Materials List
Chris Saper For Love or Money: Portraiture & the Pursuit of Excellence
July 20 – 23, 2009

Oil Painters:

• Flake and Titanium white

• Ivory Black

• Cadmium Scarlet or Cadmium Red Light or Vermillion

• Permanent Rose

• Alizarin Crimson Permanent

• (P)Thalo Green or Viridian

• Caput Mortuum Violet (Rembrandt)

• Cadmium Yellow Medium (Gamblin)

• Yellow Ochre

• Asphaltum (Gamblin) or Burnt Umber

• Transparent Earth Red (Gamblin) or Burnt Sienna

• Raw Umber (Grumbacher)

• Raw Sienna

• Ultramarine Blue

• Portland Gray medium (Gamblin)

• Flesh (Gamblin) (I’m not kidding)

 Other optional colors:

• Gamblin: Radiant Magenta, Radiant Blue

• Holbein: Foundation Greenish

• Studio Products: Pyrrolo Red

• Vasari: Brilliant Yellow Light

Additional Supplies

• Odorless Mineral spirits or Turpenoid

• Maroger Medium (optional; I’ll have some samples for you to try compliments of  www.studioproducts.com ) or Neo-Magilp (Gamblin) or Walnut alkyd medium

• Assorted brushes (filberts/flats in synthetics; sables www.Trekell.com )  sized: #1, 2 4,6,8,12

• Paper towels
   

• 2 Canvases, 14 x 18 – 16 x 20, toned and dry before class – use wash of OMS and either Ivory black or raw umber.
  Oil-primed linen is better than acrylic primed canvas; smoother weave is better than coarser weave.

Hand-held palette (optional but great) or mixing palette

Paint mixing knife

Pastel Painters:

          All the pastels you have (or can carry). No oil pastels.

          NuPastels, Dark, mid & light brown; black and white

  Vine charcoal

Canson paper, several sheets each: Sand, Ivy green, Cream

Backboard and clips

Kneaded eraser

Single edged razor blade

Scruffy old bristle brush, size 6 or smaller, if you have one

Workable Fixative

Paper towels and clean hand- or dish-towel.

All students:

Hand-held mirror

Clear straightedge or gridded ruler, 6” - 12" or so. (available at Utrecht; in fabric stores; or the sewing section of Michael’s – longer rulers can be easily cut)

Bring easel.

Bring regular or digital camera and tripod if you can pack it easily

Before you come to class, know how to:

Digital camera users:

Disable the flash;

Adjust the white point;

Modify the file size.

Use the zoom.

Use the self timer or a cable release.

If your camera has 4 MP or less you will get better results with film.

          Film camera users:

                   Disable the flash

Use the zoom

Use the self timer or a cable release

One roll of color print Daylight film

Books:

• Painting Beautiful Skin Tones with Color & Light, by Chris Saper (www.Amazon.com)

• For Love or Money: A Business Handbook for Portrait Painters, by Chris Saper available only through www.Blurb.com

  If the link does not work go to www.Blurb.com and select Bookstore, then Search for Chris Saper.

If you have any questions about your camera, please contact me before class. I will have my own digital camera to assist you if needed.
Contact via e-mail or give me a call at 602-957-8107