Learn to make Clean Color in Oil Painting

Learn how to mix clean colors in oil by making color charts, separate value from color, hands on demos of painting with color and exploring color approaches. We will go several guided painting exercises which will have students actually create the color mixtures and put them down on canvas.

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  Raj Chaudhuri

Painting surface - 8x10 or 9x12 Panel or Canvas such as Centurion oil primed linen panel – https://www.jerrysartarama.com/centurion-deluxe-oil-primed-linen-canvas

Paints
I use Gamblin Artist Colors or Gamblin 1980 series, avoid ‘hues’
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson or Permanent
Yellow Ochre
Transparent Red Oxide (Grumbacher)
Viridian
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Ivory Black
Additional colors on my palette (optional) for the class
Naples Yellow
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Deep
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Medium
Quinacridone Red
Permanent Green Bright (Grumbacher)
Raw Sienna
Cerulean Blue

Brushes
Variety of brushes - Hard, soft, small and big brushes. Here’s the list of most of the brushes I use:
Rosemary Brushes (https://www.rosemaryandco.com or https://windriverarts.com in the US)
Masters Series 278 Long Filbert – 2,4,5,6,8
Masters Series 279 Long Flat – 2,4,5,6
Ivory Series Long Flat and Filbert – 2-12
Shiraz (short handle) – 0,1
Eclipse – 2,4,5,6,8
Robert Simmons Signet Brushes
Filberts in Sizes 2,4,6,8,10
Egbert – 6
Robert Simmons Titanium Brushes — Rounds - 0,1
DaVinci Brushes (short handle) – Rounds – 0,1
Princeton Select Artiste Paintbrush 10-5 Brush set (on Amazon)

Paper towels
Drawing Book
Pencil
Vine Charcoal
Mahl Stick – something light and portable (wooden dowel rod will work too)
Gamblin Gamsol (turpentine substitute) for paint thinning 
Typically a portable easel will have a palette to mix paint -https://www.jerrysartarama.com/masterson-air-tight-palettes-and-accessories
Brush Washer - https://www.dickblick.com/items/anderson-sons-stainless-steel-airtight-brush-washer-8-oz/