Pen & Ink with Oil Rouging Supply List

Though the start up for this hobby can be close to $200.00 it is well worth it.  Once you've made that initial investment getting started your "maintenance" spending isn't that bad.  You go through a lot of matte spray for sure.  The paints and medium last a while.  If you treat your brushes right and use them properly, the right size for the area, they will last a long time too.  The pen has a lifetime guarantee from ChartPak so just don't lose it.  I recommend folks start by buying the pen and a bottle of ink.  Inkings are beautiful on their own for the most part so you could just ink using a few patterns and give them as gifts or sell them to raise money to buy the brushes, spray and paints.

Basic List

• Fredrix Red Label Medium Texture Canvas (panel, sheets or stretched).  Fredrix is the only canvas that allows the ink to be correctable without any prep work.
• Tracing paper
• Stylus
• Transfer paper (graphite).  Never ever, ever, ever use carbon paper.  You will be sorry.
• Art eraser (magic rub, or art gum)
• Click Eraser (found at most office supply stores)
• Make Up Brush (new, not one in use.)
• Palette knife
• Cotton swabs
• Glass cleaner with ammonia (it comes that way and says on the bottle.  The ammonia is the secret)
• Plastic film canister to hold the glass cleaner.
• Koh-I-Noor Rapidiograph technical pen (recommend starting with the 00/.30)
• Daler Rowny FW India Ink
• A 6 oz. size paper cup to hold the cotton swabs
• Styrofoam plates (dinner size)  this is your palette
• Inexpensive paper towels
• Matte spray (Recommend Liberty, Americana or Folk Art)
• Mary Owens Starter Set.  This contains six Martin/F. Weber Permalba paints and the transparentizing medium.  It's a great value.)
• Transparentizing medium.  (If you already have oil paints you will only need this)
• Oil colors:  Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Cad Medium Yellow, Alizarin Crimson and Payne's Gray.
• Brushes:  (The first number is the size the second number is the style for Scharff)

        #1 Dresden synthetic liner, 455 Scharff              #8 Blender, 100 Scharff                #32 Blender, 100 Scharff
        #2 Scumble, 240 Scharff                                      #14 Blender, 100 Scharff
        #6 Scumble, 240 Scharff                                      #20 Blender, 100 Scharff

Optional Items:

• Kemper Wipe-out Tool aka double-ended eraser.  I can't live without it when I rouge, it makes correcting in tight corners or along a edge easy.
• Tube Squeezer, not one of those chintzy toothpaste type, a good one.  I sell one from Martin/F Weber for $11.79 and it gets 99.9% of the paint out of the tube so you save money in the long run. 
• 12x16 plexiglass, if you are using the canvas sheets this gives you a stiff backing while you work.  Generally I don't do pieces larger than this size.