Professional Artist Buys Supplies At WALMART... 

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As an artist who also works at Walmart, I can honestly say there are worse options out there! Just stay away from the shitty craft kits!

I can hear the sassy Walmart employee telling you to stop filming already lmaooo

Wow her local Walmart has so much more art supplies than my local Walmart.

I'm glad you're addressing the Walmart shaming. A lot of people forget that sometimes places like Walmart are one of the few or only options. If you live in a smallish place like me it's more practical to shop at Walmart because they have everything. If you go to target a lot of things are missed or too expensive, and Kroger only sells groceries. So yeah.

"Bini is super respectful of my stuff, probably because I'm super respectful of his stuff" No, it's because you're a good mom and raising him to respect others' belongings :)

If you can get to wal-mart at back to school time, the twelve pack of colored pencils is usually about 97 cents, which would put you at $10 ;) Back to school is the best time to grab art supplies for your whole year if you're in a place where you have to watch cash.

Thanks for your respectful disclaimer! To each their own in terms of what stores they support, since everyone’s situations are so different. As someone who actively avoids Walmart, I understand that this is a privilege and others shop there out of necessity. Money does talk, but you gotta take care of yourself first!

POV: Bini grows up and watches his mom shop for his clothes in front of a camera to thousands of people and learns why he owns a pretend cleaning toy set

Me crying in another country that the cheap art supplies are the expensive ones over here 😭😭😭

I love how you made that disclaimer. I didn’t even think about that but I love that you were thoughtful enough to think about adding that in 🖤 The art though?? I love how ✨e f f o r t l e s ✨ you draw everything and I can’t get over all your funny animations and edits here and there 😭👏🏻

I love your distracted shopping 😂 that’s the epitome of Walmart shopping - you’re lucky if you ever leave with what you actually intended on buying

As someone that's not from the US and has never seen a walmart, i never knew they had so much art stuff!

bruh my walmart doesn't even let us buy art supplies anymore due to the panarama, I MUST ART WHAT wILL I DOOO

I'm here for the positive understanding about poverty and limited means. Thank you.

From what I've seen, Crayola is marketing their washable watercolours more heavily. I do believe the original is still available, usually with the terms "semi-moist" or "education". I don't think Crayola is available widely outside America so the Faber-Castell student grade watercolours are a great alternative!!

the feeling of dread is immeasurable if your walmart is anything like mine, there's gonna be food and sticky stuff on the products due to kids :(

For once my anxiety that doesn't let me sleep pays off

Had a friend who would do these amazing drawings in college and she would only use those bic crystal pens ypu can get 20 for like a dollar. Practice to get the skill, what you use doesn't really matter.

I got my art degree using the cheapest of the cheap art supplies. I couldn’t afford anything else, just like most people in my class lol. I hate to hear that people are shaming others for not using top of the range brands. I only have expensive products now because 1) I make my own money lol and 2) I sell and gift my work, I need the materials I use to be as long lasting and lightfast as possible. 😊

Your Walmart with it's "picked over" art stuff is a heck of a lot better than my Walmart when they are supposedly "fully stocked. That said, thank you for showing that even artists on small budgets...and kids starting the art journey...can get good supplies at reasonable prices.

target actually has a really good art supply section! at the closest target to where I am (which is NOT a very big store by any means) they had a BUNCH of art supplies under their “mondo llama” label, such as sketchbooks, alcohol markers, watercolors, acrylic paints, brushes, and more. And not just their store brand, they had some of the fine art crayola products, some prismacolor products (brush pens, alcohol markers, color pencils), and a nice variety of art papers, and even some art guide books for sketching and watercolor

A $20 vs. $50 at Michael's would be really cool!

I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who puts every item in the cart in a gentle Baby Bird manner. As for where to go next all I can think of is Target because whenever I go there I specifically avoid that section because my brother is the one that drives and I don't want to leave him waiting on me for an hour or risk getting separated from him (he gets bored, huffy and wanders off when I take too long).

I respect you for including your disclaimer. It’s great if you can afford to support smaller business but not every has that ability so it was really thoughtful of you to include that. Also I recently got a set of crayola watercolor, the normal kind and they didn’t have a weird sheen at all. Hope that’s helpful to anyone.

I can relate to feeling all the soft fabrics in any store. Literally me every time I go into any store.

Walmart actually has quite a bit of decent art supplies now or at least mine does they sell 24 pacs of prismacolor scholar pencils not as nice as premier but a lot better than crayola ! And just the other day they had a 4 pack of Uni-Ball Signo board pens! In white, gold, silver and metallic red! And they’re starting to sell decent brands of sketch books as well like Canson and stuff. I’m excited to see what her local Walmart carries. 😁

As a former elementary art teacher, I never liked any form of washable art supplies. Kids are discerning consumers and they could absolutely tell the difference. For grade k thru 1, washable was okay, but any older and they wanted the "real" deal.

The ""art stores"" here where I live have less art supplies than walmart and are more expensive. Canson XL paper is considered expensive lmao

One of my favorite sketchbooks isn't even in the art department, it's usually in the office stuff where you buy a ton of the basic kids craft stuff like posters and kids markers. It's less that $2, small for travel, custom cover slots and has 70 pages. The only issue is a little bleeding if I use markers and some pens but I just a spare sheet underneath. It's the pen + gear Walmart brand. It's pretty good.

I've been having a really bad day and this really helped to just get my mind off of what had happened

thank you for giving that disclaimer! although it does suck that you had to explain everything thoroughly since a lot of people don't stop and think about other people's financial situations. as an artist who almost entirely uses supplies from walmart and only goes to michaels when there's a hefty coupon on the email list, it sucks to see people who think they're superior for shaming others for shopping at walmart. thank you for making this video, i love when people spread the message that less expensive doesn't necessarily mean cheap quality!!

If you live in the UK. The Works has really affordable art supplies, their water colour sets and fine liners are really good and only a couple pounds and they tend to have a variety of different mediums (though the clay and notebooks aren't too good). Hope this helps xx

Always check Staples when it starts being school supply season, you can get Crayola stuff for *Dirt* cheap then. Also, if you can shop online, save up to hit the free shipping threshold and you can get most of that stuff for cheaper at someplace like Blicks. Walmart is not always the cheapest option! Jot down prices in a notebook and keep track of stuff to really stretch those pennies!

Thank you for that disclaimer! I'm so tired of people putting down others who can't afford to boycott these corporations because it's all they have! Subscribing now!

Can we just take a moment to acknowledge that she took a few minutes to spoil her baby boy with some new clothes? So cute! Love you guys!!💗💗💗💗😭

“I gotta get myself out of the baby section like NOW” I know that feeling all to well.. 😪 (I have a 4yo and a 16mo bby)

Please do a Dollar Tree one! I worked there for a while and was pleasantly surprised with their craft selection!

If you wanna get started drawing for free go down to your local ikea, grab a golf pencil and one of those little notebooks, and walk out- boom

I have the brushes in the video and I've had them for about 3-4 years now and they are still in great condition! If you wash your brushes properly, they should be in good use! I will say the flat brushes do get worn out and frayed faster than the pointed brushes.

Omg YES Emily!! I always get so excited when artists promote budget-friendly and reusing/repurposing for art supplies! I'm assuming this will be like a series? As a minor and someone in the doll customizing community (which is you don't know is very commonly super expensive and it seems like many artists feel the need to buy expensive products to 'advance') I found myself feeling the same way and feeling like my cheaper work wasn't good enough. it took me 3 years to finally get over that and realize that there is value and skill involved in making art for cheap and being thrifty which is what I'm all about now and it's actually a challenge for me to see how cheap or zero spending I can go! Thank you so much for this series Emily! I can't wait to see more and possibly learn a thing or two!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who just gets mesmerized by the softness of the blankets 😂

'Don't touch my sh*t!' This. This...THIS!!! *small voice* I rly don't like ppl touching my sh*t...thank you for expressing that you also get this, Em!

My country doesn’t have any Walmart’s and compared to all the(not many) art stores and supplies available here, that shop looks like heavennn😭😭

I might use Apple barrel 50c paint, and 3 dollar brushes, but I can still make good artwork 😌😌😌

God I love you swear like an a real person. Feels my soul every time you do. It's real.

Sis, your realism portraits are incredible! Are you kidding me. Tutorials live now PLEEEEAAASSSEE

Wal Mart has the best supplies for the money! I use Daniel Smith watercolors, but, the Canson XL watercolor paper is still my go to for playing around! I also HATE Cray-Z-Art. Not anywhere near Crayola. Tip, back to school in July-August everything is super cheap!

Good looking out hunting for bargains for aspiring artists. 💜 We love to see it

Girl, my art career started with dollar store sketchbooks and Rose Art colored pencils 🤣 Always love your uploads!

Think of it like this, don’t get discouraged by people who shame others for cheap art supplies, because if you can make good art with the cheap art supplies then you are better cause some cheap art supplies don’t work well. And another plus is that while they be spending like $40-$100 you be spending less than $40. Big flex😌😌

As an artist, your best and most valuable resource is yourself :) skill and talent are what makes the great art, the supplies just help out.

Five below has some nice, affordable art supplies as well.

So the Canson XL is great for beginners, being it is SO cheap. That said, if you like to layer, scrub, or flood your paper when painting in watercolour, it won't work. I also found that it made the paint lift faster than when I use cotton. Personally, I preferred Strathmore when I used to use wood fiber watercolour paper. I'm wondering if the problems you were having with the paints were actually the paper tbh. I learned about Canson XL the hard way. I almost quit watercolour full stop because I thought I had lost any talent for the medium. entirely because of Canson XL. I used to paint succulents. I was so proud of them. It was the first time I wasn't absolute trash at using watercolours! So I went through an entire pad of Strathmore 300 series and loved what I was pumping out! When I ran out, I found a massive book of paper at such an amazing deal. I thought: "paper is paper!" and got it. I got home, got to work, and for the first time in my life, scrubbed a hole in my page. I barely tried to blend the paint at all. I then got out more, and no matter how hard I tried, all my work either broke while I tried to layer, or was just... bad. So... SO bad. After a few days, and one dropping out of an art gallery invitation for not having the required amount of pieces finished in time, and a half a bucket's worth of tears, I decided to give up. Before all of this, I had found this paper that worked amazingly well for alcohol-based markers. I had gotten a sketchbook full of the stuff a year prior, but couldn't remember who made it, nor what it was called. I went on a massive hunt for this paper and in the process, as well as an even earlier expedition for good quality bullet journal paper, I learned about all paper in general. So when I thought about going back to what art I had been doing before the great letdown of 2018 (my watercolours fail) I had the idea to look into the difference between watercolour paper and hallelujah!! I was saved! I have only bought paper cotton since! Luckily I then remembered I had found some Arches in someone's free bin on their lawn, a day after they had a yard sale, so I pulled that out of storage and apologized to it. Unfortunately, I have yet to finish a succulent painting since :(. That said, I have done other pieces, and I am back on track! I also got some hot press, and I LOVE it! I got BaoHong brand on Amazon, and it's beautiful. I even use it for my inks sometimes during inktober

I live in a small town. I remember when Walmart decided to build their store here, I was really excited! And then I saw what happened to our local businesses and was instantly bitter. Unfortunately, now that all the smaller shops are gone, they're pretty much the only place left to go to.

Our Walmart also carries a small Royal and Langnickel travel water color set and the pigmentation of the paint is so good. I think it’s about 8$ I live in the land of Walmart so we don’t have a huge selection of smaller art shops...which is odd because we are a college town with a big art department

also worthwhile is getting your coloring supplies during back to school sales when its much cheaper

I find lots of art supplies and canvases at Op shops! They're always super duper cheap and they tend to want to get rid of it in bulk so you can get a real big haul of cheap, arty goodness!

The art supplies at my Walmart already suck😃 All I got is low quality paint, bottles of glitter, and a few types sketchbooks✋🏾😔😒

Once I went into Walmart with a little notebook and was writing down prices of stuff I wanted to buy so I could go home and budget it (my apartment at the time didn't have internet because I had just moved in), and WALMART KICKED ME OUT. They said I was a corporate spy (what?). I'm kind of surprised they let you film. (I love your updates, BTW!)

I think the real serious question is: did you get the cash register?? haha. but I am one of those po' folks who has to buy walmart art supplies. I really like those sketch books.

The Canson Mixed Media and Watercolor pads are available in a lot of places, but I’ve never seen them at a better price than at Walmart. I just started with gouache and those papers and mixed media brushes have been working for me. Art challenge and mom errands? Walmart it is! Way to multi task! ❤️

Try target next also awesome video as always 🥰

When you added the red for the rosy cheeks and the little neon styled hearts it really made it! So cute!

I'd love a dollar store version of this. I've found some decent stuff through trial and error. Some things were unusable to me (like pencil crayons) while others were more manageable, albeit with more effort than with top brands (like pens for lineart), but I got good results

I love that they make kids' toys that are cleaning supplies. Absolute genius.

Man you got me all choked up in the beginning of this video. I grew up in a low income family and I really appreciated that rant 🥰 I just wish someone told me that when I was younger.

LOL the whole baby clothes portion of this video is ME!!!! At any store hahaha

I loved this video! Also, that disclaimer you made was great. Walmart has upped their quality in recent years and while it's still an awful chain, they do have some decent supplies for affordable prices. I remember I used to get most of my things for school and doodling at Walmart because we were hard on money. Now that I've collected some art supplies over the years, I like to look back at my starting items and watch people make profession art with cheap supplies. With the right skills, you can't really tell what the price of the artists tools are. For anyone wanting some more ideas relating to what she said, lemme info barf some supply knowledge here: Crayola: You can do watercolor washes using the classic chubby crayola markers. Color them onto a palette or glass/waxed plate and mix some water in. The semi-soft tips of thick crayola markers are great for practicing lettering, calligraphy and line weight. I'm a caricature artist and we use them to do practice sketches and lettering sometimes. (They are not lightfast though and will get bleached by prolonged exposure to light) Crazyart: At least it's not roseart! Crazyart markers a pretty good cheaper version of crayola and they have some vibrant colors. You can do watercolor thing with them too. Prang and Bienfang: Two watercolors that are about the same as crayola, though prang is probably a bit nicer. Proart: Not as popular or as cheap as crayola, but cheaper than the top brands. They have some great woodless pencils (color and graphite). Artist Loft: Overall they're supplies are pretty good (haven't tried they're acrylic). Their watercolor pencils are cheap but good quality. They have some solid canvas panels if you want to experiment with oil/acrylic painting for cheap. It's a good option between Crayola and student or even Uni grade supplies. The classic art kits: We all know those all-in-one art kits either in plastic or wood boxes. One kit I got growing up had some hard watercolor pans arranged in rectangular plastic sections. I still have them to this day and they are pretty pigmented. My art professor from college told me she still kept the ones she got when she was younger because they're a great, affordable gateway into watercolor painting and they just have some nice vibrancy. There's better cheap ones now, maybe a few bucks more, but there's some goodies hiding in there (watercolor, pencils, sharpeners). You can also repurpose the wooden box ones for your other supplies. Student/Scholar versions of more expansive brands: Derwent, Prismacolor ("Prismacolor Scholar"), Faber Castell, Staedtler, Daler -Rowney and Liquitex all have a student or 'scholastic' versions of they're supplies. Winsor and Newton has university varieties (i.e. cotman watercolors) but they're still a bit pricey. I don't trust Daler-Rowney paints but they're graphite, charcoal and ink supplies are good enough for college work. Paper: Walmart carries Canson paper and I highly recommend it (sometimes it's cheaper there than at Blick art store). That was and still kind of is my go-to drawing, sketching paper. Strathmore is pricier but they have different series, some with lower prices. Both have recycled options. Copy-paper. While it might not be archival it's useful for so many things, and you can always spray a drawing with a fixative spray. Croquis-paper from Daiso Pens: Ballpoint pen (any non-gel rollerball, Bic is really common). Take your pic of a brand. I got a pack of 50 recycled bic pens for under 10 bucks at Staples. They are a sketching and emergency art staple!Use them for sketching, doodling, writing, portraits, realism, graffiti, calligraphy whatever you want! They're just like a more permanent pencil with similar degrees of line variation, shading and layering capabilities. G-2 series gel/ballpoint pens Uniball and Uniball signo varieties. Signo types are waterproof when dry Pentel (pens, brushpens, lots of variety) Pilot and Pilot Technica Zebra brush pens and regular pens (can be found at daiso sometimes) and Zebra Sarasa (sp?) Brushes: Princeton always has a student variety of brushes (oil, acrylic, watercolor etc.) and I love them. They have some nice springy synthetic brushes. They have a wide price range to choose from as well. Princeton Art and Co. Real Value tm brush packs are amazing. They're good quality, usually not over $16 (us), and you get multiple brushes up to maybe a size 6. (I have some for testing out different mediums in case I wreck them). Royal & Langnickel and Loew-Cornell brushes and pens have been horrible for me, but Royal & Langnickel has newer synthetic brush packs for school that look decent. Artist loft brushes are okay, low bristle shed. Craft and other paints: Liquitex has cheaper varieties, but still great coverage. Tulip paints (fabric ) will forever be a fun time for me. Apple Barrel from micheals is okay. I hate Folkart, but people seem to like that brand for non-painting or variety crafts. Blick brand or Blick Essentials: Blick has some good, standard quality supplies for relatively cheap prices. If you're making the jump from the really cheap brands and want to test the waters, I highly recommend them as the middle man. A majority of their art items are at least university grade. Arteza: You've seen the ads, and the review videos, we all have. They have some great paper and painting supplies, not gonna lie. They're pricier than the cheaper options I've listed, but they're still below Professional and even have Uni or Artist quality supplies. ( it is 3am and I was on a roll. Hope anyone enjoys)

I love Emily so much.. she's helped me in a lot of ways with my art. She's calming and just funny and a sweet heart. Never give up Emily you'll go far I can feel it 💖

I love how creative Emily is. Whenever I think she can’t make another disembodied female head, she gets another great idea

From what I know there are two sets of water color crayola has. The first is the one used here, the second is a set of three "pans" with 8 colors per. I find those work really well

Any time this topic comes up, I remember my art supplies as a kid: The pencils I was already using for school, and printer paper my mom brought home from work. (This is back when printer paper wasn't single sheet but was sort of accordion folded with little strips on the sides lol) I promise to anyone reading this, you can make art on the cheap. Save up and buy the more expensive stuff down the line when you can, but for now, don't let your budget stop you from creating!

i live for the pen and pencil section. they even have tombow, microns, and gelly roll pens!

I PREFER the cheaper art supplies personally!! Just keep looking until your find the supplies that best suit your unique style NO MATTER the price

omg she showed her face directly

I’m so excited for this!

You should try a dollar store. Or a thrift store. I love getting big ugly framed pieces of art for $1 and repainting it all. If you have a Tuesday Morning near you, those are the best! Big lots maybe. I'd really love to see you do a whole series of these, all the way from cheap junk to expensive designer supplies. Ooo I bet you could do a page from 1 isle in your local grocery store! Pick one isle and go. The baking isle would be fun with food colorings!

I just found your channel through all this mess. I just wanna say your an amazing person and an amazing mother🥰. Your so fucking talented also. I hope nothing but the BEST for you!

Dollar Tree also has a really good craft and art section now! They even have good brushes!!!

emily getting distracted for things for her kids is so cute

that communal supply is cool...i upgraded some copic markers and gave my niece my old set...she was so excited to get them.

Emily, thank you for being income inclusive. From someone who isn’t very privileged in that right, this means so so much.

Love the paint brushes that came with a case I gotten on there site also there do have some more expensive paints but one is totally worth it just grab an extra white and can mixed up every color u can think up in any shade or hue u can possibly want. After 100 paintings still have half of the 1 quarts left

I love how you pat all the art supplies when putting it in the cart :D it's like tucking a kid to sleep. Really appreciate the disclaimer at the beginning. I didn't realized that there were others who might have not enjoy the big box shopping.

I work at Walmart and I have to say my favorite sketchbook they have... is called UCreate mixed media sketchbook. It's grey usually and it has pretty good paper... for what you pay. It handles most things except alcohol marker. The sketchbook is about 8 bucks. also if they have a 5 below you should check out there art supplies.

that disclaimer was beautiful because so many people think it’s okay to shame people who don’t have other affordable options

Very nice art. Walmart is one of my top favorite places to get art supplies, other ones are Dollar tree, Michael's and Office Depot.

Excellent point! People should shop where they are able, and others should mind their business. Art can be therapeutic and should be enjoyable. Go on and get some Walmart art supplies and enjoy them!

Dollar store would be a fun option! I’m excited about the merch

You don't need a lot of money to make great art You just need a lot of talent

In my experience with the daler-rowny simply sketchbooks, they can't handle repeated erasing and drawing if it's in the same area. The pages in mine would sometimes start feathering and falling apart after even a few eraser passes, that can be a problem for some beginner artists if they're protectionists like I was when I first started out. Graphite also smears really easily onto previous pages if it's applied moderately/heavily. Other than that they aren't too bad

Walmart and Michaels are my go to's and plus Walmart carries canson sketchbooks and watercolor paper and your so cute uwu

My Walmart carries the swing out travel watercolor set with 18 colors and a water brush that's in a kind of travel pallet. I forget the price but it wasn't nothing crazy and the colors are way better than most! I wouldn't call them pro grade but deff student grade and even better than some other student grade sets that cost 4x as much! That set, a few size micron pens, paper and a cheap pencil will allow you to start sketching, inking abs or watercolor. Get a pencil set if pencil drawing is something your more into. This should come to way under $20 at Walmart so maybe add a pack of reg brushes abs a bottle of india ink..... now are ready for almost anything u would want to do and still only cost around the $20 mark!

Thanks for addressing the shaming at shopping at larger retails. That kind of thing is super classist. I'd buy and try handmade items from small businesses and etsy sellers if I could but I'm struggling so hard especially in the pandemic. I shop and buy cheaper alternatives for food, art and clothes where i can on many sites and being shamed for that makes me feel like i should be able to pull out money from nowhere to please those kinds of people.

I swear, we could hang g be besties. Ur commentary is the best.

Emily, you truly are an inspiration to me and my daughter. We love your artwork and your style and we watch every single video you post, together. It beings us closer together and we bond over our artwork and your videos. I just wanted to tell you that and to say thank you for being real, and for just being you. I am really glad that you and Mr. Artful, Wiggy and Beanie are feeling better from the covid scare. My family was sending positive and healing vines to you guys the while way through. So again, thank you so much for being the amazing, dark(in a good way), creative and real person that you are. You really do inspire so many people and personally my daughter and I both look up to you, your art and your beautiful family. Have an amazing day and keep making videos and being your real ass self. Much love and respect.

I use daler Rowney brand painting supplies!!! I love the brand so much!!! I have some of the best water color art using the products 💕💕💕

Aww yiss, ill watch this with my morning coffee when it premieres ☕

Over in the UK we have the Walmart equivalent *Asda* , and we get some of the *Crayola* stuff, but not a great selection,we usually have just half an isle dedicated to pencils and pens and some limited art stuffs. I've usually found just trial and error with certain art materials from there, some are good and some just make up the numbers being absolute cacka! Hey also congrats on the success on your Channel, well deserved! 😃