Plein Air Painting Course Materials List

Instructor: Joel Sheesley

Paint (here I’ve given Windsor & Newton names for colors)
Titanium White
Cadmium Red Light
Alizaron Crimson
Naples Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Burnt Umber
Cadmium Green Pale
Terra Vert
Viridian
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue
Purple Lake
Mauve Blue Shade
Ivory Black

Travel tip: Click here for information about flying with oil paints. If you don't buy Windsor & Newton, check with your local art store to make sure your paints can travel.

When I’ve traveled with my paint box by plane I put all my brushes, and of course any sharp objects, in my checked suitcase. I do not try to carry turpentine or even stand oil.

Basic Equipment

• Turpentine cup

• Small bottle with cap to contain turpentine
  

• Painting supports: I suggest stretched canvas, sizes from 11x14” to 16x20,” but if that presents a packing problem, you may want to use canvas board, gessoed paper, shellacked paper, or unstretched gessoed canvas.
  
  If you choose paper or unstretched canvas, you’ll need some kind of rigid board to which you can tack it. We should paint one picture each day, so you’ll need that many supports. I suggest a piece of 1/4” Luan Plywood as a good surface for this.  If I were using a 16x20” piece of paper to paint on, I’d want my plywood to be about 18x22”. I think something like that would fit nicely in the bottom of an average suit case. The plywood could be smaller if I were painting on smaller paper.
  

• Palette

• Brushes (preferably good quality bristle in a variety of sizes #1 - #8)

• Palette knife

• Vine Charcoal Sticks

• Paper towels

• French Easel or some form of transportable easel/paint-box combination that is suitable to outdoor use

• Cap with brim

• Sun Glasses