Beginning & Intermediate Water Colors

(You can find these materials at Michael's and JoAnne’s)

If this is not your first watercolor class, feel free to bring your own equipment

• Set of 12 or 18 Reeves Watercolors
• Set of 10 nylon brushes and canvas brush case. (Purchase from Michael's for best value) Also, you can get a taklon brush set Loew Cornel (description of the product: Nine high performance synthetic brushes, ideal for the artist working in acrylic and all media. These taklon brushes provide excellent spring, point, and chisel edge. 5-inch acrylic handles are nicely weighted, durable in water and each have a beveled end for texturing and manipulating paint. Larger sized flats and detail rounds and liners provide the right tools for a wide range of projects on most any surface.) If you want to buy nylon or very soft brushes separately it would be ideal to have the following numbers: 0, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13 (round) and a big 13 or more flat.
• 9 x 12 watercolor pad or 11 x 15 paper (Strathmore or Canson, 140 lb, acid free)
• A round palette tray style. If you want to bring plastic paper plates to make your color combination, please do!
• Small Plastic cups
• Small drop cloth or large towel to protect desk and working area
• Roll of papertowels or cleaning rags/cloths
• Apron/protection for your clothing

Oil Painting

(You can find these materials at Michaels Craft Sore)

• Oil Paints (37ml tubes):
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    • Alizarin Crimson
    • Burnt Sienna
    • Burnt Umber
    • Cadmium Orange
    • Cadmium Red
    • Cadmium Yellow
    • Dioxazine Purple
    • Ivory Black
    • Sap Green
    • Ultramarine Blue
    • Yellow Ocher
    • A large tube of Titanium White (soft formula)
• A "Bristle" brush has stiff bristles, and a "Sable" brush is softer. A "Bright" brush has shorter bristles than a "Flat". (American Painter, Grumbacher or Princeton Brand).
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    • # 8 and # 6 Bristle Bright Brush
    • # 8 and # 6 Sable Bright Brush
    • # 4 Sable Filbert Brush
    • # 8 Sable Round Brush
• 1 stretch canvas -16x20
• 1 Pad (40 sheets) disposable paper palette
• Table top easel: Star Rite aluminum works well
• 1 can or jar for cleaning brushes
• 1 pint odorless mineral spirits or paint thinner
• 1 small jar artist linseed oil (NOT BOILED)
• 1 roll paper towels
• 3 small jars with tight fitting lids (baby food size) 

Cake Decorating 101—the basic course

(You can find these materials at Michael’s)

• Wilton course I decorating kit
• One cake any size/shape
• Clown heads
• 2 containers of Wilton white frosting
• Scissors
• Wax paper
• Disposable containers

Cake Decorating 102 – Working with Fondant

(You can find these materials at Michael’s)

• Wilton course III decorating kit
• Around cake up to 8”
• Small container of Crisco
• Buttercream frosting
• Cornstarch
• 1 can Wilton white frosting
• Piping gel
• Rolling pin
• Pizza wheel or small knife
• 1 package of Wilton fondant
• Scissors
• Wax paper
• Disposable containers
• 2-3 plastic 1 gallon zipper bags

Basic Sewing

(You can find these materials at any sewing/material store)

• Needles for hand sewing
• Straight Pins
• Thimble
• Wrist Pin cushion or plain pin cushion
• Needle threader (optional)
• Tracing wheel (smooth edge)
• Dressmaker's Tracing paper
• Liquid marking pencils (optional)
• See-through ruler
• Ruler 6 inch, 12 inch
• Tape measure
• Seam gauge
• Dress maker's scissors (comes in right or left handed)
• Seam Ripper
• Iron
• Press cloth
• Tailor's ham (optional)
• Seam roll (optional)
• Pattern
• Fabric
• Zipper, buttons to match fabric
• Thread to match fabric

Beginning Sketching and Drawing

(You can find these at any art supply store)

• Large Sketch Pad
• Small set of graphite lead drawing pencils
• 18 inch ruler
• Large eraser
• 8x10 inch black and white photograph