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2021 February Sailing Yachts

On February 5, 2021   /   Seascapes  
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Yacht Sailing the Outer Banks NC Seascape Painting

Yacht Sailing the Outer Banks NC

“Yacht Sailing the Outer Banks NC”

Oil Painting by Clina Polloni.

Seascape 11”x 14”.

Sailing has found its home in the Outer Banks. Intracoastal waterways and inlets with treacherous waters are a challenge for sailors and an inspiration for artists.

This painting is in a private collection. Thanks to the  The Cotton Company, Wake Forest NC.

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Yacht Sailing the Outer Banks Card

“Yacht Sailing the Outer Banks NC” card.

Intracoastal waterways and inlets with treacherous waters are a challenge for sailors and an inspiration for artists.

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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Sailing the Outer Banks NC Seascape Painting

Sailing the Outer Banks NC

2nd Painting:  

“Sailing the Outer Banks NC”
Oil Painting by Clina Polloni.
Seascape 8”x 10”.

This painting with frame is FOR SALE at The Cotton Company, Wake Forest NC.

Yacht Sailing the Outer Banks NC painting is © of Clina Polloni.

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

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ZACKERY MICHAEL Windows Drawings

On July 14, 2020   /   Paintings by Clina Polloni, Windows and Doors Oil Paintings  
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Clina Polloni was commissioned by Zackery Michael.

A commercial construction company to create two paintings for the lobby of their new building in Raleigh NC.

The theme was a café where clients and employees could meet and relax in a friendly environment.

These are the drawings working with the movement of the body, perspective and the contemporary furniture.

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NC Postcard Girl Making Butter

On May 23, 2020   /   People of North Carolina Portraits, Postcards of NC  
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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 Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

On May 16, 2020   /   Lighthouses of North Carolina, Postcards of NC  
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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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Cherry Blossom Trees Painting

On April 21, 2020   /   Flowers, Flowers Painting Classes, Painting Classes  
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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.

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Pink Magnolia Tree Painting

On March 18, 2020   /   Flowers, Paintings by Clina Polloni  
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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.

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Valentine Red Rose

On January 21, 2020   /   Flowers, Flowers Painting Classes, Painting Classes  
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A Valentine Red Rose Painting.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Valentine Red Rose Painting

Valentine Red Rose Painting

Is February, The month for love! What a better time to learn to paint a Valentine Red Rose.

Instructions:

  1. Start by drawing the rose with a pencil.
  2. 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.
  3. Paint the gold background first. Rose next and leaves last.
  4. Enjoy finishing your painting. You can use acrylics or oils.
  5. 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:

  1. Gold
  2. Titanium White
  3. Cadmium Yellow Light
  4. Cadmium Red Light
  5. Cadmium Red Medium or Carmine
  6. Alizarin Crimson
  7. Sap Green
  8. 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.

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Girl Making Butter Painting

On December 18, 2019   /   People of North Carolina Portraits  
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Oil painting 24″x 36″ by Clina Polloni.

Girl Making Butter Painting.

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:

  1. Start by drawing the girl and rocks setting defining the light and the shade. Look at image.
  2. 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.
  3. Apply a coat of heavy gesso in the walls to create texture.
Girl Making Butter Drawing

Girl Making Butter Drawing

Start painting with oils in the following order because it is going to be easier for you:

  1. Using oils, start painting the background, stones, window, chair, floor, vegetables, etc.
  2. Using oils paint the skin, blending light and shade to the color of the skin. Paint the features of the face and hands.
  3. Paint hair, hat and clothe.
  4. Sign your work of art.

Girl Making Butter Painting is © of Clina Polloni.

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.

The Girl Making Butter painting is FOR SALE at The Cotton Company >>

Girl Making Butter Underpaint

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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Memories of a White House Landscape

On December 3, 2019   /   Landscapes Painting Classes, Painting Classes  
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A Painting Inspired by a Poem.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Memories of a White House Landscape

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.

Instructions:

  1. Start by drawing the house and landscape with a pencil.
  2. Paint the under-paint with a mixture of Titanium White and Cerulean Blue. More blue in the sky, white in the house and both in the landscape. 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.
  3. Paint the sky and clouds first. House next and landscape last.
  4. Enjoy finishing your painting. You can use acrylics or oils.
  5. Sign your work of art.

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″

Colors:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Ivory Black
  3. Payne Gray
  4. Cadmium Yellow Medium
  5. Cadmium Red Medium
  6. Alizarin Crimson
  7. Deep Magenta
  8. Sap Green
  9. Deep Green or Greenish Umber
  10. Cerulean Blue
  11. 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

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.

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Pigeon Point Lighthouse Painting.

On October 31, 2019   /   Painting Classes, Seascapes Painting Classes  
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Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Pigeon Point Lighthouse Painting.

Pigeon Point Lighthouse Painting

Pigeon Point Lighthouse Painting

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.

Painting Class 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″

Pigeon Point Lighthouse Under-paint

Pigeon Point Lighthouse Under-paint

Colors:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Cadmium Yellow Light
  3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
  4. Yellow Ochre
  5. Cadmium Red Medium or Carmine
  6. Alizarin Crimson
  7. Sap Green
  8. Cerulean Blue
  9. Ultramarine Blue
  10. Dioxazine Purple
  11. Burnt Sienna
  12. Burnt Umber or Van Dick Brown
  13. Ivory Black

There are many affordable brushes in the market:

Harper Clarkson-2024 AWARDS-Painting Classes.

Harper Clarkson-2024 AWARDS-Painting Classes.

Hobby Lobby: The Fine Touch.
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.

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. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.

Painting Class acrylics oils-Pigeon Point Lighthouse

Painting Class acrylics oils-Pigeon Point Lighthouse

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

Call Clina: 919-841-3132

Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com 

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

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 Are of North Carolina.
Member of The Franklin County Art Council and Wake Forest Guild of Artists, of North Carolina.

Students showing their paintings:

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Little ART Gallery, Oil Paintings and Classes by Clina Polloni.

Painting classes and original oil paintings by Clina Polloni. Visit The Little ART Gallery located inside The Cotton Company in Wake Forest NC.

Click here for map and directions >>

Contact Us
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.

Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio Business website
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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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