Workshop Supply List
- Easel
- Plenty of paper
- Masonite coated with gesso
- Illustration board or canvas board
- Painting stool
- Mat or frame for presenting your work
- Lightweight board to support your paper
- Bulldog clips
- Tape
- Pencils
- Single edge razor blades
- Sketchbook
- Value markers (Prisma-color in 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% gray shades)
- Paints (see list below)
- Brushes
- Backpack for carrying equipment to the painting location (optional / helpful)
- Panel box to hold wet oil paintings (optional / helpful)
Caleb suggests that a French Easel works best for small to medium sized paintings and wooden palettes are best for oils. He prefers panels up to 16” x 20”.
As a painting medium for oils, Caleb uses stand or linseed oil painting medium (med) and paint thinner.
Mr. Stone’s palette for oils consists of:
- White (Permalba, 150ml tube)
- Windsor Newton colors of Cad Lemon
- Cad Yellow
- Yellow Ocher
- Cad Orange
- Cad Red
- Alizarin Crimson or Rose Madder Genuine
- French Ultramarine Blue
- Cobalt Blue
- Winsor Blue (Green Shade) or Thalo
For watercolors, Mr. Stone uses a pike palette or Holbine Palette. For watercolor paper, Caleb prefers 140 lb. cold press D’Arches.
His palette for watercolors include:
- Cad Lemon
- New Gamboge (Yellow)
- Raw Sienna
- Raw Umber
- Burnt Sienna
- Cad Orange
- Cad Red
- Alizarin Crimson or Rose Madder Genuine
- French Ultramarine
- Cobalt Blue
- Cerelean Blue
- Windsor Blue
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