Art Supplies for Art Meditation Courses

The natural materials made art supplies are what I recommend to practice, if accessible in your area. Such as Chinese bamboo brushes, ink, Chinese painting colour, rice paper, and painting pad, etc. A detailed instruction for using art supplies is conducted in each course.

It doesn't really matter what brand and size you use, as it does that you spend time to connect your inner feeling and art materials to develop your personal experience. It is not a many hours repeating practice to get one proficient technique for something. It is who you are and how you can reach your inner beauty.

If you want to use regular watercolour sets for the course practice, please be notified that some artistic feature may not work same as demonstrated, because the materials are different in between.

Where to buy:

You may get these art supplies from local art supply stores.

Online stores:

Set Supplies - https://www.ebay.ca/itm/303859917421?hash=item46bf...

Rice Paper - https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Chinese-Rice-Paper-Raw-14-...

Paint - https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Chinese-Painting-Colour-pa...
or https://www.ebay.ca/itm/304066965895?hash=item46cb...

Or You may search Amazon for other choices.

Basic Supplies:


Brushes:
a big white hair or brown hair bamboo brush used for loading various strokes and wash feature. If you have natural goat hair watercolour brush which is pointed round shape, you may use it if it is hard for you to find a bamboo brush.

A skinny brown hair pointed brush for details development. You may use watercolour sable brush which is pointed round brush and can be easily found in your local art supplies stores.


Rice paper:
Absorbent rice paper which may be called as Xuan paper, or raw rice paper, or Sumi Paper, etc. You may get rice paper as a single sheet or in roll pack.


Black ink:
Chinese ink, or Japanese ink or Korean ink. Please do not use stationary ink as it made from chemical material and may turn to purple after it dries out.


Paint:
Chinese painting colour, or Japanese painting colour, in 12-tube pack or more, some may be sold in a small tray with filled cream paint in it. Usually it contains basic colours: White, Gamboges Yellow, Vermillion Red, Cinnabar Red, Carmine Red, Rouge Red, Burnt Sienna, Green #3, Blue #3, Phthalo blue, Indigo Blue and Coal Black. Any additional colours are always welcomed.

If you can't find the above paint, you may use watercolour paint to practice. Please be notified that some of the feature may not be the same as you expected.


Painting Pad:
Wool made painting carpet is the professional quality product. However you may also use white felt which is cheaper and easy to get from art supply stores, or fabric stores.


Palette:
A simple white plastic or pottery palette with wells and open space for mixing colours. Or you may use several white trays, a small one for ink, and a big one for mixing colours

Water container: two containers will be ideal, one for cleaning the brush and one for bringing wash feature for practice.

Paper towel: for blotting a wet brush or testing stroke.

You may get these art supplies from local art supply stores, online stores or local China town art stores or book stores.


Art Supplies for Watercolour Courses

Pencil - B or 2B

Watercolour Pencil or Water Soluble Pencil - optional

Eraser - optional

Watercolour paints - 12 colour set is a good start

Paper - pieces of watercolour board or 140 lb+ watercolour paper, or watercolour paper pad, cold press type is recommended.

Brushes - large, medium and small sizes of flat and round tip watercolour brushes, plus a rigger brush would be a good starter kit

Palette - for mixing colours, white palette or dishes would be the best

Water jar

Block - to rest the board on

Board - if you are using single sheet paper, please bring a board and tape to rest the paper on.

Paper towel

Sponge - optional

Masking fluid - optional

Tape - masking tape

Where to buy:

Please go to your local art Supply stores or online stores.

Questions?

Please reach me at [email protected], I will try my best to support.