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Painting
The limited Palette:
                  White Lead (or substitute - but not titanium or zinc white),
                  Yellow Ochre,
                  Light Red, Indian Red (or Cadmium Red light),
                  Raw Umber, Ivory Black

Medium:    One-part each: stand oil/liquin/turpentine
                  To be diluted as necessary with additional turpentine

Brushes:     Four each filbert hogs approximately 1/4 and 3/8 and 1/2 inch
                  (there is no standard number system for brush sizes, so use these as a guide)
                  Larger filbert bristles for laying-in and backgrounds (3/4 and 1 inch)
                  1/4 and 3/8 filbert sables for modelling
                  A small round sable for highlights

Canvas:     For cast and portraits - 20 x 24 fine linen (beginners can use cotton)
                  For figure                   - 30 x 20 fine linen (beginners can use cotton)

Other:       Palette, palette knife, dippers, white spirit

Drawing
Paper:       Fabriano Roma, cream or pale grey.
                 Ingres, off-white or pale grey
                 Canson, off-white or pale grey
Other:       Charcoal, eraser, stumps, fixative, portfolio

Nitram charcoal now available from the Compleat Artist
(see below)