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NC Postcard Blue Ridge Parkway

Blue Ridge Parkway Overlook Postcard.

From Clina Polloni Oil Painting.

Blue Ridge Parkway NC Postcard

Blue Ridge Parkway NC Postcard

A sunset of orange reflections of the beautiful Oconaluftee River that flows through The Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.

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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Seascape Clouds on an Ocean Sunset

Card-5.5x5.5-Walking on a Beach Sunset

Card-5.5×5.5-Walking on a Beach Sunset

Walking on a Beach Sunset card.

North Carolina has beautiful beaches, and walking in a sunset with bright colors is an inspiration. This island is part of North Carolina’s Crystal Coast. Located in the southernmost part of the Outer Banks.

This card is FOR SALE $2.50 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.

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Oil paintings by Clina Polloni 11”x 14”:

Clouds on an Ocean Sunset Seascape.

Clouds on an Ocean Sunset Seascape

Clouds on an Ocean Sunset Seascape

North Carolina has beautiful beaches, and walking in a sunset with bright colors is an inspiration.

This painting class consist of 3 parts:

  1. Learning to draw with a square grid Technic.
  2. Under-painting with acrylics.
  3. Finishing the painting with oils or acrylics.

Square Grid Drawing Technic:

Start by drawing in the canvas with a pencil using the Square Grid Drawing Technic. Start by dividing your sketch or photo in proportional squares, then you divide your canvas in with the same Technic in proportional squares. It doesn’t matter how big is your canvas or if it is a mural, the proportions will be perfect.

When using the Square Grid Drawing Technic you defined:

  1. Composition
  2. Proportions
  3. Light and shade
Clouds on an Ocean Sunset Drawing with a Square Grid

Clouds on an Ocean Sunset Drawing with a Square Grid

Under-painting with acrylics:

Use your acrylics with lots of water because they flow better, impregnating your canvas, don’t leave spots without paint. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. They create a worm color that once you finish your final painting with oils or acrylics in the top, they look brighter.

Finishing the painting with oils or acrylics:
Start with the clouds, continue with the ocean, the beach and finally the people.

Canvas: 11″x 14 or any size.

Acrylic Colors:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Cadmium Yellow Medium
  3. Cadmium Orange
  4. Cerulean Blue
  5. Silver or Gray or Ivory Black

Oil Colors:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Cadmium Yellow Light
  3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
  4. Cadmium Orange
  5. Yellow Ochre
  6. Cerulean Blue
  7. Cobalt Blue
  8. Thalo Blue
  9. Paynes Gray
  10. Cassel Earth

Pencil, ruler and rubber

Ultra-fine black Sharpie pen.

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.

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.

Walking on a Beach Sunset Painting

Walking on a Beach Sunset Seascape

Walking on a Beach Sunset Seascape.
Miniature oil painting by Clina Polloni 8”x 8”.
I also created a simplify small painting.

These 2 paintings are in private collections.

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.

NC Postcard Pink Camellia

The Three Stages of the Evolution of a Pink Camellia Postcard.

Pink Camellia of NC Postcard

Pink Camellia of NC Postcard

From Clina Polloni Oil Painting.

Inspired by the beautiful camellias of North Carolina. Pink camellias symbolize a longing for someone and is given to someone who is missed.

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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Send a spring postcard of a beautiful camellias of North Carolina. Pink camellias symbolize a longing for someone and is given to someone who is missed.

This postcard is a reproduction of an oil painting by Clina Polloni.

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NC Postcard Girl Making Butter

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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NC Postcard Ocracoke Island Lighthouse

Ocracoke Island Lighthouse NC Postcard.

From Clina Polloni Oil Painting.

Ocracoke Island Lighthouse NC Postcard

Ocracoke Island Lighthouse NC Postcard

North Carolina’s oldest lighthouse in operation. Built in 1823. At just 65′ ft. tall, it is the smallest lighthouse on the Outer Banks. Ocracoke Island is an enchanting place with its natural beauty, the long-ago tales of pirates and ships, an inspiration for us artists.

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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NC Postcard Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse NC Postcard.

From Clina Polloni Oil Painting.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse NC Postcard

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse NC Postcard

With its black and white stripes, is one of the most famous and recognizable lighthouses in the world.

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

Protecting one of the most treacherous stretches of the Outer Banks, NC. The world’s tallest brick lighthouse at 208′ ft. tall.

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Violet Tulip Drawing

The tulips are in bloom! Let’s learn how to draw with acrylics.

Drawing with Acrylics by Clina Polloni.

Violet Tulip Drawing

Violet Tulip Drawing

Instructions of this drawing:

  1. Draw with pencil first to create a general composition of your painting.
  2. In this drawing I used acrylics Magenta and Sap Green with lots of water for the light areas and less water for the darker areas, be sure to impregnate your canvas, don’t leave spots without paint. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. They create a worm color that once you finish your final painting with oils or acrylics in the top, they look brighter.
  3. In this painting I did a border to make a more interesting composition.

Canvas: 20″x 24″

Acrylic Colors:

  1. Sap Green
  2. Magenta

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.
Pencil
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.

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

The Violet Tulip Drawing and instructions are © of 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.

 

Cherry Blossom Trees Painting

Cherry Blossom Trees Painting.

Cherry Blossom Trees Painting

Cherry Blossom Trees Painting

Class taught by Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint spring flowers. Harmony of pinks and deep magentas blossoms playing on soft clouds .

You can learn this painting in the studio class or is a guide for plain air.

Plain Air:

The first class was about going to your yard and draw the trees with acrylics (click here for instructions). This class is about finishing your painting with oils or acrylics.

Plain Air instructions for this painting:

Follow the sequence, is important.

  1. With your acrylic drawing, go outside and start painting with acrylics or oils.
  2. Start painting the clouds in the background.
  3. Paint the grass.
  4. Paint the house.
  5. Over the grass and other elements paint the trunk of the trees and bushes.
  6. Finally over these elements paint the flowers and leaves with a #4 white bristle brush.
Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing-Step 1

Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing-Step 1

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 a 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″ for tracing in the studio class.

16″x 16″ for drawing.

Painting Classes-Acrylics Oils-Cherry Blossom Trees.

Painting Classes-Acrylics Oils-Cherry Blossom Trees.

Colors:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Cerulean Blue
  3. Paynes Gray
  4. Cadmium Yellow Light
  5. Yellow Ochre
  6. Carmine or Cadmium Red
  7. Phthalo Green or Permanent Green
  8. Greenish Umber or a Deep Green
  9. Magenta
  10. Violet de Cobalt or Thio Violet or Deep Magenta
  11. Burnt Sienna
  12. Burnt Umber or Raw Umber
  13. 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.
#2 white bristle brush.

Sienna Hughes-Cherry Blossom Trees-Painting Classes Acrylics Oils.

Sienna Hughes-Cherry Blossom Trees-Painting Classes Acrylics Oils

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.

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

The Cherry Blossom Trees painting and instructions are © Clina Polloni.

For painting classes click here>>

Students showing their paintings >>

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.

White House in the Ocean Seascape

Tiny White House in the Ocean

White House in the Ocean Seascape.

White House in the Ocean Seascape.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint a tiny house on the beach with white picket fence. Is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint.

This seascape painting was created for the painting classes, you can do it at home or come to the painting classes when the Coronavirus is over.

Acrylic under-paint: Cerulean Blue and Titanium White with water for the sky and ocean. For the beach Yellow Ochre and Titanium White. Be sure to impregnate all the surface of the canvas.

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:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Cadmium Yellow Light
  3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
  4. Yellow Ochre
  5. Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
  6. Sap Green
  7. Cerulean Blue
  8. Ultramarine Blue
  9. Dioxazine Purple
  10. Burnt Sienna
  11. Burnt Umber or a Van Dyck Brown

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. 1 White Bristle #3.

For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Refined Turpentine. 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 acrylics oils-White House in the Ocean

Painting Class acrylics oils-White House in the Ocean

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

#paintingclasses #littleartgallerync #houseintheocean #seascape #thecottonco #oilsclasses #acrylicsclasses #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #artistachilena #northcarolinaartist #wakeforestnc

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

The White House in the Ocean Painting and instructions are © 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. 

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.

Palm Tree at The Beach Painting

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint a palm tree at the beach with clear waters of the ocean, is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint.

Seascape-Palm Tree at the Beach

Seascape-Palm Tree at the Beach

This seascape painting was created for the painting classes, you can do it at home or come to the painting classes when the Coronavirus is over.

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 a 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″

Seascape-Palm Tree-how to paint

Seascape-Palm Tree-how to paint

Under-paint Color: Acrylic washed of Cerulean Blue, Yellow Ochre and Titanium White.

Colors:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Cadmium Yellow Light
  3. Yellow Ochre
  4. Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
  5. Sap Green
  6. Emerald Green
  7. Cerulean Blue
  8. Ultramarine Blue
  9. Burnt Sienna
  10. Burnt Umber or Van Dick Brown
  11. 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.

Sienna Hughes-Palm Tree-Painting Classes Acrylics Oils.

Sienna Hughes-Palm Tree-Painting Classes Acrylics Oils.

Black fine point Sharpie.

For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Refined Turpentine. 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.

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

#paintingclasses #seascape #palmtree #beach #littleartgallerync #wakeforestnc #thecottonco #oilsclasses #acrylicsclasses #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #artistachilena #northcarolinaartist #socialdistancing

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

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

Palm Tree Painting Classes.

Palm Tree Painting Classes.

The Palm Tree at The Beach 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.

 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.

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Tel: 919.841.3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

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

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

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Member of the Franklin County Art Council and the Wake Forest Guild of Artists. North Carolina.

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

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