Watercolors in the Wild: Surface Design Magic & Spring Flora Folio, part 2

materials list

For detailed art supply recommendations, please see Andie’s website here.

• Before class, please follow the link below and print out this file: Folio Steps.pdf.

  Click here to open the file to save.

• Before class: Have on hand the same plant you used in Part 1 (a living plant, plant parts, or a photograph).

• Paper: use the same 2 sheets of paper (~22x30 inches) you already painted in Part 1.

• Bone folder or spoon

• Glue stick (easiest to work with) or PVA glue with glue brush

• X-acto knife

• Scissors

• Cutting mat

• Metal-edged ruler

• Waxed or glassine paper

• Several sheets of scratch paper or newsprint

• No. 2 or HB pencil

• Colored pencils, if you have them: yellow, cream, light green, light grey

• Pigma Micron or other fine-tipped pen in black or sepia

• Ink: dark color like black or sepia

• Brushes recommended: inexpensive 1.5-2 inch wide craft bristle brush, No. 8, 10, or larger, round watercolor brush, and a No. 4 round watercolor brush or “water brush.” Also helpful: a rigger, liner, or script brush, an angle shader, and a short flat or filbert.

• Tube watercolors listed here (and on Andie’s website, link above) are recommended.

  The six recommended double primary colors are:

  • Quinacridone rose, or quinacridone pink, or permanent rose (purple-biased red)

  • Cadmium red or pyrrol scarlet (orange-biased red)

  • Ultramarine blue (purple-biased blue)

  • Phthalo blue, or manganese blue, or cerulean blue (green-biased blue)

  • Lemon yellow, or cadmium yellow pale, or hansa yellow light (green-biased yellow)

  • Hansa yellow deep or cadmium yellow deep (orange-biased yellow)

• Additional recommended colors are:

  • Burnt sienna and/or burnt umber

  • Quinacridone gold

  • Sap green

  • Chromium oxide green

  • Any purple or violet

  • Any orange

• Tube of permanent white gouache paint (not watercolor)

• Paint-mixing palette. This can be a plastic lettuce bin lid, a paper plate covered with saran wrap, a china plate, or a traditional paint palette.

• Paint-mixing containers such as a small cups or dishes

• Paper towels or rags

• Spray bottle and/or eye dropper for water is helpful

• Water containers

• Iron or large board to flatten your paper after classes

• Optional: light-colored tubes of gouache, such as yellow, grey, or light green

• Optional: Jacquard Pearl-Ex Pigments and/or Finetec mica watercolors (just one color is plenty)