Colour Water Paper workshop 2026
Suppy List
The following is a suggested but not mandatory (although big brushes are a very good thing) equipment list.
Watercolour Brushes
Brushes are
#12 round synthetic
#8 round synthetic
1.5” Flat synthetic
½“ Flat synthetic
rigger (long skinny round brush for gestural strokes)
Paint
This is a basic and mostly transparent set of colours with a cool and warm variant of each primary I will be explaining the qualities of the various colours as we progress.
Paint should be tube paint. You will need to make juicy washes and it is nearly impossible to do this trying to wet out cake colour.
Colours
Colours in Bold are my go to indispensables others may or may not get used
If you have your own favourites that’s fine.
Ultramarine Blue
Pthalocyanine (Winsor) blue
Cobalt Blue
Cobalt Tourquoise light
Pthalocyanine (Winsor) green
Azo yellow
Cadmium yellow
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Sienna
Cadmium red
Quinacridone Magenta
Ivory black
Titanium white ( designers white, chinese white)
Pthalocyanine (Winsor) blue
Indanthrone blue
Cadmium yellow light
Quinacridone Burnt Orange
Quinacridone red
Terra rosa
Cobalt violet
Quinacridone Gold
Pyroll orange
Quinacridone coral
A site for a great deal of useful information about watercolour
www.handprint .com
Sources for supply
www.endeavoursthinkplay.com art supply store in Fredericton they ship quickly.
www.jerrysartarama.com
www.cheapjoes.com
www.danielsmith.com
www.dickblick.com
You will need a large palette to work on.
A plate or butchers tray will work just fine as long as it is white.
I work on Saunders Waterford rough paper, any decent watercolour paper will be acceptable, Canson, Arches and others cold press or rough are all suitable please do not try to paint on Strathmore paper which is too heavily sized to allow the paint to work the way it is supposed to.
I will be working on 11” x 15” sheets so anything approximately that size will be ok
Some form of board to fasten your paper to and a tripod or stand to hold while you’re painting on it.
Refer to my website to see how my setup works. www.christophermarson.com
Two water containers one for cleaning your brush and one for adding clean water to the paint. Plastic is preferable to glass. The bottom half of a plastic water bottle works well.
I would also recommend paper towels for cleaning your brushes and your pallete.
A small sketch pad, pencil for doing value studies.
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