Painting: Experimental Watermedia / Wet & Wild
Instructor: Laura Whitesides Host
Materials List
General Supplies: a general rule - if you use better pigments and better paper, you'll have better results. This is not the place to skimp.
-Palette- white plastic with lid OR white plastic plate OR white butcher tray
-Brushes - watercolor- type soft, large and medium, flats, rounds.
-Watercolor paint - see basic colors and ordering below
-Acrylic paint- fluid acrylics work well
-Paper - I always have some for sale. 22" x 30" 140# Cold Press - $3.10 and 300# for $8.25 I would not use Strathmore brand. You could get watercolor pads. The bigger, the better! Usually they are Arches brand
-A roll of toilet paper / or box of kleenex- good for blotting
-Sketchbook - a must!
-Pencil/eraser
-Scissors
-Plastic sheeting - table cloth, garbage bag - to lay on table while creating, also
to wrap up wet paintings to transport home
-Masking Tape
-Caran D'ache watercolor crayons
-Watercolor pencils
-Prisma colored pencils
-Matte Medium
-Gesso
Items in BOLD are also supplied or available by instructor. I usually ask for a small supply fee and that way you can try out some things without buying them first.
ALSO- we can order from Cheap Joe's on the first class - no shipping fees and I'll bring your order to class. If you have limited supplies, bring what you have and we can assess on first class what you might need.
Basic watercolor paint colors: Alizarin Crimson(a cool red), Cadmium Red light( a warm red), Cadmium yellow (warm tone), Lemon Yellow(cool tone), Ultramarine or Cobalt Blue (cool tones), Cerulean blue (warm tone), Pthalo Blue and Pthalo green (good to mix with other colors), Hooker's Green (cool tone), Sap Green or Green Gold (warm tone), Mauve or Dioxazine purple, Permanent Rose or Quinacridone rose, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Indigo (great for really dark mixtures instead of black which can be a "dead"- looking pigment). Quinacridone gold (Nickel Azo Gold) is a great mixer also - gives a zip to your work.
Many in my class are also using Fluid Acrylics. If you have some - bring them. If not, I have some for sampling and you could order them in the first class.
Questions? Email me - laurawhost@gmail.com.
