GENERAL
- Outdoor easel, French or metal
Palette (the French easel comes with one)
- View finder (recommend Picture Perfect View Finder)
- Value scale
- Umbrella to attach to easel
- Luggage cart (recommended)
- Pencils (2B & 4B), sharpener, and erasers
- Sketch book, 5 x 7 or 8 x 10
- Camera
- Proportional dividers ("Prospek" tool, Jerry's catalog #32839)
- Hand mirror
- Trash bag
- Bug spray and sun block
- Wipe-out tool or small pointed color shaper
- Hat or sun visor
- Tote bag for miscellaneous gear
- Cotton rags and/or paper towels
- Ruler, 12" is a good size
Mahl stick (recommended)
- Chair or stool (for lunch and breaks)
- Brush holder
- Clamps, pliers, and bungee cords (recommended)
- Soft vine charcoal
- Palette knife (not a painting knife)
- 14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes available used from Amazon.com (optional, but recommended)
Oil Painting Supplies
- Liquin
- Panels, or canvas boards, 9x12 or 12x16, with application of middle tone transparent gray
- Odorless turpentine or mineral spirits
- Palette cups
- Brushes: hog bristle filberts (Robert Simmons #42's are good.)
Oil Paints:
- Permalba or other titanium/zinc white
- Cadmium yellow light
- Cadmium orange
- Cadmium red light
- Burnt sienna
- Permanent Madder Deep - NEW COLOR!
- Ultramarine blue
- Cobalt blue
- Thalo blue
- Thalo or viridian green
- Black, Chromatic Black from Gamblin is best, or Ivory Black
Watercolor Supplies
- Palette with deep wells
- Watercolor pads (I like Arches Cold Press)
- Incredible Nib
- Salt
- Brushes, a variety
- Paints, same as oil colors plus:
-Chinese white or white Gouache (opaque watercolor)
-Chromium oxide green, Quinacridone red
-Sap Green
-Yellow Ochre
-Cerulean Blue
-Winsor Violet
-Paynes Gray
-Raw Sienna
- White plastic eraser
- Incredible white mask, or other masking fluid
- Masking tape
- Small spray water bottle (overall size about 4 ½ inches)
- X-Acto knife with sharp blade #9 or #11
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