SUPPLY LIST

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• One 5 x 7 inch Ampersand Gessobord (or any small painting surface, gessoed watercolor paper or any small stretched canvas or canvas panel)
• Clear Gesso (for preparing surface of gessobord)
• Acrylic paints I love to use (but please use what you have for this lesson)
  • Liquitex Heavy Body Red Oxide
  • Liquitex Soft Body Burnt Sienna
  • Liquitex Soft Body Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue
  • Liquitex Soft Body Yellow Ocher
  • Liquitex Soft Body Cadmium Red Medium Hue or Napthol Crimson
  • Liquitex Soft Body Prussian Blue
  • Liquitex Soft Body Raw Umber
  • Liquitex Soft Body Cerulean Blue Hue
  • Liquitex Soft Body Emerald Green
  • Liquitex Soft Body Burnt Umber
  • Golden Payne’s Gray
  • Golden Cobalt Turquoise (I am using a fluid acrylic in this video)
  • I use my Liquitex Black Gesso as my darkest black paint
  • Liquitex Soft Body Titanium White
• Brushes
  • I LOVE the Princeton Catalyst line of brushes, I order them from Dick Blick or Jerry’s Artarama
  • My favorites are the Bright brushes...they have a flat edge to them. I mostly use the short handle Bright Shaders 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and Bright brush 12. Use what you are comfortable with.
  • Very rarely do I use a round tip brush for my acrylic portraits. But I do use small detail brushes for the eyes, Size 0. It also works well for my scribbly marks in the portrait.
• For preparing the gessobord or canvas before painting the portrait, I used a mixture of Raw or Burnt Umber and a touch of red acrylic paint. Mix these paints with Liquitex Clear Gesso, and spread it around the gessobord or canvas with a large brush. Let dry completely before starting to paint the portrait. It gives a nice “tooth” on which to paint on. Ampersand gessobords can be pretty slick, so a gesso ground is recommended.
• Make sure to sign your finished work!
• To varnish the portrait, I use a thin layer of Acrylic Matte Medium (I use Liquitex or Golden brand) over the whole painting. Let it dry 24 to 48 hours. Then add a thin coat of Dorland’s Wax Varnish with a clean rag, in a circular motion over the entire painting and sides of canvas. Let dry overnight, then buff with a clean microfiber or cotton cloth. This will protect your painting, as well as give the painting a lovely medium sheen to it.