MATERIALS

• Paper: Arches artist-grade coldpress paper, 140 lb (stretched on a plywood board) or 300 lb. clipped on gatorboard.

• Brushes: A full range of round synthetic and sable brushes from a 00 through a #36-Goliath (Robert Simmons white sable). I like both Robert Simmons white sable and Princeton brushes, and also use Raphael sables.

• Palette: Robert E Wood rectangular palette with cover

• Paints: – Winsor Yellow – Permanent Rose – Winsor Blue Green Shade – Winsor Dioxazine Violet – Winsor Orange – Perylene Green – Winsor Green Gold – Cobalt Blue

• Two water containers: quart or larger plastic containers

• 2B pencil and sharpener or automatic pencil

• Graphite transfer paper (no wax) for transferring your image to watercolour paper

• Kneaded eraser

• Household sponge

• Ruler

• Paper towels and/or tissues

• Masking tape

• Spray bottle