Watercolor Painting Materials List

Brushes:

Three or four quality watercolor brushes, round, sable, squirrel or blends

• Size 4 – 12 ish “Silver Black Velvet” brand is a great brush! Reasonably Priced

• Please don’t bring stiff oil brushes.  Super soft, absorbent, watercolor brushes

Watercolor paper:

• Scratch/cheap watercolor paper for practice

• 140# or 300# Cold Press Watercolor paper (2 full sheets, you will use 1/4's for several works ) 

• If you can, don’t skimp on the quality.  Good paper is important.

Watercolor Back Board:

•  Highly recommended! But ultimately optional

• A flat wooden panel large enough to accommodate your paper (stapled or taped down) Soft, thin plywood works well.  Not necessary if block paper is used.

Paints:

• DO NOT BRING WHITE PAINT!!!!!  (He’ll make you eat it)

• Very important for Randy’s approach.  Please bring Prussian Blue, Ivory Black

• Beyond that, a few quality tubes of watercolor paint are all you need.  Quality if you can afford it.

• Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine blue, cadmium red, cadmium yellow, raw umber, burnt umber, burnt sienna.  (Do not bring Gouache)

Palette:

• Anything flat, white and water resistant

• Dinner plate, enamel butcher tray, watercolor palette, but not a little sissy one...big, bold!!

Accessories:

• Water container (bucket, jar, cup, anything) Small spray bottle, paper towels, dark, heavy pencils (4B or heavier would be great).

• IMPORTANT:  White plastic eraser, regular office stapler (not needed, if using block paper or taping your paper). Drafting or masking tape.

Painting:

• If you’ve experimented with water in the past, feel free to bring an example of your work.

• If not, no sweat!

• Randy will demonstrate how to transfer pattern onto paper so pre-setup needed.  

 

Mail order art supply catalogs:

Daniel Smith 1-800-426-7923

Cheap Joe’s 1-800-227-2788

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If you have none of these items and can’t get any of these items, or you can only get some of them……. come anyway!    Artists share…