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General Materials List By Project:

This class is expensive.  Expect to spend around $200 on materials if you do not have any of this stuff.  I know it’s pricey but being an art student is the most expensive student to be. 

MATERIALS ARE NOT OPTIONAL AND NOT PROVIDED BY THE COLLEGE 

Color Project:

• Paint Brushes (I recommend the Ebony Splendor Long Handle Bright Brush set of 7. https://www.jerrysartarama.com/ebony-splendor-brush-sets.  You might find something similar and a little cheaper, that’s fine.  But don’t go too cheap, it makes your life harder.)
  
• Acrylic Paint (Ivory or Mars Black, Titanium White, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Cobalt or Cerulean Blue, and optionally Dioxazine Purple. I will explain in class) 
• Disposable Palette Paper
  
• Small Glass Jar
• Illustration board (Hot Press): Comes in a pack of 2 (15”x20”) or 1 (20”x 30”-can be cut into 2 pieces)
• Rubber Cement or Glue Stick
• Scissors and Exacto Knife
• Circle Template
• Ruler
• Graphite Pencils
• Water Color Paper (or I recommend using Bristol) for swatches.
• Carbon Transfer Paper

Line Project:

• Graphite Pencils Pack of 4 Graphic or Soft Sketching Pencils (HB, 2B, 4B, 6B)
• Design Ebony Drawing Pencils Pack of 2         
• Black Inking Pens 1 Micron .04 pen, 1 Fine Point Sharpie + 1 (2 sided Fine/Broad)  Prisma-Color Marker
• French curve with inking edge 10 ½ inking edge
• Metal Ruler: 18” or 24”
• Circle templates with large and small circles up to 2” in diameter
• T-square
• Sketch Book 8”x10” or 11”x14”
• Pad of Bristol Paper 14” x 17” pad

Shape Project:

• A self healing cutting mat.  12″ by 18″ should be fine. (This is very important!!)
• Canson Mi’tientes (individual sheets of paper) One 18×24” sheet of white, black, and middle gray
  
• Exacto Knife and Scissors
• Glue Stick
• Graphite Pencils Pack of 4 Graphic or Soft Sketching Pencils (HB, 2B, 4B, 6B)
• Black Pens 1 Fine Point Sharpie + 1 two-sided (Fine/Broad) PrismaColor Marker
• Metal Ruler: 18” or 24”
• Tracing Paper
• Pad of Bristol Paper 14” x 17” pad
• Illustration board (Hot Press)
• Paint Brushes (I recommend the Utrecht Series 239 4 Brush set.)
• Acrylic Paint (Ivory or Mars Black, Titanium White ( I will explain in class) 
• Disposable Palette (Must be a flat surface)
• Small Glass Jar
• Small Palette knife
• Carbon Transfer Paper 

Space Project:

• Graphite Pencils Pack of 4 Graphic or Soft Sketching Pencils (HB, 2B, 4B, 6B)
• Black Pens 1 Micron .04 pen, 1 Fine Point Sharpie + 1 two-sided (Fine/Broad) PrismaColor Marker
• Metal Ruler: 18” or 24”
• Design Ebony Drawing Pencils Pack of 2         
• French curve with inking edge 10 ½ inking edge
• Metal Ruler: 18” or 24”
• Circle templates with large and small circles up to 2” in diameter
• T-square 
• Pad of Bristol Paper 14” x 17” pad

 Value Project:

• Hole Punch (a single hand held punch, don’t get a 3 hole punch)
• Black Pens 1 Fine Point Sharpie + 1 two-sided (Fine/Broad) Prisma Color Marker
• Exacto Knife or tweezers (for placing the hole punches)
• Graphite Pencils Pack of 4 Graphic or Soft Sketching Pencils (HB, 2B, 4B, 6B)
• Design Ebony Drawing Pencils Pack of 2         
• Metal Ruler: 18” or 24”
• T-square 
• Pad of Bristol Paper 14” x 17” pad
• Variety of Erasers

MORE MATERIALS MAY BE ASSIGNED AS WE GO