Larry Moore 2024 Abstracting the Landscape Workshop
SUPPLY LIST (you don’t need everything, pick one medium)
You already have most of this stuff, so don’t freak out.
The first couple of days will be spent doing small taped-off studies, you can go up in size on the last day but we’ll mostly stay in the 6x6 range.
For this class, you can work in acrylics, oil, or gouache. Even pastel. Pick one. This is NOT the time to try a new medium. Please work in the medium you are familiar with using.
You can work in any medium from the start but I recommend working on watercolor paper (or oil paper for oil) for small studies because canvas surface can get in the way.
I will be doing my demos in gouache, my favorite study medium.
For Gouache OR acrylic: 9x12 or 11x14 watercolor pad, like Arches cold press watercolor paper pads, fine grain preferred.
Phot ref: Bring high quality images of landscapes that mean something to you or that you have a connection with on phone, ipad or laptop or printed.
Sketch pad for thumbnails, notes and doodling while I yammer on.
Set of Gouache watercolor paints, they are awesome and not terribly expensive. Basic set of primaries, white, black, gray. It is a very versatile medium that is great for exploring new ideas:
Suggested brands Grumbacher, Winsor-Newton, M. Graham, Royal Talens or similar.
Titanium White (get the larger tube if you have the option)
Cad yellow light or lemon
Cad yellow medium or yellow ochre
Cad red light
Alizarin or similar
Ultramarine blue
Prussian blue
Burnt sienna
Black
Gray(s)
If you can’t find these exact colors, no worries, just get a range of warm/cool, earthtones and grays.
Watercolor mixing tray for gouache. Look for a larger tray that has some mixing area. I recommend this one on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004KJEWMY/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_.kSOCb6VBY1PN
Set of watercolor brushes, mix of flats and rounds.
If you don’t have any get the affordable variety bag o’ synthetic brushes.
Roll of 1/4” white artist tape
Either Oil or Acrylic (up to you)
Colors: Same as above, a limited palette of warm and cool of each primary color, earth tones, gray, black and white:
If you have favorite pigments, bring them. There is no one perfect palette. A good starter palette is a warm and a cool of yellow red and blue (above), but if you want to augment this be my guest.
However, a limited palette is usually better. Just primaries, earth tones, white and black.
Oils: Utrecht and Gamblin are good paints for the money. Gamblin 1980, Winton by Windsor Newton is fine. Rembrandt, Grumbacher are also fine.
Surface for oil Arches oil paper is awesome, Cold fine grain or hot press,
black felt pen (fine) like Pilot, 2b pencil
Cold wax for oils. Optional but extremely awesome.
A palette to mix on.
Acrylics. Golden is golden.
Thinner for oil: Gamsol, Turpenoid (blue can) or Mona Lisa, or you can go thinner free and just use Artists medium or linseed oil. No smelly stuff!
Can or container to hold Gamsol or medium
Palette Knife (angled, tapered tip)
Brushes:
For small studies, get a mix of smaller synthetic flats and rounds. For larger stuff, bristles are great – sizes 2-12 flats and filberts. You can also augment with sables or cheaper synthetic flats and filberts for blending (I use the synthetic flats and filberts a lot for blocking in).
There are no magic brushes. If you are interested in trying different approaches, also bring a brayer, a squeegee, chip brushes, any tool that might give you something a brush cannot.
Easel – The first few days we will work flat on the table.
There are easels in the studio for you to use or bring a good portable and multifunctional easel OpenBoxM or EasyL, Strada, U.Go New Wave or similar for if we go outside or you prefer to work upright..
The easel you use can be determined by the surface size you wish to work on. If you go larger, you need an easel to support that.
Canvases: optional for last day (if you are working in oil or acrylic)
2-3 12x16 or similar canvas panels
Finer weaves are better. Crappy canvas panels are not helpful.
If using Frederix or similar single gesso-primed surface, I recommend a brush coat of gesso or two. Raymar, Windsor-newton and Pintura are good and fairly inexpensive.
Gessoed 140# watercolor paper works great too.
So does gessoed wood panels and cardboard, for that matter.
Artists painting medium for oil by Winsor Newton or Gamblin Galkyd or Gamblin solvent free gel (optional but very handy)
Paper towels (viva) or lots of good painting rags Sense of humor and an open mind
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