Watercolors  by   Steve Rogers AWS, NWS

                                 Janet Rogers AWS

watercolor workshops, landscape, marine, portrait, and floral paintings

SUPPLY LIST - Steve Rogers, Instructor

Dear Students:

I look forward to our workshop!  Below is a suggested list of supplies.  Use your judgment - and please call me for any questions concerning anything at  (386) 441-4930 (evenings are best), or email me at: steve@watercolorsbyrogers.com .

 PAPERS:  I use Arches 140 rough or 300 lb cold pressed 22"x30") or Fabriano (new )Artistico (traditional white) in  both  surfaces and weights.

 WATER CONTAINER:  Make it adequate (no little jars) - I use a bucket

 PAPER TOWELS:  (I use Bounty)

 HAIR DRYER:  Not essential - we can share.

 DRAWING PENCIL:  An office #2 is adequate – I use a Sanford Turquoise HB lead in a mechanical pencil.

 KNEADED ERASER:  This eraser will not "tear-up" the paper.

 SPRAY BOTTLE:  For keeping paints wet

 PALETTE:  I use a small Cheap Joe’s pallet, which I hold much like an oil pallet; any John Pike or Robert Wood pallet will do.  The fundamentally important thing is to squeeze out plenty of fresh color.

BRUSHES: I generally use the same size brush throughout the course of a painting accept for very large areas where I use the Hake’ brush. I use a  #16 or  #18 Cheap Joe’s Dragon’s Tongue or an  Escoda 1210 Kolinsky Sable round.  You need only one of these. A good and significantly less expensive alternative are the synthetic brushes available at Cheap Joe’s, but the sable is really the best option.  Also I use a 1 ½ inch Holbein Hake' brush for large washes.

PAINTS:  Primarily, I use tubes of Winsor & Newton and Holbien professional grade watercolors. Colors vary a great deal between manufactures so if you have a different Cerulean Blue than W/N it may not look or behave the same as in my painting. In other cases especially “staining colors”, like Prussian Blue, American Journey colors are a less expensive and equally high quality alternative. Many of these colors may be substituted. If you already have Winsor Blue or American Journey Permanent Rose, for instance, you’ll be just fine. Avoid “Sudent Grade” or colors referred to as “tint” or “hue” which are simply a dye + white paint. These  won’t perform the same as the pigment they imitate:

* indicates colors I think are the minimum necessary. Close colors, ie. Thalo Blue for Prussian are acceptable. Use your judgment. 

SOURCE MATERIAL: Please bring enough good quality photos (preferred) or sketches if that’s your method or both. Do not bring photos of paintings by other artists. Be sure subject is sufficiently large and clear . Sunlit subjects are preferable to overcast. Boats and other subjects with reflections will be covered during the workshop so try and have some of these if possible. I usually try and bring some reference photos of boats for those who are not able to find any  of their own (i.e. residents or Kansas) but I don't have enough  for a whole class and it's better that you work from materials that you photographed or sketched or with which you are familiar.

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