WHAT YOU’LL NEED FOR THE
ONLINE ‘NEXT LEVEL’ PAINTING COURSE
I’ll be painting with oil paints but feel free to use acrylic for the course.
I’ve tried to keep this list as minimum as possible. I recommend Langridge, Windsor & Newton or Art Spectrum for paints and mediums. I personally use Langridge oil paints because they are Australian made and uncompromising on quality. Their paints have super high pigment loading and are based on contemporary high-saturation colours. Their solvent 75 is the lowest toxic solvent in the world. But you’re welcome to use alternative brands that may be more budget friendly.
tablet/computer/phone to watch lectures & view reference image
2B pencil & eraser & notepad
paper towel (for brush cleaning)
apron & gloves (optional)
easel (optional)
brush soap/incredible brush cleaner (optional)
a sheet of baking paper and Tupperware/take away container (for storing leftover paint) (OIL PAINTERS ONLY)
3-5 primed canvas boards
You’ll be making 3-5 small paintings. You can also paint onto loose primed canvas, cardboard, wood etc, as long as you prime it yourself with 2-3 coats of Gesso.
Pictured is the “create art” canvas boards but I don’t love these boards as they warp but they are convenient for classes.
Small glass jar with lid
This is for our solvent to clean brushes of oil paint (or water for acrylic painters).
Optional: insert scrunched up chicken wire inside OR a smaller jar that fits inside (with punched holes in the lid like mine shown). This means you can fill it with solvent and rub your brush on top of the chicken wire/jar lid and the thick paint will fall to the bottom leaving clear solvent at the top.
Low toxic solvent (OIL PAINTERS ONLY)
1 bottle of “low toxic solvent” OR “solvent 75”. Just a 100 or 200ml bottle would be fine.
Brushes
Bring whatever you have. You can never have too many brushes! It’s good to have a range of square or filbert shape brushes with bristles from 0.5cm to 2cm wide. Hog hair or synthetic is fine. A soft badger hair brush is great but not essential. A nice fine one is great for drawing up. I am really loving old, fluffy bent out of shape brushes at the moment too!
Flat palette & bulldog clip
This can be a store bought palette or even just use a timber board roughly 20x30cm. Don’t forget the bulldog clip!
palette knife
I like the longer ones.
1 plastic container with lid (OIL PAINTERS ONLY)
I don’t waste any paint! I scrape up any unused paint on my palette, put it onto some baking paper and store it in a sealed plastic container in the freezer, ready for the next week.
low toxic paint medium’ (OIL PAINTERS ONLY)
I use Langridge’s low toxic paint medium (based on a stand oil). But you can use whatever low toxic medium you have - refined linseed, walnut, stand oil are all fine or any “low toxic” paint medium.
Jar and measuring spoon (OIL PAINTERS ONLY)
For your oil medium
OIL PAINTS
We’ll be using a limited palette (just one of each primary plus white). If you already have oil paints bring whatever red, yellow and blue you have but if you want the exact same as me I use:
♡ Titanium white
💛 Cadmium yellow PY35 (or any high chroma, lemon yellow colour if you already have one)
💗 Quinacridone magenta PR122 (quinacridone crimson would be fine too, sometimes called Permanent Alizarin)
💙 Ultramarine blue PB29 (or phthalo blue PB15.1 (red or green shade) would be fine too, it’s a nicer colour just harder to use as it’s so strong)
I like langridge, windsor & newton, Michael Harding brands. For a more budget friendly option, Art spectrum is fine too. Different brands call their pigments different names, so look for the small pigment number on the back of the tube (ie PY35).
