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Participants should bring their current sketchbook and photographs of possible subject matter. Bring one old, as in a not too a good painting that we can paint on top of. Include a 4 or 5b pencil to assign value to shapes. Paper – One half sheet of hot AND cold press Arches 140lb paper stretched on each side of Gator board or equivalent. One sheet of Arches 300lb rough or cold press watercolor paper. Four sheets of medium weight YUPO plastic paper. The 20x26 size is recommended. (Available @ Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff and Daniel Smith). One sheet of 18x24 tracing paper. Paints – Bring your favorite tube watercolors including indigo, quinacridone red and rose, Winsor red, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, thalo blue, hansa yellow, new gamboge and hooker’s green. Recommended: Daniel Smith, Winsor and Newton, M. Graham, Holbein transparent watercolor. Also one large tube each of white and black gouache. Recommended: M. Graham gouache or W and N or Holbein. One or two tubes of acrylic paint in a dark color. (blue, violet or black) and a pint of gesso. Brushes – A number 10 or 12 round, a one inch flat and a 2 inch and a 3 or 4 inch flat, a rigger in size 4, 5, or 6, two inexpensive bristle brushes for scrubbing out/lifting and any other favorite brushes. Water-soluble or wax based colored pencils and or crayons. Tools and Equipment – Two rolls of paper towel, No. 11 craft knife (number one handle, number eleven blade) and a couple of extra blades. Bring a bag full of “texturing” materials, stencils and stamps. (Bubble wrap, gravel, open weave material, leaves, anything that can be rubbed through or thrown into wet paint). 1 or 2 baby food jars with tight fitting lids. Two sponge rollers (4”) from your local hardware and one roll of masking tape, your palette and two water containers, plus any other materials and supplies you just can’t do without. |
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