Sarah Thibodeaux's Floral Still Life Art Supply Kit


Canvas

1-2 prepared canvases, no smaller than 11x14, no greater than 18x24 (or gessoed board, such as those sold byAmpersand)

Palette

Wood palette is recommended but other palettes are fine, as long as they are not white.

Surface should be medium tone (not too warm or cool)

Paint

Oil paint in the following colors (I recommend artist grade, not student grade­­such as Windsor and Newton’s Winton line­­because it has morepigment and less filler. Gamblin, Windsor & Newton, Rembrandt, Holbein, Williamsburg—all good brands):

Note: you may not need all these colors--just the colors in the flowers you will be working on. Make sure you have a cadmium red, a cadmium yellow, and ultramarine blue, transparent oxide red, and titanium white. Bring what you have and we will work with that. Here is a list of optional colors to add to your palette as needed in your paintings.

  • Cadmium Lemon

  • Cadmium Yellow Pale

  • Cadmium Yellow Deep

  • Yellow Ochre Light

  • Cadmium Red

  • Terra Rosa

  • Alizarin Crimson

  • Magenta

  • Transparent Oxide Red

  • Viridian

  • Pthalo Green

  • King's Blue

  • Cobalt Blue Light

  • Ultramarine Blue Deep

  • Dioxazine Purple

Acrylic paint (for toning the canvas)

Raw Umber

Charcoal

Vine charcoal (for drawing)

Brushes

My favorite brush maker is Rosemary & Company from the UK.https://www.rosemaryandco.com/

I recommend Series 279. Mongoose Long Flats in a range of sizes­­ choose 4­ to 6 brushes from #4 on up to #12

If you can’t find those, choose a few Filbert bristle brushes in sizes #4, #6, #8 but also make sure to have onesable flat in size #8 or #10. Try to get natural not synthetic hairs.You may also need a small sable for signing your paintings.I recommend that the sable have long hairs rather than short.

(Note: if you need brushes locally in New Orleans, New Orleans Art Supply, 3041 N. Rampart, carries If youneed brushes, they don’t carry Rosemary brushes. Consider instead the Royal Langnickel SableTek brushes,which have synthetic hairs, but are close to Rosemary’s series 279 feel.)

Turps

Turpenoid or other odorless paint thinner (bring this in a glass jar—salsa jars are good). Must be odorless.

Rags

Paper Towels

Smock

Optional but recommended (old men’s shirt works great!)

Brush cleaner

Old Masters Brush cleaner (works great to get paint out of brushes)


Local art supply stores:

New Orleans Art Supply, 3041 N. Rampart St. New Orleans LA 70117 (504) 949­1525 ​www.noartsupply.com(very close to Studio Thibodeaux).

David Art Center, 3020 N Arnoult Rd, Metairie, LA, (504) 888­3630, www.davidartcenter.com