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What materials should I use? The short answer is what ever materials you have to hand, dry or wet, as the creative principles apply to all. I use square Pink Pig sketchbooks. Again choose whichever sketchbook you have or takes your fancy. My preferred materials are acrylic inks, acrylic paint and watercolour pencils. Therefore these are the materials I will be using throughout demonstrations.

Although I will be showing you primarily how to work in the materials above. This doesn't mean other materials aren't relevant. Including oil pastels, chalk pastels, a pan box of watercolours, acrylic inks, watercolour pencils, fine line pens, graphite pencils, the list is endless. Use the materials that give you the most joy. 

Useful Equipment 

A water spray bottle, palette knife, square ended brush, household candle. 

Art Shopping Treats 

Box of pan watercolours

Acrylic inks (start with 2 bottles) 

Water colour pencils might be useful too (start with 2 colours)

My advice, buy the colours you are attracted to. One darker colour and one lighter/brighter colour of inks and watercolour pencils. 

A larger cheap tube of white paint - System 3 Acrylic serves me well.

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Here are my favourite colours, if you would like to buy singles. Watch out for prices, some colours are much more expensive than others.

Titanium white - Prussian Blue - Olive Green- Cadmium Yellow - Paynes Grey - Cadmium Red - Alizarin Crimson 

Expensive colours - Naples Yellow - Phthlo Blue (green hue.)