This will be a fairly complete list of all the things I use to do this thing I do.
My paints are all Windsor Newton Artist Colors with two exceptions. I use Rembrandt brand phthalo green-blue and Utrecht brand permanent white, which I buy in one quart buckets. Of course these are all oil paints. My palette uses: permanent alizarin crimson, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow, cadmium lemon, permanent green light, phthalo green-blue (which is actually green), cobalt blue, french ultramarine and white. I use no earth tones, naples yellow or black. My medium is roughly two parts stand oil with one part genuine turpentine, varied with the stage of the painting.
Painting surfaces depend on the size of the painting. Fredrix pre stretched Green Label linen are used for 30 by 40 inches and smaller. I use Best Super Heavy Duty stretcher strips and mural weight double oil primed Claessens linen from Utrecht and stretch my own for all of the larger sizes.
I use Robert Simmons Signet series filbert brushes, and two different palette knives. One is a rigid Italian-made sabre, big enough to flip pancakes, with duct tape wrapped around the handle for traction. The other one is small and razor sharp, made by Holbein, which I’ll use for delicate work, and to accidentally carve holes in my mahogany plywood palette.
My studio easel is a solid oak Best Abiquiu Deluxe Easel with a double mast, quite a formidable piece of furniture. I use a Trident solid wood taboret for handy paint storage. For those rare occasions when I might leave the studio to paint I have a Jullian french easel.
Material suppliers? I use Utrecht online and Artist’s Supply Warehouse, online as well.
Every morning I’ll whip up a perfect cappuccino with big stainless steel Paquini Livietta espresso machine, brewed from finely ground Illy espresso, regular roast. I told you this would be a complete list.
Occasionally I’ll enjoy a cigar, typically a Dominican Arturo Fuente of any number of sizes, although if anyone finds it within their hearts to send me a nice box of Cubans I would be very appreciative. Oh, and on those rare occasions when I can kick back and raise a pint, it will be a pint of Guinness. It’s not just for breakfast anymore.
To run the website I have a truckload of equipment and software. The live studio cam is streamed from an Axis high resolution wireless network surveillance camera for full motion video. For photography and video I currently use a Nikon D7000, and my main piece of glass for documentation is an AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 60mm f/2.8G ED lens. I use Adobe Photoshop for image editing and Adobe Premiere Pro for video editing. Travel video is all shot with the iPhone 4s, and edited on Premiere Pro. A long time ago I played around with Flash just for the fun of it.
That’s about it. Frank eats Eukanuba large breed adult formula dog food and just about every piece of crap he can find, everywhere he goes, at all times. Ojisan eats Flint River cat food, and every Sunday I’ll crack open a small can of wet food for him, just so he has some rudimentary understanding of the abstract concept of religion. It remains to be seen if it’s working or not.
I recently married a lovely Thai woman named Amporn, and despite the peaceful tranquility of Buddhism she somehow keeps me in a constant state of agitation and motivation.
As of October of 2008 the entire website is being created, edited and published using Textpattern.
If I think of anything else, you know I’ll add it to this list.