Gear and equipment

All equipment I use is of professional quality.

Colors:

• Sennelier watercolors in tubes, but also

• Schmincke Horadam and

• Daler Rowney artist quality colors

I have a rather big metal box for 20 colors and ample space for mixing.

I sometimes also use any of my watercolor sets (metal box with pans): Winsor & Newton Professional Field Box and Sennelier L' Aquarelle Extra-Fine.

To start out I would recommend a box set of 12 colors - either tubes or pans. Tubes are probably more economic, but it is also a matter of taste. If you work on larger paper tubes are probably more suitable. Pay for professional quality right from the start, it is not a very big difference, but well worth money spent.

Paper:

• Arches

• Fabriano Artistico

• Canson Heritage

• Bockingford

• DR Langton Prestige

• Saunders Waterford

• Hahnemühle Expression and Harmony

These are all 300 gsm and cold pressed (NOT), fine grain - sometimes rough surface.

Brushes:

• Escoda - mop and detail

• daVinci Spin-Synthetics, Cosmotop Spin

• ProArte Renaissance Sable

• Winsor & Newton Professional Water Colour Sables (various sizes)

• Sceptre Gold II and

• Raphael Martre Kolinsky.

On my workdesk I have a wooden table top easel with a drawer. It can be folded and carried as a briefcase.

For outdoor work I either go light with my W&N Field Box, some brushes, paper, water bottle and a stool to sit on. Or I bring my Meeden Artist watercolor field easel.