Watercolor Painting Material List

Nos. 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 round brushes
2", 2.5", and 3" hake brushes for washing technique
Half sheet of 140 pound Cold-pressed watercolor paper tape on a light ply wood or any sturdy board
or
300 lb. on a light ply wood or any sturdy board.
Arches or Winsor & Newton Cold-pressed paper
(Landscape and iris is painted on Stephen Quiller watercolor paper block and Stephen Quiller watercolor pigment)
Palette (white dinner plate or any store bought palette)
Water Bowl
Cotton rag or paper towels
Reference photo or drawing (I will provide photos and drawing for workshop)
Mechanical pencil with .5 mm HB lead and an eraser
Spray bottle


* Note: bring all the material you normally use for painting, especially brushes and paints.


Color Palette

Aureolin
Permanent Alizarin Crimson (Winsor & Newton)
Cadmium Yellow Medium, or Light
Hooker's Green
Indigo
Permanent Red
Prussian Blue
Sap Green
Sepia
Scarlet Lake or Vermilion
Ultramarine Blue
Quinacridone Burnt Orange - Daniel Smith (optional)
Quinacridone Violet

Bring all the materials you regularly use for painting, especially brushes and paints.

The list above represents only the very basic necessities for painting.

How to Prepare Drawing and Making before Workshop
To prepare the drawing for the workshop

First: drawing
1. Print out the drawing as good quality as possible. You can download and print out at commercial place, such as Walmart, Costco, or Walgreen and more. The photo quality usually is better.
2. You can use opaque projector, grid, or any method to enlarge the drawing onto the half sheet (15"x22") watercolor paper or any other size you desired, but larger than the half sheet watercolor paper. Winsor & Newton watercolor paper seems buckle less than Arches.

If you like to have drawing that you can trace over light box or graphite paper, just send me an email with your address, then, I will mail you the actual drawing sheet. My email address is: soon-warren@charter.net

Important!!!.
Use 0.5mm HB mechanical pencil. Trace very gently and lightly. Don't press too hard. You just need very light line drawing of the shape.

Second: Frisket or masking fluid (saving highlight)
Apply Frisket or masking fluid on the highlight of the crystal. Look at the reference photo to guide you where the highlights are. Use very thin stick, slanted - end tip of brush handle, frisket application tool, or anything to make the line skinny and thin. It will be better to save line in the drawing as much as possible, such as white, light yellow, light blue, pink, lavender, light green. Also, apply it on the yellow design on the red silk fabric.

I like Winsor and Newton "Art Masking Fluid" with light yellow tint in it, not clear. Try not to use masking fluid that comes with application tip attached to the bottle. I have never seen any body applied thin line as I want it to be. I have tried, and I couldn't do it, either.

It will be tedious work and time consuming, and if we prepare this steps, it will save a great deal of workshop time, so we can start to paint right away.