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Please understand that while I recommend the products I use, I do so only because they work well for me. I do not guarantee nor endorse them or have any business or financial relationship with any manufacturers of them.I have my favorite materials just as you do. I pick and choose from several different brands to suit my needs. I do not have a degree in paint chemistry or the way art supplies are manufactured, but I have taken the trouble over the years to learn enough chemistry and other information, including the developmental history of artist's materials, to understand how my materials behave. I know how I should use them to not only maximize permanence but to get the most out of my colors. What I give you here is what has worked best for me over the years.
| BRUSHES For my brushes, I now use Rosemary & Co Brushes exclusively. Rosemary offers a Richard Schmid bundle (my most frequently used brushes). ROSEMARY & COMPANY PO Box 372, Keighley West Yorkshire, BD20 6WZ England Tel: (01535) 600090 www.RosemaryandCo.com PALETTE KNIVES My palette knives are Italian made (bought many years ago), and are very thin and flexible. There are many brands on the market today. Look for the ones called painting knives. They have the delicacy and flexibility necessary for precise painting. PAPER TOWELS (one of my most frequently asked questions) Viva Paper Towels (not Viva Vantage) VARNISH I apply a finishing varnish to a painting when it is sufficiently dry. I allow three months for more heavily painted artworks. I no longer use the varnish I have referred to in my books and prior websites because of a recent problem in their application. Today I use a conservator varnish, which is completely stable. It not only protects my artworks, but brings out all of my colors and values, and I can adjust the varnish for any degree of gloss I wish. The varnishes I use are: Conservator's Product Company UV Stable Finishing Varnish Conservator's Product Company UV Stable Matte Varnish (Supplier information below). OILS & SOLVENTS Rectified Turpentine Pure Spirits Gamblin Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits Cold Pressed Linseed Oil Stand Oil Lacquer Thinner Acetone Denatured Alcohol SUPPLIERS ROSEMARY & COMPANY PO Box 372, Keighley West Yorkshire, BD20 6WZ England Tel: (01535) 600090 www.RosemaryandCo.com CONSERVATOR'S PRODUCTS COMPANY PO Box 601 Flanders, New Jersey 07836 www.conservators-products.com | PALETTE My studio palette is a 21' x 31'piece of 1/4' plate glass. Below the glass, I have an illustration board with a warm gray paper surface. This gray value allows me to accurately judge my light and dark value mixtures. I have always preferred a glass palette for studio work as well as for my landscape painting because it is so easy to clean with a razor paint scraper and alcohol. For a landscape palette, I use a smaller, lighter weight window glass, glued to a very thin piece of gray-painted plywood. PAINT Here is a list of colors on my basic palette as well as additional colors I use as needed or just for fun. Today I buy many of my oil paints from Gamblin www.GamblinColors.com, except for a few colors they do not carry.
Detailed descriptions on how I use these materials can be found in my book ALLA PRIMA II, and in Katie Swatland's book Alla Prima II COMPANION.Both are available from Stove Prairie Press. Visit the Books section to order. |
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