Supply List
Painted Landscapes
Michele Scott, Instructor
Peaceful Cove
Fabric - White 100% Cotton
It is extremely important that you get finely woven cotton. Regular muslins will make the paint seep because of the loosely woven fibers. I prefer to use White Pimatex Cotton from Kaufman. You can also use any fabric that has the letters "PFD" after it (prepared for dyeing). One landscape takes 1 1/2 yards at the most (including border), but you may want as much as 5 yards for any happy accidents. Michele has this on her Web site.
You will also want 2-3 yards of the white Pimatex to practice all the techniques in Lesson One.
Paint - Setacolor from Pebeo
- Transparent 10 pack: Ten 45-milliliter bottles in an assortment of all of the colors necessary.
- Setacolor Pearl - gold and pearl in 45 mL bottles
These will be available from Michele or you can find them at www.dharmatrading.com or www.prochemical.com/store/
If you cannot find the 10 pack and want to buy the individual containers, these are the colors in the 10 pack:
Black Lake; Oriental Red; Cardinal Red; Bright Orange; Vermillion; Lemon Yellow; Parma Violet; Ultramarine Blue;
Cobalt Blue; Emerald Green.
If you have the opportunity, I like to add these to the mix: Buttercup Yellow; Velvet Brown; Red Ochre; Moss Green.
Applicators
- Brushes - foam brushes you can get in any hardware store in a variety of sizes, assorted brushes with natural bristles - I like "hake" brushes the best - they hold a lot of paint.
- Sponges - large and small sea sponges to add different effects (for rocks, and other textures)
Painting Surface
- Foam core - You can get this light firm board from any craft store. OR
- Foam-ula - This is PINK insulation you can find at Home Depot. Cut it in half and tape or glue the two pieces together.
Cover either with white contact paper. It is also a good idea to have a plastic drop cloth if you are doing this inside.
Other Stuff
- picture - either professional or amateur of a landscape, seascape or mountainscape. Please know that this will be a watercolor version of the picture. You will not be able to paint fine details with our paints. You may, however, add them through appliqué, embellishment or your own fabric paints.
- spray bottle
- small containers to hold paint (plastic microwave dinner plates, bowls, etc.)
- paper towels or old cloths
- gloves / apron (or wear old clothes!)
- coarse sea salt (the bigger kind)
- cheesecloth (available in canning section of grocery store)
Optional
- assortment of leaves to make sunprints for the borders!
- color wheel or good book on color mixing to help get just the right colors
For Finishing the Landscape
Backing and batting the size of finished piece
Assortment of threads, yarns, to decorate the piece. We will not be doing this until Lesson Three, so you can wait to see the painted piece before deciding how you want to embellish it.
You can order threads from:
If you think you might want to appliqué something to the foreground (like the reeds) make sure you have some sort of stabilizer (I use Sulky Tear Easy)
Many of the other items are available from Michele on her site: www.piecefulquilter.com
Sunset
Electric Storm