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Paint Materials List 2020

The document lists materials needed for an oil painting course including oil paint colors costing approximately $200, brushes of various sizes, mediums like linseed oil and liquin, thinners like turpentine, various sized stretched canvases, a palette knife, gesso, rags, masking tape, a scraper, small glass jars, a newsprint pad, drawing supplies, and tools for visualizing like a viewfinder made of cardboard and string. Optional items are marked with an asterisk. Brands of paint and stores where items can be purchased are also specified.

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Paint Materials List 2020

The document lists materials needed for an oil painting course including oil paint colors costing approximately $200, brushes of various sizes, mediums like linseed oil and liquin, thinners like turpentine, various sized stretched canvases, a palette knife, gesso, rags, masking tape, a scraper, small glass jars, a newsprint pad, drawing supplies, and tools for visualizing like a viewfinder made of cardboard and string. Optional items are marked with an asterisk. Brands of paint and stores where items can be purchased are also specified.

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Materials List

Oil paint colors – Approx.$200- buy large tubes if possible:


-(do not buy any acrylic, alkyd, or water-based oil paints)
-colors noted with an * are optional at the beginning stage.

Titanium White (must be a large tube)


*Zinc White
Naples Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Light
*Permanent Rose
Alizarin Crimson
Dioxazine Purple
Permanent Green
Sap Green
*Pthalo Green
Cobalt Blue
Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
*Pthalo Blue
Burnt Umber
Burnt Sienna
Raw Sienna
Ivory Black (must be a large tube)
*Paynes Gray

Oil paint brands:


-brands noted with an * are available at the Co-Op East, Jerry’s Artorama
and Asel art supply stores. The others are available only by mail order
catalogues.
*Winton Harem
*Windsor and Newton Grumbacher
*Gamblin Utrecht
*Academy Daniel Smith
*Van Gogh Old Holland
Rembrandt

Materials cont…

Brushes:
(Available at art supply stores)
-2 in. chip (house paint) brush
-#10, #6 round brushes
-#8, #3 flat brushes
-#3 fan brush
-#10, #6, #3 filbert brushes
-#12, #8 bright brushes

Mediums:
(Available at art supply stores)
-Linseed oil
-Liquin

Thinners:
(Available at Breed &Co. , Home Depot, or art supply stores)
-Turpentine, or Odorless Mineral Spirits, or Low-Odor Mineral Spirits, or
Turpenoid

Stetchers:
(Fredrix brand canvases available at Asel Art or Co-Op art supply stores)
-“Fredrix” 3—16in.x20in., 2—18in.x24in., 2—22in.x28in

Palette:
(paper palettes avail. at art supply store, Glass can be bought at Home
Depot.)
-Paper palette(disposable) or glass, at least 16in.x20in. The glass must be at
least 1/4in. thick.

Palette knife:
-1 1/2 in. to mix paint

Gesso:
-Acrylic gesso (white) to prime painting surfaces

Materials cont…

Rags:
(You MUST have lots of rags!)
-Either tear up some old cotton tee shirts,towels,etc… for rags, or you can
buy rags by the bag (bag o’ rags) at Home Depot.

Masking Tape:
-1/2in. width

Scraper:
-A razor blade scraper to clean your palette – buy extra blades.

Small glass jars (with screw on tops)or tin cans (with lids):
-To hold your paint thinner,etc. Your containers MUST have lids. Good
ones are mayonnaise jars with lids, etc…

Paper:
-JUMBO size newsprint pad of paper. (available at Co-Op east)

Drawing supplies:
-Exactly like the ones you had in Drawing I and II.
Visualizing tools:
-Make a viewfinder - make a rectangular frame out of cardboard with the
opening 4in.x3in., then tape string across it in both directions, like a
window:

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