Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.
“Red Geraniums on a Red House” Painting
Red Geraniums on a Red House
This is a simple painting designed for the painting classes. Learn to paint an old red house in the mountains of North Carolina, adorned with bright red geraniums in the front.
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Instructions of how to do this painting:
- Start by drawing the window, the old wood of walls and finally the geraniums in the pot. Put attention to the cracks of the wood.
- Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of Gold or Yellow Ochre acrylic. Also paint inside the window with Permanent Green and Ivory Black. Finally paint the in between the wood with Alizarin Crimson. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. The under paint is very important because you are drawing with colors and defining light and shade in your final painting. The imprimaturais an initial stain of color painted on the canvas. It provides a transparent, toned ground, which will allow light falling onto the painting to reflect through the paint layers.
Red Geraniums on a Red House Under-Paint
Start painting in the following order because it is going to be easier for you:
- Using oils or acrylics, start painting the window. Continue with the red old wood of the walls.
- Paint the red geraniums in the pot.
- Sign your work of art.
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.
Red Geraniums on a Red House Window
Canvas: 11″x14″
Under-paint Acrylics:
- Gold or Yellow Ochre
- Permanent Green
- Ivory Black
- Alizarin Crimson
Oils or Acrylics Colors:
- Titanium White
- Yellow Ochre
- Carmine or Cadmium Red Medium
- Cadmium Red Light
- Alizarin Crimson
- Burnt Sienna
- Van Dyck Brown
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Thalo Green
- Greenish Umber or Deep Green
- Payne’s Gray
Laurie Boyette-Tricia Wagner-Geraniums on a Red House-Painting Class acrylics oils.
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.
You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes: https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
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.
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Serving Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Wake Forest, Franklinton and The Triangle Are of North Carolina.
Member of The Franklin County Art Council and Wake Forest Guild of Artists, of North Carolina.
