Collage and Painting Virginia Paquette

SUPPLY LIST—make sure to always ask for the student discount at art stores, and check various local sales and on-line catalogs for the best deals, such as Dick Blick, Utrecht, Dan Smith, Dakota, etc. Check off the list those household materials you already have at home (scissors, rulers, brushes, pencils, erasers, rags, etc.) before you go to the art store.

Come to class with your materials:

-white (“artist’s”) tape

-scissors (xacto knife)

-ruler (metal is good) or right-angle

-Bristol Drawing pad 18"x24"

-drawing board for 18x24

-pencil 2B or 4B, and white eraser

-small gesso

-acrylic matte heavy Gel medium

-glue stick

-cotton rags, ie., old towels, t-shirts

-(plastic/paper) drop cloth, (or old sheet, shower curtain)

-foam brushes/applicators: 1”, 2”, 3”

-art brushes: #8, 12 round and 1/4”, 3/4” flat inexpensive soft synthetic

-house trim brush: inexpensive 2” brush (old clean brushes are good)

-self-healing cutting mat or 2” stack of old newspapers to cut on

-pad of large paper pallets

paint (choose either acrylics –fluid or tubes-, watercolors, or gouache) colors: white, black, magenta, alizarin crimson, cad. red, phthalo blue, ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, hansa yellow, new gamboge or Indian yellow, burnt sienna, raw sienna, burnt umber, raw umber. Optional: (dioxine) violet, hunters green.

Get small containers of professional good paints, like Goldens, Liquitex, Dan Smith, and Winsor Newton brands. Cheap paints will not be as bright, dense or creamy and will frustrate your attempts to make a beautiful work of art. Cheap paints make cheap lumpy pale surfaces.