Materials List for Oil Painting Class
Instructor: Deb Danziger
IF POSSIBLE, PLEASE BRING AN EASEL. IT IS NOT REQUIRED, BUT PAINTING WITH AN EASEL, EVEN A
TABLE TOP EASEL, IS ALWAYS EASIER THAN JUST USING THE TABLE TOP.
Basic Palette of Oil Colors including:
 Titanium White
 Cadmium Yellow (Hue)
 Cadmium Red (Hue) – If you are buying a new tube, please get Windsor & Newton’s “Winton”
brand (their student-grade brand) – all other colors you can buy any brand, but if you have a
different brand of cadmium red I can’t vouch for the purples you will get.
 Ultramarine Blue
 Phthalo Blue
 Venetian Red (these last two colors are used to mix black among other things)
(Optional) Additional Colors for an extended palette:
 Lemon Yellow
 Cerulean Blue
 Alizarin Crimson
Mediums:
 Refined Linseed Oil – small - 118 ml
 Galkyd (recommended but not necessary)
 Turpenoid odorless mineral spirits (Absolutely NO turpentine)
Brushes:
 Assorted sizes and types of brushes for oil paint including: brights, filberts, flats, & rounds. You
should have one small round brush size 2-4 and then should go up from there. You won’t need
to go larger than a size 10-12 brush. Feel free to get a brush set at the art store with a range of 56 brushes. You want the majority to be medium sized brushes, not really small – we only need
one detail brush.
 Two bristle brushes – 1 - 1 ½ inch (You can buy these inexpensively at the hardware store –
they are also available at the art store but are much more expensive).
Canvas:
Three canvases total:
 Sizes are flexible, but a good choice at this stage is 11”x14” or 12”x16” for all three canvases.
Other materials:
 Rags (you can get a ‘Bag of Rags’ at the art store or any hardware store)
 Palette Knife
 3 sealable jars or containers (2 should be medium to large and one small) – can be any jars you
have around to re-use (like spaghetti sauce or jam jars)
 Palette – a disposable palette is fine and you can get any size as long as it is no smaller than
9”x12”
 A bar of household soap or washing liquid
 A tool box or paint box to put your supplies in
Drawing Tools:
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A small pad of newsprint paper (9”x12” is fine)
Pencils and/or charcoal
Sharpener
eraser (I prefer kneaded)