Our classes are now located at our "Studio North" location. When arriving make sure you have all your materials listed below for you class!
REQUIRED MATERIALS LIST
Note: All students get 20% off purchases at Oregon Art Supply while enrolled in a class… What a great time to try new stuff! The list below is enough to participate in the workshop, but you can add anything you are curious about. Also, bring any media you already have and see how it can be used.
Paper: Any drawing weight paper will work. Oregon Art Supply has a good selection of drawing tablets (Robert Bateman, Bee Paper, Strathmore, Canson, etc.). This is a table top class, so a tablet size of 8 1/2 x 11 or 11 x 14 works well.
USEFUL: Tracing paper. This is much faster than erasing and correcting… Use tracing paper to test your ideas.
Media: Drawing pencil, soft: Choose from: General’s Draughting #0314, General’s Layout, Ebony pencils… they are all wonderful soft graphite pencils. There are also the “graded” pencils… The higher the number with a “B”, the softer the lead, so 3B or softer is good. For fine line work, try a 0.7 or 0.9 mechanical pencil. Replace the original lead with softer lead (3B or 4B).
Firm chalk pastel (Cretacolor) or Conte stick. Hue should be medium to medium dark in value, a neutral hue (brown, grey to black, ochre, etc.). One stick/color is all you need. Vine charcoal is a good option. This will be used for tone work, so needs to be somewhat erasable.
Erasers: 2 types: White vinyl, either a block or clic type (Pentel clic). Kneaded eraser: Faber Castell #127220 is the BEST kneaded eraser.
***NOTE: All Students get 20% off purchases made while enrolled in a class***