Layers of Light

• A palette (or a white plate etc.): As you'll see in the videos, I personally like to use a whole lot of small transparent plastic lids (as some of you have guessed, yes, they are from... Pringles cans!). Nowadays I often use a whole lot of small, round, stackable ceramic palettes. As an alternative you can use white or transparent plastic lids. Petri dishes are another good option and often have a lid to prevent paint leftovers from drying. If you like to work on a table, a big glass palette is a great option too.

• Water

• Spray bottle

• Rags

• Scissors

• Something to protect your surface (old towel, table-cloth, plastic bag...)

• Something to protect your clothes (apron, old shirt...)

Painting tools

• Your choice of paintbrushes (one or two can be enough, we will be using our fingers a lot!)

• An old plastic card (credit card, key card...) and/or palette knives

Craft Heat Gun: To speed up drying and for encaustic.

Substrates

• Stretched canvases or wood panels, including a big one for the final project in Lesson 6! NB: wood & MDF left-overs from your DIY store are a great, unexpensive option.

• For the warm-up in Lesson 2: Sturdy white paper like heavy watercolor paper or cardstock, cardboard... You can also gesso over brown cardboard, cereal boxes, old mailers...

For the purpose of filming, I'm using small substrates, but if you feel like going big, don't hesitate!

Acrylic paints

• Titanium White

• A dark brown like Raw Umber or Burnt Umber

• Your choice of colors (choose the ones you are most attracted to)

• Optional: a few neutral tones of your choice (Titan Buff, Warm Grey, Naples Yellow...), but you can mix your own with the paints listed above.

Black India ink

Optional:

• White gesso (recommended, but you can use white acrylic paint instead)

• Acrylic inks

• Alcohol inks

• Watersoluble crayons like NeoColor 2

• Soft pastels

• Oil pastels

Pens and pencils (look around your craft supplies, scrapbooking and office supplies):

• A regular HB to 4B pencil

• Black, fine-tip permanent pen: pigment pen or india ink pen like Pitt Artist pens, or fine-tip Sharpie. Regular ball-point pens are a nice option too

• Black watersoluble pencil (Stabilo All is my favorite supply in the whole world!) or watersoluble crayon

• White fine tip pen like Posca pen or Liquitex acrylic pen

Optional:

• Fine-tip correction pen ("white-out")

• Brush-tip Pitt Artist Pens in colors you love (below are a few favorite of mine)

A variety of materials to stamp and make marks with. Some of my favorites are bubble-wrap, shelf-liner, plastic mesh, corrugated cardboard, feathers, wood skewers and coffee stirrers... Look around you and use your imagination!

• Matte acrylic gel medium

• Medium-sized flat paintbrush (see "Painting" section above)

• A wide, plastic palette knife (see "Painting" section above)

• Old magazines with images that you love (libraries will often happily give away outdated issues)

• A variety of papers in neutral tones: tissue paper, packing paper, bookpages (preferably from a book that inspires you), sheet music, dried, empty tea bags, sewing pattern paper...*

• Some pieces of fiber: old clothes, cheesecloth, ribbon, lace...*