Oil Materials List

Materials to get you started with oil paint. Links to online shops have been provided to help you find the items. Some great places online to get art supplies are: officeworks.com.au, riotstores.com.au, artshedonline.com.au, ebay.com.au and arttoart.net You can find these items elsewhere but i’ve included links below from these 5 online shops.

Table easel

• Desk easel from Officeworks - Find online

• If you don’t get yourself an easel then you can easily lean your painting up against something from home

Palette paper

• Palette paper - Find online

• Clipboard to hold your palette paper in place

• *you can use palette paper directly from pad and tear it off once you’ve finished using it instead of tearing it off prior and placing on clipboard

• *you can use a variety of things found at home as you palette like plates, tiles etc. just be sure to clean up once finished so the paint doesn’t stick

Canvas

• 12”x16” 2 pack online at Officeworks - Find online

• *The sizes that we use in class are 12”x16 and 16”x20”

• *You may want to try a different size or surface to paint on while at home. Example: wood panel

Grey background paint

• 1L white acrylic paint - Find online option 1 or Find online option 2

• small black acrylic paint - Find online

• small or medium sized jar

• palette knife - Find online

• stirring stick

• * To watch video of mixing the grey background please click here

Items you may have at home

• Paper towel

• pencil

• pencil sharpener

• ruler

• gloves

Paint

• Titanium white - 200ml - Find online

• Lemon yellow 75ml - Find online

• Ultramarine blue 75ml - Find online

• Cadmium red hue 75ml - Find online

• Burnt sienna 75ml - Find online

• * The above colours are the only ones you need for lockdown online lessons but if you have some other colours in mind that you want to try then have a browse and pick as many as you like

• * there are many different brands and versions of each colour so if you can’t find the exact colour online its okay just as long as its a yellow, blue and red white and brown. All paints are different prices so have a look around to see whats right for you.

• Range of oil paint (Windsor Newton)

• Alternative brand (Mont Marte)

• Alternative brand (Marie's)

Oil and Solvent

• Refined linseed oil - Find online

• Odourless solvent - Find online

• 2 small jars (one for each the solvent and the oil)

• a small dish for the oil (you can use a jar lid)

• Oil is for mixing with the oil paint and solvent is for cleaning brushes at the end

• To watch a video about the different between oil and solvent click here

Brushes

• You can find many different size and styles of brushes in stores and on the internet. I usually get my brushes from a variety store in St Ives called “Zap variety” and also Officeworks. I find the softer brushes are the best kind. Finding brushes of different size and shapes work well. Below are some options you may like to choose from. They are from Officeworks.

• Large brush set for background - Find online

• Zen value pack - Find online

• 1” flat brush - Find online

• size 2 angle brush - Find online

• small brush - Find online

Clean up

• “The Masters” brush cleaner - Find online

• Detergent

• * Remember steps for clean up include: wiping the brushes on a paper towel, rinsing out the brushes in the solvent which is in a jar and then washing with warm soapy water and then let the brushes dry flat

• If you aren’t able to get “The Masters” brush cleaner this is okay you can use warm soapy water