Vancouver Island School of Art
302-733 Johnson St, Victoria, BC V8W 3C7 250-380-3500 info@vancouverislandschoolart.com
Supply List - Landscape Painting Now II
Painting Supplies (for in-class projects):
We will be doing in-class painting projects for the last part of each session. The recommended paint for these exercises is gouache because most of the artists' works we will be looking at in class are done in oil and acrylic and gouache is the easiest medium to get similar effects. If you prefer to do in-class exercises in pastels, watercolour or acrylic, that is fine. You can use what you have. However, the instructor will be using gouache.
- Suggested gouache paints:
- Winsor Newton Designer Gouache: alizarin crimson, brilliant yellow, ultramarine blue, light purple, orange lake light, titanium white.
- If you are on a tight budget you can purchase inexpensive sets of gouache on Amazon.
- Watercolour brushes: #12 round and 3/4" flat brush (both synthetic sable)
- Watercolour pad: 9 x 12", cold press, 140lb, cotton: I recommend the Arches Watercolour pad (this pad is expensive but the quality is amazing and you only need one pad for all the in-class exercises).
Painting Supplies (for homework projects):
- a good selection of colours, at least 2 of each of the primary and secondary colours (a warm and cool of each), two browns, black and white in your chosen medium
- medium (for acrylic or oil)
- odourless mineral spirits (for oil)
- brushes: a range of brushes from small to large, round and flat
- palette to mix paint on
- palette knives (metal for oil, plastic for water based medium)
- rags
Recommended Textbook:
Barry Schwabsky, Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, Distributed Art Publishers, 2019.
https://www.amazon.ca/Landscape-Painting-Now-Abstraction-Romanticism/dp/0500239940/
Suggested place to buy art supplies: Opus Art Supplies, 512 Herald St, Victoria BC or order online: https://opusartsupplies.com/
You can consider an Opus A+ Membership, where students can sign up to save 10% on all orders during their studies: Sign Up For Opus A+ Membership.