Pat Rohrbacher

Pat studied at the Art Students League of New York
with League Instructors David Leffel and Harvey Dinnerstein.
She also studied with Burton Silverman and in France at the Ecole Albert De Fois with Ted Seth Jacobs.
She has exibited and recieved awards at the Salmegundi Club, N.Y., The National Arts Club and
The Musuem of American Illustration.
Her paintings are in numerous private collection in Europe, Canada and the U.S.

Upcoming Workshops

Gallery

Some of Pat's works in the museum's collection

Suggested Supply List

Watercolor

Paints

  • alizarin crimson
  • cadmium red
  • cadmium yellow
  • cadmium oragnge
  • ultramarine blue
  • burnt sienna
  • black
  • brown
  • viridian green

    • Brushes

  • a general decent set of watercolor brushes

    • Paper

  • 1/4 - 1/2 sheet 90# cold press

    • Colored Pencil and Pencil Drawing

  • Best Product for Colored Pencil Drawing, Berol Prismacolor. Best Paper would be Canson Mi-Tientes paper which is also recommended for Pastel as well.
  • I also use Canson for drawing with Vine Charcoal. The best vine charcoal is made by Windsor Newton I prefer the slimmer vine because it is harder. you want to be able to make hatch like strokes as you draw and the soft vine may smudge. The thin vine charcoal is called willow and Pat Catans does carry it.
  • The Canson Paper comes in 20x30 size sheets.
  • I prefer the gray tones and I usually cut it up into 11x14 or 12x16 sizes to work on.
  • For drawing with pencil I recommend 2h pencils, I also like to work on plate finish Bristol paper. This paper can be found at Pat Catans and Hobby Lobby. All you really need would be a kneaded eraser and a couple of well sharpened pencils.

    • Pastels

  • I recommend Nu-Pastels made by Prismacolor. These are hard and can be sharpened with a razor. They make it easy to start your work with a size and placement drawing. You should never rub your work but make hatching strokes in many layers using the lightest colors first and the darker colors over . Therefore you are mixing color on the paper. for example painting an orange I would put a white mark on the paper where the highlight is going to be the I would paint yellow first then put orange over that, adjusting the color and value with red and green.
  • Also a set of Rembrandt pastels are recommended as they are softer and will be able to add more color to your work In other words you are working from hard to soft in value and color with pastels.
  • Canson Mi-Tients also works well for pastels. There are better surfaces that will hold more pastel but in the beginning the paper works fine.