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  When shopping for gifts for friends and family, it's wise to keep personality and interests in mind. If you're searching for a gift to show your friendship to an artist there are a wide range of choices, but you shouldn't feel overwhelmed. Choosing a gift that is personalized, unique and thoughtful will always lead you to success.
  
  

Pictorial Dictionary

• "Pictorial Webster: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities" is 512 pages containing more than 1,500 engravings from the original 19th-century Webster's dictionaries. These original, curious engravings can certainly add visual appeal and inspiration to an artist's workspace. "Pictorial Webster" is available for $35 from Paper Source or book retailers such as Amazon.com.
  
  

Flickr Pro Account

• For $24.95 you can gift your digital artist friend a Flickr Pro account for one year. Flickr Pro offers added features such as unlimited storage, ad-free browsing and unlimited video and photo uploads. When you purchase the "gift of Flickr," you will receive an email confirmation including your gift code. This gift code can then be printed onto one of Flickr's gift certificates and presented to your friend.
  
  

Morph Notepad

• Schleeh Design has produced a line of shape shifting, twistable notepads. Made of recycled paper, these 1,000-sheet pads feature images by noted Canadian artists such as Loren D. May, Jeremy Tracz and Victoria Wonnacott, whose design features a Picasso graphic. For added personalization, take advantage of Schleeh's custom laser engraving to include photos, drawings or caricatures by your artist friend.
  
  

Doodlebook Frame

• The Doodlebook Frame by Umbra ($16) is a photo frame turned sketch pad. Doodlebook Frame's 80 blank sheets of paper surrounding the photo opening gives artists the opportunity to doodle a new design every workday for more than three months or simply change looks with changing moods, seasons or occasions. You can personalize this gift by including a photo your artist took or a photo of him or her hard at work. If you're feeling creative, use the top sheet to sketch a meaningful design before presenting the gift.
  
  

Fuji Instax

• Artists can always benefit from photographs of inspiration for their work. The Fuji Instax 210 ($74.95 from Amazon.com) features automatically adjusting flash and a high-resolution retracting lens. Best of all, unlike other instant cameras available, the Fuji Instax 210 uses a wide picture format film.
  
  

Patronage

• Perhaps one of the most beneficial tokens of friendship you can give an artist is the gift of patronage. Purchasing artwork, lending space for work or volunteering time to assist can be a blessing for any artist.