MATERIALS LIST
BEGINNERS/INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP 
MCGREGOR SUMMER SCHOOL JANUARY 2012
MARIA FIELD

Paper:  5(min) - 8 sheets of Arches, Saunders or Bockingford Medium 300g cold pressed/medium texture or rough watercolour paper each. Approx $9:00each from Art shops (You can pre-cut the sheets into quarters for ease of transportation or buy a pad of A3 size.)  Do not buy paper of the following brands: Eraldo di Paolo, Canson Montval, Montmarte or Art Spectrum

Paints:
Cotmans watercolours tubes are fine (and also the cheapest at about $7 each) Winsor and Newton, Art Spectrum, Schminke and MaimeriBlu are also fine, however if you are using Art Spectrum buy Australian Red Gold instead of Raw Sienna)
Yellows	-	Raw Sienna 
-	    Gamboge
Blues		-	Cerulean	
		-	French Ultramarine		
		-	Cobalt				
Reds		-	Permanent Rose 
Alizarin Crimson	
Dark 		-	Burnt Sienna or Burnt Umber

Optional: Viridian, Light Red or Cadmium Red, Mauve, Chinese white or White Goauche   If you have other colours bring them along too.
(Do not buy cheap paints, eg where you get a whole set of 12 colours for only $15, it is better to spend your $15 on some of the above and add to later)

Brushes : 
Please buy soft haired watercolour brushes (like Taklon, nylon, sable or similar.)  Do not use hard bristled oil/acrylic brushes, although having one is handy for scrubbing and lifting)
One large brush (eg a Hake or Chinese Wash Brush, or even a large clean house painting brush)
Minimum of One medium round (eg size 6, 8 or 10 with good points- more if you want) 
One flat brush (eg ¾ inch or 1 inch)
One small brush for detail (eg a rigger or liner brush)
If you have more brushes certainly bring them as well.

Other:
- 2 rolls normal masking tape, to tape paper to a board.  (We won’t be stretching paper)
- 2 Waterproof boards, about A3 size (eg Gatorboard, Foamcore, Perspex, MDF or Fluteboard, which is an excellent lightweight board that you can get from Bunnings)
- 2 Pencils (hb or 2b)
- normal rubber/eraser						  ../2
- normal black or blue pen for taking notes
- Sketch book/notebook
- ruler
- folder for keeping handouts and work in
- Waterproof ink pen (Mitsubishi uniball waterproof/fadeproof pen in fine, black is great…can usually get from a newsagent or artshop $5)
- Masking fluid (or share a bottle with a friend)
- Box of Tissues (or less elegantly…2 rolls of toilet paper will suffice)
- 1 or 2 Water containers (clean empty yoghurt containers are great)
- Household dish sponge (to wipe your brush on)
- 1 or 2 Old towels (or old sheet, to protect workspace)
- Palette or white plastic trays or ice cube trays.  (You must have some areas to squeeze out paint and separate areas for mixing paint.)
- Water spray bottle (empty little pump salad dressing or hair conditioner bottles are great) 
- Bring along some of your photos or reference material that you would like to paint so that we can work on your design skills.

Optional but not essential (only bring if you already have): 
Bottle of black or sepia ink 
Make up sponge or sea sponge
Old toothbrush
Hair dryers are not required.  If you do bring one it must be tag tested by a qualified electrician.
Table easels are not required but if you have one and usually use it, certainly bring it along.
Watercolour pencils
Oil pastels/crayons