Still Life and Floral Painting
Robert Johnson
www.robertjohnsonart.com

Materials:
• Suggested Palette (Necessar y):
Naples Yellow Light(Rembrandt) Cadmium Lemon; Cadmium Red Light; Cadmium Yellow Pale; Permanent Alizarin; Yellow Ochre Pale;
Cobalt Violet ; Indian Yellow (Windsor Newton) ; Ultramarine Blue;
Transparent Oxide Red (Rembrandt) ; Cobalt Blue; Terra Rosa;
Viridian (Holbein); White (Gamblin , Williamsburg or Utrecht White)- or any blend of Zinc White and Titanium White

• Optional Colors to be kept in reserve for particular subject matter or effects or substituted for some of the necessary colors:
Burnt Sienna Deep (substitute for Transparent Oxide Red); Cadmium Scarlet (substitute for Cadmium Red Light); Manganese Violet (Utrecht) (substitute for Cobalt Violet); Raw Sienna; Cerulean Blue or Manganese Blue; Cinnabar Green; Brilliant Rose (Old Holland); Permanent Rose or Rembrandt Rose; Cadmium Orange

• Painting Surface: Two or three panels or canvas with non-absorbent priming. No larger than 16" x 20”
• Medium: Maroger, Gamblin Neo Megilp, sun thickened linseed oil, Galkyd
* Solvent: Gamsol or Turpenoid
• Brushes: A variety, which would include filbert bristles in the range from nos. 1 to 8. At least one small sable no. 0, 1, or 2. At least one soft flat (sable, badger or mongoose) no. 4 or above.
• Palette Knife: Small triangular wedge shaped painting knife.
• Attitude: Humility, honesty and a capacity to be completely absorbed in seeing and painting without concern for the opinions of others.
• Optional Equipment: Painting scraper, eye shade (baseball cap or visor)