I will be demonstrating and discussing many different uses of graphite. The following is a list of the many of the materials I may be using, but it’s not necessary to have all or purchase any of these for the workshop. If you already have some of these things but not all of them, I encourage you to use what you already have. I’ll be demonstrating and discussing graphite techniques in both wet and dry uses.

Here is a list of the various materials I may be using:

Graphite in the form of pencils, sticks, mechanical pencils, powder, and water-soluble tube and cake

Acrylic paint – Titanium white, I use Heavy Body paints for building up textures, and I use regular viscosity and fluid acrylics as well, which are also great for many things I’ll be doing with acrylic and combining its use with graphite. I also use Titanium Buff and/or Unbleached Titanium

There may also be a small segment of the class where I may show a little bit of combining limited color with graphite too. It’s not necessary to have many colors. What I may use most would be: Burnt Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Transparent Red Iron Oxide or Burnt Sienna, Transparent Yellow Iron Oxide.

Gesso

I’ll also use and discuss mediums such as:
Matte Medium and Gloss Medium/Varnish and some other mediums such as Soft Gel Matte

Erasers:
Kneaded eraser

Mechanical (click-out) erasers or battery-operated erasers

Eraser pencil with brush on one end (often called a perfection eraser pencil)

Brushes:
A handful of the following brushes would be helpful to have:

Various sizes and shapes of sables from small rounds to small/mid-sized flats, brights and filberts
Various small mops or soft sables if you don’t have mops (basically something puffy and soft)
A couple small/mid-sized bristles or utility bristle brushes.

Jar/cup for water and rinsing brushes.

Isopropyl alcohol

rags or paper towels

Other unconventional tools I may be using are:

silicone spatula (kitchen spatula), scraps of foam core, rubber stamps, sandpaper, straws,

misc. found objects, misc silicone tools such as paint shapers or combs or potters rib, palette knife,

double-sided silicone clay/paint shaper pen.

Surfaces:
You do not need all of these, but I may be demonstrating using any of the following: Sketchbooks or loose drawing or sketch paper, old books or book pages, mixed media paper or panels, watercolor paper, toned paper, yupo paper, Bristol paper or panels, claybord panels, illustration board, matte board.

If you do not have any of these materials, or if you might have limited opportunity to go out to acquire new supplies, it is not necessary. You can still learn by watching and listening to the demo and I will show various options to try in place of some of these unconventional tools. You can also obtain the tools you may not have later to experiment on your own after watching the demo.

This online course requires the use of the Zoom program. You will need a computer, tablet or smartphone (with camera preferred) and internet. To download the program, click on the following link: zoom.us/download.

A Zoom meeting link will be sent to you up to 24 hours prior to your class start date. If you need help with Zoom, please let us know and we will schedule a short tutorial for you prior to your class.