SURREY DRAWING & PAINTING STUDIO
FETCHAM, LEATHERHEAD AND BRIGHTON
LEATHERHEAD DRAWING STUDIO
Spring Term
Tuesdays 6.30pm - 8.30pm
LEATHERHEAD OIL PAINTING STUDIO
Spring Term
Saturdays 9.30am - 12.30pm
Painting materials
(most of them can be purchased at Pullingers in Epsom)
Portable easel or Pochade Box with tripod sold separately (You can carry paints in pochade box and some of them include a palette. Some boxes can be quite expensive, but if you are planning to stick with your painting and try to paint both indoors and en pleinair, they are useful. See links below)
Oil:
Sufficient amount of Titanium or Zinc White (200ml tube), Ivory Black, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Yellow or Gold Ochre, Red Ochre Transparent, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Oxide of Chromium, Viridian, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmiums: Red and Yellow.
(Winsor & Newton Artist’s range is good. Their student version is suitable, however they have less colour pigment in them, this will affect the quality of your painting)
Surfaces:
Number of artists boards, canvas boards or canvases (well primed with white gesso)
22x16inches
18x14inches
16x12 inches
14x10inches
Brushes:
Range of good quality hog long filberts and flats from number 8 to 12
Solvents:
Low Odour for the lessons, Turpentine at home
Jam jar with lid for washing your brushes during work
Palettes:
Firm rectangular / oval medium wooden or plastic palette (white plastic is good)
size appr 37x23cm (see links below)
Palette knife:
Winsor & Newton palette knife N21 or N22
Plenty of rags or kitchen towel, plastic sheet to protect the floor. Old shirt to protect clothing.
Firm cover sketch book A4 format
You might find this information on art materials useful:
Canvas Carrier
https://www.jacksonsart.com/jas-canvas-carrier
Palettes
https://www.jacksonsart.com/studio/palettes/wooden-palettes/page/2
Pochade boxes
https://www.jacksonsart.com/studio/easels/pochade-boxes
Lighter pochade box/easel (with the video how to assemble it)
https://www.jacksonsart.com/jackson-s-half-sized-french-style-box-easel
Drawing Materials
Range of pencils from HB (for longer drawing) to 6B (for sketching)
Light drawing board A2 size (Pullingers in Epsom sell good ones)
Selection of graphite pencils from HB to 6B
Stanley knife
A3 good quality drawing paper pad (Not spiral bound. Medium surface cartridge paper with some grain)
Various sizes pale neutral colours sketching paper
Willow charcoal
Round large watercolour brush
Watercolour: black, sepia, umber
Round and filbert hog brushes size 8-10
Oil colours artist quality - raw and burnt umber (small tubes)
Soft pastel

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Hans Holbein the Younger. Sketches of heads and hands. Pen and ink
