- Tempera paints*: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Black, White (click here for a set)
- Bristle paint brushes, variety of sizes
- 9x12" Cold Press Watercolor paper, or any size you want, but if you are ambitious, go with the larger paper: 18x24” to 30x40”, which will require an easel and a support board with 4 clamps.
- Palette with wells
- Cup for water
- Paper towels
- Clothes you don't mind getting paint on
- Erasers
- Small retractable eraser
- Black soft pastel
- White soft pastel
- Blending tool such as blending stumps or q-tips or paper towels
- Optional: table easel
- Optional: Board (the boards size should be slightly larger than the size of your paper).
- Workable fixative spray
*When purchasing tempera, we only recommend the Blick Premium Tempera. All other tempera is not good quality, even Blick Student or Blick Essentials.
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