MATERIALS

Essential Equipment

•A pencil and pencil sharpener

•Kneaded or white eraser

•0.5” and 0.75” flat brushes (inexpensive synthetic brushes are fine)

•Cold press 140 lb. watercolor paper (Arches or Winsor & Newton brands are good) or a bound watercolor journal

•Watercolor tubes (Winsor & Newton and Sennelier are good quality) or pans of 8 or 16 colors (Prang or the Winsor & Newton travel set are good). These are the color tubes I use:

* Permanent alizarin crimson

**Cadmium red light or medium

Permanent rose * Ultramarine blue

** Pthalo (or Prussian) blue Cobalt blue

Cerulean blue Yellow ochre * Lemon yellow

** Aurelian yellow Burnt sienna Burnt umber

To start with just a few colors, use Triad 1 (*) for a bright palette and Triad 2 (**) for a versatile palette (see chapter 7, Color Mixing).

•Portable drawing board

•Clips or tape for securing paper onto the board

•2 small water jars with watertight lids: one for mixing, one for cleaning

•A portable watercolor palette for mixing colors (if using a paint box, you can mix on the inside of the cover)

•Paper towels

Optional Equipment

•Medium-size travel brushes with water reservoir in handle

•Size 8 round brush

•Bone folder

•Ruler