Seascape Clouds on an Ocean Sunset

On June 5, 2020 / Seascapes

Tags: Ocean Painting, Ocean Sunset, Raleigh, seascape painting, sunset painting, The Cotton Company, Wake Forest

Card-5.5×5.5-Walking on a Beach Sunset

Walking on a Beach Sunset card.

North Carolina has beautiful beaches, and walking in a sunset with bright colors is an inspiration. This island is part of North Carolina’s Crystal Coast. Located in the southernmost part of the Outer Banks.

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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Oil paintings by Clina Polloni 11”x 14”:

Clouds on an Ocean Sunset Seascape.

Clouds on an Ocean Sunset Seascape

North Carolina has beautiful beaches, and walking in a sunset with bright colors is an inspiration.

This painting class consist of 3 parts:

Learning to draw with a square grid Technic.
Under-painting with acrylics.
Finishing the painting with oils or acrylics.

Square Grid Drawing Technic:

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 be perfect.

When using the Square Grid Drawing Technic you defined:

Composition
Proportions
Light and shade

Clouds on an Ocean Sunset Drawing with a Square Grid

Under-painting with acrylics:

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.

Finishing the painting with oils or acrylics:
Start with the clouds, continue with the ocean, the beach and finally the people.

Canvas: 11″x 14 or any size.

Acrylic Colors:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Orange
Cerulean Blue
Silver or Gray or Ivory Black

Oil Colors:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Cadmium Orange
Yellow Ochre
Cerulean Blue
Cobalt Blue
Thalo Blue
Paynes Gray
Cassel Earth

Pencil, ruler and rubber

Ultra-fine black Sharpie pen.

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.

Walking on a Beach Sunset Seascape

Walking on a Beach Sunset Seascape.
Miniature oil painting by Clina Polloni 8”x 8”.
I also created a simplify small painting.

These 2 paintings are in private collections.

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

NC Postcard Pink Camellia

On May 28, 2020 / Flowers, Postcards of NC

Tags: NC, NC Postcards, Painting by Clina Polloni, Pink Camellia, Raleigh, Wake Forest

The Three Stages of the Evolution of a Pink Camellia Postcard.

Pink Camellia of NC Postcard

From Clina Polloni Oil Painting.

Inspired by the beautiful camellias of North Carolina. Pink camellias symbolize a longing for someone and is given to someone who is missed.

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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Send a spring postcard of a beautiful camellias of North Carolina. Pink camellias symbolize a longing for someone and is given to someone who is missed.

This postcard is a reproduction of an oil painting by Clina Polloni.

View more postcards >> https://clinapolloni.com/postcards-of-north-carolina/

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NC Postcard Ocracoke Island Lighthouse

On May 20, 2020 / Lighthouses of North Carolina, Postcards of NC

Tags: NC, Ocracoke Island Lighthouse, Painting by Clina Polloni, Postcard, seascape painting, Wake Forest

Ocracoke Island Lighthouse NC Postcard.

From Clina Polloni Oil Painting.

Ocracoke Island Lighthouse NC Postcard

North Carolina’s oldest lighthouse in operation. Built in 1823. At just 65′ ft. tall, it is the smallest lighthouse on the Outer Banks. Ocracoke Island is an enchanting place with its natural beauty, the long-ago tales of pirates and ships, an inspiration for us artists.

This postcard is FOR SALE $1.50 at The Cotton Company.
306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587. 919-570-0087.

Learn more >>

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Violet Tulip Drawing

On April 30, 2020 / Flowers, Flowers Painting Classes, Painting Classes

Tags: Floral, Flowers Paintings, NC, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Violet Tulip, Wake Forest

The tulips are in bloom! Let’s learn how to draw with acrylics.

Drawing with Acrylics by Clina Polloni.

Violet Tulip Drawing

Instructions of this drawing:

Draw with pencil first to create a general composition of your painting.
In this drawing I used acrylics Magenta and Sap Green with lots of water for the light areas and less water for the darker areas, be sure to impregnate 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.
In this painting I did a border to make a more interesting composition.

Canvas: 20″x 24″

Acrylic Colors:

Sap Green
Magenta

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
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.

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

The Violet Tulip Drawing and instructions are © of 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.

Cherry Blossom Trees Painting

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

Tags: Cherry Blossom Trees, Floral, Flowers Paintings, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Wake Forest

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.

With your acrylic drawing, go outside and start painting with acrylics or oils.
Start painting the clouds in the background.
Paint the grass.
Paint the house.
Over the grass and other elements paint the trunk of the trees and bushes.
Finally over these elements paint the flowers and leaves with a #4 white bristle brush.

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.

Colors:

Titanium White
Cerulean Blue
Paynes Gray
Cadmium Yellow Light
Yellow Ochre
Carmine or Cadmium Red
Phthalo Green or Permanent Green
Greenish Umber or a Deep Green
Magenta
Violet de Cobalt or Thio Violet or Deep Magenta
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber or Raw Umber
Ivory Black

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.

White House in the Ocean Seascape

On April 16, 2020 / Painting Classes, Seascapes Painting Classes

Tags: Franklinton, NC, Painting Classes, Raleigh, seascape painting, Wake Forest, White House in the Ocean

Tiny White House in the Ocean

White House in the Ocean Seascape.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint a tiny house on the beach with white picket fence. Is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint.

This seascape painting was created for the painting classes, you can do it at home or come to the painting classes when the Coronavirus is over.

Acrylic under-paint: Cerulean Blue and Titanium White with water for the sky and ocean. For the beach Yellow Ochre and Titanium White. Be sure to impregnate all the surface of the canvas.

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″

Colors:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Yellow Ochre
Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
Sap Green
Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Dioxazine Purple
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber or a Van Dyck Brown

Brushes, multi-purpose, polyvalent. There is a 10pc “Artist’s Loft” that provides most of the brushes for the beginning or the Pro Stroke-Power Creative Mark of Jerry’s Arterama. Also, Wal-Mart has some fine and medium gold taklon brushes. 1 White Bristle #3.

For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Refined Turpentine. To clean the brushes Turpernoi. I have some glass containers to mix media.

Easel (a simple table metal easel is fine).

Paper towel, Pencil to draw.

Plastic/paper plate and glass. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.

Painting Class acrylics oils-White House in the Ocean

You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes, dates and more paintings to select from >>

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

The White House in the Ocean 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.

Palm Tree at The Beach Painting

On April 15, 2020 / Painting Classes, Seascapes Painting Classes

Tags: Cary, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, Painting Classes, Palm Tree, Raleigh, seascape painting, Wake Forest

Palm Tree

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint a palm tree at the beach with clear waters of the ocean, is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint.

Seascape-Palm Tree at the Beach

This seascape painting was created for the painting classes, you can do it at home or come to the painting classes when the Coronavirus is over.

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.

Colors for this painting:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Yellow Ochre
Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
Sap Green
Permanent Green
Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Burnt Umber
Ivory Black

Seascape-Palm Tree-how to paint

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.

: Nancy Wollner-Palm Tree.

: Palm Tree Painting Classes.

: Sienna Hughes-Palm Tree-Painting Classes Acrylics Oils.

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.

Dimensional Perspective 1 Vanishing Point.

On April 13, 2020 / Landscapes Painting Classes, Painting Classes

Tags: 1 Vanishing Point, Coronavirus, Dimensional Perspective, Franklinton, Landscape Painting, Louisburg, NC, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Wake Forest

How to Paint Dimensional Perspective.

Taught by Clina Polloni.

You can learn and do this painting class at home in this difficult time of the Coronavirus. Follow the instructions:

Dimensional Perspective Drawing

This autumn painting is illustrated by the concept of convergence. Which are lines that moves into the distance and converge on a vanishing point. Our eyes perceive the world around us in three dimensions. To create this three-dimensional effect, we have to draw perspective that consist on a horizon line, where your eyes are looking to a vanishing point or two or three vanishing points. In this painting we only have one in the center of the horizon.

Picture #1: Start by drawing the horizon line, draw a vanishing point in the center (mark with a red dot). From this red dot, start drawing lines to the outside of the canvas, to the left and the right. 2 lines for the base of the trees. 2 lines for the road. 2 lines for the top of the trees. Continue by drawing the trees following the perspective lines.

Dimensional Perspective with Human Figure Drawing

Picture #2: Draw a human figure looking at the horizon and start painting the autumn trees, road and grass. Painting the background images first is a lot easier.

Picture #3: Paint the human figure and sign your painting.

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.

Dimensional Perspective Painting

Canvas: 11″x 14″.

Colors:

Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow Light
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Yellow Ochre
Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
Cadmium Barium Orange
Cadmium Red Medium or Carmine
Alizarin Crimson
Sap Green or Hookers Green
Cerulean Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Sienna
Van Dyke Brown or a Deep Brown

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.

This painting was done by Labannya Samanta, a brilliant student.

To find more paintings to do at home visit: https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/

Or, you can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes when the Coronavirus is over.

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

The Sun Is Up at the Tar River

On April 4, 2020 / Landscapes

Tags: Landscape Painting, Louisburg, NC, Painting by Clina Polloni, Raleigh, Tar River, Wake Forest

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

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

Cheers, Clina

Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing

On April 1, 2020 / Flowers Painting Classes, Painting Classes

Tags: Cherry Blossom Trees, Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Wake Forest

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

Instructions of this drawing:

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.
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.
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.
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.
Start drawing with Acrylics: Ivory Black: trunk of trees, house (including inside of windows) and details of landscape.
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

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

Acrylic colors for drawing:

Titanium White
Cerulean Blue
Yellow Ochre
Sap Green
Magenta
Ivory Black

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

Instructions and supply to finish your painting >>

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Walking on a Beach Sunset card.

Oil paintings by Clina Polloni 11”x 14”:

Clouds on an Ocean Sunset Seascape.

NC Postcard Pink Camellia

The Three Stages of the Evolution of a Pink Camellia Postcard.

From Clina Polloni Oil Painting.

NC Postcard Ocracoke Island Lighthouse

Ocracoke Island Lighthouse NC Postcard.

From Clina Polloni Oil Painting.

Violet Tulip Drawing

The tulips are in bloom! Let’s learn how to draw with acrylics.

Drawing with Acrylics by Clina Polloni.

Cherry Blossom Trees Painting

Cherry Blossom Trees Painting.

For painting classes click here>>

Students showing their paintings >>

White House in the Ocean Seascape

Tiny White House in the Ocean

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Palm Tree at The Beach Painting

Palm Tree

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Learn to paint a palm tree at the beach with clear waters of the ocean, is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint.

Supply for this painting:

Dimensional Perspective 1 Vanishing Point.

How to Paint Dimensional Perspective.

You can learn and do this painting class at home in this difficult time of the Coronavirus. Follow the instructions:

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.

Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing

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!

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