Acrylic Painting Material List
Materials List
Foundations of Acrylics
Brushes:
This is the list for all 4 acrylic demonstrations.
• Rosemary & Co Series 344 Designer Rounds Golden Synthetic - size 4
• Isabey Isacryl Filbert - size 6
Decorators Brush - 1 1/2 - 2 inch
Brush Cleaner - Masters Brush Cleaner
Stay-wet Palette - Daler Rowney A3
When working with acrylics the paints can dry very quickly so a stay wet palette
can be invaluable to keep the paint wetter for longer.
Stay wet palette’s come in a small and large size, I always prefer the larger size so
you have more space to work in.
Tear-Off Palette - Daler Rowney A3 tear-off palette.
The most common tear-off palettes’s are white, which can be very handy when
glazing colours.
However, you can also get grey palettes, working on a grey palette makes it easier
to judge your skin tones.
Supports:
Pre-primed cotton canvas or canvas board - For all the demonstrations I use a
pre-primed cotton canvas.
• Chapter 3 Simple Landscape Painting - I demonstrate on a 12 x 12 inch canvas
• Chapter 5 Seascape Painting - I demonstrate on a 8 x 13 inch canvas
• Chapter 6 Textured Sunset Painting - I demonstrate on a 8 x 10 inch canvas
• Chapter 7 Final Project Still life Painting - I demonstrate on a 8 x 10 inch canvas
A Palette Knife with a cranked handle - I use a number 45 from RGM
Water Spray or Mister - You could use a plant mister.
Kitchen Roll (paper towel)
Easel - I use a standing easel called an H easel, however a table easel or angled
desk would work just as well.
A pot of clean water
When working with acrylics your painting water can be very muddy, very quickly.
So make sure to remember to keep regularly replacing it. I often use 2 pots, one
larger pot for cleaning out the pigments from the brush and one smaller dipper pot
for just dipping into when you want to add water to your mixture.
Pencil - 3B or softish pencil for sketching out our painting.
Mediums - In Chapter 2 I demonstrate with various mediums and have listed them
below, however, throughout the demonstrations on this course I use water to dilute
my paints.
• Acrylic Glazing Liquid (Gloss) - perfect for thin glazes of paint and holds an even
paint film
• Clear Tar Gel - for more decorative dripping effects and has a tar-like flow to it.
• Regular Gel (Gloss) - most similar to the binder used in Heavy Body Paints, can
be mixed with your paints to make them go further.
• Soft Gel (Gloss) - similar to the Regular Gel but softer in consistency.
• Extra Heavy Gel (Matte) - holds firm peaks, great for raised textural work.
• Course Pumice Gel - contains a sand-like pumice stone quality adds a gritty
texture to your paints.
N.B. The only mediums I demonstrate with are Extra Heavy Gel (Matte) in Chapter
6 and Soft Gel (Gloss) on the Final Project Chapter 7 when I use it as an isolation
coat for protection.
Paints:
This is the list for all 4 acrylic demonstrations.
You don't have to use the brands I use but just be aware that all paint
manufacturers differ slightly in intensity and hue, as I demonstrate in the course.
Chapter 3 Simple Landscape Painting
• Titanium white - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Yellow Ochre - Golden Fluid Body Artists Acrylic
• Burnt umber - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Ultramarine Blue - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Permanent alizarin crimson - Winsor & Newton Artists Acrylic
• Cadmium yellow light - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
Chapter 5 Seascape Painting
• Titanium white - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Burnt umber - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Ultramarine Blue - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Permanent alizarin crimson - Winsor & Newton Artists Acrylic
• Cadmium yellow light - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
Chapter 6 Textured Sunset Painting
• Titanium white - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Ultramarine Blue - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Burnt sienna - Winsor & Newton Artists Acrylic
• Cadmium yellow light - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Permanent alizarin crimson - Winsor & Newton Artists Acrylic
Chapter 7 Final Project Still life Painting
• Titanium white - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Burnt Umber - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Phthalo Blue (green shade) - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Phthalo Blue (green shade) - Golden High Flow Artists Acrylic
• Cadmium yellow light - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
• Permanent alizarin crimson - Winsor & Newton Artists Acrylic
• Quinacridone Red - Golden Heavy Body Artists Acrylic
