Supplies for each student to bring:
Substrate:
- Four (4) sheets of Montval Acrylic Paper, 185lb, 19×25”
- Aquabee Super Deluxe sketch book, 6”x4” or larger (or available equivalent mixed media sketchbook)
Tools:
- A Flat and Round medium size brushes – inexpensive ok, short or long handle, natural or synthetic made for water-media
- Eye dropper, Needle-point or fine/small tip squeeze bottle (or available equivalent)
- Spatterbrush or Firm Bristle Tooth brush
- Spray mister/atomizer – small to medium size
- 1” or wider low-tac tape – artist’s or blue tape
- Scissors (small and pointed for close detail work recommended)
- Flexible palette knife (approx. 1 ½” / 2” long, diamond shape with rounded tip)
- Large-mouth pint size plastic water container for rinsing brushes/tools
Media & Mediums:
- Regular or soft acrylic gel medium – semi-gloss or gloss, 8oz or larger
- Gouache – zinc white, 15ml or larger
- Highflow Acrylic – one or more, any color/value*
- FW ink – one or more, any color/value*
- Ink (dye or pigment based are ok) 1oz or larger – one or more, any color/value*
- Water-soluble media (pencil/cube/stick ok) – one or more, graphite or color*
- Artist’s Colored pencil – one or more, any color/value*
- Oil pastel stick – one or more, any color/value*
- Dry pastel stick – one or more, any color/value*
- Interference color acrylic (highflow, fluid or heavy body ok) – any color*
- Micaceous Iron Oxide acrylic, (fluid or heavy body) 1oz or larger
- Clear Wax based stick for resist techniques – any suitable such as encaustic wax, beeswax, or a candle.
(*We’ll be mixing media in our artworks. Select colors/values that you’ll enjoy using and will work together.)
Collection of Paper/Elements for collage (start collecting if you aren’t already doing it.) For class bring a collection of elements that work with your chosen palette (see palette options).
- 20+ pages from magazines/books. Don’t overthink this. Look for pages that have a visual or emotional appeal to you. Think in categories: images, colors, patterns, geometrics, graphs/charts, calculations, anatomy, diagrams, etc (Both the Library and the DAV Thrift Store have good selections of used magazines and books at super cheap prices.)
- paper ephemera – ticket stubs, library book check-out pockets, receipts, letters, bills, RX prescriptions, hand written notes, etc
- decorative paper – one or more sheets open source