1. Bag lunch

2. Mug for tea/coffee

3. Apron

4. 5-litre bucket – Hardware stores carry them in the paint department. But Halloween buckets also work and children’s beach buckets are fine. If you need to visualize how big that is, it should hold the same amount as 5 large yogurt containers.

5. Pencil for taking notes

6. 2 pieces of cardboard at least A4 size (two sides of a cereal box are fine or the back of a pad of paper…)

7. A clean shallow dish – the bottom of a roast chicken container is perfect. Or a clean small aluminum roasting pan or a plastic storage box or plastic icecream container. The should be at least 18 cm long. We will be using this for dipping your paper, so cleanliness is the operative word. I run roast chicken containers through the dishwasher and they are fine.
   If you are hoping to just work on larger sheets of paper and not make a booklet you will need a tray wide enough to accommodate your paper ¼ sheet of arches text wove is about 32 cm wide.

8. Small containers with lids — or 6 oz containers (for cream cheese, dips and other things)—as many as you can save between now and the workshop. Or something like this. They are for taking extra paste home at the end of the day.

9. Sickly pieces of paste paper which need rejuvenation - if you have them.

10. Sturdy scissors for cutting up credit cards and sponges.

11. Bone folder

12. A few old credit cards

13. Glue stick or double sided tape. These are for putting the books and box together. One or the other is fine.

14. 5 mm binder clip

15. An acrylic or plexiglass sheet at least 30 cm x 60 cm x .3cm thick. Larger is great. Some frame stores have off-cuts that you can buy. If you have one for a collapsible easel that is perfect.

16. Rags – old towels are great – something the size of hand towels or old tea towels– for wiping off your acrylic sheet.

17. Small piece of bubble wrap 15 x 15 cm is fine. Any kind (an assortment is great).

18. At least two all-purpose sponges like this

19. Drying rack for laundry. They help to keep the room organized and speed up drying. Acrylic paint will dry and won’t come off on your clothes later! Something like this – though your options are great! An alternative to the laundry drying rack is a stackable sweater drying rack. Two of these from Bed Bath and Beyond are perfect and fit right under your table, thus saving space and time running around.
    Amazon has a whole raft of choices for those of you who hate to shop in stores.

I will provide basic Golden or Liquitex acrylic colors for paste – Benzimidazolone yellow light, Benzimidazolone yellow medium, Naphthol red light, Quinacridone magenta, Ultramarine blue, Phthalo blue (green shade), Phthalo green (blue shade), Titanium white, Zinc white & Anthraquinone blue. I believe that you can mix any color with these (even black). If you have an alternative palette that you want to work with then bring your own paint to mix. I’ll have extra paste.

OPTIONAL (only if you have these things – don't go out and buy them)

• Extra Paper – Your registration fee covers the equivalent of 4 full sheets of Arches Text Wove (some will be pre-cut for the workshop) at 64.7cm x 101.6. I will have 2 of those sheets cut into book sized pages and the rest into quarter sheets so you will get 8 quarter sheets of paper. If you work on both sides of the sheets this should be enough to occupy you for the two days. However if you paste quickly, only work on one side and do not spend time making patterns you may want to bring more paper. In my experience this is more than enough for the workshop. Most people take the quarter sheets home to make more paste paper.

• Tweezers for picking imperfections like stray hairs or paste lumps out of your wet paste.

• Colored paper if you want to test it.

• Odd papers that you would like to test out.

• Spray bottles.

• Sponge brushes — assorted sizes.

• Brayers.

• Rubber stamps –Just keep in mind that your space is half of table and you do need to work on a part of it.

• Anything else you want to make marks with. By the end of day one you will probably think of things at home that you can bring on day 2.

• If pasting paper is not new to you bring your favorite supplies that you have collected over the years.

Supply Fee: The supply fee for this workshop has been included as part of the registration fee for more convenient payment.