The artful field journal: leaves and petals

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 colored pencils: at least one light and one dark color.

• Any type of watercolor brushes. A No. 8 or 10 round and a waterbrush is recommended. A “rigger,” “liner,” or “script” 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 leaves, flowers, flower petals, and/or plants for observation. Be sure to have lots of options for leaves and flower petals, big and small, to look at!