Supply List

Here is my list.  We will be using mostly paint. Please read though and know you can substitute and use what you have on hand.  I don’t want you to have to purchase a lot of supplies.  We will be mixing our own blacks.

You have the opportunity to use all acrylic for each lesson or all oils.  All lessons are interchangeable with what medium you choose.

I will be doing my best to use the same color palettes for both the acrylic and oil paints.  It is important to get accustomed to mixing a color palette we will use.  During playtime we may venture into new mixtures.

Titanium White

Cadmium Yellow Light

Cadmium Yellow Medium

Cadmium Red Medium

Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold ( or the fluid )

Napthol Red Light

Anthraquinone Blue (I combine this with other colors to get the kings blue i use in oils)

Ultramarine Blue

Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold

Indanthrene Blue

I am a lover of the flat brush. 1.5”,  1” size or 1/2”.  I always find them in my hand.  I can change the edges and get the wide edge then the thinner edge.  But you can use what you like.  I will be encouraging you to always use a larger brush.  The results; a more painterly painting.

I realize paints can be expensive but I believe it is best to practice with the best materials we can so we don’t get frustrated and give up.  It doesn’t have to be hard.  Think in terms of a piano that is in tune or out of tune.

Windsor Newton Brand

Titanium White

Cadmium Yellow Light

Cadmium Yellow

Cadmium Red

**Cadmium Scarlet

**Alizarin Crimson Permanent

**Permanent Mauve

Rembrandt Brand:

Ultramarine Deep ( i use instead of ultramarine blue but you can use the ultramarine blue)

**Transparent Oxide Red

Viridian Green

Transparent Oxide Yellow

Sennelier

** King’s Blue

Palette knifes

some kind of container for turp.  I recommend;

Gamsol a 100% pure odorless mineral spirits.  The least toxic.  The only thing I use to clean my brushes.

Viva towels  the most absorbent and the paint doesn’t get all over my hands.

I prefer a glass palette.  But you can use whatever you like.  I got mine from a consignment store I use in a picture frame.

Again I love flats.   I use Rosemary and Co Brushes.  The Michelle Dunaway set.  http://www.rosemaryandco.com/

If you get this set you will have everything you will need.  Brushes are like the reed to a clarinet. They take a lot of the work of painting.  I will put together my favorite list for you.

Here you have a diverse group of choices.  You can choose so many different surfaces from a smooth portrait grade linen by Ray Mar, to a gessoed primed birch cradle panel.  I have been staying away from the canvas panels you will find at your hobby Lobby or Michaels store.  Why, because they pull at my paint making painting hard.   I could still use them if I coated them with gesso and sanded them 3x’s.  I have fallen in love with the cradle boards and linen.  I don’t use linen often,  but when I do it always gives me goose bumps because its simply divine.  Pick out any size you would like to work on.  I will go into more on substrates in the class.

If you have questions please ask.