What students are buying at Cass Art

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Galeria tubes at £3.25: stock-up signal

Winsor & Newton Galeria Acrylic Tube 60ml Mars Black at £3.25, down from £5.20, leads - with two more Galeria colours charting at the exact same price.

When every tube is 37% off, art students restock the whole kit at once.

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Black, white, magenta: the essentials palette

Winsor & Newton Galeria Acrylic Tube 60ml Titanium White and Winsor & Newton Galeria Acrylic Tube 60ml Process Magenta complete the top three.

The colours that run out first are the colours that sell first - plus the 10% student discount, because Cass Art knows its audience.

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Winsor & Newton's Galeria acrylics are the studio staple

Nearly half of all purchases are Winsor & Newton, and it's the Galeria Acrylic Tube 60ml range doing the heavy lifting. Process Magenta, Titanium White, Mars Black and Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue are all sat near the top, each going for £3.25 down from £5.20, so students are clearly stocking up on the primaries rather than just grabbing one colour.

Faber-Castell isn't far behind at 39% share, led by the Goldfaber Colour Pencil line at under a quid a pencil, which suggests carts full of multiple shades rather than single splurges. Sennelier rounds things out with proper discounts too, the Oil Pastel Pad 340gsm 12 Sheets 16 x 24cm at -30% and the Artists' Classic Oil Pastel Assorted Colours Set of 24 at nearly half price, showing the bigger sets are winning when the saving is deep enough.