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Materials List
Realistic Painting — Painting Truth
Course codes 244
**Materials are available to purchase at Central Art Supply Co., LLC
located at 1114 Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, FL 33705. For information
please call (727) 898-8300. All Arts Center members receive 10% discount
on supplies!**
Supports
- One 16" x 20" canvas, fine texture, or portrait grade. In order of preference, you can buy:
oil-primed linen canvas
gessoed, or acrylic-primed linen
cotton duck canvas
- Alternative you can prepare your own surface with the following materials:
One 1/2" birch (preferred) or 1/8" or 1/4" masonite panel, 16" x 20"
Artist's gesso
One sheet of Sandpaper #100
Mediums & Solvents/Cleaners:
- Stand Oil
- Alkyd medium, Galkyd preferred, Liquin OK.
- Mineral Spirits
- Small containers for medium and solvent, those that clip to an artist's palette are preferred.
- One bar of oily soap, preferably Ivory
Colors — Oils (The best you can afford)
- Ivory Black
- Flake White or Cremnitz white
- Ultramarine Blue
- Viridian
- Venetian Red
- Transparent Oxide Red
- Quinacridone Red
- Cadmium Red Light
- Yellow Ochre
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Transparent Oxide Yellow
- Hansa yellow or Yellow lake
- Green Earth
- Phtalo Blue
- Diaxozine Purple
Brushes — Interlocked Hog Bristle (The best you can afford, especially those in small sizes. Look for their tips to be sharp, chisel-like.)
- Flats: #8, #6, #4, #2
- Filberts: #6, #4
- Rounds, #2, #1
- Fans, #1 or #2, #6
- Brush for priming: one 2" Flat, square bottom Bristle brush
Brushes — Sable (Also buy the best you can afford. Look for their tips to end in sharp points.)
- Cat's tongue: #6
- Round: #4
- Liner: #4
Brushes — Priming
- Either a 2" Flat, wide square-bottom Bristle brush
Or a 1 1/2" Decorator round brush, (such as Robert Simmons 980)
Miscellaneous
- One painting/mixing knife such as Dick Blick # 2442-41, or something similar
- One Artist's palette, look for it to be balanced, and as large as you can comfortably hold while painting
- One absorbent paper towel roll
- Pliers to open dried-up painting tubes
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