Supply list needed for novice
 

Hi,
I would like to paint, I now Im not a painter but, I have a few thing I would like to do.
My wife supports my efforts and will get me a kit or strter supplies.

I want to paint on a canvas,
SO can someone please suggest:

Type of canvas
type of paints (brands also (not too expensive if possible at first)
easels or soemthing to hold canvvas
cleaning sypplies
brushes
and any other tools I would need thank you very much

hopefully it will show in this pic, but if you can see it, here is a er painting lol ( did it on microsft paint)
that I would like to try to do on canvas etc.

I think you've mentioned that you live in or around NYC, your best bet might be to take a stroll into Pearl Paints (I think they're on Canal Street) and either see if they have a kit you could purchase, or even ask in the store for some assistance...

Thank you Maleficient

Start with acrylics. You'll have better control while you're getting to know your own stroke. Water cleans acrylic. You have to experiment with brushes to see what works for you. You'll want a pallet knife, not only for mixing, but for using as a canvas tool!

Buy a pre-stretched canvas unless you know how to stretch. Buy Gesso, even if the one you buy is a pre-gessoed canvas. The more texture, the better from what your work looks like.

Paints - Buy one big white, and then the primary colors and black to start. Mix your own colors, it helps you experiment, develop your pallet, and not waste paint. Buy extra colors when you know what you need, and such. I always just end up mixing, and the "special" colors I buy sit in my box for years, unless it was parchment or flesh tone. I loved those two when I painted portraits...

I used old plates, or like in my profile pic, trivets for a pallet. Pallets are cool to use too. It really depends on if you're going to be standing or sitting while painting.

Have fun!!!

Thank you!
I like those Ideas a lot

The only advice I haave is that I love camel hair brushes. Good Luck on the Paintinglet us see how it turns out.

Buy cheap paint!! Hell, buy cheap everything to start off with, I guarantee you'll feel better about ruining brushes if they only cost a buck.

Also, painting on a canvas is fun, you feel like monet, but if you buy acrylics, paint on EVERYTHING. That stuff is essentially plastic, so anything plastic is okay on, paint on it. You'd be suprised how much fun it is to paint a basketball, or fruit, or the case of your microwave. It's cheaper than buying canvasses too.

Once you get used to the brush, you'll start figuring out what you do and don't want to do with it. Painting is like sex, everyone likes to do it a different way!