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List of art supplies

Things you need to draw, paint, or write a letter.

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Eis forEnamel

Enamelling is a technique involving melting coloured glass onto a surface by heating it at a very high temperature in a kiln. Enamal is used to decorate jewellery, vases and to put a coloured layer on common items like saucepans.

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An eraser is a piece of soft rubber or plastic that is used to rub out mistakes you make with lead pencil.
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Glitter is made from small pieces of something shiny. Glitter can be stuck to something else to make it sparkle.
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Glue is a sticky substance that can be used to hold two or more surfaces together. There are lots of different kinds of glue, for sticking different things together. There is wood glue, plastic glue, construction adhesive, and many other special kinds of glue.
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His forHenna

Scientific name: lawsonia inermis
Henna is a large shrub or small tree that has been used for thousands of years as a reddish-brown dye. The dye is made from the leaves of the henna plant, and is used to dye fabric, hair and to make temporary tattoos.
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Ink is a coloured liquid that is used to paint or draw on something with. Ink comes in lots of colours, but the colours used most for writing are black and blue.
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A landscape is a wide view of scenery that is generally farmland or wilderness, not a cityscape. Paintings of landscapes are generally done with the paper or canvas wider than it is tall, which has given rise to the name landscape for any paper in the same format. The opposite of landscape is portrait.

Mis forMarker

A marker, marking pen, felt-tip pen or branded as a Texta or Sharpie in some countries, is something you use to draw or write with. Markers have their own source of ink, and a soft tip. There are lots of different kinds of marker, for writing on whiteboards, overhead transparencies, paper, glass, and of course permanent markers versus erasable markers.
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A mural is a large painting on a wall or ceiling. Murals may be painted directly onto the surface or painted on something else and attached to the surface.
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An outline is a type of drawing where thin lines are used to define the edges of what you are drawing a picture of. Artists often start a picture by drawing the outline in lead pencil, and then coloring or shading it in. An outline is also the way of describing an event or situation by giving only the most essential details, as in "here's an outline for Monday's telecast".