Acrylic Workshop Materials and Equipment

Basic Equipment

 * PALETTE:  11” x 15” white Chinese butcher tray OR a  Masterson's sta-wet palette

    OR a metal cookie sheet OR a large flat plastic container with lid.

 * One package Masterson’s Sta-wet Pro Palette  Papers  10”x 14”  !!!!   

 * PAPER TOWELS: (shop towels are my preferred brand)

 *  Water container (a plastic peanut butter tub with a handle and a lid works great)

 * Misting spray bottle (small)

 * Small plastic fishing tackle box with dividers (for storing squeezed out paints)

 * Collapsible plein air or french easel if you paint outside or prefer to stand while painting...

    Do your research and choose one that will work for you.

 * Sketch book and sketch supplies

Supports

Acrylics can be used on any of these surfaces.

   Choose from: Canvas, Watercolor Paper coated with gesso, Watercolor Board,  Multimedia    Art Board, Masonite,    Ampersand Gesso Boards, Canvas Board, Wood Panels,                     * Prepare the painting surface with acrylic gesso.

  (Support size should be 16" x 20" or smaller at first... Larger if you are more experienced)

Acrylic Paints

   (heavy body, high quality, professional grade)

  1.  Titanium White (cool opaque white)               

  2.  New Gamboge or Diarilyde Yellow (warm deep yellow)             

  3.  Quinacridone Gold (transparent warm- earthtone yellow, great for

       washes, underpainting and glazing)

  4.  Yellow Oxide or Yellow Ocher  (opaque warm earthtone yellow)    

  5.  Organic Vermillion or Napthal Red Lt.   (both are warm light reds)  

  6.  Napthal Red Medium (cool deep red)

  7.  Quinacridone Burnt Orange (transparent warm earthtone orange- for  

      underpainting and making rich   warm darks and convincing greens)

  8.  Dioxazine Purple (a great color for creating rich deep browns and blacks)

  9.  Cerulean Blue Chromium Hue(neutral blue for grays and cool  shadows)

 10. Ultramarine Blue (purpley blue)

 11. Phthalo Blue (GS) (transparent warm )

Acrylic Fiber Brushes

  * Bring a large assortment of edges and sizes.

     My personal preference is flats and brights ¼” -1 ½”

  * DO NOT bring hog bristle brushes as they do not react well in water and are too stiff for      acrylic paint.

  * One small detail or signature brush

  * One inexpensive 3" hardware store house painting brush (for gesso textures)

(Shop at Daniel Smith Art Materials, and receive a student discount.  Give them this TRP number TRP00299 and I get a gift certificate for materials that I share with my students!)