Supply list—Painting

Instructor: John Sevcik

Recommended Paints: (Names of paints used are either universal names, or particular to Utrecht, or Winsor Newton Paints.)

If you work in oil:
*Titanium White
Yellow Ochre (or Mars Yellow)
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber
Burnt Umber
*Ivory Black
Lemon Yellow or Cadmium Lemon (or Winsor Lemon)  
*Cadmium Yellow Medium
*Cadmium Red Light (or Cadmium Red Hue)
Quinacridone Red (or Permanent Alizarin Crimson)
Cerulean Blue (or Cerulean Blue Hue)
Cobalt Blue
*Ultramarine Blu
*Brilliant Green

If you work in acrylics:
*Titanium White
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Raw Umber
Burnt Umber
*Ivory Black
Cadmium Lemon Yellow
*Cadmium Yellow  (or Cadmium Yellow Hue)
*Cadmium Red Light (or Cadmium Red Hue)
Quinacridone Red
Cerulean Blue (or Cerulean Blue Hue)
Cobalt Blue
*Ultramarine Blue
*Brilliant Green or Pthalo Green

The asterisks (*) indicate the most basic list of paints from which we can mix all our needs. If you are a beginner, Basic Oil or Basic Acrylic sets of paints come with something like this assortment.

Canvas: Start at the size you prefer, using a stretched pre-primed (gessoed) canvas. Canvas board or canvas paper are also acceptable.
Paper towels
Palette: a paper palette pad is easiest. Wood palettes can be covered with palette paper.
Brushes: hog bristle flats: # 10, #8, # 4, hog bristle rounds: #4 #2, nylon flats: #4, #6
Pliers: for opening paint tubes. Lobster crackers are good for this, and light
Oil Paint Mediums: linseed oil and odorless turpenoid
Oil Medium containers: one for linseed oil, the other for turpenoid.
Oil Cleaning Solution: natural turpenoid (optional)

Acrylic Palette: a paper palette pad or plastic palette are okay. There is a nice acrylic palette made that is like a flat tuperware container (sta-wet palette is one brand name), with a clay paper palette on a sponge bottom. The sponge holds a charge of water that seeps up through the clay paper to keep all your paints wet during work, and the entire thing closes to keep the paint workable much later.

Acrylic Brushes: Same as above, though you may wish to stick with nylon, or bristle blend brushes in the same sizes.
Acrylic Medium containers: two large (1 quart) plastic yogurt containers.
Acrylic Medium: water, matte medium, matte gel, gloss medium/varnish. You may experiment with the many versions of gels and mediums, but for starters, we will explore the paints using water – the original acrylic medium.

Optional Reading List:
Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
Fairfield Porter, Art in Its Own Terms, especially for our purpose the essay on landscape contrasting the European idea of landscape as setting, with the American idea that landscape is about space. Does that influence our idea of still life, too?

And/or, look at art by: Marc Chagall, Picasso, Van Gogh, Rodin, Soutine, A. P. Ryder, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, etc.