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Pink Magnolia Tree Painting

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

Pink Magnolia Tree Painting

Instructions:

  1. Start by painting the sky with Titanium White, Royal Blue or Sky Blue.
  2. Under the sky give a wash of Cadmium Yellow Light and Phthalo Green.
  3. Draw the trunk and limbs with van dyke brown using a small brush.
  4. Star punching colors with a White Bristle #3. Staring with the flowers: Titanium White, Deep Magenta and Alizarin Crimson.
  5. Punch vegetation around the tree: Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Phthalo Green and Greenish Umber or a Deep Green.
  6. 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:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Royal Blue or Sky Blue
  3. Cadmium Yellow Light
  4. Cadmium Yellow Medium
  5. Violet de Cobalt or Thio Violet or Deep Magenta
  6. Alizarin Crimson
  7. Phthalo Green
  8. Greenish Umber or a Deep Green
  9. 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.

Rose Color Peonies Painting

“Flores Para Mi Madre”.

By Clina Polloni.

Oil on canvas board 16”x 20”.

Rose Color Peonies

Rose Color Peonies

I did this painting with my mother. She loves pink peonies and she asked me to paint it together.

The Rose Color Peonies painting belongs to the collection of “Flowers of Love”, Inspired by my poem “An Instant of Time”, about love and flowers.

Instructions:

  1. Draw the Peonies.
  2. Under paint and background: In acrylics, paint gold with a little bit of Alizarin Crimson.
  3. Painting: With acrylics or oils paint beautiful colors to create a harmony of magenta and whites.
  4. 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 ACMoore. 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: 16″x 20″

Colors:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Cadmium Yellow Light
  3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
  4. Cadmium Red Light
  5. Violet de Cobalt or Thio Violet or Deep Magenta
  6. Ultramarine Blue
  7. Sap Green
  8. Greenish Umber (Grumbacher) or a Deep Green
  9. Alizarin Crimson
  10. Prussian Blue

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.

Clina Polloni is exhibiting the “Rose Color Peonies” painting at The Cotton Company.
306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.

August and September 2019. The Rose Color Peonies Painting is exhibit at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre. 405 Brooks St, Wake Forest, NC 27587.
Learn more: https://clinapolloni.com/flowers-of-love-poem-exhibition/

 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 27525.
Take a drive to the beautiful country of North Carolina. Only half an hour from downtown Raleigh.

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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.

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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