to lay completely flat when opened. With hard kraft brown covers and multi-color spine options in a few different sizes, these classy sketchbooks are sure to please.
Kaweco Lead Clutch
Talk about classy, these lead holders are available in a number of colorful plastic or heavy metal choices. Don't forget to add on regular lead or the colorful lead option!
Micron Fine Liner Pen Sets
Micron pens are a wonderful waterproof fine-lining option and a standard for almost all artists. They just released some new colors and sizes; the grey scale set is a particular favorite.
Pentel Brush Pens
Pentel makes tons of lovely inky pens that come in a variety of options! Either waterproof or not with ink in black, sepia, or grey. We've also got refill cartridges if you'd like to make it a full package deal.
FOR THE EXPERIMENTALIST
Kama Oil Stick Set
With the ability to use these oil sticks to sketch or create finished work, these can be thought of as oil paint in stick from. A wonderful mark making tool that lends itself easily to any type of maker.
Golden Coarse Pumice Gel
Golden makes a huge number of mediums to change the finish or consistency of acrylic paint. A great option for those with lots of curiosity is their Coarse Pumice Gel! It has a highly textured concrete-like finish, a super wacky fun choice.
Jacquard Cyanotype Kits
This two component set is made for making photographic blueprints on either paper or fabric. Each kit contains enough product to make approximately sixty-five 8" x 10" prints on paper or fifty 8" x 10" prints on fabric!
Magic Ink Sets
These high quality xylene-based markers have wide chisel tips and deliver a water-resistant line on pretty much any surface. Within the box set, each marker is individually packaged - the design alone is enough to entice any artist in your life.
Krink Sprayer
Krink's Sprayer is a whole hand-pressurized paint delivery system. It may take a bit of trial and error, but once you master the process you can achieve unique marks on a super large scale. Perfect for the those who like to go big or go home! Available in Pasadena.
Art Resin
There are so many projects you can do with this resin! This high-gloss epoxy resin is non-yellowing, non-toxic, and food safe. Very easy to use and tint if you'd like to add color. Available in a variety of sizes.
FOR THE CERAMICIST
Xiem Sculpture Tools
An extremely high quality metal tool is a great gift to give a sculptor. Quite heavy, very durable, and ridiculously useful, it is hard to go wrong with any variety of shape options available.
Fome Sculpture Wheel
Fome's Italian sculpture wheels are endlessly useful. Like a turntable, you can paint and crave into our clay object in the round, an excellent gift for your sculptor loved one.
Xiem Supply Bag
Xiem makes wonderful brown canvas supply bags that have a crazy amount of compartments for all the tools you could ever use. With a wooden handle, sturdy wire frame, these useful bags can also last you indefinitely!
Coyote Underglazes
These high fire underglazes are all designed to be bright and true from cone 5 to cone 10. Available in a wide range of colors in both 4 oz. jars and pints.
Xiem Glaze Brushes
What underglaze gift is complete without a couple of glazes brushes? These soft bristled brushes come in a variety of sizes, a great gift for your ceramicist friend.
Xiem Texture Combs
The Xiem company makes so many great materials for the ceramicist. These combs come in multi packs and have different edges on each side. This allows for endless mark making abilities!
FOR THE OIL AND ACRYLIC PAINTER
Rublev's Lavender Spike Oil
This lovely smelling oil has a variety of uses for oil painting. Not only can it be used to change the consistency of oil paint, it can also be used as a solvent-free alternative to clean your piant brushes.
American Easel Circular Wood Panels
A fun alternative to the traditional square or rectangle! We have circular wooden panels in a wide range of sizes, available in both locations.
Blue Rooster Custom Panels
Give a gift that's truly handmade from the heart by ordering a wood or aluminum panel through our customs shop! We can make any odd size you can think of, all extremely high-quality of course. Our master builder Brandon, below, can make you the panel of your dreams!
Old Holland Oil Paint
Established in 1664, this extremely lovely traditionally made oil paint is coveted due to it's buttery texture and finely ground pigments. An excellent gift for the oil painter in your life.
Da Vinci Badger Hair Brushes
Although Da Vinci has discontinued making these great oil painting brushes, we still have a few on hand! The superior badger hair is perfect for blending and softening oil paint.
Golden SoFlat Acrylic Paint Sets
These paints can be used to create an immersive field of matte finish color. It's flowing consistency offers exceptional coverage and levels as it dries. Two different color sets available in both stores!
FOR THE WATERCOLORIST
Stoneground Gouache
We've carried their watercolors in the past and will again soon, but Stoneground's Gouache is a brand new product for us. Handmade in Canada, their gouache is very rich in color and luxurious in texture. Available in individual colors as well as a number of set sizes.
Watercolor Travel Notebooks
We carry a huge number of beautiful watercolor notebook options! Our Etchr watercolor books have luscious 100% cotton paper and come in both a hot and cold press finish.
Hahnemühle also makes a hardbound 100% cotton watercolor notebook with either a portrait or landscape orientation.
Case For Making Watercolor Papers
This San Francisco based company makes the cutest papers as well as watercolors. Available in Pasadena, check out their grid, circular, or extra tiny watercolor paper pads. An excellent gift for your watercolorist loved one
Holbein Watercolor Sets
Holbien makes beautiful highly concentrated paints. Their watercolor sets make a great gift choice for your watercolorist loved one. Available in a few different quantities!
Mineral Paper
An exciting pad of paper that's unlike any other kind - made from rocks, yes rocks, it's non-absorbent in the traditional sense and even changes temperature along with the room that it's in.
Silver Brush Black Velvet Brushes
Made with a unique blend of squirrel hair and black synthetic bristles, these brushes make a great gift for the watercolorist in your life! Available in our Pasadena location.
Gansai Tambi Individual Watercolors
Labeled as a "solid watercolor", these lovely paints are quite thick, have very rich colors and bold coverage. Though we carry sets in both stores, our Pasadena location carries individual colors for gifting your own customized set.
FOR THE PEN NERD
Refillable Fountain Pens
We carry so many lovely refillable fountain pen options! The Lamy pens are German-made and come in a number color and price point options. Check out the retractable option for the person that already has everything! The Kaweco fountain pens just released a number of great new colors, sure to please. We carry their cartirdges, ink converters, and roller-ball pens. Twsbi makes some of our favorite fountain pens since they have a built-in ink converter. All available in a a wide variety of colors and nib sizes.
Japanese Stationery & Pens
We now carry a number of great stationary items and tools. From specialty pads to place beneath papers while working, to lovely stitch-bound notebooks, it's hard to go wrong with any of these fun choices.
Rollbahn Notebooks
New! Just in time for the holidays we've started to carry Rollbahn notebooks. Available in more simple staple bound options as well as spiral bound in different sizes and color choices all with cream finish grid paper on the interior.
Noodler's Fountain Pen Inks
Noodler's great inks are 100% made here in the US and come in a number of color choices. They have highly concentrated colors and behave beautifully on many paper types. Available in our Pasadena location, coming soon to our Los Feliz shop!
Pilot Iroshizuku Fountain Pen Inks
These luxury inks are available in a wide selection of bold vivid colors. The truly beautiful bottles are designed with a dip in the middle to make it easier to get every last drop! Currently in stock at our Pasadena store.
FOR THE ENVIRONMENTALIST
Gamblin Reclaimed Earth Color Sets
Made in collaboration with both an artist and engineer, this set of three oil paint colors was created by pulling pigments from tainted waters in the Ohio and Mississippi River systems. Each set also comes with a birch wood panel sustainably harvested in North America.
Hahnemühle Bamboo Sketch and Mix Media Notebooks
Hahnemühle produces absolutely beautiful papers made from more environmentally friendly bamboo fibers. Their mix media option is exceptionally thick and wonderfully absorbent!
St. Armand Handmade Papers
St. Armand is a paper-mill in Montreal, Québec loved for their made-to-order, handmade papers. We have a number their sketchbooks, round watercolor papers, and scrap bags of paper cut-offs!
SpectraFix Degas Fixative
An excellent option for the more environmentally conscious artist! This workable fixative seals and protects artwork, dries quickly and has a hard, water-resistant finish. It also has no odor and is pet safe and indoor safe, how excellent!
Holbein Aqua Duo Oil Paint Sets
A truly brilliant part of the Holbien family of paints are their Aqua Duo paints. These oil paints are water-soluble - you can thin out the paint with water and use water for all clean-up. You don't have to use any solvents with this gorgeous thickly textured paint!
FOR THE ARTIST ON-THE-GO
Metalplus Toolboxes
We're just starting to stock these exceptionally lovely metal toolboxes. Available in a handful of colors and two different sizes.
New Wave U.Go Pochade Boxes
A plein air travel easel is the perfect gift for the traveling artist. Not only are they beautiful to look at, they provide ample room to mix paints and are very lightweight.
Etchr Field Cases
Etchr's field carrying cases are extremely functional. They are very compact, high quality, and weather-proof making them truly versatile. With all their little compartments and bands they are also deceptively spacious!
Travel Brushes
We stock a couple different lovely watercolor travel brushes. The Da Vinci Casaneo comes in a few sizes and is made with synthetic squirrel hair. They are made with screw caps and are very secure for carrying on the go. At our Pasadena location, we also have the Case For Making travel brushes - a gorgeous option with matte gold metal handles and a sleek form for a very chic traveler.
Hahnemühle Collapsible Water Cup
We just started carrying Hahnemühle's foldable mixing cups. These slim profiled cups come with a lid and are an excellent choice since they also include a band to easily clip it to your palette or travel bag!
Case For Making Watercolor Travel Sets
Case For Making creates handmade watercolors are available in small easy-to-carry sets as well as individual color options. All of the sets that we carry are Blue Rooster curated sets - we make own our very special collections that you can only get here! Either the sets of individual pans would be a great choice for the watercolorist who must paint on the go.
Pilot Iroshizuku Fountain Pen Inks
