Fractured Portraits

Supply list:

charcoal pencils 2b, 4b, 6b, vine charcoal, blending stumps

pencils 2b, 4b mechanical pencils .3mm and .5mm

white gel pen

gesso, fluid matte medium, joint compound, Golden retarder http://www.dickblick.com/products/golden-acrylic-retarder/

Brushes:

Rosemary and Co brushes-Ivory Filberts sizes 2,4,6, and 8, Ivory rounds sizes 2/0 and 1

http://www.rosemaryandco.com/acrylic-brushes/ivory-acrylic/ivory-filberts

http://www.rosemaryandco.com/acrylic-brushes/ivory-acrylic/ivory-pointed-rounds

1/4" angular brush http://www.dickblick.com/products/princeton-select-synthetic-angle-shader-series-3750as/

any soft brush for blending http://www.rosemaryandco.com/oil-brushes/eclipse-oils/eclipse-standard-filberts

Clay Shapers http://www.cooltools.us/Clay-Shapers-s/1351.htm

small palette knife http://www.cheapjoes.com/catalog/product/view/id/20299/s/joe-miller-signature-series-painting-knife-no-001/category/465/

Paints;

My regular palette I use is: Golden quin. crimson, quin nickel azo gold, ultramarine blue, paynes gray, permanent maroon, cerulean blue, and yellow ochre Golden Open Acrylics.

On the painting where I changed up on my palette I used; pyrrole red, quin. violet, cad. yellow med.,manganese blue, alizarin crimson, pyrrole orange and Hansa Yellow Light, all Golden brand. I also used a Lukas acrylic-Fern which I got at Jerry's Artarama and a Holbein acrylic-Marigold

HERE ARE THE PAINTS I USED FOR THE GELLI PLATE PRINTING:

Chalk paints (totally optional...you can always get the cheaper craft paints at Michael's...the key is to get a very matte paint)

Annie Sloane-Duckegg http://shop.bestfurniturepaint.com/Chalk-Paint-Quarts_c2.htm

CeCe Caldwell Nantucket spray and Texas Prairie Green http://cececaldwells.com/paint-stain-enhancement-finish-chart/

Americana by DecoArt has chalk like paints that look pretty good and much cheaper than the other brands. Here is a link and the colors they have. They probably have these at Michaels

http://decoart.com/chalkyfinish/colors

I also use Golden Fluid acrylics-Quin. nickel azo gold and Quin.red

I also demonstrate using oil bars. Here is what I use:

R&F Oil Bars-sepia,rose madder,indian yellow,alizarin orange,sanquine earth deep,celadon green, white. http://www.dickblick.com/products/r-and-f-pigment-sticks/

Shiva Sticks- paynes gray http://www.dickblick.com/products/richeson-shiva-paintstik-oils/

YES! Canvas boards http://www.jerrysartarama.com/discount-art-supplies/canvas-and-boards/canvas-panels-and-boards/yes-all-media-cotton-canvas-panels.htm

Hotpress 140lb watercolor paper

Vintage ledger papers- Look on Etsy...there are alot of shops that carry it. https://www.etsy.com/search/vintage?q=ledger+paper

optional- silk tissue (I use this with the gelli plate printing for layering. This store has the most beautiful papers!) http://store.hiromipaper.com/hp-12sgampisilktissue.aspx

Asaro Head- I use the original http://www.planesofthehead.com/order.php

Gelli plate- I use the 8" x 10" http://www.dickblick.com/items/47003-181

The inks that I used in this exercise are FW acrylic inks. The colors I used are burnt umber and sepia

http://www.dickblick.com/products/daler-rowney-fw-acrylic-water-resistant-artists-ink/

I also us Noodler's ink (apache). Here is a link to these inks

http://www.gouletpens.com/noodlers-apache-sunset-3oz-bottled-fountain-pen-ink/p/N19022