Lorraine Watry—
Shiny Objects Workshop

MATERIALS:

• Paper – 1/2 sheet (15×22) of 140 lb. or 300 lb., cold press, artist grade (100% cotton) watercolor paper (Arches and Fabriano are my preferred brands). I will use Fabriano 140lb. Cold press. You will only need a 16”x12”-ish piece (with a border for taping or stapling your paper down). Extra paper to test color and techniques.
• Brushes – at least two round watercolor brushes that come to a good point – a size #16 or larger, plus a #6 or #8, and a small flat #2 or #4 brush for lifting. If you have other brushes, please bring them. (My current favorite brushes are a #16 or #20 blend (½ synthetic/½ natural) – Silver Black Velvet brushes (a little more expensive). A 3/4” or 1” Mop brush by Royal #sg1400 (looks like a soft, fluffy, makeup brush) is good to have, too.
• Paint – Most of the paint I use is by Daniel Smith and a few from Holbein. D.S.’s paints are very vibrant and easily re-wet. The colors I suggest having for the paintings are: Indanthrone Blue (bring tube), Phthalo blue (Green Shade), Cobalt, Burnt Umber, Quin. Burnt Scarlet (bring tube), Perm. Alizarin Crimson, Quin. Coral, Perinone Orange, Quin. Gold, New Gamboge. Also, please bring the colors you normally paint with in case there is a mix you like better than the ones I have chosen. Note: due to the darkness of the background, we may need a lot of paint, so I have requested you bring your tubes of Indanthrone and Quin. Burnt Scarlet.

Other Supplies:

• a board to staple or tape your paper to. STAPLE: I use Gatorboard or gatorfoam (foam core with a hard surface) or TAPE: you can use a white, corrugated plastic sign (for garage sales from Home Depot or Art store) or Masonite.
• something to lean your board on, that is about 2″ to 2 1/2″ high. (Some students have used a tuna fish can, flattened roll of paper towels, piece of styrofoam etc.)
• palette with plenty of room for mixing. (A good starter option – Creative Mark Folding Plastic Palette: $4-$7, https://www.jerrysartarama.com/folding-plastic-palette. I use a Stephen Quiller 15”x15” palette.
• masking tape to tape paper down on edges (I use the High Adhesion masking tape by Scotch #2020 from Home Depot’s paint department. It says ‘Strong Adhesive’ inside of the roll)
• removable Masking fluid or frisket (make sure it doesn’t say ‘permanent’. I use the Winsor Newton, colourless art masking fluid, also good is Pebeo “Art Drawing Gum”.) Do Not shake!
• paper towels (Viva brand with smooth surface) OR I now use white Flour Sack Towels from Target, cut larger towel into four smaller. They are machine washable.
• 2 water containers (plastic or glass, should be about 5” or 6” high and around a 3” opening)
• spray bottle (if you want for wetting your paint or your paper)
• pencil #2 and white or kneaded eraser (I use a mechanical pencil with HB lead to transfer drawing)
• Note book or sketch book for notes, color testing, sketching

You can purchase supplies at Meininger Art Supply in Denver at 499 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203. If you have time you can order your supplies by mail, some good online art supply stores are:

Jerry’s Artarama – www.jerrysartarama.com                    Dick Blick – www.dickblick.com

Amazon.com (has some supplies)