PIEDMONT ADULT SCHOOL
Course: 201522 - Painting
Instructor: Laura Siegel
Materials List
Paint
You can EITHER buy acrylic paints, acrylic based mediums, etc. OR you can buy
oil paints, oil based solvents, etc. for this class. Do not buy both acrylic and oil
paints. Select one kind of paint, and buy appropriate mediums, solvents, brushes,
etc. for paint. When indicated, 1st choice is my preferred choice. Buy the best
quality paint (artist’s quality rather than student grade) that you can afford and, if
possible, buy all tubes in the same brand.
Pigments
Buy one tube of each color. Follow instructions above when buying paint.
 Blue - ultramarine blue (1st), cerulean blue, cobalt blue
 Yellow - cadmium yellow light (1st) or hansa yellow light, cadmium yellow
medium
 Red - napthol crimson (acrylic - 1st), alizarin crimson (oil - 1st), cadmium
red medium or Cadium red deep
 Orange - cadmium orange (1st)
 Violet or purple - dioxazine purple - buy a tube of deep purple
 Green - viridian OR pthalocynanine green (1st choice)
 Brown - burnt umber (1st), burnt sienna (2nd choice)
 Black - ivory OR mars black
 White - titanium white, buy a large tube of this color
Photos
Bring in photos you have taken, drawings that you have done to use for ideas for
paintings.
Palette
White plastic palette with many wells for acrylic paint or paper or wood palette
with thumb hole for oil paint
Brushes
Pick several brushes of different shapes and sizes from approx. ¼”- ¾” wide. For
bristle width (i.e. a small, a medium and a large brush) - acrylic or watercolor
brushes for acrylic paint; oil brushes (hog hair) for oil paints. The smallest brush
that you buy should be a “round”.
Supports
Acrylic painting - Pre-stretched canvas at least 18” x 24” OR heavyweight
watercolor paper and a stapler or brown butcher tape and a smooth wooden board
for support that is at least 19” x 26”
Oil painting - a primed pre-stretched canvas at least 18” x 24” or larger OR a
canvasboard at least 18” x 24” OR some 10 oz. UNPRIMED duck cotton canvas
and staples and a staple gun, wooden support pieces (stretcher bars) at least 18” x
24” and a jar of gesso, and 2” cheap house painting brush
Solvents and Mediums- Acrylic- small jars of matt or gloss medium, gel medium oilturpenoid and turpentine, small jars of damar varnish and linseed oil
Small Jars - You will need clean small jars with caps to take solvents home, i.e.
similar to baby jars
Drawing supplies - 2B-6B graphite pencils, kneaded eraser, paper
Box to keep all paints and small supplies, rags for painting, smock to protect
clothes