Photos to Acrylic Paintings
All Levels
Amy Roberts

amyrroberts.com

Materials

pencil standard #2
3 photos 8” x 10” 
stretched canvas 16 x 20 or 24” x 36” primed in white or black
acrylic paints: tubes of your own selection if you have already been painting, a set of student grade acrylics, 12 or 24 colors, if your are beginning. Recommend Liquitex, Golden, Blick or Utrecht
ruler 18” or longer with inches and centimeters, preferably clear plastic
brushes: beginners a student set of 6-12 brushes, if it doesn’t include a flat 4 or 6 add one and you may want a 0 or 00 for fine detail. Experienced painters bring your favorite selection of brushes.
plastic container for water, about 1 quart
pad of palette paper, freezer paper on cardboard or your prefered palette 
Sharpie black marker, the standard one is fine point, extra fine won’t work well on the acetate I will provide
plastic fine water mister
newspaper or plastic trash bag if you are a messy painter like me 
I will have brush soap and paper towels to clean brushes if you don’t have your own

Optional
hand-held magnifier, I use a simple $10 type
basic palette knife

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