Figure Drawing
Instructors: Anthony DiPaola, Nancy Johnson, Susan Cottle,
Supply list for Nancy Johnson’s Class:
- 2B, 4B and 6B graphite pencils.
- Recommended brands: Derwent, Faber Castel, Prismacolor, Staedtler, Tombow
- do not buy Blick brand pencils they are inferior
- Soft Vine Charcoal
- Pad of Paper: 14" x 17" Strathmore 400 series Medium Surface 80lbs
- Cansen Tinnted assorted pastel paper, 12 x 16
- Staedtler Plastic eraser
- Kneaded eraser
- Tombow MONO zero elestomer erasers, sizes 2.5 x 5mm and 2.3mm (optional)
- white prismacolor pencil for doing drawings on tinted paper
- soft vine charcoal
- compressed charcoal, 4B, 6B
- soft black charcoal pencils
- sanguine or red chalk stick or pencil form
Supply list for Anthony DiPaola’s Class:
- *Graphite Pencils 2B, 4B, 6B
- Soft Vine Charcoal medium
- *Drawing paper 80lb or newsprint - 14” x 17” is okay 18” x 24” is recommended (I use newprint in class)
- *Metal pencil sharpener
- *1 Mars Plastic Eraser (Staedtler recommended)
- Gray kneaded eraser
- Conté Crayon (black, white, sanguine and blue) individual colors are fine and they also sell boxes for portrait/figure
*need for first class
Supply List for Susan Cottle’s Class:
All drawing media are welcome. Demonstrations will be using white Drawing Paper and pencil and charcoal for the first three weeks, then introducing wet media beginning week 4.
- Graphite pencils: 2H, HB 2B, 4B,8B
- Thin or medium Sticks Vine or willow Charcoal (3 pack is fine-soft or medium)
- Winsor Newton Charcoal (one stick)
- Paper (I like 14” x 17” Strathmore smooth white with brown cover. )
- Kneaded eraser
- Mars Plastic eraser
- Optional: Chamois cloth
- Mono zero retractable eraser for detail
- Exacto knife or hand- held pencil sharpener
- A soft synthetic brush: I like Princeton Neptune ¾ oval wash, or # 10 or 12 soft synthetic brush as Mimik Kolinsky, or Square wash.
- Cup for water
- Paper towels
Optional: if you prefer or want to try a wash approach, watercolor, ink or any water-soluble pencil or pen
We will go over this on the first day. You will not need until week 3 .