Painting I (PT100-5)

• WHITE – Titanium
• BLACK (During the first few weeks of the school year, all students work monochromatically – black and white only. Black is then removed from the palette until later in the year when students are better able to use it effectively.)
• BROWN – Burnt Sienna or Burnt Umber will be used as the first color added to the black and white palette. Burnt Umber looks warmer when thinned but quickly becomes quite cool when mixed with white. Burnt Sienna is a warmer brown color and will work well when used with a black and white palette.
• RED – Choose one red. All others are optional. Possibilities include Cadmium Red Light, Medium, or Deep (all cadmium reds are on the orange side; “deep” is the least orange of all); Vermilion, Napthol Red.
• YELLOW -- Cadmium Yellow Light. A light yellow gives a greater range of color mixing possibilities. Darker yellows, such as ochre or mars, are great “shortcut” colors and can be relatively inexpensive. Naples Yellow can also be a great “shortcut” color, but be aware that it has been weakened by the addition of white. These “shortcut” colors are optional.
• BLUE – Ultramarine. Other blues are optional: Cerulean is a strong color and can be quite expensive. It has a certain amount of yellow in it that allows for bright green mixtures but cannot mix a satisfactory violet. Cobalt is rather transparent, has good mixing capabilities for green and violet, but it will not produce quite as dark a value as ultramarine. It can also be expensive. Pthalo Blue is an extremely strong color that can often dominate a painting. It has great tinting properties. Beginners should be wary of this pigment’s invasive tendencies. It is relatively easy to end up with an overall greenish-blue tinge throughout the painting because of this pigment’s strength.

Medium / Media of choice:

• Just as watercolor need water, oil paints may need a medium. Linseed oil mixed with turpenoid (a turpentine alternative) is a fine medium. Stand oil (boiled linseed oil) can also be mixed with solvent and used as a medium.

Brushes:

• Larger brushes – one inch wide or two inches wide – will help develop painting skills much more effectively than tiny brushes ½ inch wide or smaller. Tiny brushes encourage tiny strokes which, in turn, encourage over-painting and over- detailing. Larger brushes require adept brush handling and encourage economy.

Solvent/Thinner:

• Turpenoid or Eco-House orange solvent. No Grumtine or Turpentine.
  

Canvas or panels:

• Stretched canvas, canvas board (okay for student problems, not for masterpieces), gessoed masonite, primed canvas pieces, etc.

Other materials:

• Palette.
• Palette knife (for cleaning palette, mixing paints, scraping areas of painting.)
• Paper towels.
• Cotton rags. 
• Masking tape. 
• Pencil or pen. 
• Small notebook for thumbnail sketches. 
• Bag to hold materials. 
• Rubber gloves – if needed, mineral oil for cleaning skin, “barrier cream” or “invisible glove” hand cream can be useful.

 Pencils will be the preferred medium, drawn upon standard white drawing paper.

Please bring  a drawing pad and pencils to first day of class, along with the other items in bold type.

• 2B, 4B and 6B pencils

optional: HB or H pencils (useful for a heavy hand)

• 18 x 24 inch Strathmore 400 series drawing pad.
• Drawing board, 19 x 25 inch.
• Kneaded eraser.
• Sketchbook.

• Pink pearl or MagicRub eraser.
• Can of workable fixative.
• Vine Charcoal.
• Portfolio for holding loose drawings (19 x 25 inch or larger.)
• Large clips for attaching paper to board.
• Thin dowel or bamboo skewer (for measuring.)

Optional:

• Masking tape.
• X-acto knife or mat knife.
• Pencil sharpener
• Tracing paper.
• Small hand mirror.

• WHITE – Titanium
• REDS – Cadmium Red Light, Medium, or Deep. Quinacridone Red or Permanent Rose; Thalo Red Rose; Manganese Violet; Quinacridone Violet
• YELLOWS-- Cadmium Yellow Light; Cadmium Yellow Medium; Hansaa Light
• BLUES – Ultramarine; Cerulean; Cobalt; Pthalo
• GREENS - Cadmium Green; Permanent Green Light;; Viridian; Chromium Oxide

Medium / Media of choice:

•  Linseed oil mixed with turpenoid (a turpentine alternative) is a fine medium. Stand oil (boiled linseed oil) can also be mixed with solvent and used as a medium.

Brushes:

• Flats or Brights - no smaller than 1/2" wide
• Rounds are optional

Solvent/Thinner:

• Turpenoid or Eco-House orange solvent. No Grumtine or Turpentine.
  

Canvas or panels:

• Stretched canvas,  primed canvas pieces (bring a strong flat painting board and dependable tape, etc.
• primed masonite, primed birch plywood, primed linen or canvas mounted on panel.

Other materials:

• Sketch Box or field easel
• Palette.
• Palette knife (for cleaning palette, mixing paints, scraping areas of painting.)
• Small, lidded container for medium
• Paper towels or rags. 
• Sunscreen, hats, bug repellant
• Masking tape. 
• Pencil or pen. 
• Small notebook for thumbnail sketches. 
• Bag, bucket or other means of carrying everything in one trip to hold materials. 
• small sketchbook
• optional: Rubber gloves – if needed, mineral oil for cleaning skin, “barrier cream” or “invisible glove” hand cream can be useful.
• optional stool or chair
• optional plastic wrap
• brush-cleaning paraphernalia