Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.
Learn to paint a palm tree at the beach with clear waters of the ocean.
This seascape painting was created for the painting classes, is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint.
Instructions:
- Start by drawing the horizon line, mountains, ocean and beach, finally the palm tree.
- Do an acrylic under-paint, using Cerulean Blue and Titanium White with water for the sky, mountains and ocean. For the beach Yellow Ochre and Titanium White. Be sure to impregnate all the surface of the canvas.
- Continue with acrylics or oils. Paint the sky, ocean, mountains and beach.
- Finally paint the palm tree on the top.
- Sign your painting.
Supply: This painting can be done in 2 medias, Oil Paintings or Acrylics:
Acrylics: 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, ACMoore, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.
Canvas: 11″x14″
Colors:
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Yellow Ochre
- Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
- Sap Green
- Cerulean Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Van Dick Brown
Brushes, multi-purpose, polyvalent. There is a 10pc “Artist’s Loft” that provides most of the brushes for the beginning or the Pro Stroke-Power Creative Mark of Jerry’s Arterama. Also, Wal-Mart has some fine and medium gold taklon brushes.
For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Turpernoi. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. I have some glass containers to mix media.
Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).
Paper towel, Pencil to draw.
Plastic plate to mix colors or a Paper Palette. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.
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Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
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13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27525.
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Member of The Franklin County Art Council and Wake Forest Guild of Artists, of North Carolina.