Lavender Flowers Painting

On March 18, 2019 / Flowers Painting Classes, Painting Classes

Tags: Cary, Durham, Franklinton, Lavender Flowers, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint lavender flowers in a gold background.

Lavenders Flowers Painting

This painting was created for the painting classes, is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint. Is good for learning to create a texture in harmonic colors.

Supply: This painting can be done in 2 media, 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. Also, the box of Kaleidoscope Artist’s Value has most of the colors.
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: 8″x8″

Colors:

In this painting it is easier to do the background in acrylics first with:

Gold
Alizarin Crimson

Continue with acrylics or oils:

Titanium White
Violet de Cobalt or Thio Violet or Deep Magenta
Dioxazine Purple
Cadmium Yellow Light
Sap Green
Greenish Umber (Grumbacher) or a Deep Green

Brushes, multi-purpose, polyvalent. There is a 10pc “Artist’s Loft” that provides most of the brushes for the beginning or the Pro Stroke-Power Creative Mark of Jerry’s Arterama. Also Wal-Mart has some fine and medium gold taklon brushes.
For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Turpernoi. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. I have some glass containers to mix media.
Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).
Paper towel, Pencil to draw.
Plastic plate to mix colors or a Paper Palette. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.

Lavender Flowers August 16-20 Painting Class.

Painting Class acrylics oils-Lavender Flowers

Learn to paint a beautiful flower. “Lavender Flowers”. August 16-20. Create an attractive gold background. Acrylics or oils, private and group painting classes by appointment. Taught by Clina Polloni. Call 919-841-3132 or email clinapolloni@gmail.com.

#paintingclasses #littleartgallerync #lavenderflowers #floral #wakeforest #thecottonco #oilsclasses #acrylicsclasses #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #artistachilena #northcarolinaartist

$30.00 per person for 3 hours. You have the option of learning the painting of the week or selecting a painting from https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/.

At The Little Art Gallery, inside The Cotton Company, located in the historical downtown of Wake Forest NC. 306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.

You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes: click here >>

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.

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.

How to Paint Red Geraniums in a Stone House Window

On March 6, 2019 / Painting Classes, Windows and Doors Paintings Classes

Tags: Cary, Durham, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Red Geraniums, Wake Forest

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

“Red Geraniums in a Stone House Window” Painting.

Red Geraniums in a Stone House Window

Traveling through the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, I was inspired to paint this colonial stone house with red geraniums in the window.

This is a simple paint designed for the painting classes.

#paintingclassesnc #redgeranium #windowpaint #flowerpainting #littleartgallerync #wakeforestnc #thecottonco #oilsclasses #acrylicsclasses #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #northcarolinaartist

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. Kaleidoscope Artist’s Value box is good.

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.

Red Geraniums in a Stone House Window Under-Paint

Canvas: 11″x 14″

Under paint: In acrylics, give a wash to the canvas in Yellow Ochre. Paint inside the window with Permanent Green and Ivory Black.

Oils or Acrylics Colors:

Titanium White
Yellow Ochre
Carmine or Cadmium Red Medium
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson or Rose Madder
Magenta
Burnt Sienna
Van Dyck Brown or Burnt Umber
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Permanent Green
Sap Green
Greenish Umber or Deep Green
Payne’s Gray

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 #3.

For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Turpernoi. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. I have some glass containers to mix media.

Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).

Paper towel, Pencil to draw.

Plastic/paper plate and glass. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.

Painting Class-Red Geraniums in a Stone House Window

Painting Class Announcement:

Learn to paint “Red Geraniums in a Stone House Window”. Traveling through the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, I was inspired to paint this colonial stone house with red geraniums in the window.

Wednesday February 16 at The Cotton Company, 2:30 to 4:30.
Saturday February 19 at Clina Polloni ART Studio, 10:30 to 12:30.

Acrylics or oils, private and group painting classes by appointment. Taught by Clina Polloni with social distance. Call 919-841-3132 or email clinapolloni@gmail.com.

#paintingclassesnc #redgeranium #windowpaint #flowerpainting #littleartgallerync #wakeforestnc #thecottonco #oilsclasses #acrylicsclasses #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #northcarolinaartist

$30.00 per person for 2 hours. You have the option of learning the painting of the week or selecting a painting from https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/.

At The Little Art Gallery, inside The Cotton Company, located in the historical downtown of Wake Forest NC. 306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.

At Clina Polloni ART Studio: Contact Clina 919-841-3132 or clinapolloni@gmail.com

You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes: click here for information about the 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.
Contact Clina >>

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.

Gold Labrador Oil Pet Portrait of Buffy

On February 26, 2019 / Painting Classes, Pet Portraits, Portraits

Tags: Cary, Durham, Franklinton, Gold Labrador, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Pet Portraits, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Learn to Paint A Pet Portrait. Progression and Supply.

By Artist Clina Polloni.

Gold Labrador Retriever Portrait

Buffy was a Gold Labrador Retriever.

When I was commissioned to paint Buffy’s oil Pet Portrait, I was fascinated by the beauty of this Gold Labrador Retriever. The expression of her eyes was all about love and caring for her family. Painting her eyes and the many colors of his hair was a wonderful experience. I put her in a background of white snow because she loved to play in it.

Canvas: 16″x 20″

Instructions and Progression:

Draw and paint the under-paint: It was done in acrylics because they dry faster and it gives you the opportunity to paint immediately. Use Raw Sienna mixed with Titanium White.
Paint the background: Start by painting the snow using oil painting.
Start up with Buffy’s face: Put special detail in the eyes, hair and nose. It will give you a better understanding of her features.
Paint Buffy’s body: Taking advantage of the texture and the many gold tones of her hair.

Gold Labrador Retriever Portrait Under-Paint

Colors:

Titanium White
Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Van Dyck Brown
Royal Blue
Prussian Blue
Ivory Black

Painting A Gold Labrador Retriever

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.
Plate to mix colors or a paper/plastic Palette. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.

You can learn and enjoy doing this painting in the painting classes: Click here >>

Gold Labrador Retriever Face

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

Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio and Gallery.
13 Garner Road, FranklintonNC27527
Take a drive to the beautiful country of North Carolina. Only half an hour from downtown Raleigh.
Contact Clina >>

How to Paint Red Geraniums on a Red House

On February 19, 2019 / Painting Classes, Windows and Doors Paintings Classes

Tags: Cary, Durham, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Red Geraniums, Wake Forest

“Red Geraniums on a Red House”

Red Geraniums on a Red House by Clina Polloni.

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.

#redgeraniums #redhousepaint #flowerspainting #littleartgallerync #wakeforestnc #thecottonco #oilpainting #clinapolloni #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #artistachilena #northcarolinaartist

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

Painting Class Taught by Clina Polloni.

Red Geraniums on a Red House

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.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

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.
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.

Red Geraniums on a Red House Under-Paint

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

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

Supply: This painting can be done in 2 medias, Oil Paintings or Acrylics.

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.

Red Geraniums on a Red House Window

Canvas: 11″x 14″

Colors:

Titanium White
Yellow Ochre
Carmine or Cadmium Red Medium
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber or Van Dyck Brown
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Thalo and permanent Green
Greenish Umber or Deep Green
Payne’s Gray
Ivory Black

Laurie Boyette-Tricia Wagner-Geraniums on a Red House-Painting Class acrylics oils.

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.
#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.

You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes: https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/

Marcia Vanliere-Red Geraniums on a Red House-Painting Classes.

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

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.

House in the Island of NC Painting

On February 12, 2019 / Painting Classes, Seascapes Painting Classes

Tags: Cary, Durham, Franklinton, Island House, Louisburg, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, social distance, Wake Forest

Painting Class taught by Clina Polloni.

“House in the Island of North Carolina”

House in the Island of NC

This painting was created for the painting classes, is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint and wants to learn about the ocean, reflections of a sailing boat and most important the little house in the cliff of the sand dunes.

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 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″

Colors:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Red Medium or Carmine
Alizarin Crimson
Sap Green
Greenish Umber or a deep Green
Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Dioxazine Purple
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber or Van Dyck Brown
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 #3.
For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Turpernoi. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. Glass container to mix media.
Black fine point Sharpie.
Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).
Paper towel.
Paper/plastic plate and glass.

$30.00 per person for 2 hours. You have the option of learning the painting of the week or selecting a painting from https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/.

#paintingclassesnc #seascape #houseintheisland #oceanpainting #littleartgallerync #wakeforestnc #clinapolloni #thecottonco #oilsclasses #acrylicsclasses #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #artistachilena #northcarolinaartist

For more information:
Call Clina: 919-841-3132.
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
Contact Clina >>

Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio and Gallery.
13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27527
Take a drive to the beautiful country of North Carolina. Only half an hour from downtown Raleigh.

The Gourd Artist Painting

On February 11, 2019 / People of North Carolina Portraits, Portraits

Tags: Cary, Durham, Franklinton, Gourd Artist, Gourds, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Oil painting on canvas 24″x30″ by Clina Polloni.

“The Gourd Artist”

The Gourd Artist

This oil painting is in honor to all the gourd artists of North Carolina that works their craft in silence.

Gourds by Deb Allen and Clina Polloni Allen.

Clina Polloni is a contemporary artist born in Chile. Her oil paintings are inspired by her love for people, animals and nature. Her new project: “The motif of the human figure in a dialogue with natures light and colors.” In these new paintings she is portraying the people of North Carolina in their environment and activities, representing history in the arts of our state.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

Start by drawing the artist and the gourds defining the light and the shade.
Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of acrylics using raw sienna with white and colors that are going to be helpful when painting with oils. 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 imprimaturais 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 with oils in the following order because it is going to be easier for you:

Using oils, start painting the objects that are in the back ground of the artist.
Using oils paint the artist, his wicker hat, hands and overalls.
Paint the gourds, flowers and hot peppers.
Sign your work of art.

: The Gourd Artist-Drawing

: The Gourd Artist, Gourds to Paint

: The Gourd Artist-Under-Paint

“We are North Carolina”

Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.

“The Gourd Artist”. This oil painting is in honor of all the gourd artists of North Carolina that works their craft in silence.

Oil painting on canvas 24″x30″ by Clina Polloni.

#ncoilpainting #gourdartist #artexhibition #wakemednc #wakeforestnc #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #chileanartist #northcarolinaartist #littleartgallerync

Visit People of NC Portraits >>

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

Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio and Gallery.
13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27527.
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.

Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC

On January 28, 2019 / People of North Carolina Portraits, Portraits

Tags: Cary, Colonial Dolls, Colonial Sisters, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Portrait Oil Painting, Raleigh

Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC. Portraying the people of North Carolina.

Colonial Sisters With Dolls NC

Oil painting on canvas 30″x40″ by Clina Polloni.

Beautiful faces of sisters, proud of their homemade dolls.

Every year in October “The River of Yesteryears” get together at the Riverbend Park in Louisburg NC, to celebrate the colonial times with representations of the life in those days. I was fascinated by these two sisters with their colonial dolls expressing their enthusiasm.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

Start by drawing the sisters, dolls and stone arch defining the light and the shade.
Colonial Sisters With Dolls Under-Paint

Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of acrylics using colors that are going to be helpful when painting with oils. 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 imprimaturais 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 with oils in the following order because it is going to be easier for you:

Using oils, start painting the stone arch and trees.
Using oils paint the skin, blending light and shade to the color of the skin. Paint the features of the face, hands and foot.
Paint hair, colonial huts and clothes.
Paint dolls.
Sign your work of art.

“We are North Carolina”

Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.

“Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC.” Beautiful faces of sisters, proud of their homemade dolls.

Oil painting on canvas 30″x40″ by Clina Polloni.

#ncoilpainting #colonialpeoplenc #childrenportrait #artexhibition #wakemednc #wakeforestnc #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #chileanartist #northcarolinaartist #littleartgallerync

: Carriage with Colonial Doll

: Colonial Dolls

: Colonial Sisters Faces

Visit People of NC Portraits
Call Clina: 919-841-3132.
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio and Gallery.
13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27527.
Take a drive to the beautiful country of North Carolina. Only half an hour from downtown Raleigh.
Contact Clina >>

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.

Still Life on Still Life on Burlap Canvas Class

On January 26, 2019 / Painting Classes, Still Life Painting Classes

Tags: Burlap Canvas Class, Cary, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Still Life, Wake Forest

Painting Class taught by Clina Polloni. “A Colonial Kitchen”

Still Life Painting on Burlap

I called this painting “A Colonial Kitchen” because it was done at the Riverbend Park in Louisburg NC, inspired by my dear friend of “The River of Yesteryears” festival.

Learn to draw and paint on a burlap canvas instruction:

Draw the still life with a soft charcoal pencil from number 555 to 557 or 4B in the burlap canvas.
Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a heavy coat of acrylics to smooth the burlap, using Yellow Ochre and Ivory Black. Put attention to lights and shadows. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. They create a worm color that once you put the oils in the top, they look brighter.
Continue painting with oils or acrylics with the final colors. Blend these colors gracefully to create lights and shadows.

Still Life on Burlap Canvas Drawing.

Supply:

Acrylics: 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 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, ACMoore, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.

Canvas: 11″x 14″, I got this canvas at Hobby Lobby.

Still Life on Burlap Canvas Under-Paint.

Colors:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Barium Orange
Cadmium Red Medium or Cadmium Red Deep
Alizarin Crimson
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Van Dyck Brown or a Dark Brown
Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Sap Green
Greenish Umber or a deep green
Sap Green
Dioxazine Purple
Ivory Black

Clina Polloni Painting Still Life on Burlap Canvas.

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 #3.
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.
Plate to mix colors or a paper/plastic Palette. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.

You can learn and enjoy doing this painting in the painting classes.
Call Clina: 919-841-3132.
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio and Gallery.
13 Garner Road, FranklintonNC27527
Take a drive to the beautiful country of North Carolina. Only half an hour from downtown Raleigh.
Contact Clina >>

Commissioned Oil Portraits from Old family Photos

On January 24, 2019 / People Oil Portraits, Portraits

Tags: Cary, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Portrait Oil Painting, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Commission Clina Polloni to paint a portrait from an old family photo.

“My father had a small and faded photo of our Great-Grandfather. From this photo and every thing my father told me, I painted his portrait, scanned it and printed on canvas. Now every member of our family has this painting for generations to come.”

My Great-Grandfather Portrait

Instructions and Progression:

Draw the person from the old photo.
Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of raw sienna and pale pink in acrylics because they dry faster. With raw sienna continue your defining the features of the face. The under paint is very important because you are drawing with colors and defining light and shade in your final painting. The imprimaturais 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, paint the background.
Using oils start painting the skin, blending light and shade to the color of the skin. Paint the features of the face, putting emphasis in the expression of the eyes.
Paint eyebrows, hair and clothes.
Sign your work of art.

Canvas: 11″x14″

Colors:

Titanium White
Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Venetian Red
Van Dyck Brown
Burnt Umber
Raw Umber
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Light
Alizarin Crimson
Cobalt Blue
Sap Green
Ivory Black

Ginger Grandmother

Brushes, multi-purpose, polyvalent, from the finest 0 to 6.
For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Refined Turpentine. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. Glass container to mix media.
Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).
Paper towel.
Plastic plate to mix colors or a Paper Palette.

For the next painting: “I was commissioned by my friend Ginger to paint an oil portrait of her grand mother from an old photo.”

For commissioned portraits click here >>
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio and Gallery:
13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27527.
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.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Painting

On January 22, 2019 / Lighthouses of North Carolina, Seascapes

Tags: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni

The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is an original oil painting by Clina Polloni.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse NC

“With its black and white stripes, the emerald and blue colors of the Atlantic Ocean was an inspiration and an addition to the collection of oil paintings that I am doing of North Carolina.”

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the tallest in the United States, stands 208 feet (63 m) from the bottom of the foundation to the peak of the roof. Protecting one of the most treacherous stretches of the Outer Banks, NC.

Oil on Canvas 24”x 36”.

This painting, cards and postcards are FOR SALE at The Little ART Gallery inside the Cotton Company in Wake Forest NC.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

Start by drawing the lighthouse in its original place.
Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of acrylic gold and silver. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. They create a worm color that once you put the oils in the top, they look brighter.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse NC Postcard

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

Using oils, start painting the clouds, sky, ocean, sand and stones.
Using oils paint the lighthouse.
Sign your work of art.

Visit the Seascapes page for more paintings >>
Call Clina: 919-841-3132.
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Archive for 2019

Lavender Flowers Painting

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint lavender flowers in a gold background.

Lavender Flowers August 16-20 Painting Class.

How to Paint Red Geraniums in a Stone House Window

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

“Red Geraniums in a Stone House Window” Painting.

Painting Class Announcement:

Gold Labrador Oil Pet Portrait of Buffy

Learn to Paint A Pet Portrait. Progression and Supply.

By Artist Clina Polloni.

How to Paint Red Geraniums on a Red House

“Red Geraniums on a Red House”

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

Painting Class Taught by Clina Polloni.

The Gourd Artist Painting

Oil painting on canvas 24″x30″ by Clina Polloni.

“The Gourd Artist”

“We are North Carolina”

Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.

Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC

Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC. Portraying the people of North Carolina.

Oil painting on canvas 30″x40″ by Clina Polloni.

Beautiful faces of sisters, proud of their homemade dolls.

“We are North Carolina”

Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.

Still Life on Still Life on Burlap Canvas Class

Painting Class taught by Clina Polloni. “A Colonial Kitchen”

Commissioned Oil Portraits from Old family Photos

Commission Clina Polloni to paint a portrait from an old family photo.

“My father had a small and faded photo of our Great-Grandfather. From this photo and every thing my father told me, I painted his portrait, scanned it and printed on canvas. Now every member of our family has this painting for generations to come.”

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Painting

The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is an original oil painting by Clina Polloni.

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