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. These can be purchased at your first class.

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

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

A supply kit is also highly encouraged, but not required. These can be purchased at your first class.

Please also plan for:

• Plastic sheets to cover work (dry cleaning bags or trash bags work great!)
• 24 x 34 drywall board (not wood)
• Newspaper to place work on for drying and for glazing 

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

Basic Hand Building clay tools are required. These can be purchased at your first class but does not include items such as:

• a slip/scoring tool
• a small knife such as a scalpel or paring knife

Since this class uses both clay as well as additional items to create assemblage work, you will need to resource much of what you want to incorporate into your pieces. In the class, we will discuss what items/ideas such as “found objects” that you will want to bring on a week by week basis to complete your projects.  In some cases, the instructor may have items for inclusion in your pieces and advise you if there is a small charge to purchase them.  We will discuss where and how you can find nearby shops, etc. to mine items for mixed media/assemblage work.

Please also plan for:

• 24×34 drywall board to dry work on. Hardware stores sell small squares of drywall.
• Newspaper to place work on for drying and for glazing.

Please plan for:

• Acrylic paints (colors suggestions):
  • White
  • Magenta
  • Cadmium Red
  • Lemon yellow or cool yellow
  • Cadmium yellow
  • Cerulean blue or phthalo blue
  • Ultramarine blue
  • Dark brown 
• Gel matte medium
• Thin papers to create collage papers such as:
  • sketching paper
  • thin-medium weight watercolor paper
  • rice paper
  • deli paper
  • toddy paper

Whatever thin to medium papers you have will probably work – you don’t need all these. Try for papers whose weight is less than 100 lb. Bigger pieces can be used and cut up.

• Mixed media paper approximately 180 lb or higher preferred for smaller collages. Size can be 9×12 or 12×16”. Thick watercolor paper can also work.
• Various flat brushes like 2”, 1”, 1/2″, 1/4″, a few small round brushes of your choice
• Medium sized palette knife
• Something to cover the table while painting such as newspaper, scrap paper, or a tablecloth

Optional supplies:

• Cradled wood panel up to 16″ x 20″ (optional)
• Gesso to prime surfaces (optional)
• Pallet paper pad or pallet (optional)
• Parchment paper to use when weighing down collages at home (optional)

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

A supply kit is also highly encouraged, but not required. These can be purchased at your first class.

Please also plan for:

• Plastic sheets to cover work (dry cleaning bags or trash bags work great!)
• Drywall board (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 

Please plan for:

• Mixed media book – Strathmore 5.5” by 8.5” (or similar)
• Paint marker set – posca or target brand mondo llama 8 count set or more
• Gel pens – white, gold, silver
• Collage materials such as magazines, various papers, etc
• Newspaper or scrap paper to cover work area

To succeed in watercolor do not buy student grade materials. Please plan for:

Brushes:

• #4, #6 or #8, #10 Round watercolor brushes (Loew-Cornell 7020 ultra round series is a good inexpensive brush). You can find these online at CheapJoes.com or 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 sheet suggested 9 x 12 size.

• Block or pad of paper- 9 x 12 or 11 x 15 or 12×16.
• Sheets of paper are 22 x 30 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 140# Arches Cold Pressed watercolor, Fabiano 140# Cold Pressed 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. Daler Rowney Watercolor 20 colors for $12 (Walmart)– a great starting kit.

**Warm

• Yellow Cad or Yellow Light Hansa or New Gamboge
• Red Cad Red or Lt Cad Red Med.
• Green Hookers or Green Sap Green
• Blue Ultramarine Blue or French Ultramarine Blue

**Cool

• Yellow Lemon Yellow Cad Lemon
• Red Permanent Rose or Quin Rose or Alizarin Crimson
• Green Viridian
• Blue Cerulean Blue or Phthalo Blue

Optional Colors:

• 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
• One small light weight drawing board you can tape your paper to
• HB drawing pencil
• Toothbrush
• 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.