EW’S
GIFTS FOR
THAT ARTIST
IN YOUR LIFE
A good pencil is hard to beat
gift
GUIDE
by Bob Keefer
rtists should be easy to buy presents
for, right? They all live in poverty and
are pleased to receive anything of
value. A $5 gift certificate to Dutch
Bros. Coffee should do the trick for the
thoroughly impoverished Warhol in your life.
But if you want to win karmic points, think art sup-
plies. There isn’t an artist I know who doesn’t go into
a semi-hypnotic state at the thought of a really good
art supply store. In Eugene, Oregon Art Supply, 1020
Pearl Street, and the UO Duck Store, 895 E. 13th
Avenue, both come to mind. Sadly, $5 isn’t going to
go too far when you’re not just buying coffee, so think
more along the lines of $25, $50 or more.
Want to buy an actual object for your artist friend?
Remember that the traditional foundation of all
visual art is drawing. Get your local Picasso or Van
Gogh a nice sketchbook or two.
The long-time top sketchbook comes from
Moleskine, which makes a nice, trendy and expen-
sive product in many variations. Its basic “large”
sketchbook has 100 pages, measuring 5 by 8.25
inches, has a nice black cover and retails at $19.95 at
Moleskine.com. (You can do better shopping else-
A
where, but you won’t find the whole range of
Moleskine products in most stores.)
Your favorite Michelangelo will also need some-
thing to draw with in that fancy
notebook. Who wouldn’t love a
box of fresh pencils in their stock-
ing? Regular old yellow No. 2 pen-
cils — the kind we used in grade
school — run about $20 for a box
of 144, depending on where you
shop. But if you’re spending
money on fancy sketchbooks, you
might as well splurge on the right
wooden pencil. The fancier
Palomino Blackwing 602 will set
you back $22.95 for just a dozen
— 12 times as much as the basic
No. 2 — but they definitely have a
cool vibe.
Art supplies not your thing?
Consider buying a gift member-
ship for your artist friend at their
favorite art museum. A year’s basic
membership at the Jordan
Schnitzer Museum of Art runs $45 for an individual,
$55 for a family, and gets the holder in free for a year:
jsma.uoregon.edu/membership.
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