WHAT TO BRING

Bring field guides if you have them, especially for wildflowers.

Day pack or carryall for art materials, water bottle

A hat!

Binoculars if you want

An array of at least 8 colors plus white - acrylics or watercolors preferred, but colored pencils are good, too. A good choice would be the small bottles of Golden Fluid acrylics. (n.b. avoid "High Flow" acrylics for this class)

• Recommended colors:

• ultramarine blue

• cadmium red medium hue, or pyrrole red, or naphthol red light

• hansa yellow, or cadmium yellow light

• yellow ochre

• quinacridone magenta

• dioxazine purple

• raw umber

• bone black

• titanium white

• Additional colors:

• phthalo blue (green shade)

• cerulean blue

• burnt sienna

  • Feel free to add colors

HB pencil (a normal #2 writing pencil) and an eraser

Micron pens, "05" black or sepia, or other drawing pens you like

palette - a paper palette is fine for acrylics, or a watercolor palette with enough flat area for mixing colors

Brushes - #1, #4, # 6 round, synthetic water media brushes, any others you like

sketch pad - 11 X 14-ish

For water media - also bring a pad or block of watercolor paper 11 X 14-ish (cold pressed or hot pressed, not rough)

A palette knife with a metal blade

a notebook for taking notes