DRAWING SUPPLIES

 

  SUPPLIES 

•  Smooth surfaced drawing board with clips –

• Your choice

  • Vine charcoal –

  • Graphite pencils: HB, 2B, 4B, & 6B graphite drawing pencils –

• kneaded eraser

• Smooth drawing pad 18” x24” –

• Stump (Please don’t get tortillion which are loosely rolled. A stump is a light gray, smooth, and tapered paper tool that looks like it was sharpened in a sharpener with both ends pointed. You will need one for graphite and one for charcoal.)                

 

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OIL PAINTING SUPPLIES

 

COLORS                                                                                                                                           

Windsor Newton’s Artist Grade or similar

                note: Do not get WINTON or PRETEST grade or any paint with the work HUE in it!

 

• Burnt Umber

• Raw Sienna    

• Cadmium Lemon

• Quinacridone Magenta

• Cadmium Scarlet

• Titanium White

• Cadmium Green Pale

• Permanent Green

• Cobalt Blue

• French Ultramarine Blue

 

Optional colors for Color Theory & Landscapes:

• Dioxazine Violet

• Phthalo Turquoise

• Phthalo Green

• Cadmium Yellow Medium

• Cadmium Orange

 

 

OTHER SUPPLIES

Thick Paper Towels (shop towels are best) or Rags, Odorless Turpentine or Turpenoid stored in a Glass Jar, Galkyd Oil by Gamblin (preferably not thin),    

Palette knife (best if shaped like a trowel), Palette (paper pallet is best - find the waxy type. Don’t get trays with cups, please! )                                                                                             

Brushes:

Oil painting brushes should be short haired.  The weight of the paint will not work with rounded or long bristled brushes.  You always want a brush that retains the chiseled tip when you snap the bristles back with your finger- Especially with the synthetic sables that you choose.  Don’t pick a brush by what the store tells you is for oil painting.  It has only to do with the bristles that you want. 

• 3 Bristle brushes (white pig hair brushes -  ¼”, ½”,  & 1” – less than 1” in length)
• 4 Various Sable or synthetic sable flat firm brushes, Filbert or Flat (1/8”, ¼”, ½”,  & 1” – all hair length should be no longer than ½” except the 1” which can be around 1” in length also.)
• One Hake or Mop brush (this brush is a long haired soft, fuzzy brush - like a rabbit’s tail -- used to smooth the paint strokes.)
• Canvas and photo or still life objects to paint from. 

 

When painting portraits, it is best to start with a stranger.  The process of learning color mixing and techniques is challenging, and when we take the emotions of pleasing someone else out of the equation, the challenge is easier.  Choose a photo from the internet or a printed photo.  You can work from your laptop or electronic pad to get a better image or print a photo.  I can help you to get the image drawn on the canvas if you are not confident in your drawing skills yet.  

 

 

 

ACRYLIC SUPPLIES 

 

COLORS                                                                                           

I highly suggest buying Sennelier Acrylic paints                                                                                                             

• §  Fuchsia Quinacridone (cool red – has blue in it)
• §  Cadmium Red (warm red – has yellow in it)
• §  Ultramarine Blue (cool blue – has red in it)
• §  Cobalt blue (purest form of blue)
• §  Ultramarine Violet
• §  Cadmium Yellow Medium (warm yellow – has red in it)
• §  Cadmium Yellow Lemon (cool yellow – has blue in it)
• §  Cadmium Orange
• §  Permanent Green Light (warm green – has lots of yellow in it)
• §  Phthalo Green blue shade (cool green – very turquoise)
• §  Mars Black (any black is fine)
• §  Titanium White

 

OTHER SUPPLIES

 

Thick Paper Towels, or Rags  

Water container

Water in a squirt bottle                                                                                               

Palette knife (metal - looks like a trowel)

Palette (paper pallet is best - find the waxy type. Don’t get trays with cups)                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Brushes:

 

• Various Bristle brushes (ranging from 1/4” to 1”)
• Various Sable or synthetic sable flat, firm brushes, Filbert or Flat (ranging from 1/16” to 1/2”)
• One Hake or Mop brush (this brush is a long haired soft, fuzzy brush - like a rabbit’s tail -- used to smooth the paint strokes.
• One Liner Brush - very thin (1/16” approx.) and long (1” approx.)

 

You are welcome to choose any subject you wish.  It is up to the students to have a subject in mind on the first day of class.  Working from photos or a still life set up on the table is recommended. 

When painting portraits, it is best to start with a stranger.  The process of learning color mixing and techniques is challenging, and when we take the emotions of pleasing someone else out of the equation, the challenge is easier.  Choose a photo from the internet or a printed photo.  You can work from your laptop or electronic pad to get a better image or print a photo.  I can help you to get the image drawn on the canvas if you are not confident in your drawing skills yet.

 

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PASTEL SUPPLIES

 

THE FOLLOWING SUPPLIES WILL BE NEEDED TO PAINT IN PASTEL. 

PASTEL PAINTERS are welcome – Chalk pastels only … not oil pastels (unless you really have to.)

 

 

Colors Choose a few really inexpensive sets with many bright colors to add to your pastel collection.  Use the list above and pick as many variations that are near those colors and flesh tones as you could possibly have. The more colors you have the better.  I also want you to bring black charcoal.  Conte’ Crayons and white charcoal are helpful.  You will need all of the following.  Some hard pastels, at least 6 variations of pastel pencils including a dark brown, a soft blue, black, white, a red, a cool green & some flesh tones.  You will also need a soft white stick.  I use all brands from nupastel, conte’, schmenke, grumbacher, and cheaper brands for quick fillers of brighter colors.

 

Supplies Smooth drawing board, pastel paper in colors that are mid to dark range, I like pea green, blues, rust, and many neutral colors that are found in flesh.  If you work slow and want to do a portrait that is on a finer paper … get an expensive fine pumas sand paper. You will also need a white gum eraser.  If you wish to wear gloves you can.  Paper towels are helpful.  Kleenex tissue are good and soft for smoothing (please be careful to not bring the special lanolin or oily Kleenex).

 

 

 

 

Advice on pastels: The more you have, the better your work will be.  But, start with some great sets.  Make sure that you get one or two expensive sticks (Schmincke, Unison, or Sennilier are the best).  Buy some really cheap sets as well.  The best variety makes for the greatest experience.  Grumbacher makes great sets that encompass subjects like portraits or landscapes.  Have fun in picking color. 

When painting portraits, it is best to start with a stranger.  The process of learning color mixing and techniques is challenging, and when we take the emotions of pleasing someone else out of the equation, the challenge is easier.  Choose a photo from the internet or a printed photo.  You can work from your laptop or electronic pad to get a better image or print a photo.  I can help you to get the image drawn on the canvas if you are not confident in your drawing skills yet.

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WATERCOLOR SUPPLIES

 

 

COLORS

                                                                                               

• §  Quinacridone Magenta (cool red – has blue in it)

 

 

OTHER SUPPLIES

 

Thick Paper Towels or Rags   

Water container

Kleenex (not the oily type)                                                                                        

Palette                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

Brushes:

 

• Various round brushes (ranging from 1/32” to 3/8” wide)
• One 1” Sable or synthetic sable flat, firm brush
• Elephant ear sponge
• One Liner Brush - very thin (1/16” approx.) and long (1” approx.)
• Resist
• Hard Press water color paper
  • Block Larger is best - 14 x 20” or 18 x 24” 140lb. is ok. 
  • If you choose to use a sheet of WC paper – choose a heavy weight like 300lb.
  • If you have a lighter sheet of paper and not a block, you will need to stretch your water color paper on a board by getting the paper soaked and then stapling or taping it to a smooth solid wood board.  Please ask for more details if you haven’t done this before. 

 

You are welcome to choose any subject you wish.  It is up to the students to have a subject in mind on the first day of class.  Working from photos or a still life set up on the table is recommended. 

When painting portraits, it is best to start with a stranger.  The process of learning color mixing and techniques is challenging, and when we take the emotions of pleasing someone else out of the equation, the challenge is easier.  Choose a photo from the internet or a printed photo.  You can work from your laptop or electronic pad to get a better image or print a photo.  I can help you to get the image drawn on the canvas if you are not confident in your drawing skills yet.  

 

 

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SCULPTING SUPPLIES. 

 

 

• Plasticine clay – 2 blocks NSP brand ‘Soft’ plasticine clay. Order online ahead of class for the easiest method of getting it.
• Exacto knife:  (pencil shape with angled blade)
• Armature wire: 1/8” roll (at least 4 feet length)
• Wire cutters
• Standard clip on aluminum lamp with bulb – for clay softening
• Small bucket to soften clay in
• 12” ruler
• 10” square piece of 1/2” plywood (platform) Must be plywood for sturdiness
• Staple gun
• Sculpting tools - various

 

 

 

  

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL WITH ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

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