RECOMMENDED SUPPLY LIST –
It is always recommended that you buy the best quality materials you can afford. This is very true for paper and paints. If you need to economize, limit paints to a warm and cool of each primary color.
Paper
Pads of cold pressed or rough watercolor paper 100% cotton. Brands such as Stonehenge Arches or Fabriano Artistico
Watercolor Tube Paints
Some of the suggested colors are available at Jerry’s Artarama in West Hartford in a box behind the cash register. Lukas and Daniel Smith, Holbein and Windsor Newton are some of the best quality brands of paint. I favor Lukas for quality with economy and Daniel Smith for varieties of color. Some colors from Holbein are excellent.
Suggested Colors : Transparent Red Oxide and Indanthrone Blue or Thalo Blue, Aureolin or Lemon Yellow, Indian Yellow, Raw Sienna, Indianthrone Blue, Cyan Blue, Magenta or Genuine Rose, Neutral Tint, Burnt Umber, Madder Lake Deep, Davinci Red, Green Gold, Perylene Green, Quinacridone Coral, Transparent Pyroll Orange, Transparent Red Oxide, Indigo and White Gouache.
Perylene Green is especially important for landscapes and is helpful if mixing green is a challenge.
For those who love blues or want more varied skies... Thalo Blue, Holbein Vetiver Blue, Holbein Mineral Violet, Holbein Lavender.
And additional colors for mixing greens and flower painting, Quinacridone Gold or New Gamboge.
Note: Keep your purchase receipt in case you need to exhange any item.
Brushes
A one inch or one and a half inch flat brush, #8 Princeton Quill, ½ inch Flat, #1 and #6 liner, script or rigger, 3/8 inch dagger.
A few assorted sizes of round brushes (6-8-12-16).
Covered Palette
Suggested Sterling Edwards, Robert Wood, Frank Web, John Pike, or Richeson.
Additional Items
2 water containers, paper towels, facial tissue or t.p., ruler, pencil, notepad, white plastic eraser or kneaded eraser, scissors, q-tips, ½, masking tape (green Frog brand or blue painters tape suggested), masking fluid (small size only, Pebeo Drawing Gum or Grumbacher brand), small bar of soap, triangular shaped small palette knife, Pitt Pen or fine point magic marker, fine mist spray bottle, a soft cloth, 1 sea sponge, and corrugated plastic board for wet on wet painting (to be discussed).