Bold and Bright

STUDIO BASICS

• Water
• Water Containers
• Zip closure plastic bags or plastic bags that can be tied water tight Paper Towels or Shop Rags
• Nitrile Gloves
• Dish Soap
• Green Degreaser cleaner like “Simple Green” Wax Paper / Disposable Wax Paper Palette
• Paper Towels
• Light Hold ½ inch tape

PAINTS

I use and highly recommend Holbein Duo Water Mixable Oils.

• Ultramarine Blue
• Cadmium Red Light Hue (Pyrrol Red)
• Cadmium Yellow Light Hue (Diarylide/Hansa mix with good light fastness)
• Permanent or Titanium White, highly recommend the 110 ML tube.
• Pthalo Green Blue Shade (optional but first color beyond the others to add in, I use this in some of the lessons)
• Talens Cobra Professional and Winsor Newton Artisan are also really good water mixable oil paints and can be used with Holbein Duos.

ACRYLIC PAINT

• Pyrrol or Napthol Red
• AND/OR Pyrrol Orange

BRUSHES

You’ll need a stiff “synthetic hog” brush. Princeton Catalyst flats will do well, too. Flats or long flats are the best starter shapes. Natural hog is OK, but it will not hold up to water and washing like synthetics will.

• A couple of foam hardware store brushes - super useful!
• I highly recommend Trekell Opal if it’s available in your region. Rosemary and co. faux hog is probably almost identical.
• Size 6 and 8. 1/2 inch and 5/8 inch in width.
• Number 2 softer taklon round for detail.
• 4 catalyst rigger/liner with a short handle for detail and branches.
• It’s possible to enjoy this class with a 6 or 4 flat, an 8 flat, and a 2 round in a slightly softer bristle. - 3 brushes!

SURFACES

I like to paint on paper, so I demo painting on paper. Inexpensive, and I can mount only the ones I love best.

• Canson XL’s “acrylic/oil” paper
• Legion Stonehenge Oil (the white and red pad) or Arches “Oil Paper”

OPTIONAL

• Holbein water soluble linseed oil
• Gamblin Solvent Free Gel and Medium with Duos

OPTIONAL - BONUS LESSON

• Acrylic Paints: Holbein Marigold, Opera and Pyrrol Orange, Liquitex Pthalo Green light yellow shade, and Liquitex Pthalo Blue.
• Golden Acrylic Glazing Liquid
• Foam Brush
• For the bonus lesson you might also like Catalyst wedges, scrapers, credit cards, brayers, all those kinds of tools (I use mine!)

OPTIONAL - MOUNTING AND FINISHING

• Primed panel identical size to your painting on paper
• Waxpaper
• NORI Rice Paste OR archival PVA glue OR gel medium
• Baren OR Brayer
• Soluvar by Liquitex OR Gamvar OR Cold Wax Medium
• Rags or brushes for applying your choice (I use a rag and cold wax)