Painting & Drawing
To turn your own fantasy into reality, you need the right tools. No matter whether you choose watercolours and brushes or the wooden crayon: With LAMY products, you have the right tool at hand to give free rein to your or your child's creativity. Breathe life into illustrations, pictures and drawings, because with our painting and drawing utensils, artists big and small bring their imagination to paper with ease.
Painting with aquaplus watercolours from LAMY
The aquaplus water colour paint box delivers pure, brilliant shades and has a high-yield, consistent colour quality. Thanks to easy-to-clean mixing fields including the LAMY star mixing field and opaque white, any desired colour can be mixed independently at any time. If your favourite colour in the water colour paint box is used up, you can buy all the colours separately. This way, there are no limits to creativity.
Drawing with colorplus coloured pencils from LAMY
The ideal crayon for everyone, young and old: Slim, timeless design, the ergonomic shape and an unbreakable refill guarantee a pleasant drawing experience.
Painting & Drawing with 3plus from LAMY
Practice makes perfect! Even at kindergarten and pre-school age, children benefit from first attempts at painting. In small steps and with a lot of fun, they learn how to handle pencil and paper and develop motor skills.
This is helped by child-friendly writing utensils, such as the coloured pencils from the 3plus series. These help the very young to lay the foundations for their motor skills in their first works of art and encourage the 3-finger grip. With each picture your child draws, this foundation is further developed and refined.
Five good reasons why researchers recommend getting creative with pen and brush
1. Creativity increases self-confidence
Did you know that painting and drawing makes us more self-confident? We express our thoughts and feelings and put them on paper - for everyone to see or just for ourselves. No matter what ends up on the paper or canvas, whether painted with oil paints, watercolours or simple crayons: We can always be proud of our work; something we have created with our own hands.
2. Drawing and painting helps to organise thoughts
While we are painting or drawing, we are indeed creative and concentrate fully on the picture we are working on. But when we are in such a mindset, it is easier for us to enter into inner dialogue and to deal with thoughts and feelings. Through painting and drawing we fall into a state that makes us think better.
3. Painting lays the foundation for a child's individual handwriting
Your own handwriting is something very personal and individual. Even with the first scribbles and small works of art, your child takes the first step towards his or her own handwriting.
4. Drawing trains fine motor skills
When children discover different colours and materials while painting, they train their fine motor skills at the same time. Precision and technique develop over time, but along the way children gain valuable experience, acquire a competence in materials and materials, and can apply this to other areas of everyday life.
5. Children learn patience and train their ability to concentrate
To concentrate on one thing, to focus and keep your mind on one task for a long period of time: These activities help your child's brain develop and encourage concentration and patience in little artists.
LAMY art supplies for creative expression – for children and adults
Seeing the world through your own eyes, capturing nuances and giving your thoughts a lasting form: drawing and painting are among the most fundamental forms of human creativity.
At LAMY, we view creative expression as a passion and as an artistic process that calls for the right art and writing instruments.
Our high-quality LAMY art supplies combine functional ergonomics with uncompromising aesthetics.
Whether it’s precise lines, expressive sketches or flowing colour gradients: every art or writing instrument in our range is designed to help you bring your creative visions to life on paper – for children and adults alike.
Our art supplies – in the form of high-quality coloured pencils, watercolours and accessories – focus on the essentials: excellent pigmentation, durability and ergonomic handling.
We believe that the choice of art supplies and their materials can spark a love of design and creativity.
At LAMY, discover a range of coordinated art supplies for children and adults that leave room for experimentation and accompany you on your artistic journey: from the very first stroke in nursery school right through to the finished work.
High-quality art and drawing supplies for boundless creativity
Creativity knows no bounds, but it does require reliable art and writing tools. High-quality art supplies are characterised by the fact that the tool enables an uninterrupted connection between hand and paper.
At LAMY, we develop products that meet these standards.
From the purity of the pigments used, through lightfastness, to the feel of the surfaces, every product undergoes rigorous quality controls. This is how we guarantee consistent and long-lasting colour brilliance for your artworks.
Our art supplies offer a range of products to meet the diverse requirements of different techniques:
Graphite pencils from the LAMY plus series: These form the basis for every visual idea. Perfect for precise sketching, three-dimensional shading and architectural line work. They are available in various grades of hardness (B and HB)
Brilliant coloured pencils from the LAMY plus series: Highly pigmented refills that allow for both subtle shading and bold, opaque areas of colour. For small children’s hands, the LAMY 3plus range (also available as a duo version with a two-colour refill for creative experiments). These pencils are coloured pencils, watercolour pencils and wax crayons all in one! For larger hands, there are the slim Colorplus coloured pencils. The fine, break-resistant refill is suitable for simple sketches as well as more complex drawings.
Brilliant watercolours: For pure shades in rich, high-quality colours
High-quality art supplies from LAMY: The foundation for talented artists of all ages
The development of one’s own style of expression begins as early as early childhood. This makes it all the more important to offer art supplies for children that playfully encourage tactile perception.
Functional art supplies for children should be robust, comfortable to hold and enable an immediate sense of achievement without frustration. LAMY applies its expertise from the world of writing culture to art and writing instruments that support fine motor skills and stimulate the imagination.
The focus is always on intuitive accessibility: simple art supplies that captivate with their clear design and high functionality lower the barrier to entry. In this way, drawing becomes an experience in which children can explore the world of colours in a completely relaxed and self-directed manner.
Art supplies for adults: tools for lifelong creativity
Over the course of a lifetime, one’s perspective on art changes, and with it, the demands placed on the materials increase. Art supplies for adults are characterised by a high degree of precision.
Whether as a meditative counterbalance to a digitalised working day, for professional illustrations or for keeping a visual diary (Visual Journaling), every LAMY art or writing instrument reflects this commitment to stylish design and technical perfection.
The fascination of watching a perfectly ground graphite lead glide across textured paper, or seeing a highly pigmented coloured pencil dissolve seamlessly when mixed with water, is rooted in physical precision. LAMY’s art and drawing supplies are designed so that these tools remain reliable companions for years to come. By using durable materials and offering the option to expand many of our systems modularly with replacement parts, you are investing in long-lasting products that provide optimal support for your creativity throughout all stages of life.
Well-thought-out storage solutions for children’s art supplies
This ensures that refills are protected from breaking and that the entire colour palette remains within easy reach at all times.
Here too, LAMY relies on durable, practical storage solutions: robust, aesthetically pleasing boxes and practical roll-up pouches (such as those for the LAMY 3plus coloured pencils) make unpacking and tidying up part of the creative ritual.
The perfect art supplies: an overview of LAMY’s art and writing instruments for creative expression
Art supplies: Premium graphite pencils
Ideal use: Sketching, shading, and technical drawings
Target group & level: Beginners to professional artists
Ergonomic benefits: Matt surface for a non-slip grip
Art supplies: Aquarellable 3plus coloured pencils
Ideal use: Watercolour techniques, glazing, and mixed media
Target group & level: Children, hobby artists, and advanced users
Ergonomic benefits: Break-resistant refills and excellent solubility
Art supplies: Ergonomic coloured pencils
Ideal use: Vibrant drawings and colouring in large areas
Target group & level: Children, teenagers, and adults
Ergonomic benefits: Triangular shape to reduce strain on the hand
Art supplies: Compact watercolour sets
Ideal use: Wet-on-wet painting
Target group & level: School, training, and leisure activities
Ergonomic benefits: Modular paint pots that are easy to mix and clean
FAQ
A successful gift for creative people combines high functionality with aesthetic appeal. Excellent options include high-quality coloured pencils in a wide range of shades, and versatile coloured pencils suitable for various techniques (e.g. as coloured pencils, Watercolor pencil or wax crayon, such as our 3-in-1 coloured pencils from LAMY’s 3plus range), high-quality sketchbooks or notebooks with heavyweight paper, or personalised art and writing tools with an engraving of the recipient’s name.
Well-designed, high-quality pouches or cases for, say, a favourite drawing pencil will also bring long-lasting joy to ambitious artists and creative types.
Art history and modern practice encompass a wide variety of styles. Among the most influential are Realism, which depicts the visible world in minute detail; Impressionism, which captures fleeting moments of light; and Expressionism, in which subjective emotion takes centre stage. Abstract art, on the other hand, breaks completely away from the representational and concentrates on the interplay of form, colour and geometric structure.
From the perspective of the artistic process, creative styles are defined largely by the nature and interplay of the materials used. The choice of medium determines the texture and visual impact of the work:
The linear and graphic style (dry media): Through the use of finely graded graphite pencils or classic coloured pencils, the focus is on precise line work, sharp contours and sculptural shading. The technique is based on hatching and layering, in which the texture of the support remains perceptible.
The glazing and flowing style (watercolour media): Using watercolours or aquarellable coloured pencils, the wet-on-wet technique creates transparent, interflowing colour gradients.
The impasto and opaque style (acrylic media): Thanks to their fast drying time and high viscosity, acrylic paints allow for both thin, flat applications and relief-like, sculptural textures. This style is versatile, as the layers of pigment become water-insoluble once dry and can be painted over immediately.
The classic, traditional style (oil media): Traditional oil painting utilises the material’s slow drying time to create extremely detailed compositions. By continuously mixing the colours directly on the canvas (wet-on-wet), soft transitions and intense colour depth are achieved.
Creative painting supplies are divided into four core categories:
Colours & pens (coloured pencils, Watercolor pencils, watercolours, acrylics, gouache and oil paints)
application tools (brushes, palette knives, drawing pens)
surfaces (special drawing pads, textured watercolour paper, canvases, notebooks and sketchbooks)
and functional accessories (precision pencil sharpeners, ergonomic erasers, mixing palettes and protective fixatives).
The coloured pencils from the plus series by LAMY are ideal for simple but also complex pictures. They are suitable for all ages from primary school onwards: The break-proof lead and the wide range of brilliant colours ensure distinct painting fun. The crayons are available in different set sizes and can be purchased individually from specialist retailers.
The graphite pencils from the plus series are suitable for sketches and also for the first steps in drawing: They are available in hardness grades B and HB and can, therefore, be used for fine, clear lines as well as for multi-layered shading.
The plus coloured pencils are not only also ideal for children to draw with, but also to paint with. Use it to create works of art with subtle colour gradients or build up the colours on the paper to intense luminosity.
The aquaplus is an opaque paint box. The opaque paint box with colour wheel according to Johannes Itten makes colour theory a playful experience. Ideal for mixing and trying out and also perfectly suited for use in the classroom.
The pencils in the colourplus series are coloured pencils that are suitable for all ages from primary school onwards. This coloured pencil is suitable for children, teenagers and adults and, thanks to its break-resistant lead and slim, triangular shape, it is the ideal pencil - both for simple drawings and for elaborate illustrations.
The aquaplus opaque paint box from LAMY is ideal for children and is perfect for school lessons. The paint box is equipped with either 12 or 24 colours and designed according to Johannes Itten's colour wheel theory. In addition to the paint box, brushes, opaque white and painting smocks are available in our online shop. The colours can also be purchased as individual colour trays.
The graphite pencils of the plus series are ideally suited for drawing. Depending on the degree of hardness, they are designed for different types of work.
If the pencil has a strength of B, it draws in a deep black tone and with a relatively broad line, as the lead is softer. These pencils are well suited for freehand drawing, for example.
A harder lead has been used for HB pencils. This causes the pencil to draw narrower lines, which is why it is best suited for free-style drawing.