*IMPORTANT INFORMATION: There will be a $15 Materials Fee collected on the first day to help cover the cost of additional materials bought in bulk by the Instructor to keep student costs down (these are additional materials - the ones on this list are the student's responsibility). In several categories I have listed both a Standard and a **Cheaper Option for specific materials to help you cut costs if desired.
You will need to seal some paper with gesso in preparation for the Workshop- instructions are given below at the end of the "Papers/Grounds" section.
Many of the materials, including the wet palettes and the SNAP brushes, are available at Artist and Craftsman Supply by the Freeway in the University District among other stores.
Please contact me with any questions - Terry (206) 919-0993 <tfurchgott@gmail.com>.
We will lay out our paints on the wet palette together at the first session.
MISCELLANEOUS
White Artist's Tape or other tape - 3/4" wide
1 small covered container for Medium (such as an 8 oz. yoghurt container)
1 rag
Water containers supplied by Instructor
BRUSHES AND PALETTE KNIFE
Palette knife: (small trowel or diamond shape with the blade lower than the handle) - can be plastic
Brushes Option #1: Please bring the following brushes, or their equivalents to class. They are all available at Artist and Craftsman Supply in the University District and probably at many other stores.
a) Rounds: Princeton Art and Brush Co. - Series 6200R, #2; 6300R, # 4; 6100R, #6 (6100R, 6200R, and 6300R are fairly similar - so you can get the 3 sizes from whichever series you prefer)
b) Optional: Flats: Princeton Art and Brush Co.- Series 6200F, one @ of #2 and #4
c) Princeton "SNAP!" series - #8 Round (long handle)
d) One 1.5" - 2" cheap housepainting brush or equivalent (for applying Gesso to the paper)
e) Optional: Filberts: Princeton Art and Brush Co.- One each of #2, 4, and 6 from either the 6100FB, the 6200 FB, or the 6300FB series
f) Optional: Princeton "SNAP!" series - one long handled Fan Brush
Brushes Option #2/Cheaper Option: You can also buy all of the above brushes in equivalent sizes from the Princeton "SNAP" long-handled series, which is not as good quality but is adequate and cheaper than the more expensive types of Princeton and other brushes.
CHARCOAL, PENCILS, ERASERS
1 kneaded eraser
*We will be doing some sketching of still life set ups using either charcoal pencil on white paper. Decide what you prefer to use and buy one of the following:
1 stick Compressed Charcoal: either Pitt Compressed Soft OR Faber Castell Compressed Medium
OR
1-2 HB or B pencils
PALETTE, PALETTE PAPERS
The Wet Palette - a "wet palette" is made up of a container with a tight cover, into which is placed a piece of blotting paper, a sponge, or foam covered by a piece of wet palette paper with the blobs of wet paint on it. This works well with acrylic paints, keeping the otherwise fast-drying paint wet and workable for up to 2 months, and allowing you to just open the palette box and start work whenever you feel like it with no time wasted on set up. The wet palette is for keeping the clean blobs of paint moist, NOT for mixing on - we will use the wax paper Mixing Palette (also called a Disposable Palette) for that. Choose your Wet Palette from one of the following options (the smaller size in the Rowney or the middle size in the Masterson product is plenty big and cheaper than the larger sizes):
Option 1: Rowney Sta-Wet Palette, 10"x14", comes complete with reservoir paper and wet palette paper that does not need to be soaked before use; Artist and Craftsman Supply in the University District has ordered these for my students. (this is my favorite of the wet palette choices, but also the most expensive)
Option 2: Masterson Stay-Wet Palette (good also, though I prefer the Rowney version), comes with wet palette paper which must be soaked in hot water for some time before use - alternative Wet Palette Paper that does not need to be soaked will be supplied in class by Instructor.
Option 3/ Cheaper Option: Make up your own stay-wet palette by purchasing a round or rectangular (6"x8" minimum) shallow plastic container with a tight lid (or cover with plastic wrap). 1/4" foam and wet palette paper to line the box will be supplied by the Instructor in class.
*Supplied by Instructor: Sta-Wet Palette Paper that does not need soaking in hot water for wet palette; foam sponge base for your wet palette if it does not come ready supplied with a sponge.
Disposable/Mixing Palette: 1 Canson or other brand 12"x16", 40 sheets, Disposable Palette with or without thumb hole. (Note: this palette has waxy sheets and is for MIXING the paints on; the WET palette is just for holding the paint and keeping them moist, not for mixing).
**Cheaper Option: Cut a piece of foam core or cardboard to 12"x16", and if it is not white tape or glue a piece of white paper on it, or paint it white. Cut 15-20 pieces of wax paper to the same size and tape one piece of wax paper on to the board at a time as needed.
PAINT, GESSO, AND MEDIUMS
PAINTS:
a) One 2-oz. tube @ of the following Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Paints (Note - the paints marked with an **/asterisk MUST be the Golden brand; the others can be other brands but it is important that the color be similar to the Golden brand equivalent):
**Alizarin Crimson Hue, Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Yellow Light or Hansa Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Deep or **Diarylide Yellow, **Cadmium Orange Hue, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White, Carbon Black, Raw Umber, **Prussian Blue Hue, **Cobalt Violet, Ultramarine Blue, **Viridian Green Hue, **Pyrrhol Red, **Indian Yellow
b) One 2-oz tube @ of the following Winsor Newton Galeria Acrylics: Pale Umber, Pale Violet
c) The Instructor will supply the following paints as needed: Mars Violet/**Violet Oxide/Indian Red Oxide, Chromium Oxide Green, Cobalt Blue, Powder Blue, Raw Sienna, PaleOlive, Cerulean Blue, Paynes Grey, Jenkins Green, Naples Yellow, Mars Yellow, Red Oxide, Dioxazine Violet, Emerald Green
Optional (these colors can be mixed from the other colors you will have on your palette, but it is easier though not essential to buy them ready mixed in the tube): Daler Rowney System 3 Acrylic - Wedgwood; Golden Heavy Body Acrylic - Light Magenta
GESSO: One container of white Gesso, the smallest size (Liquitex is an inexpensive brand)
** Cheaper Option: paint stores often have cans of water base white paint returned by customers and sold at very low prices which can be substituted for Gesso
MEDIUM: Golden Polymer Medium Gloss (or other similar) - smallest size
PAPERS/GROUNDS
*Note: You will be completing multiple paintings, painterly sketches, and exercises in this workshop. For all of them you will be working on either the 12"x18" tagboard pre-sealed with 1-2 coats of white Gesso, or the larger 18"x24" sheets of 80-90 lb. white paper pre-sealed with 1-2 coats of white Gesso. Sealing one side of the paper only is fine if you don't mind the paper curling up a bit at the edges; if you seal both sides the paper stays flatter - your choice.
Choose one of the following, or you can buy some of each:
Pacon Tag Board - 1 pack of 100 sheets, 12"x18"
6 - 8 sheets of 70-90 lb. white sketch paper appropriate for charcoal
**IN PREPARATION FOR THE WORKSHOP: Please seal 10 sheets of the tagboard, or 5 sheets of the larger white paper, with 1-2 coats of white Gesso on one or both sides. You can also use some of each if you prefer.