Materials Lists

 

SPRING 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

Figure drawing from live models

Coordinator: Self-led

  • Sketchbook 9 x 12”

  • Tracing paper 9 x 12”

  • Transfer paper (carbon paper) 9 x 12” (sold at MHC bookstore or office supply stores)

  • Pencils for sketching and erasers

  • 2 canvas boards (canvas panel) 8 x 10”

  • Acrylic paint in white and black

  • Assorted brushes: rounds and flats

  • Water container and small lidded containers for storing paint

  • Paint palette (can use waxed paper over cardboard)

IN-STUDIO

Soft Chalk Pastels: Beyond the Basics

INSTRUCTOR: Judy Russill

Buy a minimum of supplies to allow yourself to explore this medium! All supplies required for class will be displayed in a showcase outside the Hat Art Studio for one month prior to the start of class.

  • Sketchbook

  • 2B pencil

  • Plastic eraser & Gum eraser

  • Masking tape

  • Rags for cleaning hands

  • Mask

  • Sketching paper

  • Lightweight latex gloves

  • Old bristle brush

Nupastel by Prismacolour - as large a set as you can afford. Available at the Medicine Hat College bookstore.

The whole pastel painting can be completed with these pastels. General’s or Conte Pastel Pencils - white, black, sand, violet, ultramarine blue are useful. Sets of General’s pastel pencils are available at Micheal’s. Individual Conte Pastel Pencils are available in art supply stores in Calgary, Edmonton or on the Internet. Complete pastel paintings can be completed with pastel pencils.

Soft Chalk Pastels - Sennelier, Unison, Rembrandt, and Schminke are wonderful to work with but not necessary to try out this medium as they are quite expensive.

UART SANDED PASTEL PAPER -

Available on the Internet at Amazon (expensive), DeSerres Art Supply and other art supply stores. If you plan to purchase this paper, select 12” x 18” as sheets can be cut to size.

The instructor will provide the sanded paper attached to Illustration board ready to paint for the following costs:

  • 12” x 18” - $15.00

  • 9” x 12” - $7.50

CANSON MI TIENTES PASTEL PAPER -

Do not purchase but if you have this, it is excellent for practice and thumbnail sketches.

PERSONAL PHOTO REFERENCE: Select a picture that SPEAKS to you with excellent lighting and strong shadows that has not been photoshopped or painted by another artist.

IN-Studio

Figurative Sculpting With Clay

INSTRUCTOR: Ruth Adams

All tools, turntables and wet boxes will be provided.

NOTE: An additional fee of $15/ participant will be need to be paid to the instructor for clay, underglazes, stains, washes and final glazing products and firing.

IN-STUDIO

Painting with Fire: The Magical World of Encaustic Wax

INSTRUCTOR: Donna Hanson

The following will be supplied by the instructor for an additional fee of $50.00 cash paid to the instructor at the beginning of class

  • wax medium and wax paint

  • torches, heat guns, embossing guns, griddles (to be shared)

  • Power bars

  • cradled panels**

  • brushes – hake & chip

  • soy wax for brush cleaning

  • Other encaustic supplies

Students will be able to have use of my oil sticks, brushes, propane torches, heat guns and griddles (6) for heating wax as well as other art supplies and media I will bring.

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST

Students should bring the following – the Dollar Store has many of these items available

  • Please wear old clothes and/ or bring an apron or covering

  • Scissors

  • Ruler

  • Small spray bottle of rubbing alcohol (dollar store has small bottles)

  • Spray bottle for water

  • Fine sharpie or other fine black pen

  • Notebook to take notes and ideas

  • Disposable gloves – you will need several so bring lots. If you are going to do a lot of encaustic, you can buy boxes at Costco, Real Canadian Warehouse or Drugstores

  • Roll of Wax Paper

  • Blue or Green painters tape – 1” or 1.5”

  • Blue shop towels – these are found at hardware stores – don’t bring the dish cloth type

  • Small sized brushes – this pack is available at Dollarama. You may have brushes like this which you can bring but once they are used for wax they cannot be used for other painting.

  • Fine liner brush and a few brushes like above from your own stock – these brushes will NOT be used for wax and can be cleaned and reused for other mediums.

  • 1 pkg of mini foil loaf tins with plastic lids (they come as a pack of five)

  • 2 packages of the individual foil tart tins – 5 pack (Superstore seems to be the only source)

  • Clay Tools - make sure to have a pin tool & both large and small scraping tools – look in the polymer clay section of Michaels. Art stores also have these tools as would Medalta pottery

OPTIONAL

  • Clay tools/dental tools/v-groove lino or wood carving tools

IN-STUDIO

Painting on Glass

INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ann Gooding

  • Paint- Vitrall transparent and glossy set (you can order set from Michaels but they don’t carry here in town)

  • Pebeo- Relief Outliner Black

  • 2 Paint brushes fire tip and chisel time ½” wide angle

  • 2- 8X10 Photo Frames with glass front - can be inexpensive as this is practice

IN-STUDIO

Beginners Guide to Oil Pastels

Instructor: URSULA MASER

  • MUST HAVE:

    • Set of 24 - 48 oil pastels - Please buy artist quality NOT student grade if possible! Examples of three sets I recommend that can be purchased online (Opus art supplies, Amazon) in varying price points:

    • Paper - Heavy weight art paper should be 140 lb (300g/m). We will go over textured papers vs. smooth in our first class so you can experience both, but please bring your preference. Examples - Arches Oil Paper, Stonehenge paper, sennelier oil pastel pad. Hot pressed watercolor paper. (The MH college book store carries large sheets that are more economical - HAC members get a 10% discount as well!)

    • Pencil & Eraser

    • Paper Towel

    • Q-tips

    • Small palette knife

    • Blending stump / Tortillions OR Silicone color shapers (Amazon)

    • Low tack painters tape

    NICE TO HAVE:

    • Odorless mineral spirits - Example Gamblin’s Gamsol odorless mineral spirits

    • Wax / parchment paper or glassine

    • Baby wipes

    • Hand shielding lotion / barrier cream - ex. Gloves in a bottle hand shielding lotion

    • Fixative - Example Winsor & Newton matte varnish spray or sennelier oil pastel fixatif

IN-STUDIO

Plein Air Painting with Doug Swinton

Instructor: Doug Swinton

50% of learning to paint is in the supplies you use. If you use inferior grade products expect inferior results with your painting.

PAINTS oil: What ever you use but here is a list of the least expensive colours the make the most amount of mixes. (Follow also for Acrylic)

  • Cad yellow light

  • Cad yellow deep

  • Yellow ochre

  • Cad orange

  • Perlyne maroon (maroon in acrylic by Golden)

  • Quinacridone rose or permanent rose

  • Ultra blue Manganese blue hue

  • Viridian green

  • Titanium white

Try to use artist grade paints (Gamblin or M Graham etc.) Please no student grade and definitely no craft paints.

  • Palette. The bigger the better. Strip off palettes are great. Please NO egg cartons or Styrofoam meat trays.

  • BRUSHES Good quality bristle brushes. No Dollar store brushes.

    • 2,4,6,8,10,

    • Flats. 1- 3” cheap big bristle brush for blending.

    • #1 or 2 taklon liner brush

  • Small amount of q- tips, keep in a zip lock bag.

  • Brush washer - A good metal leak proof bush washer is a very good item to invest in. You will thank me for it.

  • For acrylic yogurt containers with a kitchen scratchy (this is a must if you want clean brushes.) in the bottom. You do not need to bring solvent down with you. We will supply and have lots. You also do not need to bring a medium with you as I will bring that down with me.

  • Retarder medium for acrylic. Its hot and things dry fast. This is a must if your an acrylic painter.

  • CANVAS Any size you would like to try.

    • Smaller canvases are easier to get finished in class; large canvases will allow you less time to try things. We will be painting up to 2-4 paintings a day.

    • 8x10, 9x12 econo canvas boards/ panels masonite boards.

  • Sketchbook for thumb-nails and taking notes.

  • Vine charcoal

  • Blue shop towels (hardware store)

  • Garbage bags (Safeway bag)

  • ****EASEL**** -A Good quality outdoor pochade or plein air easel will be a necessity.

  • If you are doing Acrylic , gouache or watercolour you will want some kind of foldable or collapsible water containers.

  • Spritz bottle for keeping things moist

  • Hat, sunscreen, bug spray.

We will not be hiking per se but appropriate footwear for walking small distances. It’s Southern Alberta and there can be critters in the grass and beautiful by the pool.