Paints and Materials

Hi, this video shows you the main tools and materials that I use

Remember you don’t need all of these things to get going and there is a specific list attached to each individual tutorial.

Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolors

 

French Ultramarine

Cobalt Blue

Permanent Mauve

Winsor Violet

Permanent Magenta

Indigo

Permanent Rose

Quinacridone Magenta

Permanent Alizarin Crimson

Cadmium Red

Cadmium Red Deep

Cadmium Yellow Pale

Cadmium Lemon

Yellow Ochre

Burnt Sienna

Sepia

 

Plus colors for specific tutorials include: 

Viridian (Thrush Egg tutorial)

Cobalt Turquoise, Cadmium Orange (kingfisher tutorial)

Potters Pink (peony)

Winsor Blue (green shade)

Brushes

~ I use mainly winsor & newton sable brushes, but any good quality watercolor brush will be fine.

Size nos. 

6, 3, 2, 1, 0 round

2 & 4 spotter

I use a no.12 brush when I am painting colored backgrounds.

Paper

I use Arches Aquarelle 140lb hot-pressed watercolor paper. Hot-pressed is the smoothest surface to work on and traditionally used by botanical and natural history artists.

Any high quality hot-pressed watercolor paper is fine, I like Arches paper as it is just slightly off-white and has a very durable surface

Other Materials  

2 large water pots

palette

paper towels or clean absorbent cloth

HB pencil

0.5mm mechanical pencil

rubber

 

A board for when you need to stretch your paper, gummed tape, a sponge

and a craft knife.

 

 

masking tape

masking fluid

tracing paper

sketchbook

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