Art Supply Lists

• For Regular Classes
• For Summer Workshops

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Art Supply List for CCA Students (Age 5-8)

• Watercolor Pad: Either 9x12 or 11x15 (required in Ms. Hattie’s Classes)
• Crayons
• Marker
• Color pencils
• Sharpies: ultra fine point and fine point
• Pencil and Eraser

Art Supply List for Chinese Painting Students

1. Felt: 1 yard (Could be purchased at Joanne Fablic, Michael, and Walmart)
2. Practice paper(Daiso, 100 or 60 per pack)
3. Ink( Daiso)
4. Final paper( Xuan or Pi paper, from Mrs. Wu)
5. Brushes(at least 1 big one and 1 small one)
6. Paint(HWC,  Permanent Yellow,  Carmine Red, Indigo Blue, orange, and Burnt Sienna) with poster white
7. Plates to mix color
8. Water container
9. Hair dryer
10. Spay bottle\

Art supply list for DS1 students (Age 9-11)

• Art Paper Pad
• Watercolor pencils
• Oil Pastels
• Drawing pencils

Art Supply List for DS2 and DS3 students in Sung’s, Kevin’s, Zander’s, Ryan’s, Sean’s or Erica’s Classes

• Drawing board 
• Masking tape
• Vine charcoals
• Willow charcoals
• Kneaded Eraser 
• Workable fixative
• 14x17 Drawing pad
• Charcoal Pencils
• Easel (optional, students could place drawing board on the table)
• https://www.amazon.com/s?k=easel&sprefix=easl&ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_1_4
• Tone paper ( for Mr. Sung’s class only)\

Art Supply List for DS 2 Students in Mrs. Mingchien’s Classes

• Pastel 
• Pencil and eraser
• Drawing pad (11x14)
• Easel 
• 4B and 6B pencils
• Color pencils​

Art Supply List for Oil Painting

• Oil Paint
• Brushes
• Palette knife
• Murphy oil soap
• Palette
• Turpenoid
• Brush Cleaner
• Canvas boards

Introduction to Digital Art

A laptop with Adobe Photoshop (Photography Plan, $9.99/mo) installed and a drawing tablet such as Wacom Intuos (available at BestBuy, Walmart, Target or Amazon) or an iPad/Apple Pencil with Adobe Photoshop installed

Supply List for Drawing and Sketching Track (Sketching Basics, Sketch - Animals/Pets, Portrait/Figure Drawing)

• Drawing paper (Strathmore 300 or 400 series, 14x17)
• Vine Charcoal (med or soft)
• Willow charcoal
• Charcoal pencils
• Kneaded eraser
• Drawing Board
• Masking tape
• Workable fixative
• Compressed Charcoal (required for figure drawing only) 
• Art stix (required for figure drawing only)
• Newsprint (required for figure drawing only)

Supply List for Perspective Drawing 

• Marker paper 9x12 or larger
• HB mechanical pencil 0.5 or 0.7
• Assorted Micron Pigma pens (6 pen set, multiple sizes .2mm - .5mm)
• Ruler (18 inch minimum)
• Prismacolor markers set of 12 grey (cool, neutral or warm grey)

Supply List for QUICK SKETCH with Watercolor

• Winsor Newton Sketcher Watercolor Set
• Size 8 Round Watercolor Brush
• Canson XL Mixed Media Sketchbook
• Metal Pencil Sharpener
• MONO White Eraser
• Micron Set, 3 Pens
• Graphite Pencil Set of 6

Supply List for Digital Art Track (All workshops)

• A laptop with Adobe Photoshop (Photography Plan, $9.99/mo) installed and a drawing tablet such as Wacom Intuos (available at BestBuy, Walmart, Target or Amazon) OR
  
• An iPad/Apple Pencil with Adobe Photoshop installed

 Supply List for MANGA, CARTOON CHARACTER DESIGN and COMIC BOOK

• Clear Ruler
• Canson XL Mixed Media Sketchbook
• Metal Pencil Sharpener
• MONO White Eraser
• Micron Set, 3 Pens
• Graphite Pencil Set of 6
• Non-Photo Blue Pencils
• OPTIONAL (recommended to add color):  Kuretake Marker Set

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)
(Our school office has limited oil painting sets available for sale. If you need to reserve a set, please contact our office.)

• Ichen Art Academy – Oil Painting Material List on Blick
• Murphy Oil Soap (Required to wash your brushes)
• Vinyl cloth or plastic sheet (to cover your table and floor, optional available at Dollar store)
• 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 Cityscape/Landscape camp, students need one 16x20 and one 11x14 size canvas.
  • For each Seascape camp, one 16x20 canvas

Our Office will have a limited quantity of oil painting supplies for sale. To reserve a set, send an email to our Fremont or Pleasanton office.
​Supply List for Watercolor (including Watercolor Basic Techniques/Still Life, Watercolor Landscape, Watercolor Landscape/Architecture and Watercolor Portrait)

• Strathmore (360-111 300 Series Watercolor Pad, 11"x15", 12 Sheets
• Reeves 24-Pack Water Color Paint Set, 10ml (8494252) Assorted color
• Scotch Painter's Tape 2025-24EP 051131870178 3M 2025-24C Masking Tape for Basic Painting.94-Inch by 60.1-Yard, 0.94" Width
• Wooster Brush Q3208-1 Softip Angle Sash Paintbrush, 1-Inch
• Grumbacher Goldenedge Golden Toray Round Watercolor Brush, Synthetic Bristles, Size 14 (4620.14)​
• Watercolor Palette
• Brush set size 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
• Spray bottle, paper towel, water container, pencil and eraser

Supply List for Abstract Painting
Any supplies from the following workshops could be used:

• Oil pastel, charcoal, oil painting with canvas, acrylic, watercolor ​

Supply List for Oil Pastel

• Healifty 6pcs Blending Stumps Tortillions Set Sketch Drawing Tools Art Blenders Pencil Extension Tool for Student Sketch Drawing
• Strathmore 300 Series Drawing Pad, Medium Surface, 11"x14", Wire Bound, 50 Sheets
• Pentel Oil Pastels

 Supply List for Scratch Art

• Scratch board
• Scratch board sticks
• Black construction paper
• White color pencil