Students are invited to use their medium of choice, watercolor, oils, water soluble oils, pencil, pastel, with an emphasis on individual interpretation and direction. Classes will include demonstrations using various techniques in watercolor, oil, and drawing mediums. This class is for those interested in getting their feet wet with different mediums or those just wishing to hone their skills while observing how other mediums perform. Students will create numerous subjects of still life, landscape, and landscape figures while working in the studio.

Supply List for Water Color :

(If you have brushes and paints bring what you have I can suggest additional brushes and materials)

Paper and other items you may want to bring:

Windsor Newton, watercolor block, 20 sheets, cold pressed, or sheets of watercolor paper 16 x 20

Please get 100% rag paper its more expensive but worth it. Also buy it online its so much cheaper.

Mixing tray you can find them online either plastic or metal, a good large white plate works as well.

Small drawing pad if you are going to do drawing, pastel paper if you are going to draw in pastel along with your pastels

Brushes For watercolor I would suggest a combination of brushes:

Water Color Brushes: Flat ½ inch to 1 inch, round sizes 2 or 3( for detail) 6, 8, & 10 . Don’t buy cheap brushes , white synthetic are ok to use, synthetic sables.

And again look at what they have online at Dick Blick or ASW art supplies to get an idea what they look like. I use a variety of synthetic round brushes from 4

 through 8 or 9. A liner brush is also helpful they are long and thin referred to as riggers, have on hand either a ¼ inch flat or ½ inch.

Other items you will need for Watercolor:

• Water container, Large

• Hard Pencil 4 H 5H,6 H. soft pencils for drawing a regular #2 works perfectly The “ H” stands for hard..

• Kneaded Eraser

• Small handheld pencil sharpener

Supply List for Oils

 (If you have brushes and paints bring what you have I can suggest additional brushes and materials)

Oils other items you will need:

• Odorless Turpentine, and medium cups, small glass jar to hold your turpentine

• Palette knife (plastic is fine), used to mix your values

• Palette (disposable is fine which gives you about 50 sheets in each one so get the largest you can find).

• Pencil to draw

Colors: Paint/ Palette is the same for Watercolor and  Oil,  ( Student grades are fine The Windsor Newton Winton colors are fine)

• Cadmium yellow medium

• Cadmium red medium

• Yellow ochre

• Burnt umber.

• Burnt sienna.

• Viridian green

• Prussian blue

• Ultramarine blue or French ultramarine blue

• Cobalt blue

• Cerulean blue

• Permanent Alizarin Crimson or Quinacridone red

• Titanium White

Canvas:

• Pre-Stretched canvas, canvas boards, canvas paper, (comes in pads which can be taped and easily transported)

• (Keep them to a manageable size so you can transport them more easily) 

• Synthetic brushes Oils:

• Soft Bristle Brushes: Flat size 6,or8 , Filbert size 6 or 8 ,(which is slightly rounded sides),

• These are softer than bristle brushes, more like a water color brush but for oils

• Soft Rounds For Oil Size 2 or 3 for detail , 4 or 5 round

• Flat ½ inch or ¼ inch flat

And again look at what they have online at Dick Blick or ASW art supplies to get an idea what they look like. I use a variety of synthetic round brushes from 4 through 8 or 9. A liner brush is also helpful they are long and thin referred to as riggers. 

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