*Paints and sketchbooks to use in this workshop and a bit of color theory:*
You will need a *mixed media sketchbook* or *canvas paper* if you can't find mixed media sketchbooks. Canson and Strathmore are the brands found in American arts and crafts stores. Fabriano also makes a mixed media sketchbook but the paper is very thin and does not work well for adding thick layers of paint. Also, it is a soft cover book and may be more difficult to use than a hard covered one that you can sit upright or lean on.
You may purchase a separate drawing sketchbook if you like, but it's not necessary because you can draw in the mixed media book.
*You may use other mediums such as pastel crayons, water-soluble crayons, watercolor pencils etc. I find paint will be easier to use for the lessons in this workshop.*
*Paints to use:*
Acrylic paint
Water mixable oil paint
Gouache paint
*You may use water color paint if you really love watercolors.* However, I find watercolor is a delicate medium. People tend to think watercolor is an easy medium to use. It is easy to use but it's also difficult to create details unless you have experience. Also, when painting with watercolors, you must leave room for the white spaces and highlights and paint around these spaces first. Usually, watercolor artist's first make a drawing and then add the watercolor paint over it, erasing the pencil lines as they go along. This is very careful painting and the way we are going to paint in this workshop is much more free style. It may be harder for you to do the lessons using this medium. When using acrylic, water mixable or gouache paint you fill in the white spaces first and add the white highlights last. So watercolor is a very different approach to the painting style of acrylic, water-mixable oil or gouache paint.
*Gouache paint* is a watercolor paint that is more opaque than watercolors. You can fill in the white spaces first and then add white highlights last. This is why I recommend gouache paint instead of regular water colors.
*You may buy a small inexpensive set of acrylic paint if you like.* I recommend instead of those small sets that contain many colors, to buy the larger tubes of acrylic paint and only buy the primary colors red, blue and yellow plus a tube of white and black. You can mix the primary colors to make all the other colors. The small tubes in those sets are fine but I find you will run out of paint very quickly buying the small tube sets. But it's your choice, this is only my recommendation.
*Water-mixable paint* is a wonderful medium to try. It so oil paint but is pigment blended with an oil that breaks down with soap and water. This paint is very much like acrylic paint that way but the pigments are more vivid than acrylic. The only objection you may have to this medium is it dries slower than acrylic. It takes a day or two to dry completely. So if you choose this medium you will need two sketchbooks so you can paint daily, leaving one sketchbook to dry while you paint a new painting in the other sketchbook.
*Color Theory:*
Mixing the primary colors:
Red and blue = purple
Red and green = brown
Red and yellow = orange
*Adding white to:*
Red = Pink
Purple = Violet
Black = Grey
To all the other colors, mixing them with white makes a variety of softer hues of that color.
*Red and brown = black*
Adding small amounts of black to any color will give you a greyed version of that color.
You will need a *mixed media sketchbook* or *canvas paper* if you can't find mixed media sketchbooks. Canson and Strathmore are the brands found in American arts and crafts stores. Fabriano also makes a mixed media sketchbook but the paper is very thin and does not work well for adding thick layers of paint. Also, it is a soft cover book and may be more difficult to use than a hard covered one that you can sit upright or lean on.
You may purchase a separate drawing sketchbook if you like, but it's not necessary because you can draw in the mixed media book.
*You may use other mediums such as pastel crayons, water-soluble crayons, watercolor pencils etc. I find paint will be easier to use for the lessons in this workshop.*
*Paints to use:*
Acrylic paint
Water mixable oil paint
Gouache paint
*You may use water color paint if you really love watercolors.* However, I find watercolor is a delicate medium. People tend to think watercolor is an easy medium to use. It is easy to use but it's also difficult to create details unless you have experience. Also, when painting with watercolors, you must leave room for the white spaces and highlights and paint around these spaces first. Usually, watercolor artist's first make a drawing and then add the watercolor paint over it, erasing the pencil lines as they go along. This is very careful painting and the way we are going to paint in this workshop is much more free style. It may be harder for you to do the lessons using this medium. When using acrylic, water mixable or gouache paint you fill in the white spaces first and add the white highlights last. So watercolor is a very different approach to the painting style of acrylic, water-mixable oil or gouache paint.
*Gouache paint* is a watercolor paint that is more opaque than watercolors. You can fill in the white spaces first and then add white highlights last. This is why I recommend gouache paint instead of regular water colors.
*You may buy a small inexpensive set of acrylic paint if you like.* I recommend instead of those small sets that contain many colors, to buy the larger tubes of acrylic paint and only buy the primary colors red, blue and yellow plus a tube of white and black. You can mix the primary colors to make all the other colors. The small tubes in those sets are fine but I find you will run out of paint very quickly buying the small tube sets. But it's your choice, this is only my recommendation.
*Water-mixable paint* is a wonderful medium to try. It so oil paint but is pigment blended with an oil that breaks down with soap and water. This paint is very much like acrylic paint that way but the pigments are more vivid than acrylic. The only objection you may have to this medium is it dries slower than acrylic. It takes a day or two to dry completely. So if you choose this medium you will need two sketchbooks so you can paint daily, leaving one sketchbook to dry while you paint a new painting in the other sketchbook.
*Color Theory:*
Mixing the primary colors:
Red and blue = purple
Red and green = brown
Red and yellow = orange
*Adding white to:*
Red = Pink
Purple = Violet
Black = Grey
To all the other colors, mixing them with white makes a variety of softer hues of that color.
*Red and brown = black*
Adding small amounts of black to any color will give you a greyed version of that color.
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