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Shelby Keefe Materials List


SUPPLIES LIST FOR SHELBY KEEFE PLEIN AIR WORKSHOPS

Plein air painting requires lightweight and portable equipment. If the student has never painted outside before and doesn’t know what kind of equipment to purchase, there are a variety of companies that one can order kits from.

Here are a few sites:
http://www.artworkessentials.com
www.openboxm.com
http://www.guerrillapainter.com
http://www.stradaeasel.com

All of their supplies and easel should fit into a large backpack. I carry my tripod separately as well as my panels. A wet panel carrier will be important as well.

Here’s a simple website that explains some basics: http://painting.about.com/od/landscapes/ss/plein-air-painting-checklists.htm

THESE ARE JUST SOME SUGGESTED ITEMS FOR YOUR PLEIN AIR KIT

• View finder of some kind
• small sketchbook and pencil for making thumbnails

I teach underpainting techniques as the most influencial aspect in the process of painting. Therefore I use acrylic and oils to get the results I want. The acrylic is the underpainting so that it can be dry and then use the oils on top. It is not necessary for oil painters to purchase a complete set of acrylics—I can show them a way to just stain their canvas with the oils instead. But if the student would like to try my method, these are the colors of acrylics they can invest in:

ACRYLIC UNDERPAINTING COLORS

  • Orange
  • Rose or Magenta of some kind
  • Turquoise or some kind of bright blue

OIL COLORS (I use Gamblin oil colors)

  • Titanium White
  • Cadmium Yellow Light
  • Cadmium Yellow Deep
  • Cadmium Orange (or other orange equivalent)
  • Cadmium Red or Napthol Red
  • Quinacridone Red
  • Alizarine Crimson
  • Thalo Blue or another blue of choice like Manganese Blue or Thalo Turquoise
  • French Ultramarine (blue)
  • Prussian Blue
  • Transparent Earth Red (optional)

Painting Mediums

(oils for improving flow and drying time)

  • Galkyd Lite
  • Neo Meglip, (or I use 1/2 Stand Oil and 1/2 Gamsol mixture)

–SAMPLES OF THE GALKYD LITE AND NEO MEGLIP WILL BE PROVIDED FROM GAMBLIN–

Brushes

  • (HOG BRISTLE FOR OILS) (2 of each of the filberts AND FLATS the more brushes you have the better)
  • #1 and 2 round, #2, 3, 4, 6 filberts and/or flats
  • one very cheap, fat hardware store paint brush for applying the acrylic underpainting.

PALETTE

(most plein air easel kits come with a palette or “are” the palette)

  • Small palette paper pad for putting out your underpainting acrylic paints

Palette Knife for scraping and cleaning your palette at the end of the painting day.

Paper Towel (Viva is best)

Plastic grocery bags for your refuse

Solvents (for cleaning brushes etc.)

  • GAMSOL, or Turpenoid
  • Bring: 2 jars with covers — one for clean solvents and one for poring dirty solvents into.
  • 1 plastic container for water

Canvases or Canvas Panels

9 x 12, 11 x 14, 12 x 16 canvas or linen panels (or bigger, whatever you’re comfortable with)

WET PANEL CARRIER

Panel and carrier source: raymarart.com