Supply List for Watercolor Classes

Paints

Please bring the watercolor paints you are accustomed to using. At a minimum you will need a yellow, a red, a blue, and a way to get a dark. If you are unsure of what to bring, I suggest the following minimum set of paints.

• Primary yellow (for example, cadmium yellow or winsor yellow)
• Deep yellow (for example, new gamboge or indian yellow)
• Raw sienna or yellow ochre
• Burnt Sienna
• Cerulean Blue or cobalt blue
• Ultramarine blue
• Cadmium red light, cadmium red, or quinacridone red
• Rose or crimson (for example, permanent rose, quinacridone rose, or permanent alizarin crimson)
• Thalo green
• Thalo blue

Brushes

If you have experience with watercolor, bring the brushes you are accustomed to using. If you are new to watercolor, you will need a couple of round brushes --- a #8 and a #10 or #12 --- and a 1 1/2" flat brush. A size 6 round can occasionally be useful for touches of detail.

Sable brushes are my favorite watercolor brushes, but they cost a small fortune. Sable/synthetic blends, such as the Winsor and Newton Sceptre Gold brushes, are a good compromise, cheaper than a pure sable but still pricey in larger sizes. Synthetics, such as white sables or golden taklons, are the least expensive and work reasonably well; in fact, many artists prefer them. Choose what fits your budget.

Paper

Bring sheets or blocks of 11x15 or 12x16 cold pressed 140 lb. watercolor paper.

Other materials

• Watercolor palette.
• 2 - 24 oz. or larger plastic containers for water (food containers work well)
• Kitchen sponge
• Pencil (standard household pencil)
• Eraser - either white plastic or kneaded rubber
• Spray bottle
• Paper towels (Bounty works best)
• 3/4" artists' tape or bulldog clips if you are using single sheets of paper; if you are using a watercolor block, you don't need tape
• Masonite drawing board, gatorboard, or other rigid working surface if you are using single sheets of paper; you don't need a drawing board if you are working from a watercolor block.
• Small sketch book or cheap paper for preliminary sketches