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An outdoor easel.  The inexpensive plastic or aluminum easels work fine.  There is the french easel as well as a variety of others.  Feel free to contact me for more information.  Some of the easels include a built in palette such as the Soltek.  If they don’t you will need a hand palette or a pochade box, such as a Coulter Box or Joshua Been’s Daytripper to attach to your easel or tripod.  I also carry and will bring a back up set-up as well.

Recommended basic colors, acrylic or oil  (Please adjust for other medium). This colors list reflects a warm and cool of each blue, red, and yellow and will produce your greens, browns and blacks.  My preferred brand is Gamblin.

Titanium white

Zinc white

Prussian blue

Cobalt blue

Purple dioxazine

Alizarin permanent (crimson in acrylic)

Cadmium red medium

Cadmium Orange

Cadmium Yellow

Hansa Yellow or Cad yellow light

special note: I personally mix the purple dioxizine with the cobalt to create my ultramarine but feel free to include ultramarine blue.  You can also bring Titanium Zinc White instead of the two different whites.  I prefer once again, to mix my own combination or use them separately.  I will explain why in the class.

optional extras:, thalo blue or cobalt teal, Gamblin’s portland gray, transparent orange is also lovely.  Add whatever else you love.

Medium for oils: My personal preference is medium such as Galkyd by Gamblin (will help your paints dry faster) which I mix with Gamsol (Odorless Mineral Spirits).  Or you can use Liquin.

medium for acrylics: bring gel medium for wonderful glazing and thinning and retarder to slow down the drying process.

Brushes: Bring a few soft brushes (#2 or 3 round,  #9 flat,   #12 flat or round for oils or a fan brush for acrylics (for glazing).   I will bring extras.

Palette knifes:  2 offset Loew Cornell #12 03119-1214 from Dick Blick and others you want.  I will bring a few extra.   BUT you do want offset knives so your fingers do not go into the paint.  Off set knives angle down about 1/2” between the handle and the painting blade.  They may be referred to as ‘painting knives’.

Bring containers for mixing oil mediums and for washing brushes.  I also use rags instead of paper towels, your choice.

Panels vs canvas:  Please bring 4 surfaces (2 per day.  You may only use 2 but it is always better to have extra).  Boards versus stretched canvas?  Boards are easier to transport over stretched canvas.  If using a brush any canvas covered board works, if wanting to paint with a knife, I prefer the pre-gessoed panels or Gessobord over canvas but that is because of how the knife works with it.  Bill Bonham sells a lesser expensive mdf board for painting.  You can also make your own panels, bring canvasses, purchase some inexpensive canvas panels from MIchaels or Blick or even paint on cardboard.

Bring board sizes you are comfortable with.  My personal preference is large.  I suggest for knife work at least one larger size (16 x 20 with the small being 12x16 if you can transport them). Any size will work if painting with brushes.

For transporting wet paintings you may want to purchase a couple of sets of wet panel carriers with bands that correspond to the panels you purchase if using panels.  https://www.panelpak.com  Each panel pac holds 2 panels of the same size.  If you prefer to stick to one size panels, check out Raymar panel carriers.  They are a bit bulkier but protect at least 4 panels that are sized to fit them and are great in all kinds of weather.  If you use canvasses, bring appropriate transport containers as well.  Pizza boxes or a box that your canvas will fit in works.