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It good that she can find the time to paint with little ones about , and definitely better to have something that can dry quicker and be put aside if needed . I use watercolour but my younger daughter used to use acrylic especially with her little ones about so much more convenient she said. Hope she gets her pallet sorted and the has fun painting.
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Reminds me of when I started, small flat, partner though didn't have any children then. But it was acrylics for me 2 reds (warm & cool) 2 blues (same) 2 yellows (Yellow ochre and Winsor Yellow), Burnt Umber and Titanium White. Pretty much stuck with it ever since. Gesso isn't needed, nor canvas - primed boards and acrylic paper pads are fine. I did invest in a basic Stay Wet Pallet, but an old plate will do, though not if you need to keep the paints for another session - especially with children around. I have read that 'stay wet' paper on top of damp kitchen roll in a snap top container works well.
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Not much to add - you can paint on anything from prepared boards to watercolour paper (and vitually on any other non-oily surface). You'll need a handful of brushes - at minimum, a flat, a filbert, a round, and a rigger: or a painting knife - you don't really need acrylic medium: I rarely use any; and range of colours: again, keeping it to a minimum, Tony's suggested palette, though I'd substitute burnt sienna for burnt umber; and to be specific about the "warm and cool" colours: Ultramarine (warm); Pthalo or Cobalt or Cerulean Blue (cool); Cadmium Red (warm); Crimson Alizarine - as makers tend to call it in acrylic - or quinacridone magenta/violet/red (cool); Cadmium yellow (warm); Lemon Yellow (cool). Yellow Ochre and Raw Sienna, the one opaque, the other transparent, and tending to resist warm and cool identification. are useful additions unless you want a very "colourful", e.g. possibly brash, palette. Titanium White on top of that, Zinc White if you like, and in time you'll add more colours, mediums, brushes, varnish.
A stay-wet palette is useful, though paint won't stay usable in it forever; failing that, plastic dinner plates served me well for a time.
