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The Sun Is Up at the Tar River

Oil on canvas by Clina Polloni. 24”x 36”.

The Sun Is Up at the Tar River…a working piece.

The Sun Is Up at the Tar River NC

The Sun Is Up at the Tar River NC

Painting in my studio in this sad days of the Coronavirus.

Cheers, Clina

Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing

Drawing with Acrylics by Clina Polloni.

The Cherry Blossom Trees are in bloom! Let’s learn how to draw with acrylics.

This are difficult times for all of us, we have to stay home with the Coronavirus. Go outside, take your family and draw the beautiful flowers of Spring!

Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing

Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing

Instructions of this drawing: 

  1. Go outside, in this painting is the back yard of my house. Select the flowers that you would like to paint. Do a pencil sketch.
  2. You can start by drawing in the canvas with a pencil using the Square Grid Drawing Technic. Start by dividing your sketch or photo in proportional squares, then you divide your canvas in with the same Technic in proportional squares. It doesn’t matter how big is your canvas or if it is a mural, the proportions will always be perfect.
  3. Use your acrylics with lots of water because they flow better, impregnating your canvas, don’t leave spots without paint. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. They create a worm color that once you finish your final painting with oils or acrylics in the top, they look brighter.
  4. Apply a coat of washed Titanium White and Cerulean Blue over the area of the sky and a coat of washed Sap Green over the grass.
  5. Start drawing with Acrylics: Ivory Black: trunk of trees, house (including inside of windows) and details of landscape.
  6. With Titanium White and Yellow Ochre paint over house. Magenta for the flowers of the cherry blossom trees and Sap Green over the dogwood tree.
Cherry Blossom Trees-Square Grid Drawing Technic

Cherry Blossom Trees-Square Grid Drawing Technic

Canvas: 16″x 16″ or any size you like.

Acrylic colors for drawing:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Cerulean Blue
  3. Yellow Ochre
  4. Sap Green
  5. Magenta
  6. 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.

Pencil, ruler and rubber.

Ultra fine black Sharpie pen.

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 next class will be about finishing your painting with acrylics or oil. Cheer up in this difficult times 🙂

Call Clina: 919-841-3132

Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

The Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing and instructions are © of Clina Polloni.

Instructions and supply to finish your painting >>

Purple Tulip Painting.

By Clina Polloni.

The Purple Tulip Painting is amazing, with those deep purple colors! 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:

Purple Tulip Painting

Purple Tulip Painting

Instructions:

  1. Start by drawing the flowers and tulip.
  2. Paint the background with Alizarin Crimson next to the flower and finishing with a combination of Dioxazine Purple and Alizarin Crimson at the border.
    Outline yellow flowers with Alizarin Crimson, paint inside with Cadmium Yellow Medium.
  3. Outline leave with Greenish Umber or a Deep Green. Paint inside with Phthalo Green and highlight with Cadmium Yellow Light.
  4. Outline tulip with Dioxazine Purple. Paint inside with Dioxazine Purple highlighting and blending with Titanium White.
  5. 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. Cadmium Yellow Light
  3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
  4. Dioxazine Purple
  5. Alizarin Crimson
  6. Phthalo Green
  7. Greenish Umber or a Deep Green

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.

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

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

The Purple Tulip 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.

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.

Valentine Red Rose

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.

Girl Making Butter Painting

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.

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

Memories of a White House Landscape

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.

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″

Nancy Wollner-Memories of a White House-Painting Classes.

Nancy Wollner-Memories of a White House.

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.

Cooking on An Open Fire NC

A Portrait of People of NC

“Cooking on an Open Fire NC”

Cooking On An Open Fire NC Painting

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

Cooking On An Open Fire-Drawing

Instructions of how to do this painting:

  1. Start by drawing the ladies and landscape 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.

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 and wall.
  2. Using oils paint the skin, blending light and shade to the color of the skin. Paint the features of the face, hands and foot.
  3. Paint hair and clothes.
  4. Paint open fire, cooking dishes and food.
  5. Sign your work of art.
Cooking On An Open Fire-Underpaint

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.

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

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

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:

  1. Titanium White
  2. Cadmium Yellow Light
  3. Yellow Ochre
  4. Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
  5. Cadmium Red Medium
  6. Alizarin Crimson or Rose Madder
  7. Sap Green
  8. Greenish Umber or Deep Green
  9. Payne’s Gray
  10. Cerulean Blue
  11. Ultramarine Blue
  12. Burnt Sienna
  13. Van Dyck Brown or Raw Umber or Burnt Umber
  14. 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

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

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 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/

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.

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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