Supply List

Your selection of branches, sticks, driftwood and a few large leaves, like oak or maple to use as your canvas

A few pages of watercolor paper or multimedia paper, hot or cold press (something that can handle wet media). We will be using this to practice our drawing and painting of faces on before we head over to our wooden pieces.

Gell Matt medium

Clear Gesso

Workable matte spray fixative. I like using Grumbacher general purpose

Fixative spray. I like using Ghiant fix basic

Water soluble crayons of your choice. I use Caran Dache Neocolor II and Derwent Artbar

Derwent Inktense water soluble pencils are also great for the finer details, but not a must have.

A black charcoal pencil. I like to use Derwent tinted charcoal. Peat and Driftwood are great for adding shadows to the face

Pencil (I use an HB and 2B)

Pencil crayon in black. Non water soluble. I use a Faber Castel or a Prismacolour pencil crayon.

Permanent Black pen. I use a Uni-ball or a Pilot Perma-ball

Black and white Posca paint pen for eye detail. Or you can just use black and white paint with a fine paintbrush.

Acrylic paints in colors of your choice any brand of paint will do. Americana,golden, gallaria, liquitex etc.

A few colors to definitely have  are, Quinacridone Nickle Azores Gold, Payne’s Grey a red of your choice, Titanium white, a flesh tone color in a pink or peach tone and an ivory or antique white.

Paint brushes in different sizes (I use short handled flat brushes, filbert and small rounds. You can use whatever you feel comfortable with. Keep in mind that we will be working on small pieces of wood

Cotton buds

Paper towels and wet wipes as well as some rubbing alcohol for removing unwanted paint that has already dried

Container for water

Sandpaper in different grades. I used a 240 and 150 for all my sanding work.

A sharp craft knife/blade for shaving away some wood

A small brush like those you get with a dustpan and hand broom set. This is for brushing off the sand and dirt and cobwebs you might have on your forest wood pieces.

A hard bristle, hogs hair paint brush to get into those hard to reach crevasse on your wood