Vancouver Island School of Art

302-733 Johnson St, Victoria, BC V8W 3C7 250-380-3500 info@vancouverislandschoolart.com

Supply List - Painting: The Basics

Materials required for the first class:

- Substrate (Heavy weight paper suitable for acrylic paint, wood panel, or stretched

canvas. Roughly 8x8 inches)

- Acrylic (or oil) paints (black and white, and at least three other colours)

- Painting mediums (optional)

- Various brushes

- Notebook/Sketchbook

Course Supply List:

- Heavy-body acrylic paints

- Recommended sets:

- Golden Essential Acrylic Colours set of 6: Naphthol Red Light, Hansa Yellow

Medium,Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Green Light, Lamp Black, Titanium White

OR

- Opus Essential Heavy Body Acrylic set of 6: Naphthol Red Light, Hansa Yellow

Medium, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Green Light, Lamp Black, Titanium White

- Additional colours (required): Cadmium Orange (Medium), Cadmium Yellow

(Medium), Dioxazine Violet (Purple), Cadmium Red (Medium), Cerulean Blue.

- Additional colours (optional): Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Cobalt Blue, Burnt Sienna

- Acrylic medium (to extend working time of paints) (optional)

- Palette knifes for mixing paint

- Paint brushes set of varied sizes / types

- Gesso or acrylic primer (if you wish to add another layer to your canvas) (optional)

- 2” wide paint brush

- Newsprint paper pad / cartridge paper pad

- Large sheets of acrylic painting paper

- 9 x 12” hard bound sketchbook (or coiled)

- HB or 2B pencil

- Erasers, kneaded and white/black

- White conte stick (optional)

- Paint apron (suggested)

- Plastic Toolbox or small Luggage case for material storage & transport (optional)

Additional Items to be discussed after the first class (dependent on students’ personal

preference / chosen direction for assignments):

- Alternative paints and their supplies:

- Oil : select colours, brushes (hog bristle), substrates, rags, odourless mineral spirits

(OMS), walnut or linseed oil, sealed jars and containers, mediums

- Watercolours and gouache : select colours, substrates, brushes

- Small or medium sized surfaces for weekly exercises: stretched, primed canvas,

canvas paper, gessoed wood panel, gessoed mat board or cardboard substrates

for later term assignments

The Vancouver Island School of Art is delighted to have a partnership with Opus Art Supplies.

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