I don’t ask for personal donations, not for the podcast, not for my art or anything I create on this site.  Actually, if someone wanted to donate to me I would direct them to one of the many projects I wish I had more funds to support and donate to.

Today I am not asking for donations per say, and this is not a plea for help, but… if someone out there wanted to help me in any way, the best way would be to buy art supplies for me.  I’m always in need of new stuff and have been rapidly replacing a lot of things.  I can’t tell you how much I have spend in the last two years or so on new brushes, new paints, new canvas and stretchers.  Pencils, pastels, pads, sketchbooks, portfolio and carrying cases, you name it.  A lot of my stuff is over fifteen years old and either at it’s end or dried up.

I replaced most of what I need, as I work I’m going through some consumables and it would be nice to have some resupply.  I’m not at the moment of running out and buying some more, simply because I am making due with some of the older stuff (like a watercolor block with a big ink stain on one side that bleed through all of the pages, I cut off the end of the paper.)

I have set up an Amazon Wish List of some of the more inexpensive items that I will be needing soon.  If someone wanted to buy me something from that, that would be cool.  You could think think of yourself as one of my patrons :)

Can you tell I don’t like asking for things?
Also, if anyone knows of a better site to set up a wishlist or something easier (or in Canada) please let me know.  So far as I have found mail order art supplies are pretty limited (I also wish NB had a Pearl Paint or even a DeSerrs.)