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Materials and Techniques Syllabus
Materials and Techniques Supply List
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MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES OF PAINTING
LIST OF SUPPLIES NEEDED
This multi-level course will introduce students to all the major and several of the minor painting media and techniques, with a focus on good studio practice, archival and permanent materials and construction, and awareness of health and safety issues. Oil, acrylic, alkyds, fresco, egg tempera, watercolor, and several eccentricities, such as "technique mixte" and egg-oil emulsions will be covered, as well as canvas stretching, chalk gesso, acrylic gesso, oil grounds and varnishing. Techniques will include blending, glazing, scumbling, washes, optical mixing, and layers. Examples will be taken from various historical periods.
Please don't buy paints until after I have had a chance to talk to you at the first class.
Some useful books:
Ralph Mayer, The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques (Viking, 1991)
Monona Rossol, The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide (Allworth Press 2001)
Michael Wilcox, The Wilcox Guide to the Best Watercolor Paints (Colour School Publications, 1995)
Art Store Supplies:
* Notebook and pencil
* Tracing paper, pencils and eraser, charcoal and a pin
* Stretcher bars, 4@18" and 4@24" or your favorite sizes
* Cotton artists canvas, unprimed, 1 yard (or 6 inches wider and longer than your stretcher bars)
* Linen artists canvas, unprimed, 1 yard (or 6 inches wider and longer than your stretcher bars)
* A watercolor block (a pad of watercolor paper glued together around the edges)
* Magnetic-headed canvas tack hammer
* Copper plated canvas tacks
* 4 18" x 24" unprimed masonite panels
* Two more unprimed masonite panels or stretched canvases (your choice)
* Dry rabbitskin glue
* Powdered chalk, whiting, or marble dust, about 8 oz.
* Titanium White Oil Primer
* Watercolor palettes (I prefer Japanese ceramic ones with a circle of small cups)
* Disposable paper palette (comes in a pad)
* Paintbrushes, including some sable-type and some cheap nylon imitation sable, some bristle-type, and a wide, flat, *good* bristle brush -- not hardware store -- for varnishing
* Palette knives
* Linseed oil
* Stand oil
* Damar varnish
* Acrylic "gesso"
Pigments and Paints (Note: You may wish to double up with some other students and share.):
Dry powdered pigments:
* Titanium White, a large jar
* Mars Black, a small jar
* Burnt Sienna, a small jar
* Burnt Umber, a small jar
* Mars Red, a small jar
* Mars Orange, a small jar
* Mars Yellow, a small jar
* Terre Vert, a small jar
* Ultramarine Blue, a small jar
Oil paints, artists grade, your own basic palette or:
* Zinc White
* Titanium White
* Ivory Black
* Burnt Sienna
* Burnt Umber
* Cadmium Yellow Light
* Hansa Yellow (PY3)
* Prussian Blue
* Quinacridone Violet (PV19)
* Transparent Red Ochre (or Transparent Oxide Red)
* Ultramarine Blue
* Venetian Red (or Mars Red)
* Viridian (or Phthalocyanine Green)
* Yellow Ochre
Alkyd paints (Winsor & Newton is the only company that makes them, under the name "Griffin Fast Drying Oil Colour"), your own basic palette or:
* Titanium White
* Ivory Black
* Burnt Sienna
* Raw Sienna
* Burnt Umber
* Cadmium Red Medium
* Cadmium Yellow Light
* Phthalo Green
* Phthalo Blue
* French Ultramarine
Acrylic Paints, artists grade, your own basic palette, or:
* Titanium White
* Ivory Black
* Burnt Sienna
* Raw Sienna
* Burnt Umber
* Cadmium Red Medium
* Quinacridone Violet (PV19)
* Yellow Ochre (or Yellow Oxide/Mars Yellow)
* Hansa Yellow (PY3)
* Phthalo Green
* Phthalo Blue
* Ultramarine Blue
Watercolor paints, artist's grade, your own basic palette, or:
* Titanium White
* Burnt Sienna
* Raw Sienna
* Quinacridone Violet (PV19)
* Cadmium Red Light
* Hansa Yellow Light (PY3)
* Phthalocyanine Green
* Phthalocyanine Blue
* Ultramarine Blue
Hardware Store Supplies:
* Sandpaper, medium and fine grit, mounted on a block recommended
* Dust mask
* Latex or neoprene gloves
* Protective apron or smock (bring mask, gloves, and apron to all successive classes)
* Priming brushes (hardware store bristle brushes, the very cheap kind, are fine)
* Odorless paint thinner (not "low odor")
* Brush cleaning soap (I recommend Murphy's Oil Soap)
* A shallow disposable aluminum pan, which will be the size of your fresco
* Plaster of Paris
Grocery/Drugstore Supplies:
* Distilled water
* Eyedropper
* Large glass jar (such as an applesauce jar), well washed/boiled, with airtight lid
* Glass jar with lid, wider than the varnish brush, for varnish
* Small jars (such as baby food or spice jars), well washed/boiled, with airtight lids
* An organic egg (this will only be needed for the "Egg Tempera" class)
* (Optional, but useful) Aluminum foil and paper towels
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