Minimal brushes & paints allows you to become intimate with your materials

Keeping your brushes and paints to a minimum allows you to become intimate with your materials. In time you will come to trust your equipment and know exactly what you and it is capable of.

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6. MATERIALS: These are the paints, paper and brush I use for painting watercolours:

Fabriano Watercolour Paper 50 pack of quarters (15x11in) 130lb (280gsm) NOT surface


Pro Arte Ron Ranson Hake Brush - Large

Winsor & Newton Cotman 21ml Water Colour Tubes
Raw Sienna
Burnt Umber
Light Red
Ultramarine
Lemon Yellow Hue
Payne's Gray
Alizarin Crimson Hue 003

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