LETTERS AS ART SUPPLY LIST
Updated: Dec 21/24
Supplies for Letters as Art
HB Pencil, white eraser, 2 jars or plastic cups for water, pencil sharpener
A ruler – a grided see through ruler is wonderful! But any 12 inch ruler is fine.
Small pointed watercolor brush like a 2 or 3 or 4 size.
Another brush you can use for mixing colours, doesn’t have to be perfect
A flat edged watercolor brush – like ½ inch or an inch – this brush must be very clean and will be used for gilding
Scissors, paper towel
Watercolors – tube watercolors work very well. I will demo possible colour schemes. These three cool colours make excellent mixes – Winsor and Newton (WN) Winsor Lemon, WN Permanent Alizarin Crimson and WN Winsor Blue (Green Shade). These warm colours make good mixes - Daniel Smith (DS) New Gamboge, DS Cadmium Orange, DS Cadmium Red Medium, DS Permanent Green Light, WN French Ultramarine Blue and WN Winsor Violet. You do not need all these colours – they are just suggestions. If you are new to tube watercolours – I would recommend buying the 3 cool colours and sharing them with 2 or 3 people for the workshop. Bring whatever tube watercolours you have, and we can work with them.
Half a sheet of water media paper like Arches Text Wove. Text Wove works well for embossing and painting. You can bring small pieces of paper you might like to use.
Palette with wells for mixing watercolors. There are plastic palettes with six or twelve wells. Save the white plastic tops from containers like yogurt, margarine, etc. They make excellent mixing trays. If you have five or six of those you will be happy.
Watercolour pencils… suggested brands are Derwent, Faber Castell. Not to worry if you do not have…I have lots.
Ten sheets of white bond paper 8 ½ by 11 inches or your sketchbook for trying designs out
Glue stick
Removable tape – it comes in a roll and has a blue label.
For embossing each person needs cardboard eg. a cereal box. It is the right thickness. Please bring the whole box - don’t cut it up into small pieces.
Bone folder if you have one
These kinds of templates are handy for drawing, they come in circles, ovals, etc.
Things the whole class can share:
FOR EMBOSSING STATION:
1 or 2 cutting matts for a cutting cardboard with a sharp exacto knife like a number 11 Exacto or what they call a “Boxcutter” which is an Olfa cutting knife – several replacement blades always handy
A light box.
I can bring a set of Embossing tools … does anyone have a little set they could also bring? They come in a package at Michael’s and have little round ball tips of different sizes.
A ruler with a metal edge for cutting
FOR A GILDING STATION:
A smooth tile or glass… if you have one or two that would work. The surface must be clean and smooth. Doesn’t have to be big - like 8 by 8 inches would work. The glass should be a bit heavier than window glass with the sides taped. The reason for using them is to provide a hard cold smooth surface. You are going to press quite hard on them.
Bone folders, if people have bone folders they could bring them but for gilding the bone folder has to be very clean and not mucked up with bumpy stuff.
I will bring the mylar, gold, Japanese paper, etc.
One roll of wax paper, they will put their Japanese paper on the wax paper and apply the size, it must dry before you gild.
FOR COLLAGE and PAINTING
Five or six magazines with good glossy paper like fashion or art magazines.
One package of tracing paper for the class.
One small box of Q-Tip’s
One whole newspaper, like a Saturday from the Calgary Herald
Can you get three bottles of Speedball Adhesive Foil Size from Annette? If some left over you could sell off the bottles. We need 3 stir sticks to stir the size.
One small bottle of Elmer’s white liquid glue – or any other brand of school glue.
LORRAINE WILL BRING
Gold, mylar, embossing tools, Japanese paper, iridescent medium, pipettes, blotters.
I will bring watercolours and water-soluble pencils.
PHOTOCOPYING
There will be a little bit of photocopying.
Revised November 24, 2024, December 21, 2024
File: Letters as Art Supply List
