THE IMC™

Materials list

For this class, bring the materials you are most comfortable working with. Bring your favorite medium and any supplies you need to be comfortable when you paint or draw. The below lists are all suggestions (except for *starred items which are mandatory).

There are art supply stores to be found locally where you can find most things.

Basic Materials List - Strongly Recommended

*Starred Items Mandatory

-*Large Drawing Board

-*Good Brushes

-Palette

-Pencils

-*Paints (as many or as few as you wish, oil, acrylic or watercolor) *see below for detailed color lists

-Masonite panels (at least one 16 in x 24, two if you paint fast)

-Arches or Strathmore Water Color Paper, hot press 140lb and 300lb

-tracing paper

-Acrylic Matte Medium (if you use Donatos tranfer method or acrylic paint)

-Laptop (used for reference gathering and some basic photoshop manipulation, dorm rooms are wi-fi enabled) Note: there is a copy center directly off campus with printing capabilities, bring extra cd's or a compact flash to transfer images. We do not have official access to the college computers or print lab.

-Newsprint or Bond for life drawing

-Paper Towels

-*Solvent of your choice *MUST BRING LABELLED JARS WITH LIDS FOR ALL SOLVENTS* All jars must be labelled, even water and acrylic solvents: rules of the college

-Soap to clean brushes

-Galkyd (used in most Faculty techniques)

-Gamsol( also by Gamblin-the folks that make Galkyd)-Low oder,super alternative to turpentine,turpenoid. HIGHLY suggested

Suggested Additional Materials

Paper/Surfaces:

Canson Ingres Cream or Earth Toned Paper

Strathmore 500 series drawing (Bristol board) 1 or 2 ply vellum or plate finish

Pre-Stretched Canvas, portrait grade

Arches hot press watercolor paper-140lb

Pencils:

Charcoal Pencils

Sepia and White Colored Pencils

Mediums:

Artist Grade Turpentine

Galkyd

Liquin

Labelled Jars with Lids for ALL Solvents

Brushes:

Soft hair brushes are best for glazing: they allow a smooth and even layering of the color. Some of the best brushes for this application are ox hair flats, sable and squirrel hair (mix). All are available from Pearl Paint, Utrecht Art Supply, and Dick Blick ranging from 1/4" to 3" and sizes 0 to 20.  Donato's preferred workhorse brushes are the Masterstroke Sable Filberts from Dick Blick. Sable watercolor brushes have the best tips for rendering fine details, sizes range from 000 and up. Rekab and Winsor&Newton produce a fine and inexpensive sable brush of this type.

Blick Masterstroke Pure Red Sable Brushes

Winsor & Newton Artists' Watercolor Brushes

Paint:

Basic Color Kit:

Titanium White, Payne’s Gray, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Burnt

Umber, Terre Verte(Green Earth), Cadmium Red Deep, Cadmium Yellow

Medium, Cadmium Yellow Light, Ultramarine Blue, Permanent Green,

Sepia, Magenta, Cobalt Blue

Full Color Kit:

Titanium White, Ivory white,Paynes Gray, Warm Gray, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Burnt

Umber, Terre Verte(Green Earth), Cadmium Red Deep, Cadmium Yellow

Medium, Cadmium Yellow Light, Ultramarine Blue, Permanent Green,

Manganese/Dioxazine Purple, Greenish Umber, Sap Green, Alizarin

Crimson, Pthalocyanine Blue, Pthalocyanine Green, Cobalt Blue, Turquoise

Blue, Cadmium Red Scarlet, Cadmium Yellow Pale, Lemon Yellow, Raw Sienna, Sepia,

Lamp Black, Cadmium Red Light, Magenta, Naples Yellow, Brilliant

Yellow, Indian Yellow, Mars Violet, Brown Pink, Chinese Red

Vermillion, Emerald Green, Manganese Blue, Davey's Gray

Water Color:

Basic colors with the addition of Indian yellow, Vermillion, Davey’s Gray, Payne’s Gray, Antwerp blue, and Chinese white.

Please bring The Basic Color Kit in either oils or acrylics or watercolors, whichever you like best.

Accessories:

Artists tape, Wax paper palette, watercolor pallets, maul stick, other preferred mediums, turpentine, acrylic, brushes, medium cups, paper towels.

If you have your own portable easel, you are welcome to bring it. No drawing tables please

MOUNTING of DRAWINGS onto Masonite( Donato’s technique for finishes):

Acrylic Matte or Gloss Medium for mounting

Medium to large brush for spreading acrylic medium (any cheap 2-3” brush will do)

Masonite boards cut to size you wish to work - 18 x 24 up to 24 x 36 are good beginning sizes

Inking Brayer (roller), 6”+ recommended

What you will need to work in specific Faculty techniques (Faculty Favorites):

Donato Giancola:

Oil Paint, brushes, galkyd and oil mediums( turp, cobalt dryer)

Acrylic Matte or Gloss Medium for mounting

Medium to large brush for spreading acrylic medium (any cheap 2-3” brush will do)

Masonite boards cut to size you wish to work - 18 x 24 up to 24 x 36 are good beginning sizes

Inking Brayer (roller), 6”+ recommended

Rebecca Guay:

Brown or sepia and graphite or black pencil

Matte Medium

Arches 240 lb Hot Press water color paper, or Strathmoore 500 series plate bristol.

Water color or holbein acryla-gouache.

Basic colors with the addition(if working in water color) of  windson newton Indian yellow, vermillion, Davy’s Gray, Payne’s Gray and Antwerp blue, and Chinese white.

Galkyd ( light or medium)

Oil paint.

Tape for masking edges

Scott Fischer:

Scott combines digital and oil paint.

If you have a computer and wacom and would like to work with him in photo shop- then print out your image and work in oil on top you are welcome.

There is a print shop nearby for making copies from disc.

Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell and Dan Dos Santos:

20 ply strathmore cold press Illustration board

Acrylics

Oils, basic colors

Brushes, meduims( turp, linseed oil)

Dan Dos Santos, Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell’s favorite paint pallette:

Rose Madder, Carmine, Yellow Ochre Light (Rembrant), Indian Yellow, Transaprent Oxide Red, Yellowish Green (Rembrant), Ivory Black, Sap Green, Viridian Green.

Jim Gurney

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/01/technique-nuts-and-bolts.html