Sun West Art Club

Acrylic and Oil Painting Studio Class

Instructor: Dave Coutts

This Class is open to ALL LEVELS OF STUDENTS but is meant as a Studio Class, meaning that each student will work at their own pace and on any subject and medium of their own choosing with guidance from the instructor. Students will receive professional INDIVIDUAL instruction and critiques along with suggestions meant to help them advance as artists. Periodic demonstrations will be presented as requested or needed.

NEW STUDENTS with little or no painting experience are encouraged to take the single ORIENTATION CLASS for PAINTING before registering for regular classes. The Painting Orientation Class will be offered at various times during the year. Check the club calendar for dates.

Materials List *

*This list is geared toward the novice. If you have been painting for some time, you may use your own preferred materials.

• Painting Ground (Canvas panel, Stretched Canvas or Canvas Board) Sizes vary depending on your subject matter.

• 9” x 12” Watercolor paper pad

• Basic set of oil or Acrylic paints. NO CRAFT PAINTS! Recommend Liquitex, Grumbacher, or Golden. Student grade is fine.

(Required colors plus Titanium White and Mars Black.)Primary Colors:

Secondary Colors:

Cadmium Red Medium, Sap Green

Cadmium Yellow Medium Cadmium Orange Medium

Cerulean or Brilliant Blue Dioxyzine Purple

Other Recommended Colors (Optional):

Payne’s Gray Magenta

Burnt Umber Burnt Sienna

Yellow Ocher Naples Yellow

• If using Oil Paint, you must also get Terpenoid and/or Gambol Mediums

• Brushes

For Acrylic: A basic set of SYNTHETIC flat brushes and a few bristle brushes (various sizes).

Palette knife.

For Oil: A basic set of Sable and natural hair brushes (various sizes). Palette knife.

• Artist’s Palette or Palette Paper

• Pencil(s)

• Eraser

• Tracing Paper

I recommend buying a 12” ROLL of tracing paper. It is less expensive, and works great.

• Color Wheel

PLEASE BRING IN ONLY COPYRIGHT-FREE REFERENCE MATERIALS! (These are images/photos that only you have created, images that you have taken from COPYRIGHT-FREE Websites, or images that you have received permission to use from the original creator.) No images from calendars, greeting cards, magazines, etc. unless you have EXPRESS permission from the original artist.

Recommended places to buy art supplies:

• Dick Blick. 17520 N. 75th Ave. Glendale AZ 85308

The following are online and less expensive than Michaels or Hobby Lobby:

• DickBlick.com

• Amazon.com

• Jerry’s Artarama