Artists: you do not need to purchase every item before the first class, supplies can be accumulated over time.
Please email or call if you have never painted before and I'll discuss the minimum materials needed.
Click on the links below to see online catalogs
The following materials may be found in several locations:
Locally:at Michael's (www.michaels.com), A.C.Moore (www.acmoore.com), Drawing Board Plus (926 N. East St. in Frederick, Maryland) and JoAnn Fabrics (www.JoAnn.com) You can print out 40%-50% off a single item coupons from these websites or cut them out of the newspaper and use them for most of your supplies. Local prices for art materials will be quite a bit higher than art supplies purchased online.
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Required Oil Paints : Winsor Newton Professional Grade (do not buy "Winton" the student grade, the colors are diluted with fillers): alizarin crimson, cad. yellow light, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber, cerulean blue, french ultramarine blue, viridian, sap green, ivory black
Required Permalba (brand by Weber) paints: Permalba White ( the only white recommended) and Cadmium Red Light (If you can't get Permalba's Cadmium Red Light for some reason, you can substitute with Winsor Newton's Cadmium Scarlet or Cadmium Vermilion. But Permalba's CRL is much much less expensive and is an excellent color!) Jerry's Artarama carries Permalba paints.
Optional Winsor Newton paints: naples yellow, winsor violet ( or dioxazine purple in Grumbacher), venetian red, permanent rose, indian yellow, raw sienna, raw umber, chromium oxide green, cadmium yellow (not "light") or cadmium yellow medium, cadmium orange
Jerry's Artarama and DickBlick both carry Winsor Newton OIl Paints and both Robert Simmons and Silver Brush Company brushes, as well as all other supplies listed on this site.
Brushes: assorted bristle filberts, sizes 2-8, assorted bristle flats, one or two bristle fan brushes large and small, soft "sable"- type filberts and rounds in various sizes for blending and detail work (If you can only afford a few brushes get a few bristle filberts and a few bristle flats, the true "workhorse" brushes. )
Recommended: Robert Simmons brushes
and
"Bristlon" brushes by Silver Brush Company
Mediums: (helps paint to flow) You may paint with or without a medium. Mediums are traditionally used in the latter stages of a painting. You only need to purchase one, but there are many types. Some speed drying, some slow it down. Here are some commercial mediums to experiment with: Gamsol's Neo Megilp (similar to Maroget), Gamsol's Galkyd (similar to Liquin, speeds drying), Winsor Newton's Liquin, speeds drying, Weber's Res-n-gel, Artisan Water Mixable Oil Painting Medium (made for use with water soluble oils but can also be used with our traditional oils), Weber's Rapid Dry medium. There are many recipes to make your own mediums. One commonly used all-purpose recipe is: 1 part stand oil, 1 part damar varnish, 5 parts turpentine. This is not a glazing medium.
Solvents: (cleans brushes, palettes, thins paints for first layer and lay-in stages) I recommend Weber's odorless Turpenoid, odorless mineral spirits, or Gamsol (also an odorless mineral spirit). Do NOT use a product called Turpenoid Natural as your solvent. It is very strong, even though "natural" and made from citrus. It will eat through the paint on a brush handle. I recommend it highly to clean old hardened paint from brushes, but wouldn't put it anywhere near my paintings.
Palette: a wood palette, or glass over gray paper with a medium value is better than disposable white paper palettes. Luckily there now is available a GRAY disposable palette. This is manufacutured by the Jack Richeson company and is available in two sizes from Jerry's Artarama.
The best wood palettes in the world are made by Turtlewood Palettes. They are incredibly and beautifully made, lightweight, ergonomically balanced. I use the Pro Series 2. Here is a link to their website, tell them I sent you: www.turtlewoodpalettes.com
Varnish: Grumbacher brush-on "retouch" varnish for paintings that have dried a minimum of 6 weeks (no spray varnish) and Liquitex Soluvar varnish (50% matte, 50% gloss mixed) for paintings that have thoroughly dried a minimum of 6, better 12, months.
Other: paper towels, stretched canvas, palette knife, workable fixative (Grumbacher spray), drawing pencils, kneaded eraser, small jar of safflower oil for cleaning brushes
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