The artful field journal: Adding Layers and Details to Your Autumn Leaves with Ink, Gouache and Colored Pencil

materials list

• Any sketchbook or journal you have can work for this class. It is recommended to use a journal that opens flat, with pages thick enough to handle watercolors. It also works fine to use single sheets of watercolor paper.

• No. 2 or HB pencil

• Light yellow or cream and light green colored pencils, if you have them.

• Writing pen. Pigma Micron in black or sepia is recommended.

• Any type of watercolor brushes. A No. 8 or 10 round and a No. 3 or 4 round (or a “water brush”) are recommended. An angle shader or short flat or filbert is also useful for this class, if you have one of these.

• Any type of paint. Tube watercolors are recommended, but any type of watercolors, tempera, acrylics, or colored inks, can all work.

• Tube of white gouache paint (not watercolor) and any other gouache colors you may have.

• Palette for paint mixing. This can be a plastic lettuce bin lid, a paper plate covered with saran wrap, a china plate, or a traditional paint palette, if you have one.

• Collected autumn leaves for observation. You may also use photographs as a reference.