Urban Scenes with Jennifer Diehl – Supply List
Drawing Supplies:
- HB, 2B and 4B pencils or your preferred sketching tools
- pens for notes
- pencil sharpener (if you are bringing pencils)
- good eraser (kneadable or a white art eraser)
- 9×12 Sketchbook, 100 sheets, 60 lbs (Strathmore 400 series, medium weight, lightly textured, acid free paper is a good one.)
Painting Supplies:
- one 12×16 or 16×20 Canvas or canvas board.
- Odorless Thinner (Gamsol is a good one. And obviously some sort of sealable glass or metal container to put it into as well)
- Flat, long bristle Brushes, sizes: 2,4,6,8, 10, 12 (Filberts are okay, but I prefer to buy flats as they inevitably turn into filberts anyway.)
- Paper Towels
- Neo Megilp or Solvent Free Gel (Gamblin mediums)
- plastic grocery bag for garbage
- Portable Easel (preferably not a table top easel)
- surgical gloves (can protect you from becoming allergic to your paints)
- Spray bottle of Simple Green (found at any grocery store)
Oil Paints:
- Titanium White
- Hansa Yellow Light (Gamblin Brand) or cad lemon yellow
- Cadmium Yellow Light (unless it’s Gamblin brand, then it needs to be Cad Yellow Medium)
- Ochre
- Raw Sienna
- Indian Yellow (Gamblin Brand)
- Cadmium Orange Medium (In Utrecht brand it should be Cad Orange LIGHT)
- Cadmium Red (LIGHT in Utrecht brand)
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Burnt Sienna (should be super dark and transparent)
- Burnt Umber (NOT Gamblin’s)
- Raw Umber(either Gamblin’s raw or burnt is great for this color, but DO NOT use Utrecht’s)
- Sap Green (NOT Utrecht’s……it should look super dark)
- Phthalo Green (Ambusson is also acceptable)
- Phthalo Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Ivory Black (Mars black is ok as well)
- Dioxazine Purple
- Manganese Violet
Other Supplies:
- Camera (your phone’s camera will likely suffice)
- A device that will allow you to view your pictures bigger (an iPad, laptop, etc)