Supply list—Plein Air Landscape Painting

Instructor: David Lee Jones

• French easel or some sort of portable easel
• Palette-Preferably wood or glass
• Palette cups (larger the better)
• Oil Painting medium (Liquin, Sun-thickened Linseed Oil, Sun-thickened Poppyseed Oil)
• Odorless turpentine (gamsol)
• Cotton painting rags (for cleaning brushes)
• Paper towels (for cleaning palette knife)
• Bristle brushes (larger the better flats and filberts)

Suggested Basic Earth Palette:

• Flake white #2
• Yellow ochre pale (Winsor Newtown)
• Burnt sienna (WN)
• Indian red
• Olive green  
• Raw unmber
• Colbalt blue

Supports:

There are a variety of materials available for oil painters today.  The first class bring a small to medium canvas.  We will explore alternative supports as the class progresses.