Landscape Painting: Land and Water
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Try landscape painting with a focus on streams, lakes, and shoreline. Learn composition, color-mixing, and brush-handling while exploring how to paint tranquil ponds, running water, and frothy waves. You will gain an understanding of the effect of light on the water and how to handle reflections in differing situations. Oil or acrylic painters welcome.
- Paper/Canvas/Sculpting Material
- -6 to 8 canvases or panels - 16x20 inches max
- -1 Canvas Pad – 9x12” (Fredrix or similar)
- -Sketchbook
- Paint/Color/Dry media
- Artist’s Colors NOT student-grade paints – oil or acrylic
- -White – titanium/zinc mix
- -Nickel titanite yellow
- -Cadmium yellow light
- -Yellow ochre
- -Burnt umber
- -Cadmium red light
- -Alizarin crimson permanent
- -Ultramarine blue
- -Cerulean blue
- Painting medium –
- For oils: (my favorite is Gamblin Galkyd Gel Medium – gel form in tube)
- For acrylics: slow dry acrylic medium.
- Brush/Pencils/Sculpting tools
- Soft Brushes
- -Filberts: 6,4,2
- -Brights: 4
- -Rounds: 12, 4
- Hog-Bristle Brushes
- -Filbert: 8
- -Flat: 10, 8
- -House painting brush (trim brush) – 3”
- Miscellaneous
- -Palette—suggested: Masterson Sta-Wet Palette Seal box with glass or disposable pallet 12x16 inch
- -Small jar with lid
- -Pencils for sketching
- -1 piece chalk or white pastel
- -Plastic sheet protectors for your reference photos
- -1 black dry erase marker
- -3-ring binder for your reference photos and color charts