MATerials list

With john david anderson

Canvas

  • 1 or 2 canvases (1 canvas for 1-day workshop, 2 canvases for 2-day workshop)

  • 12 x 16 or larger up to 16 x 20 or larger for experienced painter… smaller for less experienced

Palette

  • 12 x 16 palette paper pad

Palette knife

  • 2” long diamond end

Brushes

  • Flats, long handle , synthetic bristle for acrylics, natural bristle flats for oils in sizes 1 inch Flats, preferably not brights

Additional Items

  • Sketch book for notes

  • Masking tape

  • For acrylic painters, Matte Medium

  • For oil Painters, Winsor and Newton Liquin Light Gel

Colours:

  • Alizarin Crimson

  • Cadmium Red Light

  • Cadmium Yellow – not orange-ish, not lemon-ish – in the middle

  • Cadmium Yellow Light

  • Cobalt Blue

  • Ultramarine Blue

  • Transparent Red Oxide or Transparent Burnt Sienna

  • Titanium White

Other colour options…

  • Quinacridone Violet

  • Cadmium Orange

  • Cobalt Teal

  • Permanent Rose

  • Perylene Red

  • Mixing White

For acrylic Painters

  • Please seal your canvases before you come with matte medium or Golden GAC100

For Oil Painters

  • If you seal you canvas with Golden GAC100 and add a thin coat of gesso, not watered down, on the dry sealed surface a day before you come, you will be shocked at how wonderful the surface has become.