MARION — Bundles of yarn, oil paint, easels and more were stacked upon tables outside the Marion Art Center on Saturday, Sept. 20, as artists and craft enthusiasts gathered at the second annual YArt Sale to purchase secondhand supplies.

South Coast artists of all mediums eagerly browsed the selection, searching for inspiration among the various tools. Here’s what some of the artists plan on creating with the supplies they purchased:

Mike and Nancy Malone, Marion. After a 30 year hiatus, Marion resident Mike Malone is returning to his hobby of oil painting after buying an easel at the YArt Sale.

“I want to get back to tactile arts — actually putting ink on paper or paint on paper,” he said.

Malone works as a professional product designer, serving companies such as Bose where he developed designs for headphones.

He and his wife Nancy moved to Marion less than a year ago, and he felt inspired to return to oil painting after seeing the scenic beauty of the area.

“The natural beauty just inspires you to want to capture it in some form or another,” said Nancy.

“There’s just so much around here — I’m thinking about doing abstract seascapes and that kind of stuff,” said Mike.

The Malone’s visited the sale to see what supplies were on sale, and Mike was drawn to a used easel. 

This fall and next spring, he plans to accomplish some plein air painting with the easel, which consists of painting out in nature rather than inside a studio.

Andrea and Rosey Coutts, Rochester. Rochester resident and art instructor Andrea Coutts perused stacks of supplies at the YArt Sale alongside her daughter Rosey.

Coutts purchased neck displays for her newfound jewelry business.

“This winter, I’m going to start doing the craft sales circuit,” she said.

Coutts has worked in the art department at various schools and universities, including Rhode Island School of Design, UMass Dartmouth, Community College of Rhode Island and Quincy College.

“I’ve been playing around a lot with gouache [paint] lately, but I normally teach acrylic and water-based mediums too,” she said.

Now on a year-long sabbatical from teaching, Coutts is exploring jewelry making.

“I started collecting shells one day, and then I started drilling them and sanding them down and it just became a thing that I would give to other people,” she explained. “They said, ‘You should sell these,’ so I’m gonna try.”

For Rosey, Coutts bought origami paper, glitter stickers, Halloween crafts and a wooden drawing manikin.

She said she’s most excited to assemble a Halloween haunted house craft.

Arianne Allende Driscoll, New Bedford. New Bedford resident Arianne Allende Driscoll walked away from the YArt Sale with bundles of canvas, rice paper, a sketchbook and “a bunch of oils.”

“I usually work in a variety of mediums — traditionally, 2D art, so charcoal, painting, printmaking,” she said.

Currently studying to receive her BFA in studio arts from UMass Dartmouth, Driscoll arrived at the sale in hopes of finding cheap supplies to experiment with.

“I’m working on my senior thesis, so I’m really excited to start working with a lot of oils for painting,” she said. “Since I don’t really use oils, getting them at a really cheap price is really nice — especially if I don’t like the oils.”

In addition to studying, Driscoll also works as a gallery associate at the New Bedford Art Museum.