Watercolor Supplies for Beginning and Beyond class, or general use. This list makes a good field and studio kit. If you want to paint larger, you will need a larger palette, bigger brushes, and more paint.

Dick Blick Watercolor Shopping Cart <<—-this cart is preloaded with some of the supplies I enjoy—you can pick and choose, or take the list to an art store. I have put more than one suggestion for a watercolor pan set in the cart—please be careful to choose one. Likewise with paper—I put in two good options, one is loose sheets and one a watercolor block—you can get both, or just one. If you want to buy only one, then the loose sheets in a pad is probably the best choice.

Watercolor Kit—12, or spurge for 24. Schminke is my favorite brand, but Daler-Rowney paints are good as well. You can buy tubed paints and a folding watercolor palette if you like. Please do not buy Artist’s Loft or Windsor Newton’s Cotman line—these paints are so low quality to they don’t work well. My style of teaching does not call for the neutral paints, so you won’t need yellow ochre, burnt sienna, umber or black. You can use them if you like, but they cause problems for beginning paint mixers.
Pigments I love if you are buying single tubes or half pans: Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue, Quinacridone Red, Cadmium Red light, Cadmium yellow deep, Cadmium Yellow Light, White gouache. Hues are chemical substitutes for natural pigments, and are generally cheaper, and fine for our purposes.
a few brushes— a small (3 or 4) round, and a 1/2 inches wash brush are fine. Sumi-e brushes are also fun to work with. I put a small kit in the Dick Blick cart.
No. 2 pencil
small plastic container for water. I usually carry the water in a water bottle.
9 x 12 water color block and/or Canson Mixed Media Notebook. I put a couple suggestions in the Dick Blick cart.
Paper towels. Viva! is good.