How to Paint and Draw a Log Cabin Window in Perspective.
Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.
Log Cabin Window in Perspective
Traveling through the beautiful mountains of North Carolina one thing that fascinate me are the old log cabins. The textures of the aged wood and stones that creates intriguing perspective.
This is a simple paint designed for the painting classes.
Instructions of how to do this painting:
- Drawing: You can do your drawing in two ways. Follow the instructions of drawing the perspective of trace it in the painting class. Put attention to the interesting shapes of the wood and stones.
- Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of Yellow Ochre acrylic and Titanium White. Paint inside the window, outline wood and stones with Ivory Black. 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 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.
- Using oils or acrylics, start painting the window. Continue with the wood and stones.
- 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, Hobby Lobby, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.
Canvas: 11″x 14″ for tracing or 18”x 24” for drawing perspective.
Log Cabin Window in Perspective-Painting Classes Acrylics Oils.
Under-paint Acrylics:
Yellow Ochre, Titanium White and Ivory Black.
Oils or Acrylics Colors:
- Titanium White
- Sky Blue or Royal Blue
- Yellow Ochre
- Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
- Raw Sienna
- Burnt Sienna
- Burnt Umber or Van Dick Brown
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Sap Green
- Deep Green or Greenish Umber
- Payne Gray
- 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.
Black fine point Sharpie.
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.
Paper/plastic plate and glass.
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
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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.
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.
