Even very basic materials like pencils and pens are absolutely fine for our sessions. In particular, for your initial meeting, you may wish to bring some simple materials with you.
For the following sessions you could try exploring with different kinds of art materials. The list below is supplied for ideas and inspiration. See which materials you are drawn to you.
Paper:
- A4 Plain
- Plain paper – varying sizes, from A1 – A4
- Colour paper – varying sizes
- Tissue paper
- Collage paper, i.g. Shiney paper, cut out shapes, stencils
Drawing Materials
- Pencils – HB, 2B etc
- Coloured Pencils
- Rulers
- Charcoal
- Pastels – Soft & Hard
- Rubbers
- Sharpeners
- Felt tip pens – chunky, thick, thin
- Fine liners
- Gold & silver pens
Other
- Masking tape
- Sellotape
- PVA Glue
- Pritstick
- Scissors
- Glitter
- Glitter pieces
- Sequins
Paints
- Poster colours x 8
- Metallic paints
- Paint Box
- Paint Palettes
- Brushes
- Water Colour
- Oils
- Acrylics
- Inks (and possibly pen for ink)
Modelling
- Self-hardening Clay
- Plasticine
‘Found’ objects or recycled objects for 3d making or collage
- Corks
- Polystrene
- Silver foil
- Egg cartoons
- Boxes
- String
- Wire
- Straws
- Sticks
- Pipe clenaers
- Fabric felt / ribbon /fur from old clothes etc
- News paper
- Magazines
- Cardboard
- Shells
- Leaves/ twigs etc found objects in nature