Collage & Mixed Media: Cityscape

Instructor: Susan Cottle

Surfaces and Supports

• Newspaper to protect table
• Cutting Surface: Small-med self healing mat or piece of pressed cardboard to cut on
• A Quality Paper of your choice as: bristol, stonehenge, 80 lb white bond, watercolor paper if you will use much water. Size of your choice. I like 11x14, and tape off for smaller drawings.
• Tracing paper
• Cups for water
• Black or dark colored paper or scratchboard. Any found papers, and old drawings, rubbings, magazine, newspapers, books pages, cardboard, packaging etc.
• Palette is optional. Only if you will use paint. (ceramic, tin or plastic or palette paper)

Adhesives

• glue Stick (permanent is better than washable)
• Stronger archival glue as Pva, matte medium or Yes.
• low Cups for water and glue
• Optional: airdryer to speed up dry time

Cutting and Measuring

• pair of good scissors
• X-acto knife with blade
• triangle -small is fine
• metal ruler, preferably with a cork or foam backing

Your choice of wet and dry media and brushes

• Dry Media: Pencils- hard and soft graphite pencils (2H, HB, 4B, 6B)
• White pen, pencil , conte or china marker
• Pens: Water-soluble or permanent felt tip pens as sharpies or a brush pen. (thin, thick)
• Erasers: White plastic eraser rectangular or small retractable mono-zero rectangular, kneaded eraser
• Wet Medium of your choice: as water-soluble color pencils or pens, Ink, Watercolor, gouache colors (or thinned acrylic). Limited colors are good: Stay with neutral brown and/or black and white, or add (primary) colors
• Brushes: Inexpensive synthetic flat
• Optional: Any other dry or wet media of your choice as conte, colored pencil, charcoal, crayons, pastel