Materials List for Values and Composition Painting Workshop
Instructor: Marston Clough
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MATERIALS LIST 

• Instructor will provide paper and materials for sketching and transferring sketches, but students should  bring their own sketching supplies if they have them.

• Surfaces to paint on: canvas, panels, plywood with gesso are all things I use. Instructor will provide some gessoed paper for paintings but students should bring at least FOUR surfaces (either canvas, canvas board, Masonite or plywood with gesso) no smaller than 8x10 to make variations.  My goal is to make variations of some scenes on the first day, with everyone making a few starts before continuing.  Sometimes the quickest paintings are the most fresh.

• Paints: BRING WHAT YOU HAVE: I work primarily in oils. Most workshops I have taken have made a list of supplies which are often not used in the workshop. Generally, you are instructed to bring a warm red and a cool red (warm means reddish, cool means bluish), a warm and cool blue, a warm and cool yellow, and a white. This is good advice.
• Solvent, brushes, palette, cleaning supplies.
• Images: Photos of things you like that don’t require complicated drawing
• Objects : if you have a favorite thing you might like to try as a subject for quick sketching or even longer, maybe something from the kitchen.