Art Supplies

• Pencils with a variety of grades

  • 4H, 2H, H, HB, B, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B

• Kneaded eraser - to pull off some graphite when you want to lighted up some spots

• regular eraser

• pencil sharpener

• sketch pad with acid free paper 

• Stabilo pens

• Blending stumps

• Fixative - Preserve your drawing by preventing future smudges

• White/neutral artist tape (1/4 inch wide)

• Paper towel ( I recommend Viva)

• Drawing on canvas: 

  • pencil  and charcoal stick

  • fixative 

• Palette paper

  • link to grey palette paper, supposed to help you see your colors better than white paper.

• Soap to clean brushes and hands  - Pink Soap or brush cleaner

• A brush cleaner jar like Silicoil

• Jar or brush holder

  • Lots of options here. I've been using this one.

• Gamsol by Gamblin oderless paint thinner/cleaner

• Masters Palette Seal - keep your oils wet

  • using this seal and putting it in the fridge has them last extra long

  • You could also put your whole palette paper pad in here if you dont want to tape in an individual piece

• Assortment of Synthetic Brushes

  • Filbert, flat, round, liner

  • Sizes 1, 2, 4, 6

  • Brands:

    • I've been happy with the Princeton SNAP series - affordable and feel nice. 

  •  Synthetic is the affordable way to go

• Palette Knife

  • I have Blick Painting Knife - Small Trowel, 4

• Stretched Canvas, Canvas Paper or Canvas Pads. 

  • No specific recommendations here. 

  • Paper is the cheapest, but also the flimsiest; Canvas pads aren't readily hangable, but I've put them in a picture frame and that seems to work. 

• Paints

  • Brands

    • I use and like Winsor & Newton Though teachers I've worked with have also recommended Rembrandt.

  • Colors

    • Titanium White

    • Cobalt Blue

    • Ultramarine Blue

    • Cadmium Orange

    • Cadmium Yellow Light

    • Cadmium Yellow Medium

    • Cadmium Red Light

    • Alizarin Crimson

    • Ivory black

    • Burnt Sienna

    • Burnt Umber

    • Yellow Ochre

    • Raw Sienna

    • Raw Umber

    • Veridian

    • Sap Green

• Finalize/Preserve your paintings

  • Gamblin Gamvar Varnish 

• Nice to have 

  • Easel. 

    • This is my easel. Works well. Some times wish it would be stiffer at holding certain orientations, but good for the price. 

    • I also have this portable one (I think its this one; we got mine at a garage sale). Haven't used much outside but more when I want to work in a different part of the house :)

  • Light attached to easel

    • Love this light. Have had it for at least 4 years and will buy the same one if it ever fails. 

Acrylic Paints

• Colors

  • Titanium White

  • Cobalt Blue

  • Ultramarine Blue

  • Cadmium Orange

  • Cadmium Yellow Light

  • Cadmium Yellow Medium

  • Cadmium Red Light

  • Alizarin Crimson

  • Ivory black

  • Burnt Sienna

  • Burnt Umber

  • Raw Sienna

  • Raw Umber

  • Veridian

  • Sap Green

Brushes

Cup for water

• to wash your brushes

Tupperware

• Tupperware to keep your your acrylics wet. Also easy to peel off the acrylics when they dry.

Paper Towels

• IPad (I have an IPad pro 2017; I'm sure newer ones are better) 

• Procreate app 

• Apple Pencil

  •  ( I have the pencil that just charges on the side of the ipad)

• Paper Like:

  • screen film that gives ipad screen more of a paper like texture.