The artful field journal: Painting Winter Flora with Watercolor and Gouache

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.

• 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.

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

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

• Palette for mixing paint. 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.

• Evergreen foliage, winter berries, holly, pine cones, or any type of cones, will all be helpful for observation and painting. Photos can work too.

• Optional: any type of glitter, Pearl-Ex sparkle powdered pigments, metallic ink or paint, and/or Finetec or Coliro Pearl Colors.