ART EQUIPMENT

BRUSHES

FOUR TYPES OF BRUSH - MANY DIFFERENT SIZES:

Flat - Great brush, versatile. Flat bristle edge, good body.

Round - round ferrule (the bit that holds the bristles onto the handle) - rounded bristles.

Filbert - Has a flat ferrule and a flat head but with a rounded top.

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Fan or Blender - good for oils and watercolour.

IMPORTANT YOU BUY Synthetic bristle for oils and acrylic

Real Hair - Kolinsky Sable for watercolour

Most Professional artists use DaVinci brushes

An easel is the place you put your canvas.

Always good to paint standing up and facing your canvas.

Some artists paint on the floor or table but it is quite difficult to 'assess' the work when it is lying 'flat'

In our opinion and 30 years experience the 'H' frame is the most stable and sensible easel. Has a good leg framework which you don't trip over. Also very stable and solid.

Make sure you buy an easel LARGE enough to take large canvases. (There are some small ones around)

A Table easel will be small and suitable to place on a table top.

PAINTS

IMPORTANT you buy 'Professional' paints.

'Student' paints contain a filler (usually talcum powder) - so the paint dries up 'chalky' and the pigment colour may not be quite so lightfast as it should be.

There is no mystery about 'paint'

Paint is a pigment mixed with a binder.

Best Acrylic paints are: Golden, Liquitex, Ara and Amsterdam

Best oil paints are Michael Harding

SUPPORTS - or the materials you paint on.

Canvas is a support for oils and acrylic paint. Ready made canvases are fine to start with but eventually you will want to make your own canvases - click for demonstration

Wood is good for oils and acrylics. If you use MDF - MAKE SURE you prime with MDF primer - MDF has chemicals holding the fibres together - so prime well.

Paper. Use a heavyweight paper for watercolour.

Metals, plastic etc - EXPERIMENT!!

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Their motto is to Bring Out The Artist in YOU!!

Their courses have many many excellent testimonials

All your PROFESSIONAL art materials are included in your painting course.

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