Materials

• A good and sturdy floor or desk easel is a great asset in any artist’s studio

• Suitable palette or 2 white plastic dinner plates

• Painting knife for mixing

• 2 water containers (ice cream containers or similar)

• Dishwashing liquid

• 4B pencil

• Kneaded eraser

• Willow charcoal stick 3-4mm x 1

• Stretched canvas

• Fine mister water sprayer

• Clean cloth or rags

• Two old towels

• Box of plain white tissues – Brushes:

• Hog Bristle: Bright (#12, #10) + Flat (#8, #6) + Filbert (#6)

• Taklon Pointed Round (#4 or #6)

• Taklon Flat (#6, #4, #2)

• Taklon Liner (#1) – Paint:

• I use artist’s quality paint for the best results, which are both rich and smooth, with the added bonus of being light fast. I recommend using the best artist’s quality paint you can afford. There are many companies in the market place producing these high quality paints.

• Titanium White

• Cadmium Yellow Lite

• Cadmium Yellow Medium

• Permanent Alizarine

• Brilliant Violet

• Cadmium Red Medium

• Cadmium Red Light

• Light Red Ochre or Light Red Oxide

• Permanent Green Light (I prefer to mix my own greens)

• Cerulean Blue Hue

• Ultramarine Blue

• Pthalo Blue

• Purple (must not be Dioxin Purple)

• Brilliant Violet

• Burnt Umber

• Raw Umber

• Burnt Sienna

• Raw Sienna

• Naples Yellow

• Yellow Ochre or/- Yellow Oxide

• Paynes Grey

• Fast Medium/fixer

• Clear Painting Medium

• Slow Medium (Thick)