Materials Lists

 

Fall 2024

 

IN-STUDIO

Drawing from the Model (In-Studio)

SELF-DIRECTED COURSE

  • Sketchbook 9x12” / 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

In-Studio

Plein Air Painting and Studio Time with Doug Swinton

INSTRUCTOR: Doug SWINTON

You will need to purchase and bring along the following items to class:

50% of learning to paint is in the supplies you use. If you use inferior-grade products, expect inferior results in your painting. Try to use artist grade paints (Gamblin or M Graham etc). Please no student grade and definitely no craft paints 

Paints

Oil: Whatever you use but here is a list of the least expensive colours that make the most variety 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

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) in sizes 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.

4 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 or medium as it will be supplied.

Retarder medium for acrylic. It’s hot and things dry fast. This is a must if you’re 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 container

Spritz bottle for keeping things moist

Hat, sunscreen, bug spray, water bottle - It’s Southern Alberta and there can be critters in the grass. and beautiful by the pool

We will not be hiking per se, but please wear appropriate footwear for walking small distances.

IN-Studio

Doug Swinton Teaches Life Drawing 

INSTRUCTOR: Doug Swinton

  • 9x12 canvas

  • Paint colours:

    • CAD yellow light

    • CAD yellow deep

    • Yellow ochre

    • CAD orange

    • Napthol red or Quinacridone rose or Maroon

    • Ultra marine blue

    • Chroma black

    • Titanium white

  • Liquid medium of some kind or liquid medium for acrylic.

  • Brushes

    • 4,6 12 flat hog bristle brushes

  • All of your other usual suspects:

  • Rags

  • Palette knife etc. 

IN-STUDIO

Geometric Pyrography Painting

INSTRUCTOR: Brian Sloan

Acrylic paints in the basic colours (three primaries, bring both a cool and warm of each; yellow, red and blue) plus titanium white and a black

  • Paint brushes minimum of three different sizes, small, medium and large

  • Wood burning tool (if you have one if not one will be provided)

  • One 8x10 wood panel or slab of wood

  • Black or white carbon paper

  • Pencils and eraser

IN-STUDIO

Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain

INSTRUCTOR: Bev Duke

Buy The Book - “Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain" or the "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain WORKBOOK” by Betty Edwards or borrow a copy. Please purchase prior to the first class.

  • Pencils:

    • #2 writing pencil with eraser

    • Good quality #4B drawing pencil, (Staedler, Turquoise, Fabre Castell brands)

  • Erasers:

    • a white plastic eraser (Staedler) or pink pearl

  • Good quality hand held pencil sharpener

  • Graphite Stick: #4B

  • Charcoal Pencil: #4B

  • Synthetic Charcoal 1 stick

  • Conte Crayons:

    • one #3 black and

    • one red (Sanguin)

  • Dry Erase felt-tip marker: 1 black

  • Mirror: a lightweight unframed mirror - 5” x 7” or 6” x 8”

  • Masking Tape: Artist’s Low Tack or low tack painters tape (cream or white colour is best)

  • Timer: phone or kitchen timer

  • Paper towels or blue shop towels

  • Sketchbook: 9 ½” x 12” or 12 sheets of white bond printer paper

IN-STUDIO

Overcome the Fear of Watercolour

INSTRUCTOR: Cindy Shropshire

I don’t require expensive art materials, if you don’t want to spend a lot, you can find something similar at Dollarama. 

  • Canson approx. 7x10” - 140lb watercolor pad, or 140lb watercolor paper pad at Dollarama.

  • Masking tape

  • Watercolor round/flat brushes - approx to: fine-(3/0); medium-10; Large-20 or assorted

  • 1/2" chip brush (optional) for washes

  • White flat paintbrush you can get at Dollar Tree

  • Basic Beginner Tube Paints - NO dry pan paints

  • Water container

  • Spray bottle

  • Palette - ceramic is best

  • Hard cardboard/plastic surface-little larger than your paper size to tape paper too. Can buy a flat canvas from dollar store that is larger than your paper and use the backer.

  • Optional: white and black gel pen

IN-STUDIO

Sidewalk Blossoms

INSTRUCTOR: Theresa Eisenbarth

  • Palette

  • Full bodied acrylics:

    • cad yellow light/hansa yellow

    • cad yellow

    • cad yellow deep

    • cad orange

    • quinacrine magenta

    • ultramarine blue

    • pthalo green

    • pthalo blue

    • pthalo turquoise

    • diaxonine purple

    • carbon black (also fluid)

    • titanium white (also fluid)

  • Fluid acrylics:

    • nickel Azo yellow

    • nickel azo gold

    • pthalo green (yellow shade)

  • Gloss medium

  • 2 - 8 x 10 canvases/Fredric panels

  • 3 - 4 acrylic brushes (1-angle)

  • Blue shop towels

  • Sketchbook

  • Pencil

IN-STUDIO

Beauty of Autumn Colours with Soft Chalks and Oil Pastels

INSTRUCTOR: Judy Russill

Buy a minimum of supplies to allow yourself to explore either 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. If you have any concerns or questions regarding supplies, please contact Judy by phone, text, or email as a minimum amount of time will be spent discussing supplies.

  • Sketchbook

  • 2B/4B pencil

  • Plastic eraser

  • Gum eraser (for chalk pastels)

  • Masking tape

  • Rags/ paper towels for cleaning hands

  • Mask (if sensitive to dust)

  • Sketching paper

  • Old bristle brushes (Size 2 to 4)

SOFT CHALK PASTELS

Nupastel by Prismacolour - as large a set as you can afford. The whole pastel painting can be completed with these which are available at 10% off to HAC members at the Medicine Hat College bookstore.

General’s, Conte, Or Caran d’Ache Pencils - white, black, sand, violet, ultramarine blue are useful. Sets of inexpensive General’s pastel pencils are available at Micheal’s with a coupon. Individual Conte Pastel Pencils or Caran d’Ache are available in art supply stores in Calgary, Edmonton or on the internet. Complete soft chalk pastel paintings can be completed with pastel pencils. If planning to share the cost of shipping, check out “The Paint Spot”.

Soft Chalk Pastels - Sennelier, Unison, Rembrandt, and Schmenke are wonderful to work with but not necessary in trying out this medium as they are quite expensive. Available in sets or Schmenke individually at The Paint Spot for $8.95 each and other art supply stores in Calgary: Kensington Art (Calgary); Swinton Art Supplies (Calgary) 

The instructor will make her soft pastels available for use.

Please do not buy any chalk pastels other than these brands.


OR


SOFT OIL PASTELS

Gallery, Monte Mart (HomeSense) are inexpensive for a set of 24 to 48 and provide a good colour selection and both brands are reasonably colour stable. Available on the Internet.

Sennelier, Neopastel (by Caran d’Ache) are expensive but buttery soft with excellent colour stability. Available on the Internet. Individual colours and sets are available at: The Paint Spot (Edmonton); Kensington Art (Calgary); Swinton Art Supplies (Calgary) 

PASTEL PAPER


For Chalk Pastels
U-Art, Mainoufin, Pastel Premier - all sanded pastel boards which need to be secured to Matboard or Illustration Board. Illustration board is available at the MH College Bookstore.

Available from the instructor - sand, white, or navy - 9” x 12” for $10.00 each. 12” x 18” - $18.00 each


For Oil Pastels

Pastelmat; - an excellent oil pastel surface allowing numerous layers. Pastelmat also needs to be secured to Matboard or Illustration board. Available from the instructor - sand, wine, dark blue, light blue - 9” x 11.5” for

$10.00 each. 11 1⁄2” x 11 1⁄2” - $18.00 each

Oiled water-colour paper (treated for oil pastels) is also a choice.

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

Painting Moraine Lake - Heather Pant Workshop

INSTRUCTOR: Heather Pant

  • 1 Box 24 or 48 tubes of 22 ml assorted acrylic paint

  • Canvas 24 x 24 inch either 1 inch depth or 1.5 inch depth

  • 4 pack brushes that include

  • 1 inch Angle brush

  • 1/2 inch angle brush

  • #4 round brush

  • #2 liner brush

  • 2 or 3 inch wide flat brush for underpainting.

  • Feel free to bring any of the listed supplies you already have; they do not have to be exact but close.

  • An apron is also a good idea.