EXPRESSIVE WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUES

Course by Sarah Stokes

Supplementary Resources

LIST OF MATERIALS

Paper
350 gsm, cold press watercolour paper for the watercolour section of the course

Smooth paper suitable for the charcoal section of the course. I recommend Strathmore 300
series or Bristol paper. But you may nd one in your local art store that you prefer. I actually
use ‘line and wash’ board by Daler Rowney as it doesn’t crease.

Paint
These are the colours that I use regularly, but I’d really encourage you to use whatever
colours and makes you have to hand as we don’t need to be precise in this course.

Watercolour paint by Winsor and Newton

Cotman range
• Lamp black
• Cerulean blue hue
• Colbalt blue
• Gamboge hue
• Indigo
• Cadmium orange hue
• Burnt sienna
• Raw sienna
• Lemon yellow hue
• Cadmium yellow hue
• Cadmium red hue
• Hookers green
• Ultramarine blue
• Turquoise
Professional range
• Opera rose
• Alizarin crimson
• Winsor red
• Colbalt turquoise light
White gouache
White acrylic ink

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Brushes
• A range of synthetic round pointed brushes from size 0 to 10, depending on how big you
want to paint. I use brushes by Escoda.
• A small old synthetic scrubbing brush
• Long thin rigger brush for depicting grasses
Graphic tools
• Selection of black graphic pens/ ne liners and a white gel pen

Sundries
• Tracing paper
• Kitchen roll
• Washi tape or low tak masking tape for protecting edges of the paper.
• water pots/jars
• Scrap paper for testing
• Pencils. HB and 2B, sharpener, ruler
• General eraser for lifting heavy pencil marks, prior to and and after painting
• Soft, dark charcoal pencil, thin stick of willow or vine charcoal, zero mono eraser, old oil
brush or paper stumps for blending.
• Guilding materials, such as adhesive and metallic or gold/silver leaf, dusting brush
• Printer with gloss paper.
• Real sponge, small, to obtain textural effects

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