Portrait Drawing and Painting

Course Materials

Please buy these materials in advance.

NEEDED ON FIRST DAY

Brushes

• No.3 round hog
• No.5 filbert or flat hog
• No.2 round sable or synthetic
• Wooden palette approx 25 x 35cm (or disposable palette available from shop) Straight bladed palette knife
• Dipper
• Odourless thinners (turpentine and white spirits not permitted in school) you can buy these from your tutor
• Jam jar
• A few small cheap canvas boards 10” x 8” or 10” x 12” inches

Oil Paints (All preferably artist’s quality)

• Titanium White
• Yellow Ochre
• Venetian red
• Ivory black

Introduced after week one:

• Cadmium Yellow lemon
• Cadmium Red
• Alizarin Crimson
• French Ultramarine
• Cerulean blue

Optional drawing materials

• Artists Sketchbook (A4)
• Small hardback sketchbook (A6)
• Drawing pencils (selection)
• Putty / hard erasers Masking Tape