​Materials List: Exploring the floral motif.
 
1.Paint: 
I believe in making use of what you have around you so please don’t go out and buy too many“special colors” if you don't already have them. We will be working on building our palette from the 3 primaries only.
Basic kit:
  • White
  • Red (cool or warm or both) eg cadmium red and/or rose madder
  • Blue  (cool or warm or both) eg ultramarine blue and/or cobalt blue
  • Yellow ((cool or warm or both) eg cadmium yellow and/or lemon yellow
  
3.Brushes:
At least 3 brushes, Flat (square tips), a range between 5mm and 20mm wide. 
The bigger your canvas the bigger the brush. 
Palette knife(s) 

2.Sketch Book/Paper:
A4 or A3 for sketching and taking notes.
Doesn't have to be high quality, we are going for productivity not preciousness  ;) 

4.Support:
2 or 3 canvases/canvas boards. size from 30 cm to 50cm.
The bigger your canvas the more paint you will use.

5.Other Materials:
  • 2b pencil
  • willow charcoal
  • putty rubber
  • Palette
  • Rags or kitchen paper
  • Jar for water or oil mediums
  • Apron
  • Odourless solvent and linseed oil (oil painting only ) 
  • Flowers, either bought, from our garden or weeds picked from the roadside.
 
ADDITIONAL INFO:
 
Paint brands:(this list is not exhaustive)
Please use either Professional or Student Grade materials.
1.Professional grade:Atelier, Matisse, Windsor & Newton, Golden, Artist Spectrum
2.Student grade: A2, Chromacryl, Reeves, Jo sonjas, Winton
3.Cheap and not necessarily nasty: Please avoid for this workshop as it will be difficult to mix accurate colors. Monte matre brand, poster paint and other brands you can find in “cheap” “two dollar” type shops. These paints will often fade or change color over time, sometimes the pigments are weak or the binder agents (stuff that makes it gooey or run) are a bit weird and hard to deal with. 
 
Brushes:
Acrylic:Do be wary of cheap and nasty as they can leave brush hairs all over your work! I prefer the Roymac Achiever series. The craft section of Bunnings has some good quality reasonably priced brushes (Renoir brand), Brushes for acrylic should feel soft, avoid hog hair stiff brushes as they are for oil paint.
 Oil:brushes need to be stiffer than acrylic but not so stiff that they wont apply the paint in a smooth manner. I prefer NAM flat brights.
 In general most artists have separate brushes for oils and for acrylic as once used for oil they will be difficult to use for acrylic.
 
Some local (Northern NSW/Gold Coast) art supply stores:
Musgrave art – Southport
Yellow brick Studio - Murwullimbah
Tweed Stationary supplies – South Tweed Heads
Riot Art – Robina