supply list - advanced oil
Intermediate and Advanced Painting: List of Supplies
CONCEPT: Come to first day of class with some ideas of what you are interested in painting. With class discussion, you may decide to alter your plans, but come with ideas anyway to start the ball rolling. Ideas, photo images, etc will be helpful.
If you have a painting in progress, bring it as well.
OIL PAINTS: Buy Winsor Newton for the following colors: – Medium size tubes (37 – 40 ml size tubes) - Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red Medium, Permanent Rose, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Winsor Violet or Dioxazine Purple, (French) Ultramarine Blue, Pthalo Blue, Pthalo Green, Sap Green, Yellow Ochre. *Note: If you cannot find Winsor Newton, see below under NOTE for brand preferences) Buy Winton for the following colors: (DO NOT buy anything with Hue or Barium in the color name) Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Black LARGE tube of Titanium White *NOTE: Do not buy anything with HUE or Barium in the color name. Brand preferences : Winsor & Newton, Grumbacher Pretested, Maimeri, Old Holland. Do not buy Grumbacher Academy Brand, Van Gogh or Rembrandt brands. (These brands tend to have less pigment and make for strange color mixing.) Do not buy watersoluble oil paints! BRUSHES– Brights: (natural hog hair) –Buy each of the following: Two size 2, two size 4, two size 6, one size 8, one size 10 Filberts: (natural sable or mongoose) one size 10 Round: (synthetic ) One small (2/3 diameter of a pencil) Silverbrush #2R Brands preferred: Princeton series 5100, Signet by Robert Simmons, Strathmore Natural Hog Bristle, Wilton by Winsor & Newton, Winsor & Newton Rathbone Supreme Bristle Brushes, Raphael best quality, Series 30 by Daniel Smith. NOTE: Really cheap brushes will lose their bristles on the painting. Buying small synthetic brushes or brushes not appropriate for oil painting will work against you when applying paint. Also, you can purchase more if you wish. Larger color wheel Value Finder/ Grey scale Notebook for notes and handouts Ultra fine tip Sharpie permanent ink black magic marker HB pencils 24” Ruler Odorless Turpenoid – medium size /1 quart blue/white can (NOT Green), or you can buy Low odor Mineral spirits Original Liquin –Winsor and Newton 2.5 oz bottle or larger Dorlands Wax Medium or Gamblin Cold Wax Medium – 2 oz container (very small) Palette knives - One or two metal. These sizes are all okay #22, 13, or 11. The neck should not be flat from handle. The head should come to a soft rounded point, not flat ended. Paper pad palette (Disposable) –Canson or Strathmore 12”x16” rectangular pad of wax like paper. (Avoid ones with cut out holes or are circular.) This size is important to fit into a plastic palette holder. (see next) Artist’s Palette Holder – 12”x16” rectangular plastic box with red or blue plastic seal top Can to hold brushes – Tall can is better Artist box, etc for paints, etc Stretched, Pre-Gessoed Canvases – (Staples on the back, not sides!) – Sizes: two of 18”x24” (Fredrix brand or other similar). If you have a painting in progress, bring it in. I will be introducing larger sizes (30” x 40” stretched canvas and larger, panels, etc in class. Depending on your interest, after the first class you can then get the appropriate canvas or support you desire. Scott SHOP towels - Blue thick auto mechanic paper towels on a roll (at most hardware stores, Target, etc.) Holders for medium or to store used paint till next time - plastic film canisters Solvent Jar – Glass jar with a metal coil inside. For holding solvent (Turpenoid, spirits) Latex or vinyl gloves (keeps toxic chemicals in paints, solvents off hands) Painters smock or old shirt Sharp scissors Straight edge Slide without the film in it Ivory or Dawn liquid detergent Sketch pad 8” x 10” or larger Optional but very useful:
General Pencil Brand of brush cleaner soap (soap in beige opaque jar) Sargent’s plastic caddy (6 count) tray (prevents waste of paint, mediums.) For mixing classic medium and for use individually with paint: Distilled Turpentine Damar Varnish Refined Lindseed Oil For stretching your own canvas (only if you want to): Rubber mallet Stretcher bars- two 16” bars, two 20” bars Wood Keys – 4 (small pieces of wood for your canvas stretchers. Canvas – Natural, unbleached type with NO water resistant coating, 3 yards long and at least 48” wide. (Less expensive at fabric stores, than at art suppliers.) Canvas stretcher Pliers Staple gun –Heavy duty, Arrow brand is good Staples – size T-50 Acrylic Gesso - one quart Liquitex, Golden, Winsor and Newton brands
OIL PAINTS: Buy Winsor Newton for the following colors: – Medium size tubes (37 – 40 ml size tubes) - Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red Medium, Permanent Rose, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Winsor Violet or Dioxazine Purple, (French) Ultramarine Blue, Pthalo Blue, Pthalo Green, Sap Green, Yellow Ochre. *Note: If you cannot find Winsor Newton, see below under NOTE for brand preferences) Buy Winton for the following colors: (DO NOT buy anything with Hue or Barium in the color name) Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Black LARGE tube of Titanium White *NOTE: Do not buy anything with HUE or Barium in the color name. Brand preferences : Winsor & Newton, Grumbacher Pretested, Maimeri, Old Holland. Do not buy Grumbacher Academy Brand, Van Gogh or Rembrandt brands. (These brands tend to have less pigment and make for strange color mixing.) Do not buy watersoluble oil paints! BRUSHES– Brights: (natural hog hair) –Buy each of the following: Two size 2, two size 4, two size 6, one size 8, one size 10 Filberts: (natural sable or mongoose) one size 10 Round: (synthetic ) One small (2/3 diameter of a pencil) Silverbrush #2R Brands preferred: Princeton series 5100, Signet by Robert Simmons, Strathmore Natural Hog Bristle, Wilton by Winsor & Newton, Winsor & Newton Rathbone Supreme Bristle Brushes, Raphael best quality, Series 30 by Daniel Smith. NOTE: Really cheap brushes will lose their bristles on the painting. Buying small synthetic brushes or brushes not appropriate for oil painting will work against you when applying paint. Also, you can purchase more if you wish. Larger color wheel Value Finder/ Grey scale Notebook for notes and handouts Ultra fine tip Sharpie permanent ink black magic marker HB pencils 24” Ruler Odorless Turpenoid – medium size /1 quart blue/white can (NOT Green), or you can buy Low odor Mineral spirits Original Liquin –Winsor and Newton 2.5 oz bottle or larger Dorlands Wax Medium or Gamblin Cold Wax Medium – 2 oz container (very small) Palette knives - One or two metal. These sizes are all okay #22, 13, or 11. The neck should not be flat from handle. The head should come to a soft rounded point, not flat ended. Paper pad palette (Disposable) –Canson or Strathmore 12”x16” rectangular pad of wax like paper. (Avoid ones with cut out holes or are circular.) This size is important to fit into a plastic palette holder. (see next) Artist’s Palette Holder – 12”x16” rectangular plastic box with red or blue plastic seal top Can to hold brushes – Tall can is better Artist box, etc for paints, etc Stretched, Pre-Gessoed Canvases – (Staples on the back, not sides!) – Sizes: two of 18”x24” (Fredrix brand or other similar). If you have a painting in progress, bring it in. I will be introducing larger sizes (30” x 40” stretched canvas and larger, panels, etc in class. Depending on your interest, after the first class you can then get the appropriate canvas or support you desire. Scott SHOP towels - Blue thick auto mechanic paper towels on a roll (at most hardware stores, Target, etc.) Holders for medium or to store used paint till next time - plastic film canisters Solvent Jar – Glass jar with a metal coil inside. For holding solvent (Turpenoid, spirits) Latex or vinyl gloves (keeps toxic chemicals in paints, solvents off hands) Painters smock or old shirt Sharp scissors Straight edge Slide without the film in it Ivory or Dawn liquid detergent Sketch pad 8” x 10” or larger Optional but very useful:
General Pencil Brand of brush cleaner soap (soap in beige opaque jar) Sargent’s plastic caddy (6 count) tray (prevents waste of paint, mediums.) For mixing classic medium and for use individually with paint: Distilled Turpentine Damar Varnish Refined Lindseed Oil For stretching your own canvas (only if you want to): Rubber mallet Stretcher bars- two 16” bars, two 20” bars Wood Keys – 4 (small pieces of wood for your canvas stretchers. Canvas – Natural, unbleached type with NO water resistant coating, 3 yards long and at least 48” wide. (Less expensive at fabric stores, than at art suppliers.) Canvas stretcher Pliers Staple gun –Heavy duty, Arrow brand is good Staples – size T-50 Acrylic Gesso - one quart Liquitex, Golden, Winsor and Newton brands