Ginger brings color and life to a balcony in Tuscany during this live YouTube session. You will find reference photos of the final image that can be used for traceables.
You will find three different reference photos that will make you job that must easier to paint this masterpiece. Ginger will show you how to apply Posca Pens to the balcony in the painting.
The "Tuscany Balcony with Flowers" is painted on an 8"x10" stretched canvas using Ginger's standard palette of colors.
See "Supplies Needed" below.
This is a "2-Cookie" lesson.
Supplies Needed:
- Titanium White
- Phthalo Blue(Green Shade if Liquitex)
- Ultramarine Blue (Red Shade if Liquitex)
- Dioxazine Purple
- Cadmium Red Medium
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Yellow Oxide or Yellow Ochre
- Burnt Umber
- Burnt Sienna
Palette knife for mixing paint
White Posca Pen (Learn more on Amazon: https://www.gingercooklive.gallery/posca-pens)
3/8" Angle Brush
Artist Tape
8" x 10" Canvas
Chaulk
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Hi I am back. Just got done spraying theack of the canvas—sanding the front—printed out my picture—folding it in half–pre painted my canvas-half red and half yellow ocher with white. Dryingnow and soon I will try and trace in some of the ocher colored building. Just half to spread out the usual array of paint colors you use. See you tonight. Your fly on the wall in Virginia Beach. Sharon
Hi Sharon – Where did you find the instructions for how to pre-paint the canvas? Did you paint the whole background the same color? Thanks!
Hi Kathy,
Are you the Kathy Mason I went to school with?
Not sure where the instructions are for the canvas but Sharon painted her canvas half red & half yellow ochre & white 😀
This is on my to do list this weekend.
John, ginger, it would be good if there was an option to add tutorials to our favourite or to do list, then we can just go there and find the one we want to do. 😀
Hi. Just wondering…..how can with tell if a tutorial is part of the members only section? (and I’m sure I just haven’t figured this out yet)….. I see some in our members area defined by 1-2-3 cookies that sometimes see on youtube for the public, unless I’m mistaken. Even though I enjoy all of the tutorials, I want to be sure I’m taking advantage of my membership. Is there something I should be looking for ….. an icon or something? I thought VLL was the members only area but this will be on youtube tonight….which I think is wonderful…..but want… Read more »
Hey guys. Just found this to help me pre. Do my canvas to try and follow along. I am too 😊. Excited. You have so changed and so improved so many things. Great job . My surgery is over and now healing. Yeah.