Class Supply List

Please plan for:

• Sketchbook or journal
• Other Materials:
  • Student’s Choice! Your materials can be as simple as a pencil or ballpoint pen, or as involved as watercolor, colored pencil, markers, or collage. Use what you already have and what feels comfortable to you.

Please plan for:

• A few sheets of 300lb watercolor paper or other thick paper for the base of your pieces. I use 9×12″ or whatever size you want up to 16×20. If you prefer, you can use primed wooden panel or canvas.
• Sketching paper, rice paper or something similar to create collage papers
• Acrylic paints: titanium white, dark brown, cerulean blue or similar, lemon yellow or cool yellow, yellow ochre, magenta or cool red.  It will be best to mix the colors you want from the basics.  Also soft gel medium or similar for pasting collage papers to base
• Inexpensive brushes like 2 inch flat, 1 inch flat, 1/2 inch flat, 1/4 inch flat, and round or pointed brushes
• Pallet knife for mixing paint, paper towels, plastic or tablecloth to protect table
• Optional Supplies: Some kind of pencils like charcoal, Stabilo, watercolor, pencils, neocolor 2 crayons

Please plan for:

• Any medium can be used – watercolor, gouache, acrylic, pencil/charcoal, pastels.
• Paints: yellow, red, blue warm and cool colors, white, black, and whatever other colors you like.
• Brushes
• Color Wheel
• Substrates – papers size 9 x 12 or 11 x 14 are great. You can use watercolor paper, mixed media paper, flat canvas, etc.

Each week a painting will be accomplished!

Please plan for:

Note: To succeed in watercolor do not buy student grade materials.

Brushes: (Brushes are a personal choice but may I suggest these below as basics):

• #4 Round watercolor brush
• #6 or #8 Round watercolor brush
• #10 Round watercolor brush (Loew-Cornell 7020 ultra round series is a good inexpensive brush). You can find these online at Dickblick.com or even Amazon. Any other brush that intrigues you, you can bring.
• 1” or 1 ½” Flat brush Optional 1 angled flat brush

Paper:

Types of paper:

• Cold Press – most commonly used. Has a texture to it.
• Hot Press – Smooth. Great for detail illustration work. Rough – Very textured.

We will work with cold Press #140 Wt. Paper. In class our work will use up to 15 -20 sheets (suggested size is 9×12 inches).

• Block or pad paper- 9×12 or 11×15 or 12×16 inches
• Sheets of paper are 22 x 30 inches, which gives you 4-6 sheets to work with.

If you purchase sheets, we will learn in class how to tear the paper – do not cut it. Suggested brands are 140lb Arches Cold Pressed watercolor, Fabiano 140lb cold press paper.

Paints:

It is suggested to purchase tubes versus pan paint. Name brands are Windsor, Daniel Smith, Holbein, and more. Low cost but professional grade is needed to learn properly. Artist or professional grade paint has more pigment. Below is a suggested list of paints.

To begin you will need 1 warm and 1 cool color of each – yellow, red, green and blue. If you see paints in a group, make sure you get the required colors listed. Walmart carries Daler Rowney Watercolor 20 colors for $12 – a great starting kit.

**Warm

• Yellow Cad
• Yellow Light
• Hansa Yel Dark
• New Gamboge Red Cad
• Red Lt
• Cad Red
• Green
• Hookers Green
• Sap Green
• Blue Ultramarine
• Blue French Ultramarine Blue

**Cool

• Yellow Lemon
• Yellow Cad Lemon
• Red Permanent
• Rose Quin Rose
• Alizarin Crimson
• Green Viridian
• Blue Cerulean
• Blue Phthalo
• Optional:
• Burnt Sienna
• Titanium White
• Cobalt Blue
• Payne’s Grey
• Yellow Ochre
• Any other color that may strike your fancy.

Other Supplies:

• Palette with a minimum of 10 – 12 wells for paint and mixing areas. Get one with a cover.
• 2 containers for water
• paper towels
• shower curtain liner for table cover
• artist tape
• ruler
• kneaded eraser
• small light weight drawing board you can tape your paper to
• HB drawing pencil
• tooth brush
• tissues ( does not have to be name brand Kleenex)
• Apron or old shirt for protection
• Binder – A place to have all your charts to use for referral when painting. Also a great place to keep any notes.

Please plan for:

• Graphite pencil range: 3H, 2H, H, HB, 2B, 4B Faber Castell Recommended https://amzn.to/44PtxE3
• Kneaded eraser https://amzn.to/4raGrpv
• White vinyl eraser https://amzn.to/4ainFXo or pencil top white vinyl eraser  https://amzn.to/3KZ5jAi

• Mono Tombow Zero eraser https://amzn.to/4p1HfuB (recommended, but not mandatory)

• Pencil sharpener https://amzn.to/3KMdKiq
• Tracing paper https://amzn.to/4q9S66y
• Smooth bristol Strathmore 400 series https://amzn.to/3YtqlKt

• Graphite pencil range (Faber Castell Recommended) :
  • 3H
  • 2H
  • H
  • HB
  • 2B
  • 4B 
• Kneaded eraser 
• White vinyl eraser, or Pencil Top White Vinyl eraser, 
•  Mono Tombow Zero eraser
• Pencil sharpener 
• Tracing paper 
• Smooth Bristol Strathmore 400 series 

Note from Instructor: This class is designed around using what you already have. There is no required brand list and no expectation to purchase specialty supplies.

Drawing Surface:

• Choose one surface you’re comfortable drawing on:
• Sketchbook
• Loose drawing paper
• Journal or notebook
• Mixed media paper (Any size is fine. Smooth or lightly textured paper both works.)

Drawing Tools: (Bring whatever you prefer to sketch with, including Graphite pencils)

• Pens or fine liners
• Colored pencils Any combination of the above There is no “right” tool for this class —
• Part of the learning is discovering what works best for you.

Optional Extras: These are optional and only if you already own them:

• Kneaded eraser or regular eraser
• Pencil sharpener

Important Note for Students: This is a drawing-focused class. We will spend time observing, sketching, and building drawing habits rather than finishing polished pieces. Comfort, curiosity, and consistency matter more than supplies.

• Both warm and cool yellow,
• Blue,
• Red and greens,
• Yellow ochre
• Payne’s gray
• Titanium white,
• black, burnt sienna
• Any other colors you like.

Students may bring pressed flowers and leaves, feathers, photos, old jewelry, and ephemera as desired.