“Red Geraniums on a Red House”

Oil Painting by Clina Polloni. 16”x 20”.

Painting of an old house with red wood and bright red geraniums in the front. Mountains of North Carolina.

This painting is FOR SALE at The Little ART Gallery inside The Cotton Company, Wake Forest NC.

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Red Geraniums on a Red House Painting is © of Clina Polloni.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

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:

1. 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.
2. Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of acrylics, they 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 imprimatura is 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.

Start painting in the following order because it is going to be easier for you:

1. Using oils or acrylics, start painting the window. Continue with the red old wood of the walls.
2. Paint the red geraniums in the pot.
3. Sign your work of art.

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: 11″x 14″

Oils or Acrylics Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Yellow Ochre
3. Carmine or Cadmium Red Medium
4. Cadmium Red Light
5. Alizarin Crimson
6. Burnt Sienna
7. Burnt Umber or Van Dyck Brown
8. Cadmium Yellow Light
9. Cadmium Yellow Medium
10. Thalo and permanent Green
11. Greenish Umber or Deep Green
12. Payne’s Gray
13. Ivory Black

Brushes:

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 #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.

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.