The artful field journal: Adding Gouache and Colored Pencil to your Watercolors

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 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. A “rigger,” “liner,” or “script” brush is also fun to have.

• 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)

• 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.

• Spray bottle for water, if you have one.

• Collected or purchased leaves, flowers, and lichen for observation. You may also use photographs as a reference.