Cherry Blossom Trees Drawing

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Cherry Blossom Trees, Clina Polloni, flowers, Franklinton, North Carolina, Painting Classes, 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:

1. Go outside, in this painting is the back yard of my house. Select the flowers that you would like to paint. 2. Draw with pencils first to create a general composition of your painting.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Start drawing with Ivory Black: trunk of trees, house (including inside of windows) and details of landscape.
5. 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.

Canvas: 16″x 16″

Colors:

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.

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.

For information about this drawing visit: https://clinapolloni.com/cherry-blossom-trees-drawing/

Call Clina: 919-841-3132

Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

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

House in the Island of NC Painting Classes.

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Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Seascape, Wake Forest

March 2020 Painting Classes by Clina Polloni ART Studio.

Taught by Clina.

House in the Island NC Painting

Time: 1:00 to 4:00pm.

Two locations:

Clina Polloni ART Studio: 13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27525.
Saturday March 7, 14 and 18 2020.
The fee for each class is $30.00. To register email Clina  clinapolloni@gmail.com

The Cotton Company: 306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.
Wednesday March 4, 11 and 18 2020.
The fee for each class is $30.00. You can register and pay by calling 919-570-0087, or go to the front desk.

Painting: “House in the Island of NC”. Learn to paint the ocean, reflections of a sailing boat and most important the little house in the cliff of the sand dunes.

For supply and information about this painting visit: https://clinapolloni.com/house-in-the-island-of-nc-painting/

Valentine Red Rose Painting

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flowers, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Valentine Red Rose, Wake Forest

February 2020 Painting Classes by Clina Polloni ART Studio.

Valentine Red Rose Painting

Taught by Clina.

Time: 1:00 to 4:00pm.

Painting: “Valentine Red Rose Painting”.
Is February, the month for love! What a better time to learn to paint a Valentine Red Rose.

For supply and information about this painting visit: https://clinapolloni.com/valentine-red-rose/

3 locations:

Clina Polloni ART Studio: 13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27525.
Saturday 8, 22 and 29 of February 2020.
The fee for each class is $30.00. To register email Clina clinapolloni@gmail.com

The Cotton Company: 306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.
Wednesday 5, 12, 19 and 26 of February 2020.
The fee for each class is $30.00. You can register and pay by calling 919-570-0087, or go to the front desk.

Franklin County Art Council: Gallery on the Hill, 99 S. Bickett Blvd., Louisburg, NC 27549.
Saturday February 15, 2020.
This class is FREE for members of the Franklin County Art Council.

Valentine Red Rose Painting.

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flowers, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Valentine Red Rose, Wake Forest

A Valentine Red Rose

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

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:

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.

Winter Trees Playing with Clouds

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Clina Polloni, Landscape, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, River Bend Park, Tar River

This painting is of the River Bend Park at the Tar River, Louisburg, NC.

Oil Painting by Clina Polloni.

Winter Trees Playing with Clouds

Is the basic and a learning exercise to draw the structure of the trees in a blue sky background with clouds.

You can learn to paint landscapes in the painting classes:

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

Call Clina: 919-841-3132

Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Painting of Tulsi or Tulasi (Holy Basil)

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Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Tulasi Holy Basil, Wake Forest

Painting Class of January 11 at Clina Polloni ART Studio.

Sheetal Telang with Holy Basil Painting

Sheetal Telang is painting the Tulsi or Tulasi (Holy Basil) is a sacred plant in Hindu belief. Hindus regard it as an earthly manifestation of the goddess Tulsi/Vrinda; she is regarded as the avatar of Lakshmi. Every part of the Tulsi plant is revered and considered sacred.

Perspective:This painting is illustrated by the concept of convergence. Which are lines that moves into the distance and converge on a center vanishing point, that is the Holy Basil. The light comes from the Holy Basil to illuminate the painting.

Learn to paint with us: https://clinapolloni.com/painting-classes/

January 2020 Painting Classes by Clina Polloni ART Studio.

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Franklinton, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, sand dunes, Seascape, Wake Forest

Taught by Clina.

Sea Dunes with Sail Boat Painting

Time: 1:00 to 4:00pm.

Two locations:

Clina Polloni ART Studio: 13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27525.
Wednesday 18 and 29. Saturday 11 and 18 of January 2020.

The Cotton Company: 306 S. White Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.
Wednesday 15 and 22 of January 2020.

For reservations email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

Painting: “Sea Dunes with a Sail Boat”. Is a simple and charming painting for a person that is starting to paint and wants to learn about the beach, reflections of a boat sailing and sand dunes.

For supply and information about this painting visit: https://clinapolloni.com/sea-dunes-with-sail-boat/

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.