Blue Mountain School of Landscape Painting 2026
MARC GRANDBOIS MATERIAL LIST
PIGMENTS
Here is a list of colors I use. List is provided as suggestion in addition to your current palette and no obligation to buy all this. Colour names are based on Liquitex HEAVY BODY and Golden Acrylics but there are equivalent (maybeunder different names) in most other brands and also in watercolor or oil. Avoid student grade pigments likestudio, Pebeo.
Neutral grey N5
Van dyke Brown
Green gold
Sap green
Turquoise deep(Liquitex)
Unbleached titanium or Naple yellow(Liquitex)
Parchemin(Liquitex)
Dioxanine violet
Magenta Quinacridone
Transparent Red Oxyde or Quinacridone burnt orange (Golden)*
Nickel azo yellow or Quinacridone Nickel Azo gold (Golden)
Manganese blue
Brilliant blue, light blue permanent (or whatever blues already mixed with white)
Anthraquidone Blue
*those 2 pigments are now discontinued but can still be found sporadically in some art stores
BRUSHES
I suggest to add a 1’’ or 1-1/4’’ watercolor rigger to your brushes assortment.
OTHERAcrylic retarder additive gel (preferably from Golden brand)
SUGGESTION FOR SUPPORT: I suggest to try masonite board for acrylic. Prepare the surface preferably with one coat of latex primer (same stuff as what’s use for priming home sheetrock walls). Gesso works also but primer is better. Birch panels works great too as long as you sand it to get an even smoother surface and apply primer over it.