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Art Supply Lists

  • For Regular Classes
  • For Summer Workshops (Age 11+)
  • For Summer Camps (Ages 5-9)
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Children's Creative Art (Ages 5 to 7)
The required art supplies are as follows. You can click the links below which will take you to Amazon.com for purchasing, or you can get them from local art stores such as Michaels.
Drawing and Sketch Level 1 Basics (Ages 8 to 9)
The required art supplies are as follows. You can click the links below which will take you to Amazon.com for purchasing, or you can get them from local art stores such as Michaels.
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Drawing and Sketch Level 1 (Ages 10 to 11)
The required art supplies are as follows. You can click the links below which will take you to Amazon.com for purchasing, or you can get them from local art stores such as Michaels.
DS2-Basics, DS2, DS23 and DS3
The required art supplies are as follows. You can click the links below which will take you to Amazon.com for purchasing, or you can get them from local art stores such as Michaels.
Oil Painting
The required art supplies are as follows. You can click the links below which will take you to Amazon.com for purchasing, or you can get them from local art stores such as Michaels.
Teachers suggested that the paint is water-based, and is non-toxic. If students had purchased the oil-based oil painting set (Ichen Art Academy – Oil Painting Material List on Blick), please switch to the water-base paint after using up their old oil-base set. (Below are required supplies, which is oil-based. They will be replaced by water-based ones listed above.)
  • Murphy Oil Soap (Required to wash your brushes if your paint is oil-based)
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
The required art supplies are as follows. You can click the links below which will take you to Amazon.com for purchasing, or you can get them from local art stores such as Michaels.
  • Black felt: 1 yard (Could be purchased at Joann's Fabric, Michael, and Walmart)
  • Practice paper(Daiso, 100 or 60 per pack)
  • Ink (Daiso sells for $1.50)
  • Final paper( Xuan or Pi paper, from Mrs. Wu)
  • Chinese painting brushes (at least 1 big one and 1 small one)
  • Chinese paint (HWC,  Permanent Yellow,  Carmine Red, Indigo Blue, orange, and Burnt Sienna) with poster white
  • Plates to mix color
  • Water container
  • Hair dryer
  • Spray bottle
Digital Illustration (Cartoon, Manga and Character Design)
The required art supplies are as follows. You can click the links below which will take you to Amazon.com for purchasing, or you can get them from local art stores such as Michaels.
  • Digital Only (Students need know how to use digital app such as Photoshop or Procreate. But this class won't teach you how to use digital app.)
Digital Art Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced
The required art supplies are as follows. You can click the links below which will take you to Amazon.com for purchasing, or you can get them from local art stores such as Michaels.
  • ​A laptop  (a Windows PC or MacBook, but not a Chromebook) with Adobe Photoshop (Photography Plan, $9.99/mo) installed and a drawing tablet such as Wacom Intuos (available at BestBuy, Walmart, Target or Amazon).​​
3D Modeling with Maya
The required art supplies are as follows. You can click the links below which will take you to Amazon.com for purchasing, or you can get them from local art stores such as Michaels.
Supply List for Sketching Basics, Intro. to Portrait/Figure Drawing, and Expressive Portrait/Figure Drawing
Supply List for Mixed Media and Collage​
Supply List for Digital Art Track (All workshops)
Supply list for Pen and Ink Workshops (Portrait Sketching, Architecture Pen & Ink)
  1. Micron Ink Pen Set
  2. Drawing Pad or Mix Media Pad
  3. Pencils and erasers
  4. White Gel Pen
Supply list for 3D Modeling with Maya
A laptop with a 3-button mouse
Install Maya on the laptop ( Go to ​https://www.autodesk.com/education/edu-software/overview?sorting=featured&page=1, create an account, and submit a proof of student (student ID or transcript).
Supply List for Perspective Drawing – One-Point Interior
Supply List for Two-Point Perspective – Architecture
Supply List for Intro. to Architecture Design

Model-Making:
  • X-Acto Knife: #11 (best to find one with a few blade replacements, or purchase an extra small box of #11 blades)
  • Cutting Mat: (11”x17” “Self-healing” mat)
  • Bristol Board: Strathmore 300 Series, 20 Sheets, 14”x17” (Smooth or Vellum)
  • Tacky Glue: (Aleene’s or Elmer’s, 4oz)
  • Scissors
Drawing:
  • Clear cutting triangle - (1) 30/60 clear plastic triangle without “inking edges”
Optional Materials:
  • Chip Board (1/16” thickness recommended)
  • Computer + Sketchup (Free Software)
  • Unlined notebook or sketchbook
Supply List for Oil Painting (Oil Painting for Beginner/Intermediate, Oil Painting (Still Life/Landscape), Oil Painting (Pets/Animals, Oil Painting (Portrait) and Oil Painting (Cityscape/Landscape/Seascape)cTeachers suggested that the paint is water-based, and is non-toxic. If students had purchased the oil-based oil painting set (Ichen Art Academy – Oil Painting Material List on Blick), please switch to the water-base paint after using up their old oil-base set. 
  • Ichen Art Academy – Water-Based Oil Painting Material List on Blick
  • Murphy Oil Soap (Required to wash your brushes if your paint is oil-based)
  • Vinyl cloth or plastic sheet (to cover your table and floor, optional available at Dollar store)
  • ​Tracing Paper (required for Mr. David's online oil painting sessions only)
  • Canvas
    • For Oil Painting Beginner/Intermediate camp, Students need to get two 8x10 and one 11x14 size canvases.
    • For Oil Painting – Pets/Animals, Still Life/Landscape and Portrait camp, students need two 11x14 canvases.
    • For Advanced Landscape/Flower camp, students need one 16x20 and one 11x14 size canvas.
    • For Portrait camp, students need one 16x20 or one 11x14
Supply List for MANGA, Manga and Anime, CARTOON CHARACTER DESIGN and COMIC BOOK

Option 1: Digital (if students already know how to use digital app such as Photoshop or Procreate, they can use this option. But this class won't teach you how to use digital app.)
Option 2:
Supply list for Fashion Design workshop
1.Elmer's Tri-Fold Display Board, White, 14x22 Inch
2.Sketch Pad 11X14
3.Ready to recycle clothes or home fabric products. It could be old or broken menswear, womenswear and kids wear. And also could be old and broken beddings and pillows cases. As much as possible, at least 3 pieces.
4. Pencil and eraser
5. Color pencils set (suggested Prisma Color pencils) at least 36 colors or Markers(optional)
6. Glue 
7. Scissors
8. Needles, threaded and super glue
9. Fashion decoration pieces: (Optional)
Depending on your preference, you could find some interesting beads, ribbons, yarns and buttons at Walmart or JoAnn Fabrics. Or anything you prefer to decorate your fashion design. 

Supply List for Scratch Board (Positive & Negative Space)
Supply List for Three-Point/Linear Perspective
Supply List for UI/UX Design​
Supply List for Introduction to Graphic Design

Students would need Adobe Creative Cloud esp.: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Adobe Fonts (or a good selction of fonts on their computer). I believe the entire Creative Cloud is included in a 7 day trial, but check to confirm with Adobe. They will need access to a good range of typefaces, black marker pen and marker paper for sketching or they can do sketches digitally, camera or mobile phone camera (to take photos of sketches and other graphics to upload to the computer for viewing on zoom).
1. Pencils and eraser
2: Colored pencils
3.Marker: Crayola markers (40 classic colors preferred) 
4: Oil pastel (optional)
5: Watercolor set 
6: Scissors
7: Ruler
8. Canson XL Mixed Media Sketchbook
10:Ultra-fine tip and regular fine tip sharpies