The Gourd Artist Painting

On February 11, 2019 / People of North Carolina Portraits, Portraits

Tags: Cary, Durham, Franklinton, Gourd Artist, Gourds, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Oil painting on canvas 24″x30″ by Clina Polloni.

“The Gourd Artist”

The Gourd Artist

This oil painting is in honor to all the gourd artists of North Carolina that works their craft in silence.

Gourds by Deb Allen and Clina Polloni Allen.

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 history in the arts of our state.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

Start by drawing the artist and the gourds defining the light and the shade.
Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of acrylics using raw sienna with white and colors that are going to be helpful when painting with oils. 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 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.

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

Using oils, start painting the objects that are in the back ground of the artist.
Using oils paint the artist, his wicker hat, hands and overalls.
Paint the gourds, flowers and hot peppers.
Sign your work of art.

: The Gourd Artist-Drawing

: The Gourd Artist, Gourds to Paint

: The Gourd Artist-Under-Paint

“We are North Carolina”

Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.

“The Gourd Artist”. This oil painting is in honor of all the gourd artists of North Carolina that works their craft in silence.

Oil painting on canvas 24″x30″ by Clina Polloni.

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

Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC

On January 28, 2019 / People of North Carolina Portraits, Portraits

Tags: Cary, Colonial Dolls, Colonial Sisters, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni, Portrait Oil Painting, Raleigh

Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC. Portraying the people of North Carolina.

Colonial Sisters With Dolls NC

Oil painting on canvas 30″x40″ by Clina Polloni.

Beautiful faces of sisters, proud of their homemade dolls.

Every year in October “The River of Yesteryears” get together at the Riverbend Park in Louisburg NC, to celebrate the colonial times with representations of the life in those days. I was fascinated by these two sisters with their colonial dolls expressing their enthusiasm.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

Start by drawing the sisters, dolls and stone arch defining the light and the shade.
Colonial Sisters With Dolls Under-Paint

Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of acrylics using colors that are going to be helpful when painting with oils. 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 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.

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

Using oils, start painting the stone arch and trees.
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, colonial huts and clothes.
Paint dolls.
Sign your work of art.

“We are North Carolina”

Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.

“Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC.” Beautiful faces of sisters, proud of their homemade dolls.

Oil painting on canvas 30″x40″ by Clina Polloni.

#ncoilpainting #colonialpeoplenc #childrenportrait #artexhibition #wakemednc #wakeforestnc #clinapolloniart #clinahpolloni #chileanartist #northcarolinaartist #littleartgallerync

: Carriage with Colonial Doll

: Colonial Dolls

: Colonial Sisters Faces

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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.
Contact Clina >>

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.

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.

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Painting

On January 22, 2019 / Lighthouses of North Carolina, Seascapes

Tags: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, NC, North Carolina, Painting by Clina Polloni

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.

Visit the Seascapes page for more paintings >>
Call Clina: 919-841-3132.
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Posts Tagged Painting by Clina Polloni

The Gourd Artist Painting

Oil painting on canvas 24″x30″ by Clina Polloni.

“The Gourd Artist”

“We are North Carolina”

Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.

Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC

Colonial Sisters with Dolls NC. Portraying the people of North Carolina.

Oil painting on canvas 30″x40″ by Clina Polloni.

Beautiful faces of sisters, proud of their homemade dolls.

“We are North Carolina”

Exhibition by Clina Polloni at WakeMed North. June 2021.

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.”

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Painting

The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is an original oil painting by Clina Polloni.

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