Materials List for Visiting Artist Workshop: Abstracting from Nature
Instructor: Mary Moquin
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MATERIALS LIST 
I don’t expect anyone to go out and buy a bunch of supplies for this, so if you have something similar on hand feel free to substitute.

• 16 x 20 or 18 x 24 canvas pad 
• (or large sheets of paper (gessoed for oil painters), something large enough to subdivide it into 4 to 6 smaller sections with tape. 
• A board large enough to mount your paper to. (We may bring these outside to do quick sketches on)
• Several smaller supports to paint on or you can just cut up the canvas pad. Sometimes we’ll be doing 4 paintings on one sheet, sometimes only one smallish painting, so variety is good.
• Sketchbook for quick drawings and note-taking (any size) 
• Paint - a variety of colors, be sure to include black and white
• A few of your favorite mark-making crayons, pastels, graphite, charcoal, paint pens, white chalk mix it up! You can’t make a variety of marks without a variety of tools!
• A palette to mix paint on (something flat) freezer paper and tape on the table works fine.
• Tools to apply paint - palette knife, brushes, credit card, squeegees, a variety
• A couple cheap 1-2” brushes
• Paper towels, small bag for trash when outside.
• Masking tape
• Scissors
• Ruler​