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.
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:
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:
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Drawing & Transferring Drawing to Canvas
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Acrylic Painting:
Acrylic Brushes Most important in the Mischtechnik is that the brushes are soft. Hard bristle brushes will not work - for glazing and for painting.
Acrylic Paint (recommended for beginners to stay with acrylic)
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:
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
Homemade Egg Tempera
Oil Mediums
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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Photo by Marnie Recker http://www.marnierecker.com/paintings