Vancouver Island School of Art
302-733 Johnson St, Victoria, BC V8W 3C7 250-380-3500 info@vancouverislandschoolart.com
Supply List - Drawing into Painting: Landscape
Paint
- Watercolours in tubes (gouache or acrylic gouache is also an option and can be used with watercolour and ink)
- Turner and Holbein are my choices for colour quality. Lukas is a reasonable brand with nice vivid colours suitable to this course's approaches
- A range of warm and cool primary colours. Reds: Alizarin Crimson (cool), Cadmium red hue (Warm) Yellows: Cadmium light hue (W), Lemon Yellow or Hansa Yellow (C) Blues: Cerulean (C) & Ultramarine (W) Raw Sienna and Payne's Grey
- Watercolour: Similar idea and a similar colour range
Acrylic medium
-Any brand, used for base coats
Inks
- Black ink specifically for fountain pens such as Parker Quink. Higgins also has a reasonable one
- Three colours of Acrylic Ink (not for Fountain pens-it will clog them!)
- F&W Liquitex and Golden all make good ones. Red. Cerulean and Ultramarine Blue or similar (so many hues will work) *with paints and inks, I prefer to shop to taste as you would buying shirts or pastries rather than focusing on theory.
Brushes
- Use a variety of rounds and flat synthetic sable brushes for watercolour/gouache
- Have a large (#10 or #12) flat watercolour /gouache brush, #8 rigger, and Princeton 'Dagger" brush
- Flat 1” acrylic brush to apply acrylic medium
- Feel free to use what you already have
Pens
- Dip pens - pen holder and speedball C-5, C-6, and Hunt School Nib
- Black water-soluble felt-tipped pen
- Sharpie (fat)
- Fudenosuke pen
- Black broad posca marker
Surfaces/Paper
- Look for an 11"x14" or 16"x20" multi-media pad that takes watercolour and ink
Palette
- Plastic palette for mixing paint, (white plastic lids, white plates or disposable palette pad can also be used)
Other Supplies
- Drawing board (18x24”)
- 2 Bulldog clips (to hold the paper to the board - optional).
- Plastic containers to hold water (such as yogurt containers)
- Painters masking tape (removable)
- Rags (old cotton clothes) for cleaning up
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