Materials List

Materials List 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