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.”
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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.
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.
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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.
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Shelley Lake Painting
Painting Class Taught by Clina Polloni.
Painting Class-Shelley Lake Raleigh NC
Learn to paint reflections in the water.
It was a beautiful autumn day and the students and I went to the lake with our picnic, canvases and brushes and painted plein air.
Plein Air is about leaving the studio behind and experience drawing and painting the landscape outside.
When the weather is bad, we teach Plein Air classes inside. You will learn how to prepare your canvas, how to draw and paint your under-paint and finish your painting. Techniques, textures and colors.
For classes information click here >>
The Shelley Lake is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, with wooded trails along a scenic lake. A perfect place to feel inspired to create plain air paintings and enjoy the outdoors.
Instructions:
- Start by drawing with a pencil, putting attention to the reflections of the trees in the water.
- Paint the sky, but at the same time paint the water, because the water is a reflection of the sky.
- Paint the trees in the background, and at the same time, copy the trees in the water in an opposite way. The water is like a mirror to the trees.
- Start painting the trunk and branches of the trees.
- Finish your painting by doing the leaves, dirt and bushes.
- Sign your work of art.
Menna Bahgat-Shelley Lake.
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.
Pencil and eraser
Brushes: 1 fine #0 brush, 1 #2 and 1 #8 flat brushes, and 1 #2 round bristle brush.
Colors for this painting:
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cadmium Orange
- Cadmium Red Light
- Yellow Ochre
- Burn Siena
- Burnt Umber
- Sap Green or Hookers Green
- Deep Green
- Royal Blue
- Cerulean Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- 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 Shelley Lake 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.
Learn how to paint a farm house in the vineyards land of Chile.
Painting Class Taught by Clina Polloni.
I was born and raised in Chile, and in my memories, I remember country roads, traveling with my family through the beautiful vineyards land in the foot hills of the Chilean mountains. This painting is based in sketches that my great grandfather, Antonio Polloni did when painting the landscape of Chile in the 1800’s.
Instructions:
- Start by drawing the country houses and landscape.
- Give a soft coat of gold acrylic. Acrylics are very good for under-painting, they creates a worm color that once you paint in the top, the colors looks brighter.
- Next star painting from the back, sky, mountains, trees, house and creek with reflections in the water.
- Sign your work of art.
Supply: This painting can be done in acrylics or oils.
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 Hobby Lobby, Michael’s, ACMoore, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.
Canvas: 11″x14″
Colors:
- Gold
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Alizarin Crimson
- Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
- 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
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 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.
This painting is inspired by a Chilean song:
“Si vas para Chile”
Te ruego que pases por donde vive mi amada
Es una casita muy linda y chiquita
Que esta en las faldas de un cerro enclavada
La adornan las palmas y cruza un estero
Al frente hay un sauce que llora, que llora
Porque yo la quiero
Si vas para Chile te ruego viajero
Le digas a ella que de amor me muero
El pueblito se llama Las Condes
Y esta junto a los cerros y al cielo
Y si miras de lo alto hacia el valle lo veras que lo baña un estero
Campesinos y gentes del pueblo te saldrán al encuentro viajero
Y veras como quieren en chile al amigo cuando es forastero
Esta pintura esta inspirada por esta canción Chilena.
Learn to paint an old country church.
Painting Class Taught by Clina Polloni.
This painting was inspired by my life in Rabones, a valley of dreams located in the mountains of the central region of Chile.
White Adobe Church in Chile
I lived for 10 years in our farm called “Las Puertas de Rabones”. I was close to God, to people, nature and to animals. Memories of golden sunny days, enjoying the company of beautiful people with spirits as clear as the crystal waters of “Rio Putagan” running through the fertile land. I learned about their culture, their traditions and the purity of their lives.
Visit “My Life in Rabones”
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 or Hobby Lobby, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.
Painting Class acrylics oils-White Adobe Church
Canvas: 11″x 14″
Under-paint Color: Acrylic washed of Titanium White, Cerulean Blue and Yellow Ochre.
Oils or acrylics for painting:
- Titanium White
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Yellow Ochre
- Raw Sienna
- Burnt Sienna
- Burnt Umber
- Cerulean Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Sap Green and dark green
- Dioxazine Purple
- 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.
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.
Pencil, ruler and rubber raiser.
White Adobe Church by Isabelle, Diane, Lisa Marie, Laurie-Painting Class
Isabelle, Diane, Lisa Marie and Laurie finished the “White Adobe Church” painting. Excellent job with the clouds, mountain and the texture of the adobe .
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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.
Contact Clina for information >>
Self Portrait by Labannya Samanta.
This painting is a self portrait of Clina Polloni student Labannya Samanta. The challenge is to get a perfect definition of light and shadow, creating the many colors tones to accomplish the folding of the close.
Labannua’s self portrait got selected and exhibited at the Bryan Center of Duke University. The exhibition will end at the end of April. Congratulations! We are so proud of Labannya, she started her painting classes with Clina Polloni when she was 12 years old.
Learn To Paint A Ballerina Dress
Instructions and Progression:
- You start by drawing and painting a good under-paint. It was done in acrylics because they dry faster and it gives you the opportunity to paint immediately. Draw with your acrylics the light and shade.
- Continue with oils, light areas first, then medium tone and finally shading colors. Blend these colors very softly to create a fine transition
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 commissioned portraits visit:
https://clinapolloni.com/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.
Serving Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Wake Forest, Franklinton and The Triangle Are of North Carolina.
Red Apple With Leaves
by Clina Polloni.
Pure red colors, apples are my favorite fruit to paint.
You can buy this painting at The Cotton Company or local business.
Or you can learn to draw and paint a red apple.
Red Apple Drawing
Drawing instructions:
- Divide your canvas in half with a vertical line. Red line in sample.
- Draw a vertical line to the right and to the left at equals distances from the center line. Draw another two lines for the bottom of the apple. Blue lines in sample.
- Draw an oval where you want the top of the apple. This oval must end at the vertical top lines. Pink oval in sample.
- Draw another oval for the bottom of the apple. This oval must end at the vertical inside lines. Pink oval in sample.
- Draw a line for the edge of the table.
- Following this basic structure, continue drawing your apple.
Painting Instructions:
- In this painting I did an under-paint of Yellow Ochre with a lot of water to be absolved by the canvas, using acrylics because they dry faster. The under paint is very important because you are continuing to draw with colors and defining light and shade in your final painting.
- Now you can paint the background, table and shading of apple in acrylics or oils.
- Enjoy painting the apple. Put special attention to the blending of colors.
Red Apple Painting Class
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, Hobby Lobby, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.
Canvas: 11″x14″
Colors:
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Cadmium Red Medium or Cadmium Red Deep
- Alizarin Crimson
- Sap Green
- Dioxazine Purple
- Burnt Sienna
- Van Dyck Brown
- Ivory Black
Red Apple With Leaves
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 #.
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/
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.
https://clinapolloni.com/
Oil Pet Portrait of Bibo.
Pet Portrait of Brown Chow Chow
Bibo is a Brown Chow Chow. I was commissioned by my friend Phylliss to paint Bibo. Laying under my feet, I would go “Bibo raise your head so I can see your beautiful eyes”. Her hair is brown but with beautiful copper colors.
Canvas: 11″x14″.
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 a washed of Yellow Ochre, but be sure to saturate the canvas. Also you can draw the eyes with black acrylic.
- Paint the background: In his portrait I painted the background in dark colors because I wanted to highlight her beautiful brown/copper hair to show well with contrast.
- Continue with Bibo’s face: Put special detail in the eyes, hair and nose. It will give you a better understanding of her features
- Paint Bibo’s body: Taking advantage of the texture and the many tones of her hair. The hair was painted with a #1 pro-white brush using it sideways, look at picture.
Colors:
- Titanium White
- Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
- Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow Medium
- Yellow Ochre
- Raw Sienna
- Burnt Sienna
- Van Dyck Brown
- Alizarin Crimson
- Greenish Umber
- Thalo Green
- Ivory Black
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 commissioned pet portraits visit:
https://www.clinapolloni.com/pet_portraits.html
For Pet Portraits business site visit:
https://portraits-paintings-raleigh-nc.business.site/
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.
