Materials List for Workshop -- basic
list
Required Reading on Verismo
- "French" easel
-- foldup plein air painter's easel of some kind
- palette -- wooden, glass,
or plexiglass, whatever works for you
- medium container -- metal
cup or tunafish can, something like that
- glass bottle with
screening material (like from a screen door) pushed into it (for your
mineral spirits)
- one can oderless mineral spirits (get from hardware store)
- bottle of medium (linseed
oil or walnut oil or copal painting medium, anything or this sort)
- painting rags or paper
towels
- palette knife of some
type
- razer
blades or paint scraper of some sort
- oil painting brushes --
filberts and brights work best -- (good quality,
if possible the synthetic fiber type, variety of
sizes)
- canvases (any of: stretched
canvas, canvas board, canvas paper pad, cardboard, posterboard)
- one small sketch pad
along with any of (soft pencil, charcoal, chalk )
- oil paints:
- cadmium yellow medium
- yellow ochre
- cadmium red medium
- alizarin crimson
- ultramarine blue (and if
possible some oither blues like prussian blue, cerulean blue, cobalt blue -- these are
optional)
- burnt sienna
- raw umber
- titanium white (large
tube)
- veridian
(green)
- thalo green
Sketching
Materials: -- any or all of these --
- newsprint sketching pad approx 11 x 14 in or larger
- Sketch pad 8.in x 5.5 in
or larger
- 2 charcoal pencils
- Speed-n-draw pull string
type pencil, black
- FARB-RIESEN Color-Giants black
- BBB Wolff's Carbon
Drawing Pencil - England
- Class 318 Rubber eraser
- 3-4 thin vine charcoal
sticks