My mom wants to take up sketching, in particularly to sketch flowers. What would be a good Christmas gift idea

besides like the basic utensils and paper pad.

My mom wants to take up sketching, in particularly to sketch flowers. What would be a good Christmas gift idea
maybe a easil. But you need to get her this special kind of color pencil called Prisma Color. It uses an oil base and you can blend it like paint and it is way better then regular pencils. Charcoal is nice... The nice thing about sketching though is that it does not require much to do it. Maybe if she gets good a sketching she can dive into some other medias like painting!
Reply:how about a how to book or something on sketching
Reply:Tell her you'll sit very patiently for an hour or two while she sketches you.
Reply:Go to a local craft store (big one like Michael's or AC Moore) and go to the artists section, find someone. Tell them you want to get an instruction book for sketching flowers and some sketch pad.





Good luck!
Reply:Just make her a Gift basket full of stuff from an art supply store.


Maybe a nice Easel.
Reply:If you look in book stores or artists' supply stores, you will find many books related to drawing and sketching, including those that focus on particular areas like nature, still life, flowers, (and animals, figure, landscapes, buildings, cars, etc.) Some of these have lessons that take the reader step by step through a few drawing while others have dozens of drawings to copy and work with (almost like a kids coloring book.) Get one that focuses on flowers that looks good to you in choices. Get a sketch pad the same size with a stiff back, get several pencils in various grades (or look in the front of the book and see what it suggests is needed) and get a nice cloth bag the right size to hold them all neatly with a little space left over. Some craft stores (or sections of bigger stores) will have kits for beginning drawing with instructions, a pad, pencils, eraser, stub, etc. packaged together. Simple instructions you don't get to examine before buying.
Reply:a set of different dencety pencils. Maybe water color pencils. She could sketch with them and then brush over them with water and blend it a bit.
Reply:An art book or maybe like some plants that she can sketch.
Reply:a toaster.
Reply:a sketchbook and some nice sketching pencils or eboni pencils and a mead eraser
Reply:U can try buying her different varieties of flowers in pots or vases, and a nice looking sketchbook, maybe some flower seeds that she could plant?
Reply:Charcoal. Its a blast to work with!


Go to an art store and ask them to set you up with a set, dont forget paper, under $20.
Reply:get her a nice instructional book for still lifes and flower drawing.