Portrait Painting

Instructor: Henry Salley

Supplies

3 one-half sheets of grey pastel paper (Canson Pastel Paper)
Dark-Brown Pastel Paper
12” ruler
Razor blades
Dark brown pastel pencil
1 - #229 Black Hard NuPastel stick
1 - #353 Cordovan Hard NuPastel stick
1 - #211 White NuPastel Stick
Two or three drawing boards
¼” by 16 x 20 foam boards
Masking Tape – 3/4 “or ½” wide
One “design” kneaded eraser
Hairspray
Paper Stump
Paper Towels

Advanced students who wish to paint portraits in color can paint in pastel or oil.
* See the Pastel Painters or Oil Painters Supply List

Oil Option:

3 stretched Canvases (14” x 18” or 16” x 20”)

Paints:

Cadmium Yellow Lt.
Yellow Ochre
Cobalt/Ultramarine Blue
Yellow Medium
Burnt Sienna
Cadmium Orange
White (large tube)
Cadmium Red Lt.
Cadmium Red Med.
Alizarin Crimson
Perm. Green Lt.
Sap Green
Thalo Blue
Cobalt Violet
Burnt Umber
Thalo Yellow Green
Thalo Green

Brushes:

Filberts #3, 5, 7, 9, 11 (or similar)
Script Liner #3 or 4

Palette: Important

Put a 16” x 20” Glass Sheet over a 16” x 20” sheet of Med. Gray Paper over a sheet of pasteboard or masonite and sandwich them together with tape.

Pastel Option:

4 ½ sheets of Pastel or Pastel Sand Paper
Colors: #545 Dark Grey, #501 Tobacco, etc.
2 Drawing Boards 1/4” by 16” x 20” Foam or other board
NuPastel 96 pies set, sharpened each with a razor blade
Rembrandt 225 peach or 90 piece starter set
Dark brown pastel pencil or charcoal sticks

Supplies can be purchases at Varsity Bookstore, Hobby Lobby etc.