Instructor: Susan Rowe Harrison

You may use acrylic, gouache, oil, water-miscible oil paints, or watercolor—make sure you have primaries, white, and a mixing surface or palette appropriate to your medium.

*If you have any of these materials, use those.

COLOR:

Painting Materials of your choice [*support will depend on the type of paint you would like to use]

For color mixing, a set that includes:

• Cadmium Yellow Light Hue (Warm Yellow)
• Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue or Hansa Yellow (Cool Yellow)
• Cadmium Red Hue (Warm Red)
• Quinacridone Magenta (Cool Red)
• French Ultramarine Blue (Warm Blue)
• Phthalo Blue or Cobalt Blue Hue (Cool Blue)
• Titanium White (Large tube if possible)
• Raw Umber (Earth tone, mixes black with Ultramarine)
• OR, a value set of colors and any other colors you would like to use. If you choose a value paint set, please make sure it includes at least one red, blue, yellow, white, and ideally a second version of red/blue/yellow in a cool or warm hue.

DRAWING MATERIALS:

Markers, inks, and color pencils. Any color medium that you can mix or layer to create new colors

SUPPORTS:

Depending on the materials you would like to use:

• For Watercolor, inks, markers, color pencils: Mixed Media paper
• For Acrylics: Strathmore Canvas Paper Pad, 10 Sheets 9" x 12”
• For Watercolor and gouache: 200 gsm or more, such as Strathmore 200 Series Watercolor Paper Student Pad - 9" x 12", Cold Press, 15 Sheets
• Paper Palette or ceramic palette
• Plastic cups for water
• Rags to clean brushes
• Brushes, if you are using paint: An assortment of brushes. If you need to purchase a set like: [At Blick.com: Princeton Series 6300 Dakota Synthetic Bristle Brush - Set of 4 (37.56) or Blick Scholastic White Hog Bristle Set - Set of 6 (39.66)] or any other synthetic set you like
• *If you choose to use oil paints, you will need Gamsol to clean brushes unless you use walnut oil.
• Color Aid Paper [provided by 92NY]
• Magazines and Newspapers in a range of colors
• Glue stick
• Scissors
• Roll of tape
• Patterned fabric, wallpaper, or wrapping paper
• Pencil and sketchbook
• Bristol Board pad, such as the Blick brand 9" x 12” tape-bound pad for Josef Albers Interaction of Color exercises