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Supplies: I am providing a list of supplies that you will need. You can probably get them from your local art supply store but I will give you online links to art supply sites that I have been happy with.

• What to paint on? The patterns supplied are sized 8 x 10. You can use stretched canvas, canvas boards or even if you want to start out very inexpensively canvas paper pads.
• Brushes:
  • Large, at least 1"or better for backgrounds
  • Fan brushes
  • Rake or comb brushes
  • Liner and detail brushes
  • Assortment of flats or filberts and one 1/8" flat
  • Foliage brush which is a stiff bristle brush that is round on the end. A stencil brush works well too. Other stiff bristle brushes will come in handy.
  • For acrylic work, you can use natural or synthetic bristles, but the natural bristles do not hold up as well with acrylic paint.
• You will also need transfer (tracing paper) to put the patterns on whatever you've chosen to paint on. You can use regular carbon but it makes a horrible mess. Art stores have artist transfer paper in many colors, but just get black for now.
• An inexpensive plastic palette is nice. You can just scrap off the dried paint but in a pinch just use some wax paper.
• If you plan on keeping your artwork or hanging it you should have a varnish fixative. I personally like Grumbacher or Blair spray varnish for acrylics. It comes in matte or gloss. Both are excellent and make the colors very vibrant.
• Now for paint. There is a big controversy that you must use the top quality, most expensive paint on the market. Well, that's nice but, just starting out you don't need to spend a lot of money. The cheapest paint I have found is not worth buying. It's hard to work with and the colors are not so bright and vivid. Personally, I like Folk Art (they also have artist's quality pigments), Americana, Ceramcoat. I will give you a list of the paint that I used to create these lessons. You do not need to use these exact colors. If you want to try to conserve and just want to buy one green and dilute it with white to make the medium and light colors, that's fine too, but here's what you'll need to complete these paintings.
  
  
  • White
  • Black
  • Dark Gray
  • Light Gray
  • Medium Gray
  • Charcoal
  • Blues:
    Ceramcoat Ocean Reef Blue
    Dark Gray Blue (Ceramcoat Nightfall Blue)
    Light blue (Americana Baby Blue)
    Medium blue (Americana True Blue)
    Dark Blue (Ceramcoat Midnight Blue)
    Turquoise ( Ceramcoat Turquoise)
    
  • Greens:
    Dark green (Ceramcoat Dk Foliage Green, Ceramcoat Forest Green)
    Medium green (Ceramcoat Foliage Green)
    Light green (Ceramcoat Light Foliage Green)
    Yellow green (Americana Citron Green)
    
  • Browns:
    Tan (Folk Art Teddy Bear Tan)
    Light Brown ( Americana Sable, Folk Art Camel)
    Dark Brown (Americana Dark Umber, Ceramcoat Dark Burnt Umber)
    Golden Brown: (American Honey Brown)
    Terra Cotta
    Cinnamon Brown
    Burnt Sienna
    Ceramcoat Toffee
    Medium Brown (Ceramcoat Toffee Brown)
    Raw Umber
    Golden Brown (America Maple Sugar)
    
  • Yellow: (Ceramcoat Luscious Lemon)
    Pale Yellow
    
  • Bright Red
  • Dark Red
    Burnt Carmine
    Maroon
    
  • Bright Orange

Online art supply:
The following are places that I deal with and have had very good results. The prices are good, service is great and shipping is fast. These are by no means the ONLY online art supply stores and neither I or LVS can guarantee any transactions with these companies.

Blick Art Materials Large selection of art supplies.

Plan to devote approximately 3 - 4 hrs per week on the lesson and assignment.