·Color Theory - Materials List

Instructor: Catherine Hearding

Required Text:

Exploring Color by Nita Leland
Can be found in most bookstores, Amazon.com., or Como's Garden Safari Gifts

Watercolor Paints
A professional brand of watercolor is required. Daler Rowney, Daniel Smith, Holbein, Schmincke or Winsor Newton are all appropriate. The
6-12 hue watercolor sets, half pans or tubes, are a good start. You may choose to add to this as your color vocabulary grows.

Minimum 12 colors if purchasing by single tube:

Ultramarine Blue
Prussian Blue
Cerulean Blue
Cobalt Blue
Cadmium Red Light
Winsor Red or Pyrrol Red
Permanent Rose
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Gamboge
Yellow Ochre
Viridian Green
Hooker's Green Light or Sap Green
Paynes Gray

Additional Supplies:

12-compartment or larger round white mixing palette
2 good-quality watercolor brushes: an #8 or #10 round; 1/2" flat brush
1- 140#, cold press, professional quality, watercolor blocks--minimum size of 12 x 16-inches (Arches, Fabriano, Montval, winsor & newton, Lanaquarelle are all good)
inexpensive tie-tape paper portfolio to fit your paper size
3 water containers (3 pint glass jars are a good size)
high-absorbancy paper towels
roll of 1/2" white, low-tack, art tape (scotch brand #285)
small (approx. 4 oz.) spray bottle for misting