Fall 2024 Supply Lists

Supply lists for the 2024 Fall Convention breakout sessions and Juror’s Workshop

Supply lists will be published as they become available.

Notes for all sessions:

  • Instructors will E-mail any supply list updates directly to registered students.

Juror’s Workshop, Be Free to Express Yourself in Watercolor, with Iain Stewart

Click here for a page on Iain Stewart’s website describing his approach to workshops and providing his supply list.

Here are the reference photos for the workshop. Click on an image to see it larger. To download an image, right-click on the image if using Windows or Control-click on the image if using a Mac, then select one of the options to download or save the image.

It’s a Blizzard Book using “Crown Binding”, with Barbara Rainey

Please bring these supplies:

  • Pencil, eraser & note paper
  • Steel Ruler
  • Exacto knife & blades
  • Scissors (adult size)
  • Adhesive tape runner
  • Nice to have:  bone folder, small cutting mat (Dollar Store)
  • 4-5 watercolors from your “these didn’t work” stack.   Don’t have any TDW paintings??? Bring a sheet of your favorite paper and your watercolors.  

Provided:

  • Book papers, book board, ribbon, viewfinder
  • Access to additional supplies and tools 

Feel free to contact Barbara with questions; her E-mail address is in the Membership Roster & Handbook.

Holbein Ambassador Water Media Workshop, with Leah Faure

Supplies will be provided by Holbein. No other supplies are needed.

Create Engaging and Useful Portrait Studies, with Tess Myers

Description: We’ll talk about several different study types and how they can be used to plan out and improve on a watercolor portrait –or any kind of scene! I will start with a demonstration, and then you’ll have a chance to try a study or two out for yourself. These studies can be abstract work in their own right, or the first step towards painting a larger and more involved piece.

Please bring these supplies:

  • Your usual watercolor kit, including: at least the 3 primary colors (yellow, red, blue), your favorite brush(s) + wash water container, 100% cotton watercolor paper
  • Regular paper for sketching, a notebook is fine
  • A pencil, any kind
  • Black sharpie or other large solid black pen. Fine point (standard size) or large chisel tip both ok
  • Whiteout or opaque white paint like gouache, acrylic

Recommended but not required:

  • A device like an ipad or laptop so that you can access our reference photos digitally. I will bring printed photos as well, but a digital device will give you greater flexibility and detail.
  • Artist’s tape (i.e, blue painter’s tape, drafting tape, etc)
  • Hard and soft charcoal
  • Black ink
  • You are welcome to bring your own reference photos if you like, but I will provide some.

I will provide:

  • Instructions, printed and digital reference photos, a few extra goodies

Urban Sketcher Paint Out, with Leslie Chaney-Parr

Urban Sketcher Paint Out Supply List

Introducing Opacity – Gouache Painting, with Scott Gellatly

  • Holbein Gouache – Cadmium Yellow Lemon, Cadmium Yellow Orange, Primary Magenta, Ultramarine Blue Deep, Phthalo Green, Primary White. 
  • Hot-pressed Watercolor Paper or Smooth Bristol Board
  • Tape (if not working on a watercolor block)
  • Watercolor brushes (flats and rounds in a variety of sizes) 
  • 2” Soft Brayers 
  • Princeton Catalyst Wedge tool 
  • Metal, tear-shaped palette knife. 

Experiments in Painting and Printing, with Margaret Terrall

  • Drawing pad, about 9″ x 12″ or smaller
  • Acrylic paints, any colors you have, liquid or tube paint, 2 or more colors or just black or dark blue.
  • Pallet knife
  • Gelli plate, 9″x 12” or smaller
  • Brayer
  • Some organic things like ferns, leaves, grasses, etc.
  • Miscellaneous and optional supplies: (Don’t go out and buy these things, just if you have them laying around), old shirt or apron
    • Brushes, scrapers, combs, chopsticks, foam rollers, stencils, charcoal, stamps, Yupo paper, deli paper, water container, paper towels
  • Bag to carry things in

Integrated Lettering and Watercolor Illustrations, with Nicole Poole

  • 9 x 12 Hot Press Watercolor Paper, or other smooth paper appropriate for watercolor
  • A BLACK Tombow Fudenosuke brush pen (2 pack)
  • Pencil
  • Eraser
  • Paint brushes, round 6 or thereabouts and a small flat
  • Watercolor Paints 
  • Water Cup
  • Palette
  • Paper Towel

The Art of Woven Paintings & How to Create Your Own, with Angela Wrahtz

A bit more about the breakout:

Angela will share thoughts on the best strategies to use based on your artwork. You will get help from Angela in this interactive and hands-on session and, time-allowing, individual consultations along the way. We’ll share our work at the end. You will find the process of weaving paintings mentally stimulating and completely addictive. 

In preparation for this interactive, hands-on session, bring two quarter-sheet watercolor paintings to combine. Be sure these paintings share a similar color palette. For more information on preparing for this session along with supplies list, go to Angela’s website at www.angelasarthouse.com and click on the “WSO” tab in the menu bar.

  • Old or unfinished paintings, sketches, and photographs in the size range of 8 x 10 or 11 x 15. We don’t want to work too small or too large to start with. By the end of the series, you can bring bigger artwork to weave. Bring A LOT! As in 8-10 or 20 or more! You won’t use all of them in the class but having choices about which ones to combine is what we want to start with. The colors in the paintings are your palette–you are painting with “prepared paper.”
  • Regarding your artwork, watercolors, colored pencil, and/or graphite, are best. Oil and canvas are not recommended.
  • Remember, you will be slicing up the artwork so you are best served to be in the mindset of “this is an experiment” and prepare that the results may not be a masterpiece the first time you do it. Your brain will be tickled, and you’ll do more and the results will get better and better.
  • Only bring art you are prepared to sacrifice for the cause!
  • For the second class, you will want to have two paintings of the same thing based on the same drawing. To aid our process, we will create those in the first class with a simple watercolor project, so bring your painting supplies (colors, an assortment of brushes, a water container, 2 pieces of paper that are 11 x 15, and an old towel.) If you prefer colored pencils or markers, that can work too. 
  • If you have interesting papers at home from other crafting projects you’ve done, bring them. Only bring what you are willing to cut to pieces. 
  • Additionally, you will need sharp scissors,
  • pencil and eraser,
  • artist tape (white) or if you need a more budget-friendly option blue painter’s tape works.
  • A ruler and
  • A utility knife with a sharp blade or an Xacto knife.
  • A surface to cut on, like a Masonite board or crafter’s board that is knife friendly. 

Instructor will bring:

  • Copies of Inspiration piece for mini-painting project in first class.
  • Samples of weavings to inspire you from her collection of woven art.
  • A guillotine-style paper cutter for chopping. 

Design Dynamic Paintings, with Ed Labadie

Bring a few watercolor or acrylic paints, one white and one black paper (at least 8.5 x 11), scissors and glue stick or small white glue. We can even share paints and palettes for the brief immersion. 

Then, a surprise collage task will follow; those lessons are the focus, not a finished painting. 

Rediscovering Your Creativity, with Elizabeth Zimmerman

  • Watermedia Sketchbook (any size, whatever you have)

Any of these supplies you already have (don’t buy anything new, Elizabeth will have some items to share):

  • Watercolor paints
  • Brushes (round, flat, fan, etc)
  • Water container
  • Palette / area to mix paint
  • Paper towels / cloth
  • Graphite Pencils
  • Colored Pencils
  • Ink with dip pen and/or fountain pen
  • Gouache paints
  • Acrylic paint
  • Paint pens (white is very helpful)
  • Ruler / Straight edge