Materials list for my ‘All my Alliums in a Row’ painting
Underpainting
I have not listed specific colours here as you really can go with the flow both in terms of products and colours! Just enjoy the process.
For the underpainting…
- I used white BFK Rives printing paper but any reasonably heavy textured watercolour paper
will do OR pastel paper that takes water (e.g. Colourfix) - Rigid drawing board
- Masking tape
- Various mark making tools – sticks, bamboo pens, old credit cards – whatever you have!
- Various printing tools – bubble wrap, textured wallpaper – whatever you have
- Acrylic painting products – inks, fluids, gouache – I specifically used a mixture of Golden,
Liquitex and Daler Rowney FW products but any will be fine.
Starting to paint with soft pastels…
For this demo I used Unison Colour pastels in the following colour ranges: –
- GRN – Green
- BV – Blue Violet
- Red
- RE – Red Earth
- YGE – Yellow Green Earth
- BG – Blue Green
Other items…
- Charcoal
- A few pastel pencils (any make, I used Pitt Pastel, Stabilo and Caran D’Ache)
- Hard bristle brush
- Some pipe insulation cut up
