Painting and Composition

Instructor: James Sheehan

ATTENTION – FOR ALL OIL PAINTING STUDENTS: In order to maintain healthy, safe, and environmentally conscious studios the following materials ARE NOT PERMITTED in the 92NY Art Center: Lavender Oil; Odorless Mineral Spirits; Turpentine; Liquin, Neo-Meglip, Galkyd, or any other petroleum based medium; varnish or retouch varnish; any other solvent beside Gamsol.

Supply List for both instructors:

Brushes: Look for brushes suitable for oil painting. Bristle or synthetic can work. - but someone at the art supply store could easily direct you. Select a range of sizes, small and large (from #2 to #10) for: Flats, Rounds and Filberts

Miscellaneous:

• metal palette knives
• Small jar cold-pressed linseed oil
• Drawing pencil and eraser
• Roll masking tape
• Latex gloves (box)
• Paper towels (Bounty)
• Cotton rags
• Two small glass or metal jars with lids to hold liquid
• Bar of Ivory soap or soap for cleaning brushes
• One disposable paper paltte (11”x 16”)

Paint & Canvas Supply List for James Sheehan’s Class:

Oil Paints: Pick up small tubes for most of the colors and a large one for titanimum white. Purchase only artist-grade paints, not student-grade. Please avoid colors called “tint” or “hue”.

• alizarin crimson
• viridian green permanent green med.
• cadmium red medium
• cerulean blue
• cadmium lemon yellow
• cadmium yellow medium
• ultramarine blue
• titanium white

Canvas :

• Two or three canvas boards or pre-stretched canvases (16” x2 0” and/or 18” x 24”)
• One canvas pad (16” x 20”)
• One drawing board larger than 16”x 20” (support for canvas pad sheets)

Paint & Canvas Supply List for Jeffery Morabito’s Class:

Oil Paints: Pick up small tubes for most of the colors and a large one for titanium white. Purchase only artist-grade paints, not student-grade. Please avoid colors called “tint” or “hue”.

*If acrylic paint is something you prefer or need to use for health reasons, all the colors below can also be purchased as Acrylic. I would buy the Golden brand and get slow dry medium: https://www.dickblick.com/products/golden-open-acrylic-mediums/

• quinacridone red
• cadmium red medium Napthol Red or W&N Bright Red
• cerulean blue (hue is ok)
• ultramarine blue
• viridian green
• cadmium lemon yellow
• cadmium yellow medium or Hansa Yellow
• Dioxazine Purple
• Yellow Ochre
• Venetian Red
• Black Pink (made by Sennelier and Holbien, if you can’t find just get Ivory Black)
• titanium white (large tube)

Other colors suggested but not required, by order of importance:

• Raw umber
• Transparent red oxide
• Cobalt blue
• Sap green
• Naples yellow
• Unbleached titanium white
• green gold
• permanently green light
• Alizarin Crimson
• quinacridone magenta

Painting Surface:

• Two or three
  • pre-primed panels (9” x 12” and/or 11” x 14”)
  • or pre-stretched canvases (16” x20” and/or 18” x 24”)
• One canvas pad (16” x 20”)
• One drawing board larger than 16”x 20” (support for canvas pad sheets)