Suggested Materials List
Available from most art supply stores. Check web listings too. A student discount may be available when purchasing supplies. Let the retailer know you are doing an art class.
Note: Good quality materials will vastly improve your experience with watercolour painting.
Watercolor paper - I recommend d’Arches 140 lb. medium surface paper but any artist’s quality paper will be fine. Note that results vary significantly from paper to paper.
blocks: Size optional but 11 x 14 or larger are good. Very handy format.
in sheets: sheet size 22 x 30”. Can be torn down for smaller sizes – this is a less expensive way to buy paper, but you will need a board or other support to tape down the paper.
Watercolour palette - covered palette with lots of mixing area
Watercolour paints - tubes or pans of good quality. I prefer Windsor Newton artist quality which are excellent for colour brilliance, permanence and ease of mixing, but there are many brands of paint of varying quality.
Almost all colours can be created from this simple selection below. Cotman by Winsor Newton are good as a less costly starter paint.
Note that there's been a lot of improvements in watercolour technology, especially in creating paint without cadmium. Cadmium hue is an artificial substitute, but hues are usually not as intense or as lightfast as the original cadmium based paints. Better to look for new colours that do the same job as well or better.
My new BASIC palette, one each of primary colours, one cool, one warm:
1. Alizarin Crimson (permanent) or Quinacridone Rose or Rose Madder or (cool red)
2. Ultramarine Blue (a cool blue, may come in red or blue shade, either is fine)
3. Windsor Yellow, Cobalt Yellow or Azo yellow (look for a cool yellow)
4. Winsor Red or lightfast pyrrole red (PR254), pyrrole scarlet (PR255) or naphthol red (PR112),
5. Winsor Blue or Pthalo Blue (a warm blue)
6. New Gamboge (a warm yellow)
Watercolour brushes - the absolute minimum THREE brushes - a 1/2” flat, a size 10 round, and a 1" mop or large 2" Chinese flat . Otherwise bring a selection of flats, 1/2’, 3/4” or 1”; rounds, size 10 and larger; also a mop or Chinese flat, one inch or larger, “Bigger Brushes are Better!”
Drawing pencils 2B & 4B, eraser; roll of painter’s masking tape
Containers for water - plastic bottle with cap, or 1 litre yogurt or ice cream containers
Optional 1. additional watercolour paper of your choice 2. other media, such as additional watercolors, acrylics, crayons or watercolour pencils, felt pens, anything that you would like to experiment with 3. Hair dryer. 4. sketchbook or journal 9 x 12”
Suggested Reading:
Watercolour and art magazines, lots are available -
Watercolor Magic, Watercolor etc.
Books - Watercolor, A New Beginning, by Ann K. Linsay
Making Watercolors Sing, by Jeanne Dobie,
The Tao of Watercolor by Jean Carbonetti
and many more!!!
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