Introductory Painting Supplies
Ballynakill Artists School
For more information or to discuss the course or materials you need, please feel free to email us at ballynakillschool@yahoo dot ie
The following tubes of paint colours are recommended. If you are a beginning painter, student quality paints are very useful.
Blues
Ultramarine
Cerulean
Reds
Cadmium medium
Alizarin crimson
Yellows
Cadmium yellow
Lemon yellow
Browns
Burnt umber or Burnt sienna
Yellow ochre or Raw sienna
White
Titanium
The following colours will also be useful but may be needed with varying regularity by different artists.
Cobalt blue
Cadmium red deep
Cadmium yellow deep
Raw umber
To paint on:
· Sized stretched canvas or board for oil painting.
· Watercolour paper for watercolour paint. Blocks of watercolour paper can be useful instead of separate sheets of paper.
· An easel.
· If you buy loose sheets of watercolour paper you will need a board to tape the paper to, and some masking tape.
Tools:
· Brushes – at least one flat and one round/pointy. For oil painting these should be bristle brushes; for watercolour painting they should be soft. Brushes are available in a range of quality and price. The best and most expensive are not necessary, and the cheapest don’t work as well. It is good to have a few brushes in different sizes. Don’t buy them too small!
· Palette knife
· Palette or mixing tray
· White spirit for cleaning oil paint brushes
· Oil painting medium, or linseed and turpentine, for oil paints
· A few jars
· Rags/paper towels
· Sketchbook; pencils and sharpener or charcoal; eraser
