Landscape Painting in Acrylic

All you need the first night is:

• A painting support surface (a pre-primed stretch canvas or canvas board; 9x12 or 11x14)
• Peanut butter or similar jar for water
• Palette or pad of palette paper
• #2 pencil
• A landscape picture you are thinking about doing (more than one is okay)
• If you are messy, an old shirt to wear as a smock

The following will be discussed the first night, then purchased for the second session. This allows for a group order if anyone wants to place one. Paints and brushes will be available the first night for students to use.

Paints

• Lemon yellow, or, if not available where you go, cadmium yellow light
• Cadmium yellow medium
• Cadmium red light
• Alizarin crimson (Dick Blick has this in brands: Golden, Liquitex, and Dick Blick)
• Thalo blue
• Ultramarine blue

Surface

• Surface support is what you will be painting on. 11” x 14” is a great size to start with. Only get a pre-primed support.
• Stretched primed basic ¾” canvas. If this is the first time you have painted or are fairly new, don’t go larger than 16” x 20”.
• Or canvas board

Brushes

• Natural bristle brushes are best; however, they can be expensive.
• If you want to buy just a few brushes, get:
  • #2, #10 and #18 flat
  • #4 and #8 round
• You can also get a pack of brushes in a holder at Hobby Lobby that is great for beginners. Usually contains about 12 brushes.

Other stuff

• Peanut butter jar with lid for holding water
• If you are messy, an old shirt
• Rag
• Palette paper
• Or plastic palette and plastic cling wrap

Great online stores

• Dickblick.com
• Cheapjoes.com

Local stores

• Hobby Lobby
• Michaels
• Artmart (www.artmartstl.com)

Any questions, please e-mail me at kayakwhitewaterpaddle@yahoo.com or call instructor John Foster at 636-288-8887.