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OIL PAINTING SUPPLY LIST

I use Water Missible oils but traditional oils are fine if you use them. Please use odor free solvents with them like Gamblin.

You can buy all these on line at https://www.jerrysartarama.com or https://www.dickblick.com or https://danielsmith.com (which is a bit pricier)

Holbein Duo Water Missable Oil Paints are my favorite. Cobra has some nice colors but not as vivid.

I have discovered Lucas Water Soluble oils as well and they are less expensive but not nearly the same quality. Windsor Newton Artisan are not good at all,.

My Palette:

Keep in mind that if you have a palette you like, you don’t need to use my colors but make sure you have warm and cool colors and light and dark values.

• Alizarin Crimson
• Rose Madder
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cerulean or Verditer Blue or King Blue (Cobra makes this color)
• Sap Green
• Cadmium Red Hue (the hues are much cheaper and non toxic)
• Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue (which is orange)
• Cadmium Yellow Hue
• Cadmium Yellow Light Hue
• Yellow Ochre
• Jaune Brilliant
• White (I use Ceramic because Titanium is toxic)
• Transparent Red Oxide (only made by Cobra an is great for initial sketch)
• Lavender
• Lilac
• Horizon Blue
• Coral
• Ice Green

I think Coral, Lavender and Lilac are easy to mix, Horizon Blue is tougher

One Acrylic color to tone canvases. I like Raw Sienna or Venetian Red but it’s your choice

Brushes:

If your brushes seem okay, use them. I use Rosemary Ivory and Evergreen brushes and I like the long filberts…size 0, size 4 or 6 and size 8 or 10, one dagger brush 34” should do it. You can order them on line at their site http://www.rosemaryandco.com

For travelers:

If this is a traveling trip, especially plein air, then get oil panels rather than canvases and keep them manageable in size…8 x 10, 9 x 12, 11 x 14. I recommend Ray Mar, Centurion Deluxe Oil Primed Linen Panels, and there are others. For carrying the panels, Ray Mar makes lightweight carriers that are sized to the size of your panels. www.raymarart.com

I also recommend some either small panels (6 x 8 say) or a pad of canvas paper in order to do some quick exercises.

I use a Strada or Easy L easel which is essentially a box that gets mounted to a tripod. However, it’s about $250 and probably not worth it unless you intend to keep this up. So, I’d get a cheap, light easel and hope it isn’t too windy.

Any questions email me: [email protected]

Aline received her BFA at Cornell University, and continued her training at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, earning a degree in Illustration.

“My goal as an artist is to find those times and places where beauty is not only evident, but startling and suddenly present.”

Aline is a Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America, a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, a signature member of the Oil Painters of America and a Master Circle Pastelist with the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS). She has juried the Pastel Society of America’s National Juried show; The Pastel Journal’s Top 100 Animal and Wildlife Competition, the Pastel Society of New Mexico’s Annual Juried Show and the Adirondack Plein Air Festival Awards.

She was featured in an article in the February issue of the Pastel Journal and she has been honored with awards at the 33rd and 34thand 38th Annual Juried Shows of the Pastel Society of America in New York City. Aline has won awards several times in the Top 100 Pastels issues of the Pastel Journal. Her work has been accepted innational juried shows of the American Impressionist Society, The Pastel Society of Americaand the Oil Painters of America. Aline teaches workshops throughout the country and in Europe. She is represented by Camden Falls Gallery in Camden, Maine; Blue Heron Gallery in Wellfleet, MA; Brickhouse Gallery, VT ; Little Gallery in Mackinac, MI .