Welcome to the Watercolor version of Underwater Scenes! This preclass lesson discusses supplies; if you’ve taken the Watercolor Jumpstart class, you likely have enough to use for this course.

A quick little video with the supplies….a list with links are below the video.

Supplies

Watercolors

The Daniel Smith colors listed are the ones used in the paintings in class; you can use others, most certainly! See the swatches and pick something comparable in the blues range – a middle range blue, something light in the blue or teal family, and a deep blue; a dark neutral like the Paynes Blue Gray – like a neutral tint or black. The yellow ochre is for sand, but you can substitute a different brown; the green, rose, and yellow can be any hue you desire.

1. Cobalt Blue BLICK  AMZ   JACKSONS
2. Cobalt Teal Blue BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS
3. Indanthrone Blue BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS
4. Payne’s Gray BLICK AMZ   JACKSONS
5. Yellow Ochre BLICK  AMZ   JACKSONS
6. Quinacridone Rose BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS
7. Deep Sap Green BLICK  AMZ   JACKSONS

Paper

1. Arches Cold press 9×12 pad BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS

Brushes

1. Silver Brush Black Velvet Round 8 BLICK  AMZ   JACKSONS
2. Silver Brush Black Velvet Round 12 BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS

Miscellaneous

1. Ampersand Hardbord Panel 8×10 BLICK AMZ
2. Ampersand Hardbord Panel 9×12 BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS
3. 30-Pocket Pages for swatching

Extra videos

I’ve posted these on YouTube and they might be of help; the first is about my palette, and you can see my colors swatched out…

… the other is about how I created the swatches in the pocket pages.