Flower-Red Poppy
Learn to paint a bright, colorful red poppy flower.
This is a simple painting for a person that is starting to paint and wants to learn colors and composition.
The small, fragile, brilliantly red poppy is probably the world’s most popular wildflower in the meadow.
Acrylics or Oils painting class taught by Clina Polloni.
Supply:
This painting can be done in 2 medias, Oil Paintings or Acrylics.
Acrylics: You can buy them at Michael’s or Hobby Lobby. Jerry’s Arterama offers SOHO, Urban Artistic Acrylics. Excellent paintings, sold at a more reasonable price. 3060 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609. (919) 876-6610.
Oil Paintings: You can buy them at Michael’s or Hobby Lobby, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.
Canvas: 9″x12″
Under paint colors: In acrylics, give a wash to the canvas in Cadmium Yellow Light.
Colors:
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cadmium Red Deep
- Sap Green
- Greenish Umber or a Deep Green
- Ultramarine Blue
- Alizarin Crimson
- Ivory Black
There are many affordable brushes in the market:
Walmart: FolkArt, Gold Taklon, fine details and shading corners detail.
Michael’s: Artist’s Loft, white synthetic brushes.
Jerry’s Arterama: Pro Stroke-Power Creative, fine and medium brushes.
1 White Bristle #2.
For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Turpernoi. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. Glass container to mix media, I have some containers in the studio.
Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).
Paper towel.
Plastic/paper 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/flowers-painting-classes/
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
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13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27527
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Clina Polloni is a member of The Makery and the Wake Forest Guild of Artists. Her oil paintings are FOR SALE at The Cotton Company, The Makery, Renaissance Centre and local businesses of Wake Forest NC. Visit Exhibitions >>
Serving Raleigh, Cary, Louisburg, Wake Forest, Franklinton and The Triangle Area of North Carolina. Member of The Franklin County Art Council and Wake Forest Guild of Artists, of North Carolina.
