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What Is Amazon’s Prime Day?
Every year, Amazon’s Prime Day offers thousands of deals on the site’s products, from electronics to books and art supplies. This year the 48-hour event starts today and concludes at 11:59 pm PST tomorrow, Wednesday, July 17.
What’s the Catch?
To get access to the deals (or most of the deals), however, you have to be an Amazon Prime subscriber.
Amazon Prime costs $14.99 a month or $139 a year. Its benefits include faster shipping on Amazon orders, discounts at Whole Foods, and access to Amazon’s streaming entertainment. You can also pick up a free 30-day trial of Prime here.
What’s on Sale?
Prime Days feature deals across all of Amazon’s categories, including studio supplies and tools for artists. Many of these deals are Lightning Deals, lasting only a few hours. A word of advice: Move fast, as the most desirable products will sell out quickly.
What’s On Sale Right Now?
While (frankly) many deals are not worth shopping, we’ll be tracking the best deals for the studio here as they become available. Some, but not all, can only be accessed by Prime members, though with Prime membership you’ll get free shipping. Others are available on approval for a Prime Visa card. See our picks below and check back in with us often to find our favorite Prime Big Deal Days deals and discounts. Happy browsing!
Save 40% on an Epson Workforce Pro WF-7310 Printer-Buy for $149.99
While you’ll find a lot of inkjet printers on the market, not many of them are wide format. But with this Epson, you can produce pages as large as 13×19 inches. Plus, if you need to print lots of pages for your project, this is a great model for that, too. It comes with two 250-sheet trays, and even a rear feed.
Get $200 off a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX100 VII Digital Camera-Buy for $1098.00 with approval for Prime Visa
Sony’s seventh iteration of its famed RX100-series point-and-shoots offers high-quality optics along with a host of powerful features. For starters, this pocket-size camera comes with a very versatile ZEISS Vario-Sonnar T zoom lens with a f/2.8-4.5 maximum aperture range. it also allows you to compose your photos using either its marvelous pop-up 2.36m-dot OLED electronic viewfinder or the bright 3.0-inch 921.6k-dot swiveling LCD touchscreen display. It also includes a 20.1MP 1-inch Exmor RS CMOS Sensor, which can also capture 4K-resolution videos, 357 phase-detection AF points and 425 contrast-detection areas for precise focusing and sharp images, and an ISO range of ISO 100 to ISO 12,800. The camera even includes Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity.
Save 40% on Adobe Creative Cloud with 100GB Storage-Buy for $395.99 for the first 12 months
Adobe Creative Cloud is an essential tool for artists, photographers, videographers, graphic designers, arts administrators, and gallerists. This collection of more than 20 desktop software and mobile apps as well as online services includes the drawing and painting app Fresco, as well as apps for 3D and augmented reality projects.
Save $300 on a Wacom Cintiq 22 Drawing Tablet-Buy for $616.26 with an Amazon Prime membership (Lightning Deal!)
This Wacom Cintiq tablet has a 21.5-inch display, 4K (3840 x 2160 pixels) resolution, and compatibility with both Windows and Mac platforms. It ships with the Wacom Pro Pen 2, which has 8192 levels of pressure sensitivity, tilt response, and virtually lag-free tracking, which helps make this tablet a great performer. It also has two customizable switches, for quick access to shortcuts, and foldable legs, which can quickly adjust the tablet to a 19-degrees incline.
Get 24% off an Apple iPad Mini (6th Generation)-Buy for $379.99
This version of Apple’s most compact iPad comes with Wi-Fi, 64GB of storage, and and an 8.3-inch liquid retina display. It’s powered by Apple’s A15 Bionic chip for powerful performance and fast graphics, and it comes with a 12-megapixel ultra-wide front-facing camera and USB-C connectivity.
Save $22.50 on Prismacolor Colored Pencils-Buy for $52.49 with an Amazon Prime Membership
Bose has been making noise-cancelling headphones for many years, and is continually tweaking its technology. This model comes with 11 levels of active noise cancelling and a built-in mic that adapts to noisy environments. It’s also compatible with smart voice technologies, like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. It’s made of lightweight stainless steel and has tilted earcups for a comfortable fit.
