Artist's Palette

Picket Line

MATERIALS

• Arches 300gsm watercolour paper, stretched onto a thick sheet of plate glass.

• 1cm wide masking tape.

• Schmincke artist quality pigment watercolours: Sap Green, Indian Yellow, Aureolin, Ruby, Scarlet, Translucent Orange, Phthalo Blue, Phthalo Green, Brilliant Purple and Cobalt.

• Winsor & Newton Perylene Green, Perylene Maroon and Quinacridone Red.

• Maimeri Blu Dragon’s Blood.

• Kolinski Sable Brushes, Sizes 10, 8 and 4; and Number 2 Rigger.

• Watercolour pencils from Faber-Castell ‘Albrecht Durer’; Derwent, Cretacolor ‘Aquarellith’; Staedtler ‘Karat’ and Caran Dache ‘Supra Color II Soft’ ranges.

• Greaseproof paper.

• 2H graphite for drawing

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