Materials Lists

 

WINTER 2024

 

IN-STUDIO

Urban Landscapes: Alley Serenity

Instructor: Theresa Eisenbarth

Essentials:

Acrylic Paints:

BASIC: A basic set of acrylic paints in PROCESS colors (Magenta, Cyan and Yellow) and essential tones (white, black) for mixing various hues.

EXPANDED LIST: (not necessary, but nice to have)

  • Quinacridone Magenta (cool) or buy a or a Process Magenta

  • Cadmium Red Medium ( warm)

  • Cadmium Yellow Med ( warm) or buy a or a Process Yellow

  • Ultramarine Blue (warm)

  • Cobalt Blue

  • Cadmium Red and/or a Cadmium Orange

  • Phthalo Blue (Green Shade) or buy a or a Process Cyan (cool)

  • I also add a feature colour like Teal or Turquoise (both have warm and cool undertones)

  • Quinacridone Nickel Azo Yellow

  • Burnt Sienna or something similar

  • Burnt Umber

  • Titanium White

  • Black or Process Black

Brushes:

  • Assorted brushes in various sizes (small, medium, and large)

  • Flat brushes for broad strokes and detailing, 2- angle brushes, 1 round brush for fine details, and a medium-sized filbert brush for blending

Palette:

  • A palette and paper for mixing and blending colours.

Palette Knife:

  • Used for mixing paints and creating textured effects.

Canvas or Canvas Board:

  • Stretched canvases, canvas boards or a birch cradleboard in a 14x18 size of your choice. (Consider the size – larger means more time to finish the project comfortably for a small-town alley scene.

  • 1 Canvas pad (or at least 6 sheets for practice) You can buy a Mixed Media pad of sheets too as this works for practicing.

  • Small Paint Panels (Fredrix is a good brand). No larger than 9x12 inches or 10x12 inches

Gesso:

  • A primer to prepare the canvas surface. It ensures better paint adhesion and longevity.

Water Container:

  • A jar or container for water to clean brushes between colour changes.

Blue Shop paper towels:

  • For drying brushes, stroking, and wiping excess paint.

  • A dog Pee-Pad -YES!!! Good for cleaning your brushes for dry brushing

Apron or Painting Shirt:

  • To protect clothing from paint splatters.

Palette Sealable Bags:

  • Optional but useful for preserving leftover mixed colours for the next session.

Extras for Creativity:

Masking Tape:

  • For creating clean edges or defining specific areas on the canvas.

Spray Bottle:

Sketching Materials:

  • Willow charcoal, pencils, and erasers for sketching the initial layout of the alley scene.

  • White chalk for layout corrections.

  • A Sketch Book

  • Reference Images: A photo reference for this class will be provided for the project.

  • Everyone will work from one or two examples of a back alley.

  • iPad, (if you have one) for editing photos (but, not necessary if you don't have one, you can use your phone)

IN-STUDIO

Drawing 101: Beginner’s Drawing

INSTRUCTOR: Kimara White

  • Set of good quality drawing pencils

  • White Charcoal Pencil

  • Vine Charcoal (College Bookstore)

  • Soft charcoal  

  • Large Sketchbook 9” x 12” or 11” x 18”

  • Kneadable eraser

  • Good quality rubber eraser

  • Good pencil sharpener

In-Studio

Contemporary Glass Painting

INSTRUCtOR: Pearl-Ann Gooding

  • Paint - Vitrall transparent and glossy set (Michael’s around $22.99)

  • Pebeo - Relief Outliner black

  • 2 paint brushes fine tip and chisel tip ½” wide angle

  • 2 - 8x10 photo frames glass front

IN-Studio

Watercolour and the (Un)limited Pallette

INSTRUCTOR: Gena LaCoste

The instructor will some still life elements, or you can bring photos to work from, if they’re your own photos!

Drawing tools:

  • Pencils; 2B lead or bring what works best for you

  • good eraser, 

  • sketch pad

Paint: The ‘Un Limited Three Colours’  are:

  • Winsor Yellow

  • Winsor Red

  • Winsor Blue , red or green shade. The green shade is supposed to be the “true” one.

  • I urge you to acquire these for the class, or you’ll miss the point! You can find them at Swinton’s Art  in Calgary or online at Opus or Curry’s Art supplies. Please don’t buy the Cotman label (made by Winsor Newton) these are student quality paints. You want the Winsor Newton Artist’s quality paints….you won’t regret it!

Water Containers

Palette: one with a nice big mixing area is desirable. The lid off an ice cream container or a white plate even works.

Brushes:

  • Watercolour brushes have short handles and the brush itself is of animal hair (Sable) or artificial sable.

  • #12 round brush

  • #16 round and even bigger if you can find it.

  • 1” or 1 1/2” flat brush or bigger if you wish. 

  • Avoid using small brushes as much as possible. Don’t let “Michael’s” sell you the wrong brushes….I find the prices and assortment @ the College Book Store, as well as the guidance to be much better. 

Paper:

  • inexpensive w/c paper for experiments, the Waterford pads are nice. Watch out for Strathmore and Cotman’s pads…their paper seems to buckle and sabotage all efforts! Also avoid the paper pads being sold at Walmart. 

  • better quality w/c paper (140 lb. at least, 200lb is even better). Full sheets are sold at the MHCollege Bookstore.

  • The watercolour blocks are a very good solution, but can be pricey. 

Misc:

  • stretcher board

  • masking tape

  • good quality paper towels

IN-STUDIO

Watercolour Technique Playbook

INSTRUCTOR: CINDY SHROPSHIRE

  • Canson 7x10 in - 140lb watercolor coil bound (or similar) 

  • Washi Tape - 1/4 in or painters tape

  • Watercolor brushes- approx to: fine-(3/0); medium-10; Large-20 & 1/2" chip brush

  • Pencil

  • Basic Beginner Tube Paints or pan

  • Palette

  • Water Container

  • Spray bottle

  • Optional: white and black gel pen

IN-STUDIO

Painting Florals from Life in Acrylics

INSTRUCTOR: Ursula Maser

Instructor Supplied:

  • Fresh flowers and mason jar - supplied.

  • Cradled wood panel, pre-primed - bought from instructor (bring $5 cash for payment)

  • White presentation folding Cardboard (backdrop) - supplied

Student Supplied:

  • Pencil and eraser

  • Paper towel or baby wipes

  • Containers for water

  • Paint Brushes - Assorted sizes. I would recommend synthetic rounds and flats in sizes 2-8. Bring what you have and are comfortable with.

  • Wet palette or 9x13” Tupperware with a tight fitting lid

  • Palette paper or parchment baking paper

  • Water spray bottle

  • Acrylic paint - please be encouraged to bring the colors you already have! For this workshop you will need to bring:

    • Red

    • Blue

    • Yellow

    • White

    • Raw or Burnt Umber

  • As a guide I would highly recommend buying the best quality you can afford, it is better to buy just a few primary colors in quality paint and learn to mix than to buy a large range of colors. I use Golden Heavy Body Acrylics. If Golden Acrylics are out of your price range I would recommend Liquitex Basics line of student grade acrylic paint. When painting florals these are my most loved colors:

    • Quinacridone Red or Naphthol Red

    • Quinacridone Magenta

    • Alizarin Crimson

    • Cadmium Yellow light

    • Yellow Ochre

    • Ultramarine Blue

    • Phthalo Blue (green shade)

    • Titanium White

    • Raw or Burnt Umber

IN-STUDIO

Drawing from the Model

Self-Directed Study

  • Sketchbook 9” x 12” / 11” x 18”(sold at MHC bookstore or office supply stores)

  • Pencils for sketching and erasers

  • Charcoal, willow sticks,  pencils, as desired

  • Newsprint (MHC bookstore)

  • 2 bulldog clips for holding newsprint