Setting Up A Simple Home Studio
Painting From Home: Creating a self-workshop
If you want to start painting in the Point Zero Process and cannot take part in a workshop, a good option is to set up a home studio and use one of Michele's workshop videos to guide you along the way. There are two videos we recommend for both beginning painters as well as for continuing students wishing to re-ignite their painting process. The talks on these videos were recorded sequentially during actual workshops (given to both new and old students). Each day Michele gives new information, building on the previous days, and addresses the evolution of your creative freedom and understanding the depth of this process.
Morning Talks on Creativity: A Workshop in Taos, New Mexico 2015
Recommended Workbook
This simple booklet contains essential questions that will help guide you through the stages of the creative process: how to start, how to go on despite creative blocks and how to complete your work.
Set Up Your Home Studio
Forgotten Secrets of the Creative Process: A Workshop in Taos, New Mexico May 2016
For your painting setup, you can keep it simple and use whatever paints, brushes and paper you have on hand, even crayons, markers, pens, pencil. Or, if you'd like to replicate your in-studio experience as much as possible, we recommend the following:
One set of paints: red, yellow, orange blue, green, brown, black, white. If possible, also: purple, sienna, magenta, beige, yellow-green. You can create your paint tray using separate small plastic tupperware containers like these, or, alternately, an ice tray also works well. The paints last longer when covered & stored in a refrigerator between use. You'll need at least 3 brushes: small, medium, large and a supply of paper. Approximate Dimensions: 19 X 24 or 20 x 26. Below are recommendations for supplies we like.Brushes:
Highest Quality, expensive: Isabey Squirrel Quill Brushes
Excellent Quality, moderately priced: Dugato Squirrel Hair Brush set of 4Good quality, moderately priced: Richeson Squirrel Hair Brush set of 5Lower-priced alternatives: Synthetic watercolor brushes, round shape available at rexart.com or dickblick.com.Paint:
We use a high quality tempera paints available at Dickblick.Consider starting with a set of 6 basic colors of Blick Premium Tempera Paints Set
They are also sold individually Blick Premium Tempera Paints Paper:
We use an 80# Bristol Vellum, 26x20 inches (original size 26x40 inches - cut in half). This paper is usually sold in 500 sheet packages such as at the Papermill Store.In lieu of ordering in such large quantities, you can purchase similar paper in smaller quantities, not exactly the same size but close, through Dickblick:Strathmore 300 Series Bristol Pad 19'' x 24'', Vellum, 20 SheetsBlick Bristol Pad 19'' x 24'', Vellum, 15 SheetsBoards/Backing painting surface:
Celotex, sound boards or fiber boards, available at building supply stores.Inexpensive and lightweight alternative: Elmer's tri-fold poster board 36"x48" to tape your piece to while painting, available through Amazon and Target