Cooking on An Open Fire NC

On October 16, 2019 / People of North Carolina Portraits

Tags: Cary, Colonial People, Franklinton, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Raleigh, Wake Forest

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.

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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.

Fishing Village of NC

On September 26, 2019 / Landscapes Painting Classes, Painting Classes, Seascapes Painting Classes

Tags: Cary, Fishing Village, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, seascape painting, Wake Forest

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Fishing Village of NC Seascape.

Fishing Village Seascape

This Seascape was created for the painting classes, is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint. The painting is about a fishing town in North Carolina, in colonial times.

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. Also, Kaleidoscope Artist’s Value is good.

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″

Colors:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Yellow Ochre
Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
Cadmium Red Medium
Alizarin Crimson or Rose Madder
Sap Green
Greenish Umber or Deep Green
Payne’s Gray
Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Van Dyck Brown or Raw Umber or Burnt Umber
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.
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.
Plastic/Paper plate and glass. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.

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

https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/

Painting Class-Fishing Village in North Carolina

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

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

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, Durham, 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.

NC Governor Roy Cooper’s Office Exhibition

On September 23, 2019 / Art Exhibitions, Hispanic Culture

Tags: Governor Roy Cooper, Hispanic Painting, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Raleigh

Come to visit “The Market Girl” at the NC Governor Roy Cooper’s Office ART Exhibition.

Nine artists have been invited to exhibit at the entrance hall to celebrate the Hispanic Heritage Month.

The Market Girl Painting

“The Market Girl”: In the Hispanic culture it is a tradition to go to the market, where the local people bring their fresh fruits, vegetables and craft. This girl is proud to show her flowers and vegetables with her colorful hand netted ponchos in the back.

I did this painting when I went to Ecuador. Inspired by their colorful art and culture, very similar to most of the countries in South America.

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 people in their environment and activities, representing the American and Hispanic Culture.

https://clinapolloni.com/paintings/hispanic-culture/

Tree in a Field of Lavender Painting.

On September 5, 2019 / Painting Classes, Seascapes Painting Classes

Tags: Cary, Landscape Painting, Lavender Flowers, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Tree in a Field of Lavender.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Tree in a Field of Lavender Painting

A tree in the front of mountains with a field of purple lavenders. This painting was inspired by the mountains and landscape of North Carolina. A simple painting created for the painting classes.

Instructions:

Draw tree and mountains.
The best and easier way of painting this landscape is by doing an under-paint with acrylics using: Titanium White, Cerulean Blue and Ivory Black.
Now you can start the painting. It can be done with oils or acrylics. First is the mountains, second the grass, walkway and flowers. Finally, the leaves of the tree with shades of greens for light and shading.

Supply: This painting can be done in 2 medias, Oil Paintings or Acrylics:

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.

Tree in a Field of Lavender-Starting to Paint

Canvas: 11”x 14”

Colors:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Sap Green
Yellow Ochre
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Dioxazine Purple
Burnt Umber or Deep Brown
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.
For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Turpernoi. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. Glass container to mix media.
Ultra fine black Sharpie pen.
Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).
Paper towel.
Paper/plastic plate and glass.

Painting Class acrylics oils-Tree in a Field of Lavender

You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes:
https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/

#paintingclasses #landscape #lavendersflowers #littleartgallerync #wakeforestnc #clinapolloni #oilsclasses #acrylicsclasses #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #artistachilena #northcarolinaartist

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, Durham, Wake Forest, Franklinton and The Triangle Are of North Carolina.
Member of The Makery and The Wake Forest Guild of Artists. Exhibiting at The Cotton Company and local business.

Sailing to the South Africa Sea

On August 19, 2019 / Painting Classes, Seascapes Painting Classes

Tags: Cary, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, seascape painting, South Africa Sea, sunset painting, Wake Forest

Sailing to the Sunset of the South Africa Sea.

Sailing to the Sunset Seascape

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

This beautiful sunset is based on a painting by Lea De Vries Daniels, an abstract artist that painted her beloved South Africa.

This version of the painting has been designed for the painting classes, is a simple and charming seascape for a person that is starting to paint and wants to learn to paint a colorful sunset with a sailing boat.

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.

Sailing to the Sunset by Rachel and Abby.

Colors for this painting:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Red Medium
Alizarin Crimson
Sap Green
Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Dioxazine Purple
Deep Brown or Burnt Umber
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

: Sailing to the Sunset painting by John Webb

: Menna Bahgat-Sailing to the Sunset.

: Sailing to the Sunset byTricia, Diane, Lisa Marie, Laurie-Painting Class acrylics oils

: Painting Classes acrylics oils-Sailing to the Sunset.

The Sailing to the Sunset 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.

#paintingclassesnc #seascape #oceansunset #sailboat #littleartgallerync #wakeforestnc #thecottonco #oilsclasses #acrylicsclasses #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #artistachilena #northcarolinaartist

Log Cabin Window in Perspective Drawing

On August 5, 2019 / Painting Classes, Windows and Doors Paintings Classes

Tags: Cary, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Perspective Drawing, Raleigh, Wake Forest, Window Painting

How to Draw a Log Cabin Window in Perspective.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Our eyes perceive the world around us in three dimensions.

In order to be able to draw and understand dimension, we need to look at the horizon. The horizon is a straight line at the edge of the earth where land and sky meet. The horizon is the view from your eyes. If you move, your eyes will move together with the horizon.

Select the object you want to draw, with a pencil and one eyes close, find your horizon. Continue by placing lines from the object to the horizon. You will find your vanishing points. In this case we have two vanishing points.

In this drawing the red line is the horizon. The black lines indicate the vanishing point of the stones (Vanishing Point 1) and the pink lines indicate the vanishing points of the wood (Vanishing Point 2).

Draw all these lines with a pencil first and them over the lines draw wood, stones and window.

For instructions and supply of how to paint the Log Cabin Window in Perspective visit:

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
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.

Log Cabin Window in Perspective Painting

On August 5, 2019 / Painting Classes, Windows and Doors Paintings Classes

Tags: Cary, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Perspective Drawing, Raleigh, Wake Forest, Window Painting

How to Paint and Draw a Log Cabin Window in Perspective.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Log Cabin Window in Perspective

Traveling through the beautiful mountains of North Carolina one thing that fascinate me are the old log cabins. The textures of the aged wood and stones that creates intriguing perspective.

This is a simple paint designed for the painting classes.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

Drawing: You can do your drawing in two ways. Follow the instructions of drawing the perspective of trace it in the painting class. Put attention to the interesting shapes of the wood and stones.
Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of Yellow Ochre acrylic and Titanium White. Paint inside the window, outline wood and stones with Ivory Black. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. The under paint is very important because you are drawing with colors and defining light and shade in your final painting. The imprimatura is 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 or acrylics, start painting the window. Continue with the wood and stones.
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: 11″x 14″ for tracing or 18”x 24” for drawing perspective.

Log Cabin Window in Perspective-Painting Classes Acrylics Oils.

Under-paint Acrylics:
Yellow Ochre, Titanium White and Ivory Black.

Oils or Acrylics Colors:

Titanium White
Sky Blue or Royal Blue
Yellow Ochre
Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
Raw Sienna
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber or Van Dick Brown
Cadmium Yellow Light
Sap Green
Deep Green or Greenish Umber
Payne Gray
Ivory Black

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.

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
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, Durham, 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.

Rose Color Peonies Painting

On August 2, 2019 / Flowers, Paintings by Clina Polloni

Tags: Floral, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Oil Painting, Painting by Clina Polloni, Raleigh, Rose Color Peonies, Still Life, Wake Forest

“Flores Para Mi Madre”.

By Clina Polloni.

Oil on canvas board 16”x 20”.

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:

Draw the Peonies.
Under paint and background: In acrylics, paint gold with a little bit of Alizarin Crimson.
Painting: With acrylics or oils paint beautiful colors to create a harmony of magenta and whites.
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:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Red Light
Violet de Cobalt or Thio Violet or Deep Magenta
Ultramarine Blue
Sap Green
Greenish Umber (Grumbacher) or a Deep Green
Alizarin Crimson
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
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.

Flowers of Love Poem

On July 30, 2019 / Flowers

Tags: Cary, Durham, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Poem of Flowers, Raleigh, Wake Forest

“Flowers of Love”

Flowers of Love Poem Painting

Are oil paintings by Clina Polloni.

Inspired by my poem “An Instant of Time”, about love and flowers:

Love like flowers
is a fragile breeze;
it is a flash of time,
born on a clear day,
explodes in magnificent
colors and feelings,
and diminish in the
shadows of life.

Flowers of Love Poem Drawing

After the cold days of winter. I can’t wait for the warm days of spring to see the pale daffodils or the purple irises emerging, green baby leaves appearing in the old oak tree and finally a rainbow of colors; camellias, geraniums, tulips, peonies, crape myrtles, dahlias, roses and pansies. I get my canvas, brushes, bright colors and go outside, seat in the purple chair and paint. I live in Franklinton, NC, USA, travel to Chile to see my family and also paint.

Instructions:

Start by drawing the poem with a medieval calligraphy. The first letter of the poem is at the right side with a gold background and decorated with flowers.
Draw flowers around the poem.
Create a border with gold and heavy gesso.
Paint with acrylics or oils.

Clina’s paintings are for sale at her studio, The Renaissance Centre for The Arts in Wake Forest and The Franklin County Art Council, NC.

Medieval Letter F

You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes:
https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/flowers-painting-classes/

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.

Orange Reflections in the River Mural

On July 24, 2019 / Art Exhibitions, Landscapes

Tags: Exhibition, Mural, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Reflections painting, sunset painting, Wake Forest

“Orange Reflections in the River”

By Clina Polloni.

Original oil painting on canvas 30″x 36″.

The “Orange Reflections in The River” painting is in a private collection. Thanks to The Cotton Company this painting found a new home.

This is a sunset of the beautiful Oconaluftee River that flows through The Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Transitions from blues to reds and yellows reflected in the water.

#riversunset #ncsunset #oilpainting #littleartgallerync #wakeforest #thecottonco #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #artistachilena

Mural applied to the facade of a buildings in downtown Wake Forest.

Orange Reflections in the River

This is a sunset of the beautiful Oconaluftee River that flows through The Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Transitions from blues to reds and yellows reflected in the water.

The Oconaluftee River is an inspiration for painting because of its beauty and legends. The Cherokee Indians considered the waters of the Oconaluftee River sacred. It was the deeper part of the river, where all the animals came to wash and heal their wounds when they had been hurt by hunters.

This painting has been selected by The Wake Forest Public Art Commission among 5 paintings of participant local artists, for the “2019 Spotlight on Wake Forest Artists Exhibit”. Click here for event invitation >>

Mayor Vivian Jones congratulating Clina Polloni

Each painting is a mural applied to the facade of a buildings in downtown Wake Forest. The “Orange Reflections in the River” is at Taylor Street Park Sprayground, 416 N. Taylor St. with a plaque with information about the artist.

In the photos are Mayor Vivian Jones congratulating me and my husband Thomas C. Allen in the front of the mural.

Visit: https://clinapolloni.com/paintings/landscapes/

Thomas Allen in front of mural

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.

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Orange Reflections in the River-Landscape by Clina Polloni.

Orange Reflections in The River.

Original oil painting on canvas 30″x 36″ by Clina Polloni.

This is a sunset of the beautiful Oconaluftee River that flows through The Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Transitions from blues to reds and yellows reflected in the water.

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

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