Suggested Supply List:
- Solvent container with locking lid (I recommend da Vinci or similar)
- Cup or container for medium (if using a medium)
- Oil Paint (any brand of good quality paint). Suggested colors:
- Ultramarine Blue
- Manganese Blue
- Sap Green
- Burnt Sienna
- Burnt Umber
- Alizarin Crimson
- Cadmium Orange
- Cadmium Red Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Yellow Ochre
- Titanium White
I recommend hog bristle or good quality synthetic brushes for oil painting. Bring a mixture of filberts, flats, and rounds in various sizes (4, 6, 8, 10) with one sable rigger (liner). I use Robert Simmons Signet series (hog bristles) and Rosemary & Co. Ivory series (synthetic). Don’t bring worn out brushes.
- You will use 3 to 4 panels per day. Your choice of panel sizes (6x8, 8x10, 9x12) - no larger than 9x12 for this workshop. Please bring panels rather than stretched canvas and avoid panels with too “slick” a surface.
- Optional: I tone my panels with a thin wash of Liquitex Red Oxide acrylic paint wiped on with a moist paper towel.
Graham’s Walnut Alkyd Medium - a fast drying and non-toxic product; Gamblin Neo Megilp.
- 3 to 5 OF YOUR OWN PHOTO REFERENCES YOU WOULD LIKE TO PAINT FROM (4x6 or 5x7 sizes suggested)
ODORLESS mineral spirits (Gamsol or Turpenoid). Do not bring hardware store turpentine - it is not healthy for you or the people around you.
- Paper towels and plastic grocery bags for used paper towels
- Painting clothes (please wear clothing you don’t mind getting a little oil paint on)
- disposable gloves
- wet panel carrier
- bag lunch, bottled water
Online Art Stores for Supplies and Equipment:
- Cheap Joes www.cheapjoes.com
- Dick Blick www.dickblick.com
- Art Supply Warehouse www.artsupplywarehouse.com
- Italian Art Store www.italianartstore.com/store/index/html
- Jerry’s Artarama www.jerrysartarama.com
- Triangle Coatings (Classic Artist Oils) www.tricoatstore.com
- Artist and Craftsman Supply www.artistcraftsman.com
- Judson’s Art Outfitters www.judsonart.com
- RayMar Art www.raymarart.com
- SourceTek www.canvaspanels.com
- Guerrilla Painter www.guerrillapainter.com
- Rosemary & Co. www.rosemaryandco.com