Finished Painting Copyright Elizabeth Robbins

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In this video I did use Winsor and Newton  paints.  I’m am currently using Gamblin paints and mediums.  Below is what I recommend

Oil Paint. Below are Gamblin Colors

• Titanium White
• Cadmium Lemon
• Cadmium Yellow Medium (Cadmium Yellow Pale if Winsor Newton)
• Cadmium Orange (Cadmium Yellow Deep if Winsor Newton)
• Cadmium Red Medium
• Cadmium Red Deep
• Indian Yellow
• Yellow Ocher
• Raw Umber
• Transparant Earth Red (Transparant Red Iron Oxide if Rembrandt)
• Alizarin Crimson
• French Ultramarine
• Cobalt Blue (optional)
• Viridian
• Ivory Black

About paints: I realize some of these colors are quite expensive but would prefer them over the Winton brand or any other “Student” quality paint.

Canvas:   I use C12 or L600 from www.newtraditionsartpanels.com   Ask Tim and tell him you are taking my workshop.  He knows what I like

• Alternative is Centurian Oil Primed linen
• Also bring some cheaper small canvas (8×10) for studies. You can also buy Canvas pads
• that are pretty cheap for these studies

Other Supplies

• *Large grey Toned Palette impervious to oils
• Palette Knife
• Paper towels
• Gamsol
• Gamblin’s Neo Megilp (medium)
• Hand mirror
• A willingness to learn
• A sense of humor

Brushes:  Click here to purchase brushes

Hog Bristle filberts size 2, 4 6 or 1, 3 ,5.   I use Royal Vienna series but any good hog bristle brush will do
Royal Sabletek series 95510 sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 10, 14, 18. (various sizes)
Series 95510 size 24 or 26 or 28 large flat (at least 3/4” wide)

A 2 inch chip brush from hardware store.  (cheap Chinese bristle paintbrush)

I move back and forth between the sable flats and the bristle filberts. I like the sable flats in the shadowed areas when I want quiet passages of paint and I like the bristle filberts in the light areas so that I can add texture in the light.

Elizabeth was raised in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. She is best known for her classically beautiful floral Still Life but also enjoys painting portraits and capturing the soul of a person. As a child, her Grandmothers would help her identify various wild flowers at their cabin above Oakley, Utah. This is where her love of flowers began. “I still have the book where I pressed and categorized wild flowers that my paternal Grandmother helped me with.”

Robbins also grows all the flowers that she lovingly paints. Over 100 roses, peonies, lilies, sunflowers and many other flowers are just a step away from her 600 sq ft studio where she paints. She is co-owner of Bella Muse Gallery in Ogden, Utah and owns Bella Muse Productions where she films and produces instructional painting videos to help inspire other artists along their journey.  She also has an online mentorship course Inspired to Paint with her good friend Shanna Kunz

She has won numerous awards including “Best Still Life” and “Best of Show” at the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Exhibit and the “Tuffy Berg Award” at the 2008 CM Russell auction. She is a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America and A Master Signature Member of the American Women Artists and the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society

Robbins has been featured in Southwest Art, The Artist Magazine, American Art Collector, Western Art Collector and Art of the West

She is represented by several top galleries.

Visit her website Elizabeth Robbins Art

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