You can use whichever materials you’d like. I have listed ideas and recommendations below. You can sit down with a drawing pad or a paint box, or you can stand up with a plein air box easel.

Oil/Acrylic Painting Check List

Plein Air Box Easel with Palette - Alternative: you could sit down with a Paint Box

Small Canvas, Canvas Board or Gessoed Cardboard (around 5”x7”, 6”x8” etc.)

Medium Cup for the Oderless Mineral Spirit/ Water Container like a large cup

Palette Knife (diamond shaped) 

Hog Bristle (Synthetic or Genuine): 2 x Flats, Brights or Filberts in size 2-4, 2 x Small Rounds

Rags (old t-shirt is good) & Kitchen Roll

Oderless Mineral Spirit like Gamsol or Weber Turpenoid (Blue)/ Water in a bottle

Oil/ Acrylic Paints

Cadmium Lemon Hue, Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue, Pthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Quinacridone, Magenta, Burnt Umber, Sap Green, Ivory Black, Titanium White

Drawing Checklist:

Drawing Pad: Sketching Paper

Pencils: 3B, 4B, 5B (Staedtler or Faber-Castell)

Staedtler Mars Eraser

Charlocal Drawing Checklist:

Charcoal (any kind soft or hard or charcoal pencils)

Charcoal Paper

Kneaded Eraser

Other useful things to bring:

Sunglasses, polarized

Viewcatcher

Sunscreen

Sunhat

Coffee or Tea!

A plastic bag to carry your painting