Hard board - Hobby Craft sells the small size (A3) for only £3.00; or buy a large MDF for £9.99 at B&Q and have pieces cut to size(2 A2 & 1 A3). Boards are great for paper or loose canvas because you can tape them down and not worry about ruining your work. Just don’t leave a painting on a board for too long, otherwise you will need a lot of boards.
Stay wet or disposable pallet - mixed paints will stay wet for about a week in the pallet...if you put it in the refrigerator. This gives you time to finish a painting and not have to re-mix colours. I have the small size, don't know if the bigger one would fit in my fridge. When using colours straight out of the tube or doing a quick painting then the disposable pallet is cheaper. A paper plate also works but the disposable pallet has a nice finish that lets the paint just slide off.
Spray bottle helps to re-wet the paint either on or off the pallet. It keeps the water quantities easier to control and the spray works well on the canvas. Lisa from Lachri uses an air brush to spray water, it looks good but I was too cheap to buy one.
Wet Wipes (baby wipes) – when you make a real mess or want to wipe paint off the canvas, wet wipes are AWESOME. Paper towels are good but for acrylics I use wet wipes, they also help clean your hands faster.
Hair Dryer – is good to have when you are in a hurry and need to dry the painting faster. You can buy cheap ones at charity shops.
Tracedown paper – this is at number six because you only need this if you are not drawing freehand. A home made method would be to draw with graphite or charcoal on the back of your reference photo then trace directly from the photo onto your canvas. This is messy, wastes time and smudges a lot... tracedown paper is so much easier. When using the home made method, put hair spray over your traced image to fix the lines so they won't smudge when applying the paint.
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