How to Paint Dimensional Perspective.
Taught by Clina Polloni.
You can learn and do this painting class at home in this difficult time of the Coronavirus. Follow the instructions:
Dimensional Perspective Drawing
This autumn painting is illustrated by the concept of convergence. Which are lines that moves into the distance and converge on a vanishing point. Our eyes perceive the world around us in three dimensions. To create this three-dimensional effect, we have to draw perspective that consist on a horizon line, where your eyes are looking to a vanishing point or two or three vanishing points. In this painting we only have one in the center of the horizon.
Picture #1: Start by drawing the horizon line, draw a vanishing point in the center (mark with a red dot). From this red dot, start drawing lines to the outside of the canvas, to the left and the right. 2 lines for the base of the trees. 2 lines for the road. 2 lines for the top of the trees. Continue by drawing the trees following the perspective lines.
Dimensional Perspective with Human Figure Drawing
Picture #2: Draw a human figure looking at the horizon and start painting the autumn trees, road and grass. Painting the background images first is a lot easier.
Picture #3: Paint the human figure and sign your painting.
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.
Dimensional Perspective Painting
Canvas: 11″x 14″.
Colors:
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Yellow Ochre
- Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
- Cadmium Barium Orange
- Cadmium Red Medium or Carmine
- Alizarin Crimson
- Sap Green or Hookers Green
- Cerulean Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Burnt Sienna
- Van Dyke Brown or a Deep Brown
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.
This painting was done by Labannya Samanta, a brilliant student.
To find more paintings to do at home visit: https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/
Or, you can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes when the Coronavirus is over.
Call Clina: 919-841-3132.
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
Oil on canvas by Clina Polloni. 24”x 36”.
The Sun Is Up at the Tar River…a working piece.
The Sun Is Up at the Tar River NC
Painting in my studio in this sad days of the Coronavirus.
Cheers, Clina
Drawing with Acrylics by Clina Polloni.
The Cherry Blossom Trees are in bloom! Let’s learn how to draw with acrylics.
This are difficult times for all of us, we have to stay home with the Coronavirus. Go outside, take your family and draw the beautiful flowers of Spring!
Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing
Instructions of this drawing:
- Go outside, in this painting is the back yard of my house. Select the flowers that you would like to paint. Do a pencil sketch.
- You can 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 always be perfect.
- 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.
- Apply a coat of washed Titanium White and Cerulean Blue over the area of the sky and a coat of washed Sap Green over the grass.
- Start drawing with Acrylics: Ivory Black: trunk of trees, house (including inside of windows) and details of landscape.
- With Titanium White and Yellow Ochre paint over house. Magenta for the flowers of the cherry blossom trees and Sap Green over the dogwood tree.
Cherry Blossom Trees-Square Grid Drawing Technic
Canvas: 16″x 16″ or any size you like.
Acrylic colors for drawing:
- Titanium White
- Cerulean Blue
- Yellow Ochre
- Sap Green
- Magenta
- 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.
Pencil, ruler and rubber.
Ultra fine black Sharpie pen.
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.
The next class will be about finishing your painting with acrylics or oil. Cheer up in this difficult times 🙂
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
The Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing and instructions are © of Clina Polloni.
By Clina Polloni.
The Purple Tulip Painting is amazing, with those deep purple colors! Let’s paint it together!
Spring is here and with the Coronavirus we have to stay home. What a better time to paint! Just follow the instructions:
Purple Tulip Painting
Instructions:
- Start by drawing the flowers and tulip.
- Paint the background with Alizarin Crimson next to the flower and finishing with a combination of Dioxazine Purple and Alizarin Crimson at the border.
Outline yellow flowers with Alizarin Crimson, paint inside with Cadmium Yellow Medium. - Outline leave with Greenish Umber or a Deep Green. Paint inside with Phthalo Green and highlight with Cadmium Yellow Light.
- Outline tulip with Dioxazine Purple. Paint inside with Dioxazine Purple highlighting and blending with Titanium White.
- Sign your painting and enjoy it.
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: 8″x 8″
Colors:
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Dioxazine Purple
- Alizarin Crimson
- Phthalo Green
- Greenish Umber or a Deep Green
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.
The “Pink Magnolia Tree” painting is for SALE at The Cotton Company. Come to visit us.
306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.
This painting belongs to the collection of “Flowers of Love”, Inspired by my poem “An Instant of Time”, about love and flowers
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
The Purple Tulip 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.
By Clina Polloni.
The Pink Magnolia Tree is in bloom! Let’s paint it together!
Spring is here and with the Coronavirus we have to stay home. What a better time to paint! Just follow the instructions:
Pink Magnolia Tree Painting
Instructions:
- Start by painting the sky with Titanium White, Royal Blue or Sky Blue.
- Under the sky give a wash of Cadmium Yellow Light and Phthalo Green.
- Draw the trunk and limbs with van dyke brown using a small brush.
- Star punching colors with a White Bristle #3. Staring with the flowers: Titanium White, Deep Magenta and Alizarin Crimson.
- Punch vegetation around the tree: Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Phthalo Green and Greenish Umber or a Deep Green.
- Sign your painting and enjoy it.
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: 8″x 8″
Colors:
- Titanium White
- Royal Blue or Sky Blue
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Violet de Cobalt or Thio Violet or Deep Magenta
- Alizarin Crimson
- Phthalo Green
- Greenish Umber or a Deep Green
- Van Dyke Brown
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 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.
The “Pink Magnolia Tree” painting is for SALE at The Cotton Company. Come to visit us.
306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.
This painting belongs to the collection of “Flowers of Love”, Inspired by my poem “An Instant of Time”, about love and flowers: https://clinapolloni.com/paintings/flowers/
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
The Pink Magnolia Tree 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.
A Valentine Red Rose Painting.
Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.
Valentine Red Rose Painting
Is February, The month for love! What a better time to learn to paint a Valentine Red Rose.
Instructions:
- Start by drawing the rose with a pencil.
- Paint the under-paint with Gold Acrylic. Paint a second coat of Gold Acrylic around the rose. The best media to do your under-paint is acrylics because they dry faster. The under paint is very important because you are defining your drawing with colors and defining light and shade in your final painting.
- Paint the gold background first. Rose next and leaves last.
- Enjoy finishing your painting. You can use acrylics or oils.
- Sign your work of art.
Supply:
This painting can be done in 2 medias, Oil Paintings or Acrylics.
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: 8″ x 8″
Colors:
- Gold
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Red Light
- Cadmium Red Medium or Carmine
- Alizarin Crimson
- Sap Green
- Greenish Umber (Grumbacher) or a Deep Green
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.
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.
Plate to mix colors or a Paper Palette. 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
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, Louisburg, 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.
Oil painting 24″x 36″ by Clina Polloni.
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:
- Start by drawing the girl and rocks setting defining the light and the shade. Look at image.
- 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.
- Apply a coat of heavy gesso in the walls to create texture.
Girl Making Butter Drawing
Start painting with oils in the following order because it is going to be easier for you:
- Using oils, start painting the background, stones, window, chair, floor, vegetables, etc.
- Using oils paint the skin, blending light and shade to the color of the skin. Paint the features of the face and hands.
- Paint hair, hat and clothe.
- Sign your work of art.
Girl Making Butter Painting is © of Clina Polloni.
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.
The Girl Making Butter painting is FOR SALE at The Cotton Company >>
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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A Painting Inspired by a Poem.
Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.
Memories of a White House Landscape
This landscape was created for the painting classes. I wrote a poem about this old couple living in the middle of the city, surrounded by buildings. My office was in one of these buildings where I could see from my window the old couple. Spring of 1999. Raleigh NC.
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: 9″x 12″
Nancy Wollner-Memories of a White House.
Colors:
- Titanium White
- Ivory Black
- Payne Gray
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cadmium Red Medium
- Alizarin Crimson
- Deep Magenta
- Sap Green
- Deep Green or Greenish Umber
- Cerulean Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
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.
Painting Class-Memories of a White House
For information about painting classes click here >>
Poem:
“Memories of a White House”
White was the house
green were the trees
memories of a long life left behind
the noise of activity, every day rush was gone…
long ago.
The only thing left was the old couple
in the silence of age,
embraced on a clear spring morning
by the friendly music of their birds
and the bright colors of fresh flowers.
© Poem by Clina Polloni
You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes, click here >>
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
Contact Clina >>
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, Louisburg, 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.
Pigeon Point Lighthouse Painting.
Pigeon Point Lighthouse Painting
Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.
This seascape of a lighthouse was created for the painting classes, is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint.
Supply for this painting:
Canvas: 11″x 14”
Black fine point Sharpie.
Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).
Paper towel.
For Acrylics: Plastic/paper plate and glass.
For Oils: Refined Linseed Oil with Turpernoi. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. Glass container to mix media.
Pigeon Point Lighthouse Under-paint
Colors for this painting:
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Yellow Ochre
- Cadmium Red Medium or Carmine
- Alizarin Crimson
- Sap Green
- Deep Green or Greenish Umber
- Cerulean Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Dioxazine Purple
- Burnt Sienna
- Burnt Umber or Deep Brown
- Ivory Black
This painting can be done in 2 medias, acrylics or oils.
Click link for options of where to buy supply:
https://clinapolloni.com/where-to-buy-supply/
NOTE: Each student needs to bring their own supplies. Please contact me a few days before via email at clinapolloni@gmail.com. I need to get ready!
For information and more selection of paintings visit: https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/
Call Clina: 919-841-3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
The Pigeon Point Lighthouse Painting is © Clina Polloni.
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- Nancy Wollner-Pigeon Point Lighthouse.
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- Harper Clarkson-Pigeon Point Lighthouse..
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- Harper Clarkson-2024 AWARDS.
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- Tricia Wagner-Lighthouse-Laurie Boyette-Farm House.
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
#paintingclassesnc #seascape #lighthousepainting #littleartgallery #wakeforestnc #thecottonco #oilsclasses #acrylicsclasses #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #artistachilena #northcarolinaartist #franklintonnc
A Portrait of People of NC
“Cooking on an Open Fire NC”
Cooking On An Open Fire NC Painting
Oil painting 30″x 40″ by Clina Polloni.
Click the images to view a large painting.
I am doing a collection of paintings of ”Colonial People of North Carolina”. Inspired by the historical sites that we had visited with my husband Thom. I have a great admiration of the pioneers that came to this land, with dreams and hopes of a new home in North Carolina. Life was so difficult, they had to clear the forest to plant their food. Built their homes and provide their families with a productive and healthy life.
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.
This painting is exhibit at the 2019 North State Fair.
Cooking On An Open Fire-Drawing
Instructions of how to do this painting:
- Start by drawing the ladies and landscape defining the light and the shade. Look at image.
- 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.
Start painting with oils in the following order because it is going to be easier for you:
- Using oils, start painting the background, stones and wall.
- 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 and clothes.
- Paint open fire, cooking dishes and food.
- Sign your work of art.
Cooking On An Open Fire-Underpaint
“We are North Carolina”
Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.
“Cooking on An Open Fire In NC.” Inspired by the pioneers that came to this land, with dreams and hopes of a new home.
Oil painting on canvas 30″x40″ by Clina Polloni.
#ncoilpainting #colonialpeoplenc #cookingonopenfire #artexhibition #wakemednc #wakeforestnc #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #chileanartist #northcarolinaartist #littleartgallerync
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 Area of North Carolina.
Member of The Franklin County Art Council and Wake Forest Guild of Artists, of North Carolina.
