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All supplies are provided for children's and young teen (ages 12-15) courses. 

Students will need to provide their own supplies for all adult and teen 16+ classes. 

Supply Lists

Introduction to Drawing

Instructor: Marion Held

Paper:
-18 x 24” newsprint pad, or 24 x 36” newsprint pad
-White and/ or tinted drawing pad (can be smaller size) in addition to newsprint 
-Drawing board.  Clips to attach pad to drawing board

Assorted charcoal including: 
-Charkole (square sticks), vine charcoal (soft), compressed charcoal (soft)
-Ebony drawing or design pencil, or any soft graphite pencils (4 B or 6 B)

-Kneaded eraser 
-Optional: conte, graphite, white chalk or pastel, also watercolor and ink
-Chamois cloth or other for blending
-Latex gloves for working with charcoal  (optional)
-Portfolio for carrying paper

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Life Drawing & Anatomy

Instructor: Jose Anico

-Packs of Paper 18" x 24" / 50lb., acid free
-Willow charcoal (medium sticks)
-Piece of pure cotton cloth 14'' x 14"
-Blender #4 two or three of them
-Piece of fine sand paper

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Instructor: John Atura

Virtually any drawing media you are comfortable with using will suffice for this class. What follows are suggested drawing supplies:

-18” X 24” newsprint drawing pad

-18” x 24” or larger white paper drawing pad

-Spray fixative

-X-acto or art knife

-Compressed charcoal

-Vine charcoal

-Kneaded eraser

-Staedtler white eraser

-General’s 6B charcoal pencil

-Masking tape

-Higgins drawing ink

-Speedball pen holders and assorted nibs

-Watercolor brushes - #9 Raphael and wash brush

-White oil bar or paint stick (R&F or Windsor & Newton)

Life Drawing 16+

Instructor: John Atura

-18” X 24” newsprint drawing pad
-18” x 24” white paper drawing pad
-Spray fixative
-X-acto or art knife
-Compressed charcoal
-Vine charcoal
-Kneaded eraser
-Staedtler white eraser
-General’s 6B charcoal pencil
-Masking tape
-Higgins drawing ink
-Speedball pen holders and assorted nibs
-Watercolor brushes - #9 Raphael and wash brush
-White oil bar or paint stick (R&F or Windsor & Newton)
-Black oil bar or paint stick (R&F or Windsor & Newton)

All students should carry with them a sketch book, or some kind of drawing board for paper and drawing materials.

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Landscape Oil Painting 
Portraiture

Instructor: Gary Godbee

-Canvas - Portraiture only: 14"x18", 16”x20”, 18"x24" or similar. Landscape and Still-life: 18"x24" or larger. You may use prepared (store-bought) stretched canvases or gessoed panels.
-No canvas boards, please

-Palette - Coated-paper block type (disposable), or wooden. 12"x16"

-Palette cups - One or two small metal or plastic cups

-Brushes - Bristles - FLATS #1, 3, 5, 8, and 12. (Robert Simmons “Signet”)
-Sables - ROUNDS - #1 and 3 - (for details). (Simmons “Sienna”, Windsor & Newton “Cirrus)

Note* Good brushes are expensive, but they are your most primary tool and extensions of your hands. Poor quality brushes will make you struggle unnecessarily.

Oil Colors - 37ml tubes - Gamblin, Windsor & Newton, Rowney, Utrecht, Grumbacher (Avoid student grades. Example: ‘Winton’ is Windsor & Newton’s student grade.)

-Cadmium Yellow Medium
-Yellow Ochre
-Raw Sienna
-Burnt Sienna
-Burnt Umber
-Cadmium Red Light
-Venetian Red (English Red is the same)
-Alizarin Crimson
-Dioxazine Purple (Windsor Violet)
-Ultramarine Blue
-Cerulean Blue Hue (cheaper but more intense than pure Cerulean Blue)
-Cadmium Green
-Olive Green
-Sap Green
-Viridian or Thalo Green
-Ivory Black
-Titanium White - large tube

-Solvent - TURPENOID - in the BLUE and white can. (Do not buy Turpenoid Natural in the green can.) (Neither turpentine nor mineral spirits are acceptable for health reasons.)

-Brushwasher – You must have one of the following: metal-type with lid, glass jar with coil (Pearl Paint), or a mayonnaise-size jar w/lid - large enough to hold 3 or 4 large brushes. This is to clean your brushes as you work. Palette cups are not appropriate for this.

-Medium - Small jar cold-pressed or refined linseed oil.

-Pencils - A couple of 2B pencils are fine.

-Paper Towels - I prefer paper towels to rags as they are easier to dispose of and are helpful for adding an initial tone to your canvas.

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Oil or Acrylic paints 
-Titanium white (large tube)
-Ivory Black
-Cadmium Lemon (Hue)
-Cadmium yellow light(Hue)
-Cadmium red (Hue)
-Alizarin crimson
-Yellow Ochre
-Burnt umber
-Raw Umber
-Ultramarine blue
-Cobalt Blue (Hue)
-Cerulean Blue (Hue)
-Viridian Green (Hue)
-Permanent Green Light
-Raw Sienna

Optional:
-Naples Yellow
-Cadmium yellow medium (Hue)
-Indian red
-Sap green
Any extra colors that strike your fancy

Brushes – good quality natural (hog) bristle brushes for oil painters.  Acrylic painters may use synthetic or hog bristle brushes
-Flat, bright, round and filbert of assorted sizes (2, 4, 6, 8)

Mediums
-Oil: turpenoid and refined linseed oil
-Acrylic: Matte or gloss medium

Other

-1 viewfinder: “DaVinci Artist Viewfinder” or “View Catcher” at Jerry’s:

http://www.jerrysartarama.com/discount-art-supplies/perspective-tools/davinci-artist-viewfinder.htm

http://www.jerrysartarama.com/discount-art-supplies/Perspective-Tools/View-Catcher.htm

-One sketchbook or small pad of paper (around 9” x 12”)
-Pencil and eraser
-Ruler
-1 palette knife
-Smock or Apron
-Sta-Wet Palette for acrylic painters or pad of palette paper
-Pre-stretched canvases – see weekly materials lists
-I roll of paper towels (Bounty is good) or soft cotton rags
-1 bottle dish detergent (Dawn is good)
-2 glass containers (for oil paint), 2 large plastic containers (for acrylic paint)

-Silicoil Jar for oil painters 

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Intermediate Painting

Instructor: Janet Boltax

SUPPLY LIST FOR OIL OR ACRYLIC PAINTING CLASS
***Please bring all supplies to first class***

 (1) Oil or acrylic paints in the following colors: White (4-oz tube); and 1.25 oz tubes of burnt sienna, raw sienna, cadmium red light, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow light, cerulean blue, ultramarine blue, viridian, and alizarin crimson.  I use Winsor Newton, but Winton (student grade) is okay for beginners. Acrylic painters can use Liquitex or Golden paints (or Winsor Newton Galeria for less expensive student grade).

(2) Large wooden or thick plexiglass palette, 18 x 20” or larger.  You can have plexiglass cut to size at art stores, frame stores, possibly hardware stores.

(3) Painting mediums: Res-n-gel painting medium for oils, Liquitex matte medium for acrylics.

(4) Can of Turpenoid (odorless mineral spirits) for oils, water for acrylics.

(5) Palette knife for scraping paint from palette or canvas.

(6) About six oil painting brushes in a variety of sizes, ranging from a small brush for details to a brush that is about 1 1/4”.  (I prefer filberts, which are flat brushes rounded at the tip, but you can bring others if you prefer.) VERY IMPORTANT – Use new brushes or brushes in very good condition.  Worn brushes will hinder your work.

(7) Small, metal cup for holding Turpenoid or water.

(8) Roll of paper towels or cotton rags.

(9) Bar of soap such as Ivory for clean-up.

(10) Canvas or canvas board, 16 x 20” or 20 x 24”  You will need additional canvasses later on, so you may wish to buy 2 or 3 at the start. 

(11) Small sketchbook and pencil

(12) Flat, airtight Tupperware container for storing unused paints from your palette from week to week.

The best and least expensive place in this area to buy art supplies is Jerry’s in Essex Green Plaza on Prospect Avenue in West Orange.  If you bring your receipt from the Adult School you can get a 10% discount on your purchases.

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Genre Painting, Drawing & Composition
Painting the Pastel Figure Workshop
Instructor: Alex Piccirillo

Materials for Oils
NO TINTS HUES OR STUDENT GRADE PAINT IF POSSIBLE
Oils
 - Titanium White or *Flake White #1 Ultramarine Blue 
 - Ivory Black
 - *Cobalt Blue
 - *Cerulean Blue
 - Cobalt Green – (Great Color) Expensive
 - Viridian Green - Cool
 - *Cadmium Red – Lt.
 - *Green Earth - Warm
 - *Cadmium Yellow
 - Sap Green – Warm
 - *Yellow Ochre
 - Burnt Umber
 - *Naples Yellow
 - *Raw Umber
 - Burnt Sienna or Venetian Red
 - Alizarin Crimson

Brushes
Signet by Robert Simmons (or equivalent)
*BRISTLE FILBERTS*
 - No. 12 Filbert 42
 - No. 10 Filbert 42
 - No. 9 Filbert 42
 - No. 6 or No. 7 Filbert 42
 - No. 5 Filbert 42
 - No. 3 or No. 4 Filbert 42
 - No. 1 or No. 2 Filbert 42
 - RED SABLE for OILS (if needed)
 - No.5 Flat
 - No.3 Round
 - *Fan Brush for Blending - BRISTLE

Miscellaneous
 - Cheese cloth – Close weave at the supermarket – 4 sq. Yds. Goes a long way if necessary
 - *Pure stand oil
 - Any size canvas or canvas boards
 - *Paper towels and/or rags
 - *Turpenoid
 - Palette (paper palette is okay as well)
 - Medium Cups (Two cups – not attached to each other)

Materials for Pastel Class
 - Canson Mi - Tints (Medium Grey) Example: Felt Grey
 - Soft Vine Charcoal
 - Charcoal Pencils - B-2B-6B
 - Kneaded Eraser
 - Fixative
 - Pastels - Small Set - Assorted To Begin...Add to that
 - Rag
 - Mirror - (Small Hand Held)

Drawing Material
For Beginners
 - All purpose pad - Medium size 14" x 17" or 18" x 24"
 - 2 Charcoal pencils - 6B and 4B an Soft Vine Charcoal
 - 3 Graphite Pencils - B, 2B, & 4B
 - Sandpaper Block - Drawing (for sharpening pencils)
 - Razor Blade - single edge
 - Kneaded Eraser

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Oil Paints

Mandatory palette: 

-Titanium white

-Mars black

-Yellow ochre light (Rembrandt brand)

-Cadmium yellow pale

-Cadmium red

-Permanent alizarin crimson

-Transparent red oxide

-Terre verte

-Ultramarine blue

-Raw umber

Optional colors:

-Naples yellow

-Viridian

-Permanent magenta

-Cadmium orange

-Cobalt blue

Brushes:

Most of the painting can be done with Robert Simmons Signet bristle filbert brushes sizes 2, 4, 6, and 8 or Mongoose hair brushes of the same style and size.  Rosemary & Co. offer exquisitely handmade brushes at incredibly affordable prices cutting out the middleman and shipping directly to you from their headquarters in the UK.  Their Mongoose Long Filberts are unparalleled. Sable watercolor rounds size 1 and 2. Winsor & Newton Series 7 brushes are ideal, but a cheaper alternative works just as well

Medium:

-Small container of odorless mineral spirits from hardware store (cheaper than art store brands), small bottle of linseed oil plus a small jar or palette cup to hold medium

Surface:

-Canvas pad 16"x20" or 18"x24" for the exercises and quick oil sketches.

-Canvas or gesso board 16" x 20" if focusing on portraiture.  

-Canvas or gesso board 18" x 24" or larger if focusing on the full figure.

-Cheap newsprint pad 16x20” and variety of pencils or charcoal for gestures and preliminary work if you don't want to work directly with paint.  It’s always a good idea to carry a small pad and drawing implements anyway.

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Drawing Into Painting
Instructor: John Atura

A wide variety of drawing and painting materials are appropriate for this class. It is not necessary to acquire all of the items on this list and much of their use is at the student’s discretion. Students are welcome to use oil, acrylic and watercolor paints as well as pastel or pen and inks. Students are encouraged to experiment with a variety of papers and substrates such as stretched canvas, Clayboard and primed masonite. An assortment of brushes is recommended.

Suggested drawing supplies
18” X 24” newsprint drawing pad
18” x 24” white paper drawing pad
spray fixative
X-acto or art knife
compressed charcoal
vine charcoal
kneaded eraser
Staedtler white eraser
General’s 6B charcoal pencil
masking tape
Higgins drawing ink
Speedball pen holders and assorted nibs
watercolor brushes - #9 Raphael and wash brush
White oil bar or paint stick (R&F or Windsor & Newton)
Black oil bar or paint stick (R&F or Windsor & Newton)

Suggested paint colors:
Titanium White
Mars Black
Ivory Black
Raw Sienna
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Raw Umber
Ultramarine Blue
Pthalo Blue
Pthalo Green
Viridian
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Red Light
Cadmium Red Medium
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Zinc Yellow

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Painting and Drawing: Two Dimensional Art
Instructor: Robert Kogge

A photographic image to work from – landscape, still life, or figure – but please not of someone else’s original art work.

I would recommend your choice of image dimensions not to exceed 20 inches in either direction as this is a labor intensive process.

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Path to Abstraction
Instructor: Pat Butynski

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Pastel at the Next Level
Instructor: Catherine Kinkade

The Following Items are required:
Masonite Drawing Boards: Smaller Boards, 16 x 16"
Padding: Such as Blotters, Newsprint Sheets, extra sheets from sketch pad, at least as large as Canson MiTeintes sheets you are using.
Clips: Wooden Clothes Pins or Metal Clips; to hold paper on the easel.
Paper: Acid-Free, white, good quality sketch pad or sketchbook. The largest one that will fit in a briefcase/purse, preferably one that opens flat, such as Cachet "Classic Sketch Book"
2 Individual Sheets of White Canson MiTienes, or the larger of the wire-bound Canson White MiTeintes pad with slip sheets
1 Sheet Each of Canson MiTeintes paper (no pads) in these colors:
mid-value gray such as felt (429), steel (431), or flannel (122)
dark hue such as indigo blue (140), dark blue (500) or dark gray (345)
high value (light) color you love
low intensity colored paper (grayed), your choice of hue
orange or blue
intense (bright! outrageous!) color you love
black
Other Tools: Paper Towels (Bounty recommended)
6B Soft Drawing Pencil
Permanent, Fine Black Marker such as Sharpie, extra fine
Optional, but highly recommended: Spotlight for your individual easel (Opaque shade, please) & Extension Cord
Rembrandt Pastels: 505.5 ultramarine blue light (not phalo, please!)
331.5 madder lake deep
201.5 light yellow
235.5 orange
536.3 violet
675.5 green
white
black
gray .7 or .8
727.9 or .10 blue grey
538.3 mars violet
548.3 blue violet
Commercial sets are available, but it may be better to purchase them by the stick and buy your own wooden container or Art Bin box.
Note: the numbers mentioned above do matter!

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Plate, Ink and Paper: Introduction to Hand Rubbed Prints
Instructor: Dorothy Cochran

Please bring for first class:
-18” x 24” plexiglass to use as a palate and inking slab
-a selection of brushes, large and small
-a roll of Bounty paper towels, gloves, an old cotton rag and wear old clothes

Material Fee of $50 includes the following: (payable to the instructor)
-plexiglass plate
-piece of wood
-use of brayers
-use of cutting tools
-2 sheets of paper
-selection of Akua waterbase inks

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Material list for first class:

• A selection of Golden fluid acrylic paints (can be small bottles) – your favorite colors
• Soft brushes for acrylic, 1-2 inch and smaller
• one piece of plexiglass 18” x 24” to use as a palette
• selection of foam brushes
• small plastic container for water
• nitrile or latex gloves  to protect hands
• one roll of bounty paper towels
• print apron or wear old clothes
• portfolio or newsprint pad  to carry finished prints to and from class
• other materials will be discussed on the first class 

*Material fee of $40 for instructor bringing

-2 sheets of Arches 88 paper per student

-one gelatin plate for each student 

-some miscellaneous items including textures, rubbing tools, rollers and handouts  

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Teen Portfolio Preparation
Instructor: Anthony Cuneo

-18” x 24” pad, drawing paper (Canson Biggie Sketch or similar)

-18” x 24” pad, newsprint, 50 sheets or more

-Ebony Jet Black pencils (or similar)

-Magic Rub erasers (or similar)

-Alphacolor Char-Kole sticks, black, set of 12

-Set of white and mixed gray Alphacolor sticks or Yarka Assorted Sauce set

Please bring pad of drawing paper, pencils and erasers to the first class.

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Beautiful Surfaces: Ink Wash and Colored Pencil on Canvas

Instructor: Robert Kogge

-I would recommend your choice of image dimensions, not to exceed 20 inches in either direction as this is a labor intensive process.

-A photographic image to work from – landscape, still life, or figure – but please not of someone else’s original art work

-Pencils - 2B or lighter

-Ruler- at least 18 inches

-Cotton Duck Canvas (unprimed and not stretched), # 8 or 10 (the heavier is better) and buy the smallest amount you can, 1 yard x 60ins. is usually the minimum.

-Wooden drawing board, particle board, or a piece of plywood large enough to accommodate the dimensions of the work plus a 2 1/2 - 3 inch border on all four sides for stretching upon completion, and as a test strip for color samples of both pencil and wash.

-Heavy duty staple gun and 1/4 inch heavy duty staples (I will provide)

-A small bottle of Liquitex Matt Medium

-A small amount (an ounce or so) of dry mix ceramic clay to be mixed with the matt medium and ink will provide a little more tooth to the canvas in accepting the colored pencil (I will provide)

-1oz. bottles of ink, red, yellow, blue, brown, black and small mixing cups

-A set of Prisma color colored pencils (mid size will do) and any additional colors you think you might need.

-Kneaded eraser and masking tape

-Boar bristle brushes: one 2 inch cutter, one (of each) #’s 3, 5, filbert (rounded edges) and one or two small sable water color brushes. Please keep these brushes separate from your oil paint brushes.

-One can of Krylon Matt Finish (1311)

Process: First is the ground (canvas) preparation. The canvas is stapled to a board just enough to take out the slack with about two inches or more than the dimensions of the work all around for stretching only when the work is complete; also as a test strip for ink wash samples, and to make adjustments to the format size as the composition develops. For sizing and tonal ground I use a solution of one part water to one part acrylic matt medium and ceramic dry mix ceramic (powdered ceramic clay)…to this I add a few drops of yellow and brown ink that comes close to yellow ochre for a middle/tonal ground then brush it all on with a two inch or more cutter allowing it to dry thoroughly. I stir the mixture with each brush load as the dry mix will quickly settle.

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Winter in Watercolor Workshop

Instructor: Sharon Pitts

This is a suggested supply list.  Feel free to approximate or buy cheaper brands of the products listed.

PAINT      (tubes please)

-Alizarin crimson (red)

-Rose Dore

-Cadmium yellow

-Hooker’s Green

-Olive green or Sap Green

-Cerulean blue

-Ultramarine blue

-Phathlo blue

-Violet (Dioxazine purple)

-Burnt Umber

-Payne’s Grey

-Neutral Tint (black)

-Sepia

-Davy’s gray

-Raw Umber

And any other color you like.

BRUSHES (Kolinsky sable is top of the line. Synthetics are less expensive.)

-Round brushes #’s 1, 5, 10 (or a small, medium and large brush)

-½ inch flat brush

-1” flat brush (does not have to be expensive)

-Set of scrubbers

PAPER

-Arches Watercolor block. I recommend Cold-pressed which is a medium texture, my favorite. It is available in several sizes. Choose the size you feel comfortable with. 

OTHER SUPPLIES

-Richeson watercolor palette (large rectangular palette with deep, wells around the perimeter)

-Water container (can be an ordinary plastic container)

-Roll of paper towels (prefer very absorbent brand like Bounty)

-#3H pencil

-Eraser

-Masking fluid (Masquepen is preferred over a bottle)

If you wish to buy online check the following:

Cheap Joe’s

Dick Blick

Daniel Smith

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