Intermediate & Advanced Painting: Color and the Painted Sketch
Instructor: Nick Raynolds
Thursdays 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Working from different still life subjects, students will learn from a series of exercises designed to develop their faculties of compositional design, color perception and paint handling. (Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Drawing & Painting)

Painting Materials
Suggested Brands: Old Holland, Winsor Newton
or Holbein. (Or bring your favorite)

Suggested Palette
~ represents secondary colors that I use less frequently
* represent colors I use for a limited palette

*Titanium White
Jaune Brilliant
Naples Yellow
~Nickle Titanium Yellow
~Cadmium Yellow Middle
~Indian Yellow
*Yellow Ochre
Terra Verte
Green Umber
King's Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Cobalt Blue
~Prussian Blue
~Dioxizine Violet
*English Red
Cadmium Red
Alizarin Crimson or Rose Madder
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Raw Umber
*Ivory Black

Turpenoid and Cold Pressed Linseed Oil
There are all sorts of recipes for mediums, some more complicated than others. For our purposes we will use a Turpentine/linseed oil mixture which is both simple and effective. Odourless turps only please.
Please bring to class a small glass jar with your pre-mixed medium= 1/8 linseed oil to 1 part turps.

Palette
Please purchase a kidney-shaped palette. If it's brand new and an unfinished surface, make sure you prepare it before you come to class. (Give it a light sanding until smooth and wipe off the excess dust. With a rag, rub in enough linseed oil to cover the entire surface. Do this in two or three thin coats letting each coat dry before applying the next.
An alternative to this method is to apply a coat of shellac after the sanding.)
2 palette cups; one for your medium the other for turps
2 small clean, empty jars with lids (baby food jars are perfect)

Brushes
An assortment of types and sizes; rounds, flats, filberts, brights etc.; sizes 0, 2, 4 up to 10 or so.
There are some quality synthetic brushes that are reasonably priced, and fine for our purposes.
Try da Vinci Nova synthetics, Windsor and Newton University or Princeton Art & Brush Co.
For Poster Studies I use larger (proportionate to the small canvas surface) brushes:
# 4,5 or 6 Flats are preferable

Rags (cotton) or Paper towels (Viva)

Painting surfaces
For poster studies, please bring for each class, 1 gesso board, canvas board or primed piece of canvas that you can tape to a reusable panel. (no larger than 6"x 8")

Miscellaneous
Artists Masking Tape
Mahl Stick