Here's my hands-on workspace:

• brush pot:  keep your working brushes wet. As an alternative, keep a wet towel on a cookie sheet: lay brushes on towel, and cover them up with the other half.
• tinted (exterior) acrylic primer. Acrylic paints are water-resistant, but won't tolerate standing water (e.g.: water that pools on sills, decking). Not to be confused with acrylic stains, which do not form a film.
• yellow ochre wash for colourizing and toning.
• dusting brush to clean up cobwebs, dust-bunnies, Oreo crumbs.
• dragging brush (stiff polyester), which can also serve as a $ 100.00 flogger. Imagine that.
• painter's colourants - House painters' colourants are not as bright, nor are they ground as finely as artists' tube acrylics, so limit the use of these to your base (ground) coats. These are pure pigments without any binder, so cannot be used alone.
• tins holding glazes
• Q-tip for soaking up puddles in corners. This one happened to be lying there, so I point it out. It's not like they're expensive - that there is only the one. Buy and keep a box in your caddy.
• Newspapers: (not shown). Useful for testing the transparency of glazes, and for dressing up your brush. Also good as a conversational starter when the customer sees you reading.

Start on the inside surfaces. Glaze, in order, the top, then sides, then sill = 1-2-3 . Use the tinted primer to tidy up over-runs and spatters.




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