Getting started with oil painting (Supplies)

This blog post will cover everything a beginner would need to start oil painting. There are literally hundreds of oil colors available but in truth, you need around 5 to mix almost any color you can think of.

• Various flat medium range brushes 10-15 my personal recommendation would be Grumbacher bristlette brushes. While many will purchase lots of different kinds of brushes you can get by very well with just a few flat brushes.
• Basic oil pallet (keep in mind this is the bare minimum I would recommend to a beginner but will allow the mixture of any other bought colors)
• French ultramarine blue
• Yellow Ochre
• Titanium white
• Alizarin Crimson Red
• Cadmium red light
• Cadmium Yellow
• Other colors that are not needed I would strongly suggest include Thalo green, Burnt sienna, and Chromium Oxide green if you plan to do portraits.
• Moving on we will need Odorless terpenoid or mineral spirits to clean our brushes and thin our paint.
• Linseed oil to add oil to our paints and help them spread.