How to Paint a Sunflower
Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.
Flower-Sunflower
Learn to paint a sunflower. This is a simple painting for a beginner artist. You will learn the basics of color mixing, blending and texture.
Supply: This painting can be done in 2 medias, Oil Paintings or Acrylics:
Acrylics: You can buy them at Michael’s or Hobby Lobby. There are many brands of acrylic paintings that I have tested but the one that I like the most is SOHO, Urban Artistic Acrylic: Excellent paintings, sold at more reasonable price by Jerry’s Arterama. 3060 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609. (919) 876-6610.
Oil Paintings: You can buy them at Michael’s, Hobby Lobby, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.
Flower-Sunflower Under-paint
Canvas: 9″x 12″
Colors:
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cadmium Orange
- Cadmium Red Light
- Carmine or Cadmium Red Medium
- Sap Green
- Greenish Umber or dark green
- Burnt Sienna
- Burnt Umber or Van Dick Brown
There are many affordable brushes in the market:
Walmart: FolkArt, Gold Taklon, fine details and shading.
Michael’s: 10pc “Artist’s Loft” white synthetic brushes.
Jerry’s Arterama: Pro Stroke-Power Creative, fine and medium brushes.
1 White Bristle #2.
Kansas Sunflower Painting
For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Turpernoi. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. Glass container to mix media.
Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).
Paper towel.
Paper/plastic plate and glass. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.
You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes:
https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/
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Visit the students paintings page >>
Students paintings 2022 and 2023
For more flowers to learn click here >>
Kansas Sunflower Painting Class. Laurie, Lisa Marie and Tricia proudly showing their paintings. They selected the background with rusty dark colors.
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- Painting Class – Kansas Sunflower
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- Menna Bahgat-Sunflower
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
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Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio and Gallery.
13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27525.
Take a drive to the beautiful country of North Carolina. Only half an hour from downtown Raleigh.
