Materials List for Taking Chances Painting Workshop
Instructor: Marston Clough
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MATERIALS LIST 
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• 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, Cadmium red, cool means bluish, Alizarin red), a warm, Ultramarine blue, and cool Thalo blue, a warm, Cadmium yellow,  and cool yellow, and a white.  This is good advice, and sometimes I pay attention.  I am not the person you want to have as a color instructor.  These colors choices avoid green (you are supposed to mix your own) but I like sap green, and olive green, and green gold and use them freely (and probably incorrectly).  I also like cerulean blue and indianthrone blue, and a bright blue and so on. 

• Solvent (odorless like Gamsol) (I will bring some if you don’t have any). 

• Tools: brushes, palette, cleaning supplies, canvas or panels .  I like Murphy’s Oil Soap to clean my brushes after using solvent.

• Surfaces to paint on: canvas, panels, plywood with gesso are all things I use.  I also plan to bring some heavy-duty paper prepared with gesso.

• Images: Photos of things you like that don’t require complicated drawing.  People ask if I work from photographs and I do use them to inspire me but seldom do my paintings look like any specific place.  I have not experimented with using a projector.  If I want something very specific I make a drawing first and transfer it to canvas with  carbon paper.

• Objects: if you have a favorite object you might like to try as a subject for quick sketching or even longer then you should bring it.