This list is a good basic supply list for watercolour, which I will be using. Feel free to bring any watercolour supplies that you already have. I don’t recommend buying sets of paint or brushes – you are unlikely to use them all and for a similar price you can get better quality primary colours, or a single brush.

7 Tubes of Professional Grade Watercolour Paint, Transparent, Primary Colours:
Winsor & Newton, Artist's Quality, 5 ml tubes

2 Yellows: Transparent Yellow (or Winsor Yellow); and Raw Sienna;

2 Blues: French Ultramarine Blue; and Winsor Blue - Red Shade;

2 Reds: Permanent Rose; and Permanent Alizarin Crimson;

1 Earth: Burnt Sienna.

3 Watercolour Brushes:
Round Series #101: Size #12; Size #6 (or Size #8), and ¾” Flat Wash Series #606.
i.e. Winsor & Newton Sceptre Gold II, a sable/synthetic blend.

Watercolour Paper choose one of these two options:

Watercolour Block of Watercolour Paper:
(block is glued on all four sides to a stiff cardboard, Arches block uses black glue):

100% Cotton, 140lb, Cold Pressed, such as Arches, 10” x 14" (or 9” x 12”).

or

Watercolour Paper – 1 Sheet:

100% Cotton, 140lb, Cold Pressed, 22” x 30”, made by: Arches (or T.H. Saunders Waterford),
ripped into 3 quarter sheets (11” x 15”) and two 1/8th sheet for studies (11” x 7.5”).

**Bring paper in full-sheet – We will rip paper in the first class, with the instructor’s straight edge.

2 Waterproof Painting Supports: 11.75” x 15 5/8” white Plasticor (or Plexiglass or Masonite covered with Mactac) and 10 medium Office Clips.

Other Supplies:

White Plastic Palette - with about 20 deep wells for mixing paint, ideally with a lid and slant wells. i.e. Zoltan Szabo (or Robert E. Wood); or 2 children’s Plastic Palettes or 2 opaque white ice cube trays.

HB Pencil, artist’s quality.

Eraser: Kneadable Rubber: Staedtler (or Pelikan GE20).

Eraser: Staedtler Mars Plastic.

Stencil Brush, size 4, with natural bristles.

Water Dropper Bottle, 125 ml.

Natural Sea Sponge: 1.5” to 2” (

Mist Tube by Derwent (or Spray Bottle: makeup or travel from drug store, or for ferns from a garden

From Home:

Roll of Magic Tape (3M office tape).

Paper Towel roll (near the end of a roll).

Face Cloth (or an old hand towel).

Tube 7/8” in diameter (centre cardboard tube from an empty saran wrap roll or tin foil).

Sketchbook 8.5” x 5.5” (or 8.5” x 11” blank sheets of computer paper or newsprint).

3 Water Containers: white or clear plastic: One 500 ml and Two 1 litre, i.e. from yogurt or honey.