Bob Burridge Workshop Materials List

Materials List Document:

Robert Burridge Workshop

Loosen Up Painting Retreat & and Group Art Show with Bob at Gallery of Hermosa!


Suggested Materials List:

  1. Paints: Any professional-grade acrylic paint (no cheap, student grade paints). Your choice of colors. Burridge will be painting with Holbein Artist Acrylic paint colors to match his Goof-Proof Color Wheel, plus black and white.
    1. Pyrrole Red Light
    2. Marigold
    3. Hansa Yellow
    4. Cobalt Blue
    5. Cad Green Deep
    6. Compose Blue #1
    7. Compose Blue #2
    8. Ultramarine Deep
    9. Primary Magenta
    10. Luminous Opera
    11. Lamp Black
    12. Titanium White
  2. Any water soluble crayons or drawing pencils – black and your choice of colors.
  3. Brushes: Synthetic Blends, 1/4”, 1/2” and 1” Flat and 1” fine brush for acrylic washes.
  4. For cleaning brushes: Murphys Oil Soap, “Original Formula” or The Masters Brush Cleaner. You will use this at the end of each day.
  5. Surfaces:
    1. Watercolor Paper for warm-up exercises: You can use 10”x10”, 9”x12” or similar sizes, 140 or 300 lb CP. Bob will use Kilimanjaro Watercolor Paper. Pre-gesso your paper, one coat, one side - let dry.
    2. For the Group Show with Bob: You will paint on small pre-gessoed canvases or cradled wood panels, 10”x10” and/or 12”x12” - as many per day as can fit on your painting table. No large canvases or canvas panels.
  6. Water container: such as a low, half gallon plastic bucket or a low 10x10 inch Tupperware-type container. (They don’t fall over)
  7. Roll of VIVA towels or similar.
  8. Hand Barrier cream or Nitrile gloves.

The Gallery of Hermosa will also have on hand in case you don’t want to travel with these supplies:

  • Paper towels
  • Water containers for painting
  • Murphy’s Oil Soap and/or The Masters Brush Cleaner