My Current Oil Painting Materials List

  My materials list has evolved and I feel like now is a good time to document it.  This post is more for my own documentation, but I also always love sharing knowledge.  I'll go through my materials, color palette and medium one by one.
   As a side note:  my own color palette is based on Bouguereau's palette, but with my own additions which I feel are necessary.  Also, never blindly follow someone else's technique or materials without thinking deeply about it yourself.

Basic Materials:
  -White boar's hair bristle brushes (rounds and flats)
  -Small synthetic watercolor brushes (for detail work and signature)
  -Brush cleaner jar filled with Gamsol OMS (for brush cleaning)
  -Wooden palette
  -Wooden paint box
  -Wooden easel

Oil,medium, varnishes:
  -Refined linseed oil (for oiling out)
  -Main medium:
       1 oz. Dammar Varnish
       1 oz. Stand Oil
       5 oz. Gamsol
       15-20 drops cobalt drier
  -Winsor & Newton High Gloss Varnish (for final varnish, 1 layer)
  -Gamsol + Masters brush cleaner for cleaning brushes

Color Palette:
  -Silver White
  -Flake White
  -Naples Yellow
  -Chrome Yellow Bright
  -Chrome Yellow Deep 
  -Yellow Ochre
  -Vermillion
  -French Vermillion 
  -Chinese Vermillion
  -Alizarin Crimson
  -Brown Red (or Venetian Red)
  -Burnt Sienna
  -Emerald Green
  - Viridian
  -Cobalt Blue
  -Ultramarine Blue
  -Burnt Umber
  -Van Dyke Brown
  -Ivory Black
 
  *My palette is in this order mainly because I'm colorblind so I arrange it in order of color value.



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