Cherry Blossom Trees Painting.

Class taught by Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint spring flowers. Harmony of pinks and deep magentas blossoms playing on soft clouds .

You can learn this painting in the studio class or is a guide for plain air.

Plain Air:

The first class was about going to your yard and draw the trees with acrylics (click here for instructions). This class is about finishing your painting with oils or acrylics.

Plain Air instructions for this painting:

Follow the sequence, is important.

1. With your acrylic drawing, go outside and start painting with acrylics or oils.
2. Start painting the clouds in the background.
3. Paint the grass.
4. Paint the house.
5. Over the grass and other elements paint the trunk of the trees and bushes.
6. Finally over these elements paint the flowers and leaves with a #4 white bristle brush.

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 a 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.

Canvas:

11″x 14″ for tracing in the studio class.

16″x 16″ for drawing.

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Cerulean Blue
3. Paynes Gray
4. Cadmium Yellow Light
5. Yellow Ochre
6. Carmine or Cadmium Red
7. Phthalo Green or Permanent Green
8. Greenish Umber or a Deep Green
9. Magenta
10. Violet de Cobalt or Thio Violet or Deep Magenta
11. Burnt Sienna
12. Burnt Umber or Raw Umber
13. Ivory Black

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.
#2 white bristle brush.

1 Sharpie Ultra Fine Point Black.

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.

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Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

The Cherry Blossom Trees painting and instructions are © Clina Polloni.

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13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27525.
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