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REGENERATION 2022

​SUGGESTED MATERIALS

Take inventory of what you already have and only order/buy what you need or can afford. I am much less interested in your materials being all the same and more interested in using what we have and putting them to use. Depending where you are in the world it may be challenging to find some materials. Ask questions via email or better yet in our designated student forum on Kajabi so others can learn from your questions as well. For those outside of the US, I advise finding the closest Art supply store and support them or order from a reliable source online. 
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I have created a recommended materials list on Blick.com which will work well for those in the US: 
https://www.dickblick.com/lists/blicku/J8U212LYFOU88

For advanced students wanting to work in oil - there are recommendations at the bottom of this list.

This video explains materials for the self portrait workshop I offered as a part of the fundraiser workshop series to support the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art. You will want the drawing materials for the first week:


​Drawing & Transferring Drawing to Canvas
  • Sketch Book & variety of pencils & pens
  • Sketching Paper size 16x20” approx.
  • Watercolor Paper size 15x22" or colored Paper in grey/ brown.
  • Graphite Pencil HB / 2B
  • Charcoal Pencil 2B
  • White Charcoal Pencil 
  • Vine Charcoal
  • Pencil Sharpener or stanley knife
  • Small piece of sandpaper for sharpening pencils (not essential)
  • Kneaded eraser (can be any eraser)
  • Toned Paper (Raw Sienna, Grey, or Watercolor paper toned with acrylic)
  • Spray Fixative for Charcoal (not essential)
  • Ruler (not essential)
  • Compass (not essential)
  • Mal-stick (need a dowel, paper towel, rag, masking tape or duct tape, scissors).
    • (video demo above)
  • Transparent Tracing Paper
  • Ballpoint pen (blue or red)
  • Mirror that can be attached to easel (see video above)
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Acrylic Painting:
  • Primed Canvas or panel - size 16x20” or preferred size (smaller or larger) be careful about being too ambitious as you will have a hard time keeping up!
  • 3 Practice panels 11x14” canvas or wood

Acrylic Brushes
Most important in the Mischtechnik is that the brushes are soft. Hard bristle brushes will not work - for glazing and for painting.
  • Assortment of Brushes Snap Princeton brushes.
    (I like the rounds and filber’s especially. And they don’t say they are for oil but I use them with oil.)
  • Assortment of fine bristled Glazing Brushes.

Acrylic Paint 
(recommended for beginners to stay with acrylic)
  • Acrylic Paint (Golden Fluid Acrylics or other acrylic) - see pigment list and more details below 
  • Satin Glazing Medium from Golden
  • Retarder from Golden (optional)
  • Spray bottle for water
  • Plastic wrap (example: from canvas packaging) 
  • Hairdryer (optional)
  • STA-wet Palette (optional & awesome! - you save a lot of paint)

Color is a very subjective thing and you will be attracted to colors almost like pheromones are attractors. 
You do need the basics, and you may be surprised how some of the greatest work is done with an incredibly limited palette. So before you go out and buy a bunch of paint… start with 5-8 colors and keep building your color profile as you grow, especially if you have a limited budget. 
Super minimal would be yellow, red, blue, white and black. Of course there are so many variations of these pigments and colors. Transparent colors are better for this technique, and I advise staying away from opaque paint such as cadmiums and pre-mixed pastel colors for glazing, though you will see they will be useful in direct painting which is applied at the end.

For beginners I recommend this basic set from Golden of 10 colors.
You may want to supplement this set with a few extra pigments and some extra titanium white:
  • Indian Yellow
  • Raw Sienna
  • Quinacridone Burnt Orange
  • Red Oxide
  • Raw Umber
  • Dioxazine Purple
  • Manganese Blue
  • Chromium Oxide Green
  • Titanium White 4oz (Titanium white is essential for this method)
  • Carbon Black
  • Paynes Grey
  • Titanium White
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You can also use the colors you already have or other acrylics.
Heavy body acrylics will not be ideal for this technique, but all is possible so work with what you have and remember this is all about learning and not being perfect ;)!
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ADVANCED
For those interested in exploring the Mischtechnik in acrylic, casein / egg tempera & oil.

Brushes for Oil:
Remember:::: Most important in the Mischtechnik is that the brushes are soft. Hard bristle brushes will not work - for glazing and for painting. I keep my acrylic, casein and oil brushes separate. Though when you are starting out you don’t need a different set for each medium. You will just want to clean them well between using the different mediums.
You can use the glazing brushes in the Acrylic section, though they will fall apart pretty fast as they are not made to withstand the solvents. For painting with oil here are some that I like: 
http://www.dickblick.com/products/utrecht-manglon-synthetic-brushes/
Of the Manglon brushes I only use the filberts. I like the long handle and brush shape. I would recommend a 4, 6, 8, 12, 14 as a nice variety here. And a couple Flats would be nice as well: 8, 12, 16. 

These are also great rounds, which I prefer to be short handle for precision and detail:
http://www.dickblick.com/products/princeton-series-4050-synthetic-sable-round/

Best glazing brushes that will last LONG time (though an investment are):
Da Vinci Cosmotop Spin flat wash 40
https://www.dickblick.com/products/da-vinci-cosmotop-spin-brushes/

Casein 
  • Shiva Titanium White Casein by Richeson 37ml or Plaka in Europe or alternatives.
    https://www.dickblick.com/products/shiva-casein-colors/

Homemade Egg Tempera
  • 1 Egg
  • Distilled Water (or filtered)
  • Small jar with lid 
  • Palette knife
  • Titanium White Pigment (bought through Blick or any fine art store)
  • Dammar Varnish 
    www.dickblick.com/products/winsor-newton-dammar-varnish/

Oil Mediums 
  • Refined Linseed Oil
(best for direct painting for final layers of painting)
  • Winsor Newton Painting Medium 
(good for glazing though not super fast drying. You can also make your own medium like this with 1 part Stand Oil and 1 part Mineral Spirits)
  • ​Liquin Fine Detail painting medium
(super fast drying and good for first glazes)
  • Odorless Mineral Spirits
    ( the harmful aromatic solvent component has been removed.)
optional strong solvent to be used in medium or in painting:
  • Spike oil of Lavender 

Oil Paint 
The best oil paint you can buy is Old Holland, Williamsburg, Rublev or Holbein. Windsor Newton is also quite good and anything that isn’t the absolute cheapest.
(Though sometimes cheap paints are good for glazing)!

As with the acrylics, it is better to invest in higher priced paint, you do not need all of these colors either, so start with a few and add more. 
This would be a great beginners palette by Winsor Newton:
https://www.dickblick.com/items/00461-1010/

A nice minimal palette if you want to buy individual tubes of Old Holland:
Titanium White 
Indian Yellow
Magenta
Prussian Blue or Ultramarine
Ivory Black

More extensive palette:
Titanium White 
Naples Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Golden Baroque Red (by Old Holland color – one of my FAVORITES;),
Burnt Umber
Raw Umber
Ivory Black
Dioxin Purple
Magenta
Alizarin Crimson
Brilliant Pink (by Old Holland)
Cadmium Red
Indian Yellow
Aureolin Yellow (Cobalt Pigment)
Lemon Yellow
Chrome Oxide Green
Schevenings Green (Old Holland)
Manganese Blue
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Prussian Blue

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