The artful field journal: early spring color studies

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.

• No. 2 or HB pencil.

• Any type of watercolor brush. No. 6, 8, or 10 round and a waterbrush is recommended. A large inexpensive craft, house painting, or child’s brush is also helpful.

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

• Palette. 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.

• Paper towels or rags

• Container filled with painting water

• Collected or purchased plants for observation. This can be anything you feel drawn to, such as emerging leaves, grasses, lichens, blossoms, etc. Be sure to have lots of greens to look at!