Registration for 4 weeks, November 1-22

Tuesdays, 10am - 12:30pm

Supply List                             

• Properly sealed large wooden palette (natural wood or neutral grey) or neutral grey disposable palette (not white). 
• Brushes: #4,6,8 flats and #2, 4 rounds
• Palette or painting knife for mixing on palette
• Vine charcoal or medium charcoal pencil
• Sharpener or razor blade and sanding block
• 4 gesso or oil primed panels or stretched canvas no bigger than 9x12
• several inexpensive canvas boards 11X14
• sealable container with Gamsol (or Turpenoid) Odorless Mineral Spirits (no other solvents or mediums please)
• Paper towels, small trash bags
• French Easel or other plein air easel (optional)
• Nitrile gloves (optional)
• A Pocket Color Wheel is helpful
• Tubes of paint:  A professional grade warm and cool of each primary and large tube of White.

If you need to buy paint and don't have a favorite brand or want to keep costs down, Maimeri produces a student quality line called Classico with very good tinting strength that I recommend.   A palette of their Ultramarine Deep, Permanent Carmine (a Quinacridone red) and Cadmium Yellow Deep can be mixed into a very good full spectrum palette. This can be used instead of the six pigment warm and cool primary palette.  Consider this helpful information only.  If you have a warm and cool version of blue, red and yellow already there is no need to buy more.

                My palette:

Pigments using the same name can vary significantly from brand to brand.  The below names correspond to Gamblin colors.

Ultramarine Blue (Gamblin's leans slightly toward blue-violet)

Pthalo Green (very strong) or Viridian (easier to use but expensive)

Alizarin Crimson Permanent

Cadmium Red Medium or Quinacridone Red or Cadmium Red Light

Cadmium Yellow Light Pure*

Cadmium Yellow Lemon Pure*

Titanium/Zinc White

*If you want to avoid using any heavy metal pigments like Cadmium, Gamblin makes Hansa yellows (medium and light) which I like very much.  Permanent Yellow is another name other brands use for these pigments.  If you substitute Quinacridone for Cadmium Red you have a pretty safe set of paints.