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!)
• 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 

*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:

• 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.

*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 note this kit does not include:

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

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

Please plan for:

Brushes: (Brushes are a personal choice but may I suggest these below as basics): #4, #6 or #8, #10 Round watercolor brushes. (Loew-Cornell 7020 ultra round series is a good inexpensive brush) You can , you can bring.
1” or 1 ½” Flat brush Optional 1 angled 

Paper:

• Cold Press – most used. Has a texture to it.
• Hot Press – Smooth. Great for detailed 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 9 x 12 size.
• Block or pad paper- 9 x 12or 11x 15or 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 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 professions 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 greatstarting kit.

**Warm

• Yellow
•  Cad Yellow Light
•  Hansa Yel Dark
•  New Gamboge
• Red
• Cad Red Lt
•  Cad Red Med.
• 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 Blue

**Optional Paint:

• 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 painting 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,
• toothbrush,
• tissues ( does not haveto be name brand Kleenex).
• Apron or old shirt for protection.
• Binder – A place to have all your charts to use for referral when painting.

Please plan for:

• Medium size sketch pad 11″ by 14″
• Sketching graphite pencils ranging from soft to hard (ie. 6B, 2B, HB, 2H, 6H)
• Charcoal pencils
• Vine charcoal
• Colored pencils
• Colored pens

Please plan for:

• Mixed media or similar thick paper (16″ x 20” or larger, 140 lbs or thicker)
• Canson (or similar) paper pad 14″ x 17” (you’ll need at least 90 lbs weight for creating collage papers)
• Various flat brushes  (1″, 1/2″, 1/4″) & a few round brushes of your choice
• Medium sized palet knife
• Rice paper or toddy paper — only a few sheets (optional)
• Oil pastels and/or water- based crayons like neocolor 2 (optional)
• Heavy gel matte medium 1: 16″ x 20” cradled wood panel (optional)
• Pallet paper (ex. Grey Scissors) (optional).

Please also plan for the following acrylic paints:

• white
• magenta
• cadmium red
• lemon yellow or cool yellow
• cadmium yellow
• phthalo blue or phthalo bluegreen
• ultramarine blue
• burnt umber

Please start thinking about fabrics or other paper or cardboard you may want to incorporate into a collage, even things like burlap, gauze or music sheets etc.