Materials List

 

If you have your own brushes, palette knives and paints, do bring them along. If you are starting out & would like to try out materials & equipment on a course before buying your own, or if you are travelling light, then studio paints, knives and brushes are available for an additional €5 per day.

Day students can leave paints and equipment safely overnight in the studio to save carrying them back & forth each day.  Below is a suggested materials list, though it’s very much personal preference, so the list is more of a guide than anything.

Paints

 

A basic range of colours is all that's needed to get started.  Daler-Rowney Georgian is a good brand and from personal experience I would recommend their range of paints.  Try to avoid cheap brands of oil paint as these are difficult to paint with and their colours lack vibrancy.

 

Minimum Colours Needed

Additional Colours (optional)
Ultramarine Blue
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Yellow
Naples Yellow
Sap Green
Yellow Green
White		 Cadmium Red
Cadmium Orange
Venetian Red
Yellow Ochre
Lemon Yellow
Cobalt Violet
Raw Umber

 

gocstarter

 

Suggestion:  Daler-Rowney have a Georgian Starter 6 Pack Set of 22ml paints.  This is available from all good art suppliers.  Although you would still need to purchase Sap Green and Yellow Green this is a good place to start.  This is currently available at a special price from Cork Art Supplies.

 

Brushes/Knives

paletteknivesVery much a personal preference.  I use the palette knife a lot and I suggest one large and one small diamond-shaped palette knife, Winsor & Newton 20 and 25 are ideal. I prefer to use water colour brushes, rather than the stiff bristle oil brushes.  I find that a couple of ½ inch flat brushes are useful and a small and a large round head brush.  Also a very fine "zero" size brush with long bristles is handy.  You can view examples of these products at Cork Art Supplies - Palette Knives. Additionally a large stock of quality art products are available from Art & Craft which is based in Shannon and Ennis (delivery service available).

Check out the locally based Crafty Alley Shop Killarney, with an ever growing collection of art supplies, who are now offering special rates to those attending courses with Killarney Art Holidays.

 

Other

Soft pencil such as 4B, a flat palette, baby-wipes for your hands.