You must bring your own supplies.
If you already have some, just bring what you have plus a tube of Sepia (it’s a dark
brown color). It doesn’t matter what brand, and you should be able to find it at your
local art store, Hobby Lobby, or Michaels.
A white gel pen or white brush pen. We will use this for whiskers and fine hairs. Jelly
Roll is a good gel pen brand and Faber Castell makes a white brush ink pen. I have
found these at Michael’s. One is fine or you can borrow mine!
Water container
Watercolor brushes: I recommend starting with: 1.5” flat, ½ flat, #10 or #12 round, #6
round, and #4 round. Otherwise, bring what you have.
Palette: it needs to have plenty of wells for colors as well as a large area for mixing.
Feel free to bring your favorite palette!
Watercolor paper: 140lb cold press. I prefer Arches brand. I recommend the 10x14
inch watercolor pad from Arches. My goal is for us to finish 2-4 paintings depending on
how fast you work. You can split a pad with a friend! (This size is just a suggestion!
Use whatever size you are comfortable with!)
Here are the colors on my palette. If you already have watercolors, just bring those!
• Winsor Red
• Orange
• Vermillion-a red orange- I use this color frequently
• Lemon Yellow- (cool yellow)
• Cadmium Yellow Medium- (warm yellow) - this has heavy metals in it. (Please do
not touch if you are pregnant!)
• Yellow-Green- a spring green
• Sap Green- a nice medium green
• Hooker’s Green- darker green
• Phthalo Blue- intense blue leaning on the green side, similar to Cerulean Blue
• Ultramarine Blue- leans on the purple side of blue- mix this with Sepia for a
gorgeous gray
• Prussian Blue- a lovely “Midnight Blue” mix with Sepia for a “smokey” blue neu-
tral
• Violet
• Thio Violet- a very warm violet
• Yellow Ochre-sometimes called Yellow Oxide-golden brown
• Burnt Sienna- reddish Brown
• Burnt Umber- nice medium dark brown Van Dyke Brown is a similar alternative
• Sepia- brown/black- can go very opaque and is a great black replacement
• Payne’s Gray- another nice neutral to have- a blueish gray that can be another
replacement for black
• Permanent Rose- Fuchsia, magenta, hot pink, sometime called “Rose Madder”
I am excited to paint with you.