Images and Photos
Below is a list of links to free image collections available on the Internet. Verify the terms of use for any image before using it.
- Barn Images
- British Library
- Burst
- Creative Commons
- Free Reference Photos for Artists
- Freerange Stock
- Kaboompics
- Landscape Reference Photos for Artists
- Library of artists reference photos
- LibreShot
- Life of Pix
- Media Bakery
- My Stock Photos
- NASA Image Galleries
- Negative Space
- New Old Stock
- Pexels
- Picjumbo
- Pickup Image
- Pixabay
- Public Domain Pictures
- Skitterphoto
- SplitShire
- StockSnap.io
- Unsplash
- Wikimedia Commons
- WPBeginner
Museums and Art Archives
Here is a list of links to free, online museum collections and archives.
- Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) , Toronto, ON, Canada
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), Baltimore, MD, USA
- Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- British Museum, London, England
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA
- Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
- Dalí Theatre-Museum, Barcelona, Spain
- Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Frick Collection, New York, NY, USA
- Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
- Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Google Arts & Culture
- Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA, USA
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
- Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
- Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
- Kunt Historisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands
- McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON, Canada
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
- Musea Brugge, Bruges, Belgium
- Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (MNAA), Lisbon, Portugal
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA
- National Gallery, London, England
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
- National Museum, Oslo, Norway
- National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales
- Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
- National Portrait Gallery, London, England
- National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
- North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), Salem, MA, USA
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA
- Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Seattle Art Museum (SAM), Seattle, WA, USA
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
- Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
- State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Tate Modern, London, England
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Vatican Museums, The Vatican
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Art Supplies
Below is a list of products that we use and recommend.
Pens, Pencils, Markers and Crayons
- Black
- Sakura® Pigma Micron fine tip pens
- Tul fine liner marker
- Uni-Posca Paint Marker Pens™
- Pentel® Gel Roller for Fabric
- White
- Mitsubishi Uni-ball® Signo gel pens (for eye catchlight)
- Uni-Posca Paint Marker Pens™
- Marabu Graphix® Sketch Marker
- General MultiPastel® Pastel Chalk Pencils
- Colors
- Prismacolor Premier® pencils
- Sakura® Pigma Micron pens (fine & med tips)
- Tsukineko® Fabrico® markers
- Caran d’Ache® Neocolor® II crayons
- Caran d’Ache® pencils
- Uni-Posca Paint Marker Pens™
- Uni-ball® Signo gel pens
- Sakura IDenti-pen® markers
- Marabu Graphix® Sketch Marker
- Pentel® EnerGel®pens
- Adger Marker with Eraser
Fusible Webs
- Mistyfuse®
- Pellon® EZ-Steam® II
- RNK-Floriani Quilters Select™ Applistick
- Madeira E-Zee Cut® Appliqué Magic
- Warm Company Lite Steam-A-Seam 2®
Spray Adhesives
- Odif 505® Temporary Adhesive Spray
- Sullivan™ Quilt Basting Spray
- KRYLON Easy-Tack™ Repositionable Adhesive Spray
Finger Moisteners
- Lee Products sortKwik®
- Lolly Lickity GRIP®
Cutters and Knives
- Shark Applicutter Rotary Cutter, 14mm (from Man Sewing)
- Olfa 18mm Rotary Cutter
- Fingertip Detail Knife (from Fiskers®)
Thread Brands
- Aurifil®
- Gutermann
- Madeira
- Sulky®
- Superior Threads®
- Wonderfil®
- YLI
Variegated Threads
- Salt and pepper: King Tut #962 Pumice, Aurifil #5514
- Blond mix: King Tut #906 Autumn Days
- Reddish: Superior #5302