Beginning Oil Painting

Learn to paint in oils as you analyze subjects in terms of shape, value, color and edges. Practice color mixing and how to organize a painting in terms of light and shadow. Explore still-life and landscape to express your inner artistic genius.

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  Clyde Steadman

-Sketchbook
-Palette, the Masterson Sta-Wet is used by lots of artists, but a canvas panel covered with wax paper can work.
-Panels or canvas; 8x10, 9x12, and 12x16
-a wet canvas container (Handy Porters or a clean pizza box works fine.)
-Mirror, makeup compact is fine.
-Paint: any palette of colors a student is familiar with are fine. My recommendations: Ivory Black; Cadmium Yellow (or Cad Yellow Medium) (Hues are fine); Cadmium Lemon Yellow (Hues are fine); Cadmium Red (or Napthol Red, or Cad Red Medium) (Hues are fine); Permanent Alizarin Crimson; Ultramarine Blue; Cobalt Blue (Hues are fine); Sap Green; Yellow Ochre; Transparent Red Oxide (or Trans. Earth Red, or Burnt Sienna); Titanium White, perhaps a large tube of the white. In some situations I add the following: Permanent Green Light, Viridian, Cadmium Orange (Hues are fine), Dioxazine Purple
-Brushes: Hogs bristle brushes: #4, #6, #8 filbert. I occasionally also use: #2 extra long filbert, or signature brush and a small, perhaps #0 soft watercolor brush.
-Palette knife,medium sized and flexible
-Paper Towels
-Odorless Mineral Spirits, don't go cheap here, purchase from an art supply store, like Guiry's or Meiningers
-Brush washer to hold the Odorless Mineral Spirits.