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Portrait of Isabella

On September 28, 2024   /   Paintings by Clina Polloni, Portraits  
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Portrait of Isabella de Polloni y Lepiani.

Isabella de Polloni y Lepiani.

Isabella de Polloni y Lepiani.

My family is a family of artists. From generations to generations, we had supported and embraced the ARTS.

The original Polloni family were merchants and artists that moved from Florence, Italy to Cádiz, Spain. In this city Francisco de Polloni y Lepiani was born in 1733. he moved to Chile in 1752, starting the genealogy of the Polloni family in Chile.

As a present to him, I had created a sister in a painting, her name is Isabella de Polloni y Lepiani, portraying her time in history, her loving expression of the eyes and smile.

Francisco de Polloni y Lepiani history:
http://www.clinapolloni.com/geneologia/francisco_de_polloni_y_lepiani_.html 

Polloni Family Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Familia-Polloni-100070478582654/

Instructions:

  1. In this painting I started by drawing Isabella with pastels over the canvas. Defining the light and the shade.
  2. Using oils I started painting the skin, blending light and shade to the color of the skin. Repeat the process as many times as it is necessary to create a soft skin. Follow by lips, eyes and hair.
  3. Painted the background in deep colors to accent the face.
  4. Finally, her close with light, shade and cold tones, Cerulean Blue, Phthalo Green and Phthalo Blue.
  5. Sign your work of art.
Portrait of Isabella de Polloni y Lepiani-Drawing.

Portrait of Isabella de Polloni y Lepiani-Drawing.

Canvas: 12″x16″

Colors:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
  3. Yellow Ochre
  4. Raw Sienna
  5. Venetian Red
  6. Cadmium Red Light
  7. Alizarin Crimson
  8. Burnt Umber
  9. Raw Umber or Van Dyke Brown
  10. Cerulean Blue
  11. Phthalo Blue
  12. Phthalo Green
  13. Ivory Black

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You can commission a portrait:
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Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Portrait of Isabella de Polloni y Lepiani-Underpaint.

Portrait of Isabella de Polloni y Lepiani-Underpaint.

The Portrait of Isabella de Polloni y Lepiani Painting is © Clina Polloni.

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.

Member of The Makery and The Wake Forest Guild of Artists. Exhibiting at The Cotton Company, The Makery and local businesses of Wake Forest NC.

Serving Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Wake Forest, Franklinton and The Triangle Are of North Carolina.

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Cat Oil Portraits

On February 21, 2024   /   Paintings by Clina Polloni, Pet Portraits  
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Cat Oil Portraits

The essence of painting a cat portrait is the expression of the eyes. 

Eyes that express love for their family, always content and always ready to play. When I start painting a cat, I talk to their owners, I like to know all about their personalities, their life among the family and what makes them happy.

Let me paint a portrait of your cat in lively and colorful oil paintings. All I require from you is a good photograph to work from. Call me at 919-841-3132 or send me an email at clinapolloni@gmail.com

Cat Portrait-Pavement by Clina Polloni

Cat Portrait-Pavement by Clina Polloni

Pavement Portrait

Commissioned oil painting 11”x 14” by Clina Polloni

When Ashley commissioned me to paint Pavement, she told me. “I found her in the middle of the road in Louisburg, she was no bigger than a pine cone, covered in fleas and malnourished, I took her home bathed her and cleaned her up. Then bottle feed her until she was able to eat on her own. One November she was hit by a car, just her leg was hurt. The vet wanted to amputate her leg, but I wouldn’t let them. She got around just fine with that leg. She was my baby!!! She brought so much joy into my life and I’d like to have a painting done to remember her by.” Ashley Griffin.

Mr. Parker Portrait

Commissioned oil painting 11”x 14” by Clina Polloni.

When I was commissioned to paint Mr. Parker’s Pet Portrait, I was fascinated by the beauty of the gold tones of his tabby cat hair and the expression of his eyes. Painting his eyes and the many colors of his hair was a wonderful experience.

Chester and Loving Cats Portraits.

Commissioned oil paintings 16”x 20” by Clina Polloni.

A symphony of black and white colors playing together in harmony.

Call Clina: 919-841-3132

Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

All Cat Portrait Painting are © Clina Polloni.

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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.

 

 

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Children Oil Portraits

On February 9, 2024   /   Children Oil Portraits, Portraits  
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Commissioned Oil Children Portraits

By Artist Clina Polloni

“There is nothing more beautiful than to see the children playing and laughing. I am creating a collection of children portraits in their innocent world.”

Portrait of Agustina

Portrait of Agustina

When painting a child, the most important thing is the expression of the eyes and to achieve the delicate soft skin of a child. The best technique is blending and blending.

Portrait of Agustina

“Agustina is intrigue asking about the white swan and the swan is looking at her.”

This painting is about portraying the innocence of a four-year-old little girl curious about a white swan.

To learn more about Agustina portrait and details of how to paint it visit: https://clinapolloni.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/commissioned-portrait-of-agustina-supply-and-instructions/

A Child Last Goodbye

A Child Last Goodbye

A Child Last Goodbye

Portrait of a North Carolina’s child. This oil painting is of my dear friend Phyllis’ grandson, the day of the funeral of his grandfather. An honored veteran of the United States.

“I have been painting portraits for more than twenty-five years and remain committed to creating for you the finest portraits in oil that I can. These heirloom portraits will remain in your family for generations to come.”

Commissioned oil portraits on canvas in Raleigh, North Carolina. Specializing in children, family, parents, grandparents, weddings, adults and official subjects. Wake Forest, Raleigh, Cary, RTP and Franklinton NC.

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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 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 Wake Forest Guild of Artists. Exhibiting at local business of North Carolina.

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Children Goodbyes to the Sailors Painting

On November 7, 2023   /   Children Oil Portraits, Paintings by Clina Polloni, People of North Carolina Portraits, Seascapes  
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Children Goodbyes to the Sailors

Children Goodbyes to the Sailors-painting by Clina Polloni.

Children Goodbyes to the Sailors-painting by Clina Polloni.

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

Children playing, wishing farewell to the sailors. Their fathers, brothers, or friends are going to the blue and teal waters of the sea. A happy goodbye and a hope that they will come back safe.

From the collection of the Colonial People of North Carolina.

This painting is FOR SALE at local businesses of Wake Forest NC. @clinapolloni

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Children Goodbyes to the Sailors Painting is © of Clina Polloni.

You can view more paintings of the “Colonial Life in North Carolina”:
https://clinapolloni.com/portraits/people-of-nc-portraits/

Commissioned paintings accepted.

Call Clina: 919-841-3132

Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/clina.polloni

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 Wake Forest Guild of Artists. Exhibiting at local business of North Carolina.

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The Lost Colony Painting

On October 18, 2023   /   Paintings by Clina Polloni, People of North Carolina Portraits  
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The Lost Colony

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

The Lost Colony by Clina Polloni.

The Lost Colony by Clina Polloni.

Inspired by Eleanor Dare waiting for her father John White. Her story of hopes 1587.

This painting is FOR SALE, exhibited at local businesses in Wake Forest NC.

From the collection of “Colonial Life in North Carolina”.

Eleanor Dare of England, was a member of the Roanoke Colony and the daughter of John White, the colony’s governor. While little is known about her life, more is known about her than most of the sixteen other women who left England in 1587 as part of the Roanoke expedition. She married Ananias Dare. It is known that she gave birth to their daughter Virginia Dare on Roanoke Island, in what is now the state of North Carolina. The girl was the first child of English parents to be born in North America, on 18 August 1587, shortly after their arrival. Eleanor Dare, along with everyone else remaining in the “Lost Colony”, disappeared during the two years before her father was able to returned to the colony with supplies from England.

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The Lost Colony Painting is © of Clina Polloni.

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You can view more paintings of the “Colonial Life in North Carolina”:
https://clinapolloni.com/portraits/people-of-nc-portraits/

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

https://www.facebook.com/clina.polloni

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 Wake Forest Guild of Artists Exhibiting at local business of North Carolina.

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Sisters Love Painting

On April 11, 2023   /   Children Oil Portraits, Paintings by Clina Polloni, People of North Carolina Portraits  
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Sisters Love

Sisters Love-Oil Painting by Clina Polloni.

Sisters Love-Oil Painting by Clina Polloni.

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

Painting of two sisters sharing their love with red poppies. From the collection of the Colonial People of North Carolina.

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

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Sisters Love Painting is © of Clina Polloni.

Painting Instructions:

  1. Start by drawing the sisters and landscape.
  2. Give a soft coat of Yellow Ochre and Titanium White acrylics to the canvas. These colors are very good for under-painting, it creates a worm color that once you put the oils or acrylics in the top, they look brighter.
  3. Next paint landscape, starting with the sky, grass, house, trees and finally red poppies. You can do it with oil paintings or acrylics.
  4. Sign your work of art.

Supply:

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: 16″x20″

Colors:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
  3. Cadmium Red Medium
  4. Cadmium Red Light
  5. Alizarin Crimson
  6. Cadmium Yellow Light
  7. Yellow Ochre
  8. Raw Sienna
  9. Burnt Sienna
  10. Raw Umber or Van Dyck Brown
  11. Cerulean Blue
  12. Ultramarine Blue
  13. Sap Green
  14. Dioxazine Purple
  15. Ivory Black

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 #3 white bristle brush or #2 for small version.

Brown and black Ultra Fine Permanent Pen.

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 >>

Call Clina: 919-841-3132

Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/clina.polloni

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, Wilson Art Council and Wake Forest Guild of Artists, of North Carolina.

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Araucana Hen Painting.

On July 20, 2021   /   Paintings by Clina Polloni, Pet Portraits  
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Araucana Hen Pet Portrait

Araucana Hen Pet Portrait

Araucana Hen Pet Portrait.

Oil on canvas by Clina Polloni.

This is my pet chicken; she runs happy in the yard with her feathers flying in the wind. The Araucana is a breed of domestic chicken from Chile. Its name derives from the Araucanía region of Chile where it is believed to have originated. It lays blue-shelled eggs, one of very few breeds that do so.

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Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

The Araucana Hen Painting is © Clina Polloni.

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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Man Sitting in a Café Painting

On March 23, 2021   /   People of North Carolina Portraits, People Oil Portraits  
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Man Sitting in a Cafe wth Computer painting

Man Sitting in a Cafe wth Computer painting

Man Sitting in a Café Working with Computer.

Oil painting by Clina Polloni.

Commissioned painting for the lobby of a commercial construction company located in Raleigh NC. The theme was a café where clients and employees could meet and relax in a friendly environment.

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NC Postcard Girl Making Butter

On May 23, 2020   /   People of North Carolina Portraits, Postcards of NC  
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Girl Making Butter NC Postcard.

From Clina Polloni Oil Painting.

Girl Making Butter NC Postcard

Girl Making Butter NC Postcard

This painting is about a girl concentrating in making butter. Children have always been my inspiration, portraying the innocence of their young life.

Also, my admiration for the beauty and history of North Carolina. Traveling through the mountains I admired the rocks formations and colors, from browns to yellows, greens, aquamarines and blues.

This postcard is FOR SALE $1.50 at The Cotton Company.
306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587. 919-570-0087.

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Girl Making Butter Painting

On December 18, 2019   /   People of North Carolina Portraits  
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Oil painting 24″x 36″ by Clina Polloni.

Girl Making Butter Painting.

Girl Making Butter Painting

Girl Making Butter Painting

This painting is about a girl concentrating in making butter. Children have always been my inspiration, portraying the innocence of their young life.

Also, my admiration for the beauty and history of North Carolina. Traveling through the mountains I admired the rocks formations and colors, from browns to yellows, greens, aquamarines and blues.

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 the colonial times and history of our state.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

  1. Start by drawing the girl and rocks setting defining the light and the shade. Look at image.
  2. 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.
  3. Apply a coat of heavy gesso in the walls to create texture.
Girl Making Butter Drawing

Girl Making Butter Drawing

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

  1. Using oils, start painting the background, stones, window, chair, floor, vegetables, etc.
  2. Using oils paint the skin, blending light and shade to the color of the skin. Paint the features of the face and hands.
  3. Paint hair, hat and clothe.
  4. Sign your work of art.

Girl Making Butter Painting is © of Clina Polloni.

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 Girl Making Butter painting is FOR SALE at The Cotton Company >>

Girl Making Butter Underpaint

Girl Making Butter Under-paint

Serving Raleigh, Cary, Durham, 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.

“We are North Carolina”

Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.

“Girl Making Butter NC”. This painting is about a girl concentrating in making butter. Children have always been my inspiration, portraying the innocence of their young life.

Oil painting on canvas 24″x 36″ by Clina Polloni.

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Painting classes and original oil paintings by Clina Polloni. Visit The Little ART Gallery located inside The Cotton Company in Wake Forest NC.

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WARNING, all paintings and photos are copyright © by Clina Polloni.

Clina Polloni is a member of The Makery and the Wake Forest Guild of Artists. Her oil paintings are at The Cotton Company and local businesses of Wake Forest NC.

Clina Polloni received the 2017 Franklin County Art Council ARTIST AWARD.

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