Acrylics
Art Lessons
11x14 stretched canvas (gallery wrap is good for displaying frameless but more expensive – Gallery wrap not required)
Palette (no preference)
Sturdy Wooden table easel (not plastic)
Painting apron or shirt
Brush Cleaner
Brushes (Acrylic long handle brushes. Brush hair doesn't matter. Student grade or better.
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Paints (Get the BASIC or Artist loft. No “no name” brands like what comes in starter kits. They will be horrible to work with)
Size 2 Filbert
Size 6 Filbert
Size 0 Round
Size 6 Round
Cadmium Yellow medium (not light or pale)
Titanium White
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Viridian Green
Raw Sienna
Oils
11x14 stretched canvas (gallery wrap is good for displaying frameless but more expensive – Gallery wrap not required)
Coiled jar (for washing brushes)
Paint Thinner (from the home improvement paint section)
Offset Palette knife
11x14 sheet of glass (can remove from cheap picture frame but must be actual glass)
Brush Cleaner
Razor scraper
Sturdy Wooden table easel (not plastic)
Painting apron or shirt
Brushes (oil painting brushes only. Student grade or better. Nothing that comes in multi brush package. Stage 2 from Michaels good enough quality. If you buy too cheap, your learning will suffer)
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Paints (student grade paint or better: Grumbacher or Winsor & Newton) No “no name” brands like what comes in starter kits. They will be horrible to work with. Also no Master’s Touch for the paints)
Size 6 Filbert
Size 2 Filbert
Size 0 Round
Cadmium Yellow medium (not light or pale)
Titanium White
Yellow Ochre
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Sap Green (optional)
Viridian Green
Raw Sienna
Pencil
Graphite pencils 2B – 6B (General or Staedtler brands)
Charcoal pencil 4B
Sketching pad made for pencil
Kneaded Eraser
White Eraser
Smudge stick or blending stump
Pastels
Set of 35 Oil Pastels (Artist loft ok)
Sketch pad for pastels
2B pencil
White eraser
Pen and Ink
Micron pens 01-05
New Sharpie
2B Pencil
white eraser
Black Ink
Size 2 round brush
Size 6 round brush
Size 6 flate brush
Sketching pad made for pencil
Water Colour
Water color palette
Masking fluid or Maskit (sold in a small rectangular jar)
Masking tape
Paper towels
White Foam core board (6 inch larger than your water color paper on all 4 sides)
9x12 or 11x14 water color paper pad (pricier brand will be MUCH better even for learning)
Brush Cleaner
Brushes (Natural hair brush or synthetic for water colors)
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Paints (student grade paint or better in tubes: Da Vinci, Grumbacher, Cotman (Winsor & Newton) No “no name” brands like what comes in starter kits. They will be horrible to work with.)
1 in flat
½ in flat
12 round
5 or 6 round
Cadmium Yellow (pale yellow or Azo will work)
Yellow Ochre
Alizarin Crimson
Quinacridone Rose (optional)
Cerulean Blue Hue (optional)
Ultramarine Blue
Sap Green (optional)
Viridian Green
Raw Sienna
Burnt Umber
Indian red
indigo