Supply List

For brands: I recommend Holbein water-based gouache or Windsor and Newton gouache.

(All colors 15 ml tubes, except white 40ml) 

Paper

9x12 OR 14x17 vellum or smooth bristol

Hot press water color paper also works well, as does any smooth lightly sized paper.  Canson’s XL Mixed Media paper is another good alternative.  I also like using the thick, moleskine sketch notebooks.

Some light weight sketch paper for loosening up similar size as above. Printer paper would be fine.

Paint

You can buy Windsor and Newton’s 6 tube primary color set or Holbeins 5 tube primary set to start

Recommended colors (minimum palette marked with asterisk):

Permanent White 40-60ml*

Primary Colors

Flame Red OR Cadmium red*

Primary Red OR Alizarin Crimson/Magenta

Ultramarine*

Primary Blue OR Cyan

Cadmium Yellow Medium OR Permanent Yellow Deep*

Cadmium Yellow Light OR Primary Yellow

Earth Tones

Burnt Sienna (recommended if you are new to color mixing)

Yellow Ochre (recommended if you are new to color mixing)

Ivory Black*

Secondary Colors

Permanent Green Deep

Violet/Purple

Cad orange or similar

For brushes I prefer synthetic bristles ranging in size from 0-6

2 round ?” or size 1 or 0 brushes

2 round ¼”-?” size 4-6 brushes

2 flat ½” brushes

1 small spray bottle like for travel/face spray (fine mist)

1 pack of 9x12 palette paper

Paper towels 

A few graphite pencils, a sharpener and an eraser for sketching

Cup for water

Ruler

Adjustable view-finder

Scissors