Art supplies

• Crayons are better than sliced bread, as far as I'm concerned. I invest in a new 64 count box every few months.
• Colored pencils are also swell. When I draw, I color it in with colored pencils first, then crayons to make it brighter, then pencils again to smooth and add texture.
• Copy paper is nice to draw on. It's a perfect size, a nice smooth texture, clean, white color, and it's very low pressure. I mean, when you're working on canvas or vellum you feel like you have to not make any mistakes. If you're drawing on copy paper and you mess up, you can just get a new piece without feeling too wasteful. Fancy paper is pricey.
• Who doesn't love glitter?
• Colorful Sharpies are amazing, but I'm a Sharpie miser. I made the mistake of letting the kids at work use mine to outline their letters. (I was teaching them how to do illumination.) After about 10 minutes I took them back up, for three reasons: they were using nothing BUT Sharpie and wasting the ink, they didn't comprehend why I had them drawing on top of books and folders, so they ruined a couple of tables, and the fumes were reaching dangerous levels. Still, I love me some Sharpies.
• I can't do origami, but I love origami paper.
• Charcoal is messy but oh so much fun.
• Pastels are also messy, but I do my best work with them.
• I love drawing in ebony, but it's so hard to sharpen.
• Rubber cement was always fun, but not for any good reason. My fondest memories of it involve spreading it on my hands and making little balls out of it. Good times.
• However, I'm not a fan of Elmer's glue (too messy) or glue sticks (utterly useless.) 
• Also not a fan of scissors, markers, soft pencils, and poster board. I'm a lefty. Poster board was always the bane of my existence. I can't guess how many I ruined over the years because my hand drags across the still wet ink. In 10th grade, I had to do a project on WWII. I spent all night writing a letter or two, then drying it with my hair dryer, so as not to smudge it.