Blue Mountain School of Landscape Painting 2025
Brian Buckrell Materials List
FOR A STRONGER COMPOSITION
BLUE MT SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING MAY 2025
I have listed the typical art supplies I use and what I will be working with during the class. I will be working in acrylics.
Please visit my You Tube videos on working with acrylics and brushes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaQaygYrBeLq-ywDaSLdIrA
Painting Surfaces
Suggest 11x14 or 12x16 for size . Should have at least three per day. I generally paint on canvas boards – pre-gessoed commercial boards or ones I make myself on MDF .
Drawing - to make small planning/value sketches
• Straight edge or ruler - best is a t square
• Water-soluble coloured pencils - one light colour ( White or Yellow) one dark colour (black)
• • drawing pad
• Acrylic Markers - one light value and one dark value acrylic pen - fine (2 - 4 mm). Any brand:
Painting equipment
• Ideally, I want you to have a holding palette on which you can put out the colours to be used and another palette surface for mixing – or one large enough to do both.
• ideal for acrylics is Masterson Staywet palette 12x16 with sponge and paper to hold and possibly mix the paint...
• I presently am holding my paints in a fishing tackle box – I will demo.
• I use blue Shop Towels
• soap for cleaning brushes - I use Dawn Power Wash spray
• Fine spray water mister
Paint
• Any artist-grade acrylics
• Your palette should be a Split Primary ( a warm and cool of each primary- red, yellow, blue ) plus black and white and the complement of each of those colours - as well any convenience colours you like to use – I add at least a black, white, burnt sienna, hookers green, magenta
My ACRYLIC palette - as a guide - I do not put all out at one time - but there if I need them.
o titanium white