Memories of a White House Landscape.

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acrylics, Landscape, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Oils, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

A Painting Inspired by a Poem.

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: 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: 9″x 12″

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Ivory Black
3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
4. Cadmium Red Medium
5. Alizarin Crimson
6. Deep Magenta
7. Sap Green
8. Cerulean Blue
9. 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 #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.

Plate to mix colors or a Paper Palette. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.

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:

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.

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.

Pigeon Point Lighthouse Painting.

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Cary, Franklinton, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Raleigh, Seascape, Wake Forest

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

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: 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: 11″ x 14″

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. Van Dick Brown
13. 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.

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: 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.

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.

2019 River of Yesteryear Invitation

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Art Exhibition, Clina Polloni, Colonial People of NC, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, River of Yesteryear

Come to paint Plein-Air at the River Bend Park, Louisburg, NC.

The River of Yesteryear has invited Clina Polloni and artists of the Wake Forest Guild of Artists and the Franklin County Art Council to participate in this historical event.

Step back into North Carolina Colonial times, be inspired by the representation of Colonial life at the beautiful landscape of the Tar River, NC. Let us all paint Plein-Air, create your craft,
jewelry, leather making etc.

When: Saturday, October 26, 2019
Time: Set up 9:00am, people visit 10am to 4pm.
Location: River Bend Park, Louisburg, NC

To the participant artists:

We are trying to go back in time and create the environment of the brave colonial artists. Girls in long dresses or skirts with white blouses. Guys, old pants.

Please be there at 9:00am to set up your working space. Bring a table or an easel with legs and an old chair. Cover your table and chair with a quilt or an old piece of material.

Let Clina know if you are coming: clinapolloni@gmail.com 919-841-3132.

Fishing Village of NC

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Clina Polloni, Fishing Village Painting in NC, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Fishing Village of NC Seascape.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

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.

Painting Class 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: 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
7. Sap Green
8. Cerulean Blue
9. Ultramarine Blue
10. Burnt Sienna
11. Van Dyck Brown
12. 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.

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: 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.

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.

Sunset of South Africa

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Cary, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Seascape, South Africa Sea, Wake Forest

Sailing to the Sunset of the South Africa Sea.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Sailing to the Sunset of the South Africa Sea

This beautiful sunset is based on a painting by Lea De Vries Daniels, an abstract artist that painted her beloved South Africa. Lea signed her work as Lea DeV and her art can be found in many medical institutions and private homes.

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

Instructions:

1. You can draw or trace the sunset.
2. Do your under-paint with acrylics. Apply a wash of light yellow on the sky, water and boat. On the sun and reflections paint white. Also, a white outline over your drawing lines of clouds and water to cover the dark drawing lines.
3. With oils or acrylics start painting. First the sun and the colorful sky. Continue with the water, mountains and sail boat. Put special attention to the blending of colors.
4. 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: 11″x 14

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Cadmium Yellow Light
3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
4. Cadmium Orange
5. Cadmium Red Medium
6. Alizarin Crimson
7. Sap Green
8. Cerulean Blue
9. Ultramarine Blue
10. Dioxazine Purple
11. Van Dyck Brown
12. 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.
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.

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

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

About Lea DeV:

Born in Cape Town, South Africa to an American mother and South African father, Lea developed a deep love for her beautiful home country early in life. Her mother and father were active in the anti-apartheid movement and Lea met many notable resistance fighters as a child, including Nelson Mandela.

With the violence in South Africa and the target on her father, Lea and her mother came to Raleigh, NC while Lea was a Freshman in high school. Although she never lived in South Africa again, she visited every year while her father was alive and proclaimed South Africa as the most beautiful place in the world.

Lea battled breast cancer but lost the fight in 2011. She will always be remembered for her big laugh, love of life, and her artistic talent.

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.

2019, August FCAC Painting Class

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FCAC Painting Class, Franklinton, Log Cabin Window, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina

Franklin County Art Council Painting Class.

Log Cabin Window in Perspective.

Taught by Clina Polloni.

Log Cabin Window in Perspective

This class is FREE for members of the Franklin County Art Council. At 12:00 noon the Artist Guild members meets and at 1:00pm we start our painting class.

Painting Class: Saturday August 10, 2019.
Artists Guild Meeting: From 12:00noon to 1:00pm.
Class: From 1:00pm to 4:00pm.
Where: Franklin County Art Council, 118 B North Main St., Louisburg NC 27549
Painting: “Log Cabin Window in Perspective”.

Click the link for supply and instructions:
https://clinapolloni.com/log-cabin-window-in-perspective-painting/

Meeting: If you would like, you can come early at 12:00 noon to plan our future classes and events. Bring a little something to eat and drink that we can share and if you can bring a chair for you.

Painting Class: You can also bring a painting that you have already started and your supply. We can paint it together!

Classes are for FCAC members ONLY. Not a member, no problem, join the FCAC and enjoy a year of FREE painting classes. Email Ellen Queen at fcac.arts@fcacarts.org.

Please let me know if you are coming: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Looking forward to see you,

Clina

Log Cabin Window in Perspective Painting

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Dimensional Perspective, Log Cabin Window, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Wake Forest

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.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

1. 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.
2. Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of Gold or Yellow Ochre acrylic. 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 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.
3. Using oils or acrylics, start painting the window. Continue with the wood and stones.
4. 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: 11″x 14″ for tracing or 18”x 24” for drawing perspective.

Under-paint Acrylics:

1. Gold or Yellow Ochre
2. Ivory Black

Oils or Acrylics Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Sky Blue or Royal Blue
3. Yellow Ochre
4. Raw Sienna
5. Burnt Sienna
6. Van Dyck Brown
7. Cadmium Yellow Light
8. Sap Green
9. Greenish Umber or Deep Green
10. Ivory Black

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.

For Oil paintings, the best media is Refined Linseed Oil with Turpernoi. 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 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: https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/

For supply and instructions about this painting visit: https://clinapolloni.com/log-cabin-window-in-perspective-painting/

For instructions of how to draw perspective: https://clinapolloni.com/log-cabin-window-in-perspective-drawing/ 

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.

How to Draw a Log Cabin Window in Perspective.

Log Cabin Window in Perspective Drawing.

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: https://clinapolloni.com/log-cabin-window-in-perspective-painting/

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

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.

Red and Yellow Peppers Still Life

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Franklinton, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Red Pepper Painting, Still Life, Wake Forest, Yellow Pepper Painting

Still Life, Red and Yellow Peppers.

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni. 

Learn how to draw and paint a Still Life with Red and Yellow Peppers. Bright colors! The best ingredients to create an amazing painting.

Still Life-Red and Yellow Peppers Painting

Drawing instructions:

1. Divide your canvas in half, vertically and horizontally with a line. Blue lines 1 and 2 in sample.
2. In the right side, draw a vertical line in the position where you want to place your yellow pepper, line 3. In the center of these 2 lines draw line 4.
3. Draw an oval (line 5) for the structure of your yellow pepper attached to line 2 and 3. In the center and top of line 4 draw another small oval (line 6). From this oval start drawing the secondary folds of the structure formation of the pepper. Think about light and shade.
4. Duplicate the same process for your left pepper.

Still Life-Red and Yellow Peppers Drawing

Painting Instructions:

1. In this painting I did an under-paint of light yellow and light red with a lot of water to be absolved by the canvas, using acrylics because they dry faster. The under paint is very important because you are continuing to draw with colors and defining light and shade in your final painting.
2. Now you can paint the background. Select a background that you would like for the two combinations of the sample paintings. Paint table with the shading of the peppers.
3. Enjoy painting your red and yellow peppers. Put special attention to the blending of colors.

Still Life-Red and Yellow Peppers Painting

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: 11″x 14″ or 16”x 20”

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Cadmium Yellow Light
3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
4. Cadmium Orange
5. Cadmium Red Light
6. Carmine or Cadmium Red Medium
7. Alizarin Crimson
8. Sap Green
9. Greenish Umber or dark green
10. Dioxazine Purple
11. Yellow Ochre
12. Raw Sienna
13. Burnt Sienna
14. Van Dyck 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.
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.

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

Franklin County Art Council Painting Class

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Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Ocean Sunset, Painting Classes, Seascape

Sunset in the Ocean Painting

Taught by Clina Polloni.

This class is FREE for members of the Franklin County Art Council. At 12:00 noon the Artist Guild members meets and at 1:00pm we start our painting class.

Painting Class: Saturday May 11, 2019.
Artists Guild Meeting: From 12:00noon to 1:00pm.
Class: From 1:00pm to 4:00pm.
Where: Louisburg Art Gallery, 118 B North Main St., Louisburg NC 27549
Painting: ” Sunset in the Ocean”.

Click the link for supply and instructions:
https://clinapolloni.com/how-to-paint-a-sunset-in-the-ocean/

Meeting: If you would like, you can come early at 12:00 noon to plan our future classes and events. Bring a little something to eat and drink that we can share and if you can bring a chair for you.

Painting Class: You can also bring a painting that you have already started and your supply. We can paint it together!

Classes are for FCAC members ONLY. Not a member, no problem, join the FCAC and enjoy a year of FREE painting classes. Email Ellen Queen at fcac.arts@fcacarts.org.

Please let me know if you are coming: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Looking forward to see you,

Clina