You will need a canvas of any size pre-painted black, acrylic paint consisting of blue, red, yellow, black and white + OPTIONAL purple. The acrylic paints we use are from Curry's and we find it is good student-grade paint. The exact names read on our 2L bottles are bright red (non-orange kind), phtahalo blue, bright yellow, black or carbon black and titanium white. You will need an assortment of synthetic brushes consisting of detailed #0 or #2, a medium round brush and a medium-large flat brush + paper towel for dabbing the sky. A water cup and paper towel to rinse and dry off your brushes.