Materials for Portraiture in Oils with Mark Chen

Materials list for charcoal portrait

  • Vine charcoal
  • Charcoal pencil soft x1 hard x1
  • Paper stump
  • Small sketchbook
  • Cartridge paper A2 x2
  • Sanding block
  • Drawing sponge sticks
  • Pastel blending stump

Materials list for oil painting

  • A range of brushes ( hog, synthetic, soft sables, fan, tip) as varied as possible
  • Solvent/ Medium (pm1-2)
  • Wood or off-white palette
  • Oil colours (white, cad yellow Hue, scarlet lake, alizarine crimson, Viridian Hue,
  • burnt umber, ultramarine blue, cerulean blue hue, Ivory black)
  • Tupperware box for left over paint
  • Palette knife
  • 20x16inches canvas x2