Petals and Portraits

• *General's Charcoal Pencils: HB, 2B, 6B
• *Willow Charcoal - thin soft
• Nitram Charcoal - B & Soft
• Powdered Charcoal
• *General's Peel & Sketch charcoal pencil (soft)
• *White Charcoal Pencils
• Stabilo Marks All Pencil - Black
• *Soft Pastels in your favorite colors - the link is to Sennelier - but any soft will do. The better quality, the more brilliant the pigment: Sennelier Colors: Carmine 3, Carmine 4, Carmine 5, Carmine 6, Magenta Violet 1, Olive Green 5, Olive Green 6, Geranium Lake - any of the range, Turquoise Blue - any of the range, Cinnabar green 4, Note: These are just a few of my favorites, please don't feel you need to purchase all of these in order to create the projects. A couple of pinks, yellows, greens, and blues will work just fine. Feel free to select a completely different color palette!
• Pastel Pencils: I use Cretacolor, Stabilo Pastel Pencils, and Caran d Ache
• *NuPastels (hard pastels to match soft pastel colors) My favorite colors: Beech Green, Carmine Madder, Light Ochre, Rose Pink, Olive Green, Citrine Green, Shell Pink
• Golden Light Molding Paste
• *Liquitex Clear Gesso
• *Liquitex White Gesso
• Charvin Paris Acrylic Paint: Sap Green, Green Gold, Julias Pink, Caribbean Pink, Payne's Gray
• Holbein Acrylic Paint: Shell Pink, Brilliant Pink, Compose Pink, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White
• Atelier Interactive Artists' Acrylics - These don't dry out as quickly and you can spray them with water to reactivate: colors Toning Grey Pinkish, Quinacridone Magenta, Pyrrole Red
• Liquitex Heavy Body: Bronze Yellow, Alizarin Crimson Hue Permanent
• Arteza - If you are new to acrylics and new to color, this would be a great way to start. The set of 60 is about $40.00 and the paint is beautiful. Colors I used in the class are: Oxide Yellow, Olive Green Chromium Oxide Green, Bordeaux, Rose Madder, Cochineal Red, Vermillion Red
• Watercolor pencils - I use the Blue Gray
• Gold - Golden Iridescent Gold Deep Fine Fluid Acrylic Paint
• Schmincke -Gold Powder - Please don't feel you must have this supply, the Golden acrylic paint works just as well. I'm just a little obsessed with it.
• Newsprint - The largest size.
• Art Journal - any kind. I'm working in the Dylusions Art Journal by Ranger for this class.
• Watercolor Paper - anything you have on hand. I'm using the Arches Hot Press (smooth finish) you may substitute with a mixed media paper.
• Erasers: Mono Zero, Tombow Mono Knock Stick, Kneaded Eraser
• Canson: Mi Teintes in Flannel Gray.
• Neocolor II Water Soluble Crayons -  Payne's Gray
• Blending Stumps - You can find these at Michaels - The Artist Loft Collection.
• Golden High Flower Acrylic - Transparent Shading Gray\ Watercolor will work in place of this supply
• Henri Roche French Pastels - La Mason du Pastel: #9441 Diamond White, 9191 Galaxy Black (Glittery Pastels)
• Video inside La Maison du Pastel - This is an amazing glimpse into the history of these amazing pastels and the one woman who makes each one by hand.

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