Painting with Pastels
Instructor: Denise Bunkert

Supply List:

(Some paper supplies may be available for purchase from instructor)
o Wallis Professional grade (white) paper 12x18" or sized for your style
o Blending Stump o Kneaded Erasure o 2-3 Stiff Bristle (craft) Brushes
o Artist's Tape o Swifters or grabbit dust cloths o Viva paper towels
o Catch tray tubes (made from paper towel tubes cut in half)
o Small set watercolors (and sm. Water tray)

Suggested Pastels:
Variety Colors Hard & Soft Pastels (may purchase individual sticks as we go along, to acquire colors for your individual paintings). Students may also want to bring pastel pencils for signing paintings.

Suggested colors/brands:
Sennelier's darkest blues, purples and greens, dark umber stick also (4-6 stix darks)
Girault's darkest darks and sky blues, variety of greens
Sennelier's lightest yellows, pinks and variety of light blues (suggest 2-3 of each)
Unison's burgundys and reds (red violets)

Instructor Favorites:
Hard pastels & Pastel Pencils: NuPastel or Creatacolor or Holbein
Medium: Rembrandt & Girault
Soft: Sennelier or Schmincke

Instructor Favorite sets:
o Elizabeth Mowrey Landscape set by Girault
o Sennelier Half Sticks
o Variety of NuPastel, Creatacolor pencils and sticks

Supply Retailers:
Wet Paint- Grand Ave. in St. Paul (www.wetpaintart.com) carries a wide selection of pastel papers (I recommend purchasing large individual sheets to smaller pads of Wallis and Senneleir Sanded papers or your preferred paper)
Blick Art Supplies in Edina (www.dickBlick.com) carries some pastels (nice selection of Unison and Rembrants)
Blick in Roseville has larger selection of individual pastel sticks (dark Senneliers)
Online: www.DakotaPastels.com wide selection of individual sticks and sets pastels