Painting One, Step Two
Painting supplies...
Below are my working supplies or tools. This display or one very similar to it sits to my left when I paint. I am right handed and I like to keep the space to my right side clear of obstructions because I constantly turn my painting board at different angles. I find anything on my right, I spill.
| The sponges are natural, they seem to absorb and hold more water, and I use them to wet paper areas for wet-on-wet painting plus to transport water from its clean source to my pallette.
I do not use a traditional pallette. I prefer the white plastic picnic plates shown. I mix colors from the tubes of pigment as needed and in the quantity that I believe I need. The small plastic bottle in front of the brushes is liquid friskit which I use sparingly, most often I paint around a white area. The tubes are M. Grahamn professional grade watercolor pigments; Azo Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Gamboge, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Prussian Blue, Sap Green, Permanent Green Light, Viridian, Hooker's Green, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Payne's Gray and Ivory Black. |
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| My brushes, shown above, are my good friends. On the left side are seven flats, then a fan, glob brush, three rounds and lastly five detail brushes. The fan, I have only used once, the glob is for transporting water and I seldom use any of the detail brushes except to sign my name. Most of them are Grumbacher watercolor brushes but four or five are just cheap kit brushes. |
