Learn for Life - Materials List

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Materials List

All supplies listed should be purchased before the first class. Supplies are not available from the instructor, unless otherwise noted in the course description.

 

Beginning & Intermediate Water Colors

(You can find these materials at Michael's and Jo Anne’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):
      • 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).
      • # 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

 

Beginning & Intermediate Machine Quilting

(You can find these materials at Cotton Fields Quilt Shop or Jo Anne’s) 

  • Sewing machine in good working order with 3 wound bobbins
  • Walking foot or Janome’s Rotary Even Feed Foot
  • Darning Foot
  • 100% cotton neutral color sewing thread
  • Thread Snips
  • Seam Ripper

* Purchase supplies before first classare not available in class

Beginning Sewing & Kid's Can Sew

(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
  • Tread to match fabric

 



  
 Last Updated: 10/26/07