WATERCOLORS:  

• I like M Graham, but any professional paints are fine.
• CORE COLORS: Nickel Azo Yellow, Transparent Red Oxide (or Burnt Sienna, or Quinacridone Rust) Ultramarine Blue
• ADDITIONAL (less important but good to have) Pthalo Green, Pthalo Blue, Payne’s Gray or Black or Neutral Tint
• Optional: Chinese White or White Gouache

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• BIG BRUSH: Inexpensive 1.5 inch Hake or mop pointed Mop/Quill/ large round brush - I use a mop brush called Atelier by Silver brush Co, a soft synthetic at a good value. Quills have odd sizing, the brush should be about an inch in diameter or more. You can use any big brush that holds watercolor

• BRUSHES: Size 16 Round, Size 6 Round are the sizes I use throughout class. A liner brush is nice and totally optional

• SRAY BOTTLES: I like different sizes, and an adjustable nozzle for changing the concentration and force of the spray can be really helpful.

• PALETTE: You’ll want a lot of area to slosh paint and water around, versus a little well palette, though I use one of those, too, for the warmup and smaller paintings. I used white glass plates from IKEA - they’re great for this purpose

• PAPER TOWLS OR SPONGE: (household) You can let them dry and keep using them as long as the washes you clean up are light in color

• SMALL BITS OF SPONG FOR PAINTING: I used natural, textured synthetics are good too. Stiff bristle brush for texture (optional)

WATERCOLOR PAPER:

• 100 percent Cotton Rag is essential
• You will need 140 pound cold press paper for this class. I like Winsor and Newton Professional, Blick Premier, and Bee 100 percent cotton paper mini sheets.
• The Winsor and Newton paper is an amazing paper at a good value. A 9x12 block is recommended.

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DRAWING: These are SUGGESTED media, if you have things that plug into the color palette of your paintings, use those things.

• NEOCOLOR 2 WAX PASTELS: I used neutrals and colors that meshed with the paintings: Beige, White, Silver Gray are key colors

• Optional: Payne’s Gray Cinnamon Golden Ochre Apricot Sahara Yellow

• PASTEL PENCILS: I used Stabilo CarbOthello, coordinating the colors with the painting, relying on the grays in the range, as well as ochre, browns and peach colors.

• COLORED PENCILS: I use a few coordinating colored pencils. I like Derwent’s Drawing range immensely, all but one totally lightfast, and stunning neutrals for landscape.

• INKTENSE PENCIL: Payne’s Gray

• GAMBLIN COLD WAX, Dorlands might work, but it’s got a looser texture and I haven’t tried it in this application.

• OPTIONAL: Fixative for pastel - I use Spectra-Fix