Adult All Level Hand Building:

*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. * Additional items that are helpful to have on‐hand: ‐ Plastic sheets to cover work; dry cleaning bags or trash bags work great for this. ‐ 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.

Adult All Level Wheel Throwing:

*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.* Additional items that are helpful to have on‐hand: ‐ Plastic sheets to cover work; dry cleaning bags or trash bags work great for this. ‐ 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 Level Hand Building and Wheel Throwing:

*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. * Additional items that are helpful to have on‐hand: ‐ Plastic sheets to cover work; dry cleaning bags or trash bags work great for this. ‐ 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

Mixed Media:

*All students will need to purchase clay directly from the arts center. Basic Hand Building clay tools are required.

Note: 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 and will be helpful to bring.  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 word.

‐ 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.

Totem Building :

Note: 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 and will be helpful to bring.

Steel rods or galvanized when the totem pieces are finished. Possibly a heavy base – we will discuss this more in class

Creative Layering :

– Basic acrylic paint or watercolor set (12 tubes of color)
-Variety of sizes and shapes of paint brushes (flat, round, etc.)
-Your choice of color India ink (1oz)
-Masking fluid (2.5oz)
-Watercolor Paper (such as Canson XL watercolor pad-11”x15”)
-Paint palette (Richeson Plastic Tray Palette) or a paper plate
-Collage materials (Such as newspaper, book pages, and tissue paper)
-Flat cardboard or masonite board ( we will use the board for stretching our paper while we are working so please bring a flat board no smaller than 12” x 16”. The 1/2” thickness works good because it resists warping)-X-ACTO knife (optional)
-Mod Podge Matt or Gloss (8oz )(optional)

*Michael’s is a good place to purchase your art supplies if you like to look at the options in person.

Oil Painting Basics:

Expressive Painting:

Acrylic Paints:

-Titanium white, 

-Lemon yellow,

-Yellow ochre,

-Cadmium yellow,

-Fluorescent magenta or permanent rose,

-Cadmium red,

-Phthalo blue

-Ultramarine blue,

-Raw umber
-1/4”, 1/2”, 1” and 2” flat brushes
-3” flat pallet painting knife as a minimum,

-Small narrow towel, and large flat spreader
-Pallet Paper pad
-Paper towels
-Cup for water
-Gloss medium (optional)
-Sketchbook and pencil