Intro to Oil - Ben Hamburger

Suggested Materials

All materials are flexible and up to personal preferences. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Oil Paint

I recommend Gamblin or Gamblin 1980 for a solid student-grade paint at a good price point.

• Hansa yellow (or lemon yellow or cadmium yellow light), 37 ml
• Yellow ochre, 37 ml
• Quinacridone red, 37 ml (alizarin and cadmium red can also work well)
• Ultramarine blue, 37 ml
• Cerulean blue hue, 37 ml (Gamblin brand preferred, as they make a superior quality of this particular color; other colors such as turquoise or phthalo blue can work as well)
• Burnt sienna, 37 ml
• Raw umber, 37 ml
• Titanium white, 150 ml

Paint Brushes

• An assortment of filberts, flats, and/or rounds: sizes 2, 4, 8, 12

Solvent / Medium

• Refined linseed oil – small bottle (8 oz) for painting medium
• Gamsol, Terpenoid, or other odorless oil painting solvent

Painting Surfaces

Surfaces are a matter of preference, and you may want to try a few options as the course moves forward. Blick Studio Stretched Cotton Canvas is recommended.

• Pre-stretched canvas or panels to start with:
  • Three 9" x 12"
  • Two 12" x 16"
• Canvas pad, mixed media sketchbook, or scrap substrate for small studies
  • Canson Canva Paper Pads 9" x 12" work well

Other Supplies

• 1 small plastic squeeze dropper bottle for medium
• Palette knife (flat design preferred; trowel shape is fine)
• Palette or disposable palette pad (11" x 14" or larger)
• Silicoil or other brush cleaning jar
• Latex gloves
• Cotton rags, old t-shirts, or heavy-duty paper towels
• Drawing pencils (and any other drawing materials preferred)
• Masking tape
• Box to carry everything

Prerequisite: Intro to drawing preferred