Organizing Art Supplies - Soft Pastels

I create my artwork primarily in acrylic paint. But I often use additional mediums such as pastels and Caran d’Ache crayons to add to my painting on Arches Cold Press 140 lb. watercolor paper. One of the joys of working with traditional mediums is opening the boxes and seeing the supplies shine like little jewels. The pastels are neatly packaged in small boxes and lovingly protected with foam.

While storing one box is not a big deal, what do you do when you have a lot of different brands, box sizes, and box shapes? I found these IRIS USA clear flat 5x7” photo storage boxes for storing my pastels, watercolors, and oil pastels. Now I can store the same amount of multi-media supplies in 1/3 of the previous space.

Be still, my beating heart. I can’t wait to make some new art!