Materials for Everyday or Urban Sketching

1) Pencil or Woodless Graphite Pencil (Grade: HB or B)

PREFERRED BRANDS:

• General's
• OR ®Koh-I-Noor

2) Kneadable Eraser (Any Brand)

3) Ink pen with waterproof black ink

EITHER:

• Sharpie Pen (Not Marker)
• Or Sakura Micron
• Or Pitt Artist Pen
• Or Fountain pen with Platinum Carbon Black ink

4) Sketchbook, spiral or hard-bound, 5x8” size (or smaller or larger if you prefer)

EITHER:

• Any Strathmore “Mixed Media” or “Watercolor”, including “Visual Journal”
• Or Global Arts Hand*Book (Travelogue or Watercolor)
• Or Moleskine Watercolor
• Or any Stillman & Birn
• Or Aquabee Super Deluxe Sketchbook
• Or Pentalic Nature Sketch or Aqua Journal

5) Watercolor Kit (Bring what you have. If you don't have anything…)

RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Winsor Newton Cotman Pocket Box (best student-grade paints available, nice compact size for travel, inexpensive, a good palette of colors)
• Size 8 round watercolor brush (I love Silver Black Velvet, especially the travel brush)
• Small water sprayer (Mini Mister is the smallest)
• 1-2 plastic cups for water (Collapsible silicone cups from REI are nice)
• Paper towels

6) 1-2 objects for each class to sketch, nothing too fragile or cumbersome to carry;

RECOMMENDATIONS:

• Snack bar in still its wrapper
• Tube of toothpaste
• Stuffed animal or figurine
• Oddly-shaped fruit or vegetable
• Hand tool like hammer, scissors, pliers