Colours Acrylics or Oils

 

Essential:

Alizarin Crimson or Permanent Rose

Cadmium Red Light

Ultramarine Blue

Cobalt Blue

Cadmium Yellow Light

Cadmium Yellow Medium, not too orange

Transparent Red Oxide or Transparent Earth Red or Transparent Burnt Sienna or Burnt Sienna

Titanium White

 

Nice to have:

Quinacridone Violet

Cadmium Orange

Mixing White.  - 1/2 Zinc with 1/2 Titanium White

 

Not Necessary but I use some of them some of the time:

Pthalo Blue

Viridian

Yellow Ochre

Cobalt Teal

Pyrole Red or Perylene Red

 

Brushes:

 

Synthetic Flats for Acrylics

Natural Hog bristle for Oils

 

Sizes from 1/4 inch with up to 1” wide

 

I carry #2, #4, #6, #8, #10, #12 - # 8 or #10 is the work horse

 

Water colour Rigger brush #4

 

 

Mediums:

 

For Acrylic painters, Matte Medium, not Matte Gel

For Oil Painters, Liquin Light Gel and or Gamblin Solvent Free Gel

 

Rags and or paper towels, lots

 

Water container for acrylic painters for brush washing

 

Odourless Mineral spirits in a sealed container for Oil Painters

 

Portable stand up easel - I have an umbrella with my easel just in case its too bright, nice but not necessary - 

 

Solid palette, palette paper pad  no less than 9x12 but 12 x 16 is much better

 

Portable chair if you need one

 

Sun protection gear, hat, long sleeves, sun block cream

 

Camera

 

Sketch pad for thumbnails

 

Painting surfaces:

 

Solid surfaces are best,not stretched canvases,  paint panels, masonite or plywood panels…I use 1/4” birch plywood panels

Seal the wood surfaces and coat with 2 layers of gesso, sanded in-between

 

Pint of Guinness for the instructor