The 2025 Spring Seminar at Torri Superiore

~ RECOMMENDED MATERIALS ~

THE ACADEMY PROVIDES:

• All easels, chairs and small tables to put your paint

• One 40 cm x 60 cm (16" x 24") stretched canvas

• (If you prefer to work on another size, you can bring your own gessoed panel or canvas)

• The ingredients for egg tempera, casein & glazing mediums

• Brush cleaning solvent, soap, rags & paper towels

• Transfer paper

• Tracing paper, vine charcoal & masking tape

• Spray diffusers, also called mouth atomizers (see below)

 

THE STUDENTS BRING:

• Their teachers' recommended brushes

* Their teachers' recommended oil colours

• We strongly advise you to buy a selection of the recommended paints and brushes below (Brands depend on which country you are in - find something equivalent). 

• For your artistic future, we recommend that you buy high quality oil paints & brushes ~ these will last much longer and allow you to continue painting after the seminar.

• But, don't panic if you don't have every colour! The Academy will have a selection of oil colours available as a back-up.

• The recommended palettes

• A palette knife

• A sketchbook, pencils, ruler & eraser

• A small image, talisman or piece of Nature for the altar

~ DANIEL MIRANTE'S RECOMMENDATIONS ~

MEDIUM

• The Academy will supply the materials for tempera grassa, casein and the glazing medium

• However, you are welcome to bring your own tube of Richeson Casein Paint - the Shiva Series - in Titanium White

BASIC COLOURS

We will use a split primary palette, which means a warm & cold version of the yellow, red & blue primaries, plus some earth pigments along with black and white

 

The Split Primary Palette:

  • Lemon Yellow or Hansa Yellow or Chrome Yellow or Cobalt Yellow Aureolin (primrose yellow)
  • Gamboge Yellow or Indian Yellow (its more orangey than the yellow above)
  • Pyrolle Red / Naphtol Red
  • Quinacridone Magenta
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Cobalt Turquoise / Teal or Phthalocyanine Turquoise
     

The Earth pigments:

  • Raw Umber
  • Raw Sienna
  • Burnt Sienna

 

Black & White:

  • Titanium White
  • Mars Black

RECOMMENDED BRANDS OF PAINTS

(From best to medium quality, in my personal estimation):

  • Rublev (Natural Pigments)
  • Michael Harding
  • Williamsberg
  • Old Holland
  • Mussini
  • Winsor and Newton
  • Langridge

 

BRUSHES

• I use a variety of brushes. from very small rigger and rounds, to medium rounds and filberts, with some medium mops.

• These are High quality synthetic or natural. Do not buy very cheap brushes, it will only hold you back.

 

RECOMMENDED BRUSHES FOR THE SEMINAR

•  One very fine rigger (liner)

•  A fine and medium round

•  A few medium-small and medium filberts

•  A few medium-small and medium angles

•  One or two mops from medium to large,

•  A few wide, flat glazing brushes, such as the green handled Da Vinci

EXTRA:

- If you can, try to find one of these:

• Spray diffusor / Mouth Atomiser (The ones with the wooden mouthpiece are better)
- We'll have several on hand at the Seminar.

SPRAY DIFFUSER / MOUTH ATOMIZER

OLD HOLLAND

MICHAEL HARDING

WILLIAMSBURG

~ WHERE TO BUY MATERIALS ~

- WEBSITES -

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USA/Canada : https://www.dickblick.com

USA : https://www.jacksonsart.com

Italy : https://www.mondo-artista.it

UK : https://www.jacksonsart.com

France : https://www.geant-beaux-arts.fr

https://www.boesner.fr/

Germany/Austria : https://www.boesner.com/

 

- LOCAL ART STORES -

There's a big Art Store in Nice and a very tiny one in Ventimiglia :

 

Le Géant des Beaux Arts

20 Rue Gubernatis, 06000 Nice, France

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Risso Colori & Chimica

Via Roma, 5, 18039 Ventimiglia IM, Italy

The Academy of Visionary Art is run by The Visionary Guild,

a non-profit Association registered in France under the number RNA W751191486