Class Supply List

**All students will need to purchase clay directly from the arts center.

A supply kit is also highly encouraged, but not required. 

Please also plan for:

• Plastic sheets to cover work
• Drywall board or plywood (12×12 or 18×18 or 12×18) to dry work on. Hardware stores sell small squares of drywall.
• Newspaper to place work on for drying and for glazing 
• Plastic trash bags (please bring 3 or 4 to first class, additional as needed)
• Old dish towel(s) for drying hands while throwing

• Medium grit sandpaper sheets (100 – 150 grit) – a few small sheets
• 2 or 3 Green Scotchbrite pads

       **Clay will be provided for this workshop.

• Students are welcome to bring their own pottery tools, but it is not required.

**All students will need to purchase clay directly from the arts center.

Please also plan for:

• Basic wheel throwing ceramics tool kit
• Wareboard and/or bats for storing work between sessions
• Plastic sheets or trash bags for covering work.

Please plan for:

• Thimble
• Magnifying glass or reading eyeglasses, if needed

Please plan for:

• Sketch book: 9in x 12in, 11in x 14in, or larger
• Drawing pencils and erasers
• Charcoal pencils soft, medium and hard
• A soft brush
• Permanent ink in black
  • Micron is great with different widths 01, 03, 05, etc.

Please plan for:

• Drawing Pencil
• Ruler
• Brushes
• Water container
• Glue stick or gel medium
• One can use any of these mediums: watercolor, acrylic or gouache.
  • Have a minimum of both a cool and warm color yellow, red, and blue plus white and black
  • Additional colors can be orange, green, purple
• Substrates/paper used must be watercolor or mixed media paper weight of 140 lbs. Size at least 8 x 10, no larger than 11 x 14
• Small color wheel

Please plan for:

Necessary Supplies:

• Artist-grade colored pencils (Prismacolor Premier or Faber-Castell Polychromos recommended)
• White Prismacolor pencil
• Tracing paper
• Graphite transfer paper https://amzn.to/3IEnY35
• Strathmore 400 Series Vellum Bristol paper (9×12 or similar)
• Grafix Drafting Film Matte, .003, 2-sided (vellum drafting film – available at

Dick Blick: Grafix Drafting Film Matte https://www.dickblick.com/items/grafix-drafting-film-matte-8-12-x-11-x-003-2-sided-single-sheet/

• Pencil sharpener: Recommend the KUM dual sharpener
• White vinyl eraser
• Kneaded eraser

Optional Supplies:

• Tombow Mono Zero Eraser, Round, 2.3 mm (refillable precision eraser)
• Blender pencil, tortillon, Q-tips, or colorless blender marker