Bella Mama

Art Supplies: 

• Canvas - 1 Canvas larger than 16X20, or as big as you like, 24X36 or 30X40
• Easel (you can also hang the canvas on your wall or paint on a table)  
• Paint brushes – student grade, inexpensive is fine. See if you can find any called hog hair rounds (not flats) they are usually really affordable and can be found at craft stores. Shiloh uses them a lot for ‘scrubbing’. You will want a medium size, one larger and one smaller for detail called a liner brush. A variety of sizes and angles are good – they should be suitable for acrylic or oil, not watercolor.  
• Jar for paint water  
• Paper towels (or soft cotton lint free rags or old t-shirts work too)  
• Spray bottle with small mist.  
• Paint palette or paper plate  
• Black sharpie  
• Journal or Paper & Pens 
• Camera or your phone to document your process
• Glitter (not required)  
• Painting smock or clothes that you can get paint on. Acrylic paint does not come out of clothes.  
• Candle, Red Thread (optional)  
• Tea, wine, chocolate, roses!  
• **Computer with a strong internet connection

You can find these materials at a local arts and crafts store. Or search Amazon or www.blick.com

Acrylic Paint:

We recommend having 5-8 colors that feel good to you. Colors of the rainbow are good. These can be low cost paints, some you already have on hand. You can also use the higher-grade "Golden" brand liquid.  

Best Choice: GOLDEN Colors  

• *Titanium White - liquid
• Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold
• Magenta
• Turquoise Phthalo

Other colors we often use  

• Transparent Red Iron Oxide 
• Quinacridone Violet
• Buff Titanium 
• Bone Black  
• Dairylide Yellow, Hansa Yellow or Indian yellow
• Cadmium Orange or other orange 
• Pyrole Red 
• Quinacridone Crimson 
• Cobalt Teal 
• Jenkins Green 
• Burnt Umber Light 
• Raw Umber or Van Dyke Brown 
• Dioxazine Purple 
• Thalo Blue or Ultramarine Blue 
• Green Gold 
• Iridescent Bright Gold Fine (Or Copper, Silver, Bronze)