resources for artists

color mixing basics for oil and acrylic:

Blacks and darks: Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Umber (or Burnt Sienna)
Warm and cool grays: white, Ultramarine Blue and Raw Umber or Burnt Umber
Violet/purple: Alizarin Crimson and Ultramarine Blue
Green varieties:
Alway mix your own green colors when painting nature, and mix a variety of greens (try for at least 7 variations). Start with any yellow mixed with any blue. Then mix another green with a different yellow and another blue. Try different combinations, then darken a few of the greens with a tiny anount of Alizarin Crimson or any red. Burnt Umber mixed with Ultramarine Blue will also darken green. Lighten green with Cadmium Yellow Light or Lemon Yellow. Get a silvery looking green by adding a cool gray (Ulramarine Blue, Burnt Umber). Also try Sap Gree, Hookers green, and Terre Verte.
Refer to the color wheel mix across the wheel to tone down colors
Flesh tones for oil painting:
Start with one of the earth tones (Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, or RawUmber)
Add one of the reds (Alizarin Crimson, or Cadmium Red)
Adjust with Ultramarine Blue
Add white as needed

Basic colors: Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Light Hue, Cadmium Red Medium Hue, Raw Sienna or Yellow Ochre, Alizarin Crimson, Raw Umber, Ultramarine Blue.
Optional colors: Cobalt Blue, Viridian Green, Thalo Green, Thalo Blue, Cerulean Blue, Naples Yellow, Burnt Umber, Permanent Rose, Sap Green, Manganese Blue, Prussian Blue, Indigo, etc.
Mediums:
Mixture of half linseed oil and half Gamsol, kept in a small labeled glass jar with a good lid (for regular oil paint only)
Bottle of Liquin (for regular oil paint only)
Water-mixable oil painting medium (for water-mixable oil paint only)
Acrylic gloss or matte medium (for acrylic paint only)
Palette knife/mixing knife
Brushes:
Filbert ¾" or 1"
Flat ¾" or 1"
Round ⅛" or ¼"
one small pointed brush
Stretched canvases that are related in size (same sizes, or 2 sides that are the same)
Disposable palette: approximately 11" x 14" palette
Silicoil brush cleaning jar filled to just above coil with safflower oil (for oil paint only)
Paper towels, clean white rags, soap
Smock or apron to cover clothes

A series of works that begins with representational interpretations and evolves into abstraction.
A series of landscapes based upon personal experience of a particular place in which composition and light are used to intensify artistic expression.
Abstractions developed from cells and other microscopic images
Interpretive portraiture or figure studies that emphasize dramatic composition or abstraction
A personal or family history communicated through symbols or imagery
A series of expressive landscapes based upon personal experience of a particular place
A personal or family history communicated through the content and style of still-life images
Abstractions from mechanical objects that explore mark-making
Interpretive self-portraiture and figure studies that emphasize exaggeration and distortion
A project that explores interior or exterior architectural space, emphasizing
principles of perspective, structure, ambiance created by light, etc
An interpretive study of literary characters in which mixed media, color and form are explored
The use of multiple images to create works that reflect psychological or narrative events