F- T- L High Country WORKSHOP 

with Andy Braitman —supply list

MAY 6th, 7th, and 8th, 2025

Materials List:

Oil brushes of various sizes,

including some flats and wash brushes (I will have Richeson wash brushes for sale if you do not have them! A good  clean palette knife

   3 prepared canvases, at least 18 x 24 or larger (24 x 30 or  24 x 36 inches);

 please see instructions following this list

A full set of oil colors (basic palette) 

2 reds: Magenta 

Azo red deep

And or Quinacridone Rose

3 yellows: Cadmium lemon

Cadmium yellow medium

Still De Grain or Transparent Yellow Oxide

2 blues: Ultramarine Blue

Pthalo Blue

Mixed black (we will make from Burnt Sienna & Ultramarine Blue)

A large tube of good white (recommend Utrecht White/Artist’s Oils or Permalba)

Any OPTIONAL colors you may want to add to your basic palette in the last stage of the painting

Medium:   A painting medium is essential. Alkyd painting medium (like Res-N-Gel) or Liquin. I will bring a few bottles of Andy Braitman’s special medium “recipe” (a mixture of liquin, stand oil, linseed oil and Gamsol) if you want to purchase it at $40.99/large bottle.

IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE COLORS MY FULL PALETTE CONSISTS OF:

Cadmium orange Utrecht Permanent Green Light

Williamsburg Alizarin Yellow Williamsburg Permanent Green Light

Raw Umber Manganese Blue

Williamsburg Turkey Umber Dioxazine Purple 

Please allow 3-4 days for this to dry

It is very important to accomplish this canvas prep 

before coming to the workshop

Please let me know if you have any problems finding the paints you desire.  I may be able to bring up any material that you can not find, and allow you to purchase them from me as I have a fairly large selection of colors and brushes in my studio.

• 3 prepared canvases (please see instructions below)

• reference photographs—I will have some for your to work from, or you may use your own—If you use my references for at least one painting it will help to facilitate the Follow-the-Leader process

• painting apron

• a roll or two of paper towels

• vegetable oil and Dawn dishwashing detergent (I will teach you how to clean your brushes using these items)

• trash bag

• a pallet or paper palette 

Example of first layer (done at home prior to workshop):

At Home, 

PRIOR to our 

workshop:

1: Apply at least two coats of gesso on your canvases, allowing it to dry thoroughly between layers. 

       This will rob the canvas of its woven texture, and allow you to build a new directional surface on subsequent layers.  Cheap Joe’s green label white gesso or Jerry’s Artarama Gesso is the best for this.  Lay it down heavily and randomly (it will settle down as it dries). 

2: After the Gesso dries thoroughly, Coat the entire canvas with an aggressive layer of color using a large brush and a lot of painting medium 

-  This will make the surface slicker for each subsequent layer and allow you to provide energy in this and the next layers

-   This will provide interest and kill the white of the canvas

3: This is not intended to give you a head start,  just a random and exciting color and surface for  you to react to and to allow you to make the longer strokes necessary for your first layer of the painting