Description
Using photos or subjects of your choosing, enjoy developing your own style while painting still life, landscapes, seascapes, animals, abstracts or portraits that interest you in an instructor-guided, supportive group environment. Bring your own paints and supplies, reference materials and creativity for a relaxing and fun time painting with friends.
Oil Painting Recommended Supply List
Instructor: Linda Pica
Basic Supplies:
• photos, sketches or reasonably sized objects you are most interested in painting
• small lidded jar or metal container of “odorless” mineral spirits for oil-based paints OR small jar
for water if using water-based oil paints
• Painting rag, paper towels or shop towels to wipe brushes and clean up
• Your choice of canvas or board. If you are new to painting, you’ll find 11” X 14” a nice size.
• Your choice of palette: solid surface plastic, wood, metal box or pad to mix paint on
• A couple of brushes: flat, round, angle, bright (optional palette knife). Invest brushes as you gain
experience and develop your own preferences. Inexpensive “big box store” brushes are ok to
use so long as they have uniform edges and don’t readily fall apart, leaving bristles in your paint.
Oil Paints (Basic recommendations are bolded below):
If you are just getting started in oil paints, invest minimally as even a simple starter kit can open the door
to a very enjoyable and successful experience. And if you are more experienced and have any favorites,
by all means bring them! Just use caution to read labels carefully to purchase consistently standard oil
paints versus water-based oil paints:
• White: Titanium or Soft Mixing White
• Black: Mars or Lamp (Optional helpful additional Payne’s Grey, Natural Grey)
• Yellow: Cadmium Yellow Medium (Additional helpful options: Naples, Ochre, Lemon or Hansa)
• Red: Cadmium Red (Additional helpful options: Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Sienna, Permanent Rose)
• Blue: Ultramarine (Additional helpful options: Phthalo, Cerulean, Cobalt)
• Optional Browns: Burnt umber, raw umber, Van Dyke
• Optional Greens: Sap, Terre Verde or Earth, Permanent Green
Other Helpful Items:
• A pair of adjustable pliers to help remove stubborn paint tube caps
• An old shirt or apron to protect your clothing
Feel free to email the instructor at lindapica.art@comcast.net for any questions or assistance.
