#100DaysofSmallArt Materials
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Lake Ontario beach rocks
Golden Fluid Acrylics Set of 10 Mixing Colors
Liquitex Basics cadmium red light hue
Liquitex Basics primary red
Liqutex Basics gold acrylic paint
Liquitex Professional matte medium
Liquitex Professional gloss medium
Or check out the Liquitex Store on Amazon (I typically mine from Blick, where it’s cheaper, or on a good Michael’s sale)
Gel Press 8×10 gel plates as palettes
My original gel plates are the 5×7 & 8×10 pair also available on Amazon
space-saving (collapsible cooling rack) drying rack
palette paper (paint your tissue paper on this, leave it to dry, peel off when dry, and reuse the palette paper for more tissue-paper tinting!)
inexpensive gift wrap tissue paper you can get at local stores, in various packaging or a package like this on Amazon
medical exam paper
If you don’t want to buy a case, which I can’t currently find the McKesson I have in smaller units, the important part is getting CREPE not smooth
parchment paper as a great non-stick surface to assemble collage and protect other pages if collaging in an art journal
my favorite scissors, great for thin paper but also sturdy enough for corrugated cardboard while staying sharp
an inexpensive soft flat brush like these
Simply Simmons XL Soft Synthetic Brush – Filbert, Size 50
The substrate for my small collages is 140lb/300gsm watercolor paper, an inexpensive brand shared with my daughter when she was experimenting with liquid watercolors.
Usable Art
Galaxy Paper Bookmarks
my favorite scissors, great for thin paper but also sturdy enough for corrugated cardboard while staying sharp
brayer (optional)
paper of your choice
For my Galaxy Papers I used the following materials:
Liquitex Professional acrylic inks
phthalo blue red hue
phthalo blue green hue
prism violet
silver
Or check out the Liquitex Store on Amazon (I buy my most of my inks and paints from Blick, where they’re typically cheaper)
inexpensive gift wrap tissue paper you can get at local stores, in various packaging or a package like this on Amazon
medical exam paper
If you don’t want to buy a case, which I can’t currently find the McKesson I have in smaller units, the important part is getting CREPE not smooth
cheap plastic tablecloth which, again, can also be purchased just about anywhere
Coordinated Bookmark & Sticker Set
paper of your choice
I used one of my gel prints on heavy cardstock
3×3 white parchment paper squares
white parchment paper sheets
my favorite scissors, great for thin paper but also sturdy enough for corrugated cardboard while staying sharp
brayer (optional)
butterfly or other punch of choice (optional)
Custom Mini Notebook
paper of your choice
I used one of my gel prints on heavy cardstock
paper cutter (optional)
small notebook of your choice
I used this one of this mini-composition notebook set on Amazon
parchment paper to protect your pages and work surface
UHU glue stick
or whatever glue stick you have
brayer (optional)
my favorite scissors, great for thin paper but also sturdy enough for corrugated cardboard while staying sharp; they’ve held up through a lot of heavy use during and since my nursery-school-teaching days