Participant Supply List
Paints
a good basic travel paint set is a warm and a cool of each primary. for example, i use:
cadmium yellow light (or cad lemon) cadmium yellow medium (or yellow ochre), permanent red (or cad red medium), alizarin crimson, Prussian blue, French Ultramarine blue plus titanium white and a series of medium warm and cool grays. If you wish to augment this with more earth tones, like; burnt sumber or burnt sienna , sap green or cadmium green that's up to you. but everything you need can be mixed from the primaries. and too many tubes of paint is... too many. bring extra white and it's okay to bring black.
Brushes
a fair assortment of types and sizes, hopeuflly you know what you like. I use bristle filberts and flats sizes 4 through 10 and some sable flats or filberts sizes 8 or 10 for blending. also a couple of small rounds for details and a rigger (long soft bristle round).
Medium
I use Liquin, also Copal, pale drying oil, Avavilable for purchase in cortona.
Do not bring it with as airplane authorities frown on flammable stuff.
Turpenoid or turpentine, also mineral spirits. Avavilable for purchase in cortona.
Easel
an efficient lightweight painting box is essential. I've tried every kind. my personal favorites are from Open Box M (www.openboxm.com) and EasyL (www.artessentials.com) both are extremely well designed and light and both have dry rack storage. you can also use a half-french or full french easel but they get heavy.
Paint surface
there are so many to consider panels from www.windriverarts.com canvas mounted to gatorboard or wood, they are great, might want to try the variety pack first to see what best fits you
Or
gesso'd: masonite, heavy paper, wood panel
stretched canvas, but these can be bulky and hard to transport wet
Other important stuff
tripod for your easel, palette knife, tape, turp container, dry box for wet panels
paper towels (i use Viva) not sure if they have them in italy, but if they do they would be called La Dolce Viva Avavilable for purchase in cortona.
dry rack; something to hold wet panels and make sure your panels actually fit the rack
back pack or paint/materials carrier. the back pack allows for hands free mobility and the more efficient you can make your system the better. nothing worse than scrambling up a mountain with 6 things in your hands.
water bottle, snack bars, some kind of repellant to ward off those pesky Italian men.
if you need to sit, a portable stool.
do a couple of dry run throughs and practice sessions with all your stuff.
If you have questions email me:
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