Blue Mountain School of Landscape Painting 2025
Materials List for John David Anderson June 2025
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
Viridi an
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