Watercolors in the Wild: mark, gesture, & composition magic

materials list

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

• Template: Before class, please be sure to follow the link below and print out this file: 9x9Template.jpg.

  Click here to open the template image file to save.

• Grids: Before class, use your template to create two lightly-gridded sheets with 2x2 grids, and three sheets with 3x3 grids, using paper specified below. (If you don’t know how, please take and/or review our most recent class. We’ll do a very quick review at the beginning of class.)

• Paper: 5 sheets of hot press and/or cold press watercolor paper measuring about 10x10 or 10x11 inches (you can get 6 pieces measuring 10x11 inches out of one full-size 22x30 inch watercolor sheet). You may also do our studies within a sketchbook or your journal, if you prefer. Just be sure your journal opens flat, with pages thick enough to handle watercolors.

• No. 2 or HB pencil  

• Ruler

• Pigma Micron pen in black or sepia

• Watercolor brushes: No. 8 or 10 (or bigger) round and a No. 4 round (or “water brush”) are recommended. A “rigger,” “liner,” or “script” brush is also helpful, as is an angle shader and/or a short flat or filbert.

• Ink: dark color like black or sepia

• Watercolors or gouache in a dark color

• Permanent white gouache

• Charcoal or dark-colored pastel

• White and/or grey colored pencils

• Palette for color 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.

• Paint-mixing containers like small cups or dishes

• Push pin

• Manilla file folder

• Scissors

• Water container filled with water for painting

• Paper towels or rags

• Leaves or other object with a simple form to observe and sketch