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. Fat over thin, ya know?
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 my fire engine red FrancisFrancis X1 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.
My entire system is online via high speed fiber optic internet access.
To document the work I currently use a Nikon D80 with an AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm
1:3.5-4.5 lense, Photoshop for image editing, Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver
and Notepad for html editing, Ws-ftp to upload pages, and sometimes Flash
just
for the fun of it when I have time. The movies are filmed with an old
Sony Mavica MVC-FD88, shooting short clips that are saved onto floppy discs,
and Windows Movie Maker software to assemble all the pieces.
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.
If I think of anything else, you
know I'll add it to this list.