Still Life on Still Life on Burlap Canvas Class

On January 26, 2019 / Painting Classes, Still Life Painting Classes

Tags: Burlap Canvas Class, Cary, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Still Life, Wake Forest

Painting Class taught by Clina Polloni. “A Colonial Kitchen”

Still Life Painting on Burlap

I called this painting “A Colonial Kitchen” because it was done at the Riverbend Park in Louisburg NC, inspired by my dear friend of “The River of Yesteryears” festival.

Learn to draw and paint on a burlap canvas instruction:

Draw the still life with a soft charcoal pencil from number 555 to 557 or 4B in the burlap canvas.
Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a heavy coat of acrylics to smooth the burlap, using Yellow Ochre and Ivory Black. Put attention to lights and shadows. 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.
Continue painting with oils or acrylics with the final colors. Blend these colors gracefully to create lights and shadows.

Still Life on Burlap Canvas Drawing.

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, ACMoore, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.

Canvas: 11″x 14″, I got this canvas at Hobby Lobby.

Still Life on Burlap Canvas Under-Paint.

Colors:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Barium Orange
Cadmium Red Medium or Cadmium Red Deep
Alizarin Crimson
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
Ivory Black

Clina Polloni Painting Still Life on Burlap Canvas.

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 doing 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, FranklintonNC27527
Take a drive to the beautiful country of North Carolina. Only half an hour from downtown Raleigh.
Contact Clina >>

Commissioned Oil Portraits from Old family Photos

On January 24, 2019 / People Oil Portraits, Portraits

Tags: Cary, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Portrait Oil Painting, Raleigh, Wake Forest

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.”

For commissioned portraits click here >>
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.

Shelley Lake Painting

On January 21, 2019 / Landscapes Painting Classes, Painting Classes

Tags: Cary, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Shelley Lake Painting, Wake Forest

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

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.

1800s Vineyards House

On January 18, 2019 / Hispanic Culture, Landscapes, Painting Classes, Paintings by Clina Polloni

Tags: Cary, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Vineyards House, Wake Forest

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

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.

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Still Life on Still Life on Burlap Canvas Class

Painting Class taught by Clina Polloni. “A Colonial Kitchen”

Commissioned Oil Portraits from Old family Photos

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.”

Shelley Lake Painting

Shelley Lake Painting

Painting Class Taught by Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint reflections in the water.

Instructions:

Supply for this painting:

1800s Vineyards House

Learn how to paint a farm house in the vineyards land of Chile.

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