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.

Learn Plein-Air at the River Bend Park Louisburg NC

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Cary, Clina Polloni, Durham, Franklinton, Landscape, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Plein Air Painting Class, Raleigh, Tar River Festival, Wake Forest, WakeField

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

The River of Yesteryear has invited Clina Polloni and her students from 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. Let us all paint Plein-Air together.

When: Saturday, October 20, 2018
Time: 10am to 4pm
Location: River Bend Park, Louisburg, NC

To the participant students:

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.

To view videos about painting Plain-Air painting, click on the following links:

Canvas: 

11″x14″ or any size you like.

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Cadmium Yellow Light
3. Yellow Ochre
4. Alizarin Crimson
5. Sap Green
6. Cerulean Blue
7. Ultramarine Blue
8. Burnt Sienna
9. Van Dyck Brown or dark brown
10. 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 round Bristle brush #2.
Paper towel.
Plate to mix colors or a Paper Palette. SOHO has a very reasonable paper palette at Jerry’s Arterama.

Looking forward to see you,
Clina

You can learn and enjoy to do this painting in the painting classes:
http://www.clinapolloni.com/painting_classes.html

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.

 

Plein Air Painting of Grapevines, June 2018

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Clina Polloni, Franklinton, Landscape, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Plein Air Painting Class, Raleigh

Dear members of The FCAC Artists Guild:

Thank you for coming to the Plein Air painting class at Clina Polloni Studio. We had a beautiful time! Great creativity, good international food, especially the Indian dish that Soma Samanta, Labannya’s mother cooked for us.

Click photos to view larger image:

 

Learn Plein Air Painting Class

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Class of Plein Air Painting of Grapevines

Dear Students:

You are cordially invited to Clina Polloni Art Studio at Marigold Plantation to learn Plein Air Painting. Plein Air is about leaving the studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing the landscape. 

This class is FREE for Clina Polloni Art students and Franklin County Art Council members. Lets enjoy some artistic talent together, a time to get to know each other better, inspired by nature.

Bring a little something to eat and drink that we can share. Also bring a folding table and chair to seat outside.

When: Saturday June 9, 2018.
Class: From 12:00pm to 4:00pm.
Call Clina Polloni at 919.841.3132
Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com
Studio location: 13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27525.

Look at the video to learn to paint the grapevines:

Canvas: 11″x14″

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Cadmium Yellow Light
3. Yellow Ochre
4. Alizarin Crimson
5. Sap Green
6. Cerulean Blue
7. Ultramarine Blue
8. Burnt Umber
9. 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 round Bristle brush #2.
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.

For more information about the present and past classes, please visit our page:
http://www.fcacarts.org/classes_for_members_.aspx

Looking forward to see you,

Clina

2018 First Friday of March Exhibition in Wake Forest, NC

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Art Exhibition, Cary, Clina Polloni, Durham, Franklinton, Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, NC, North Carolina, Old Baldy, Raleigh, Wake Forest

You are cordially invited to an art Exhibition at the Renaissance Centre For The Arts, organized by the Wake Forest Guild of Artists.

Date: Friday, March 2, 2018
Start Time: 6:00 PM.
End Time: 9:00 PM.
Location: Arts Annex Wake Forest Renaissance Centre.
407 Brooks Ave. Wake Forest, NC.

Local artist will celebrate the First Friday displaying Structure paintings. The exhibition will last all the month of March and April 2018. Come to visit any time!

Clina Polloni will exhibit 8 Structure oil paintings:

 From North Carolina:
“The North Carolina State Capitol”
“The Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse”
“Old Baldy with Laurel Oak Forest”
“Old Baldy”

From Chile:
“Casa de Paja”
“Chile in the 1800’s”
“White Adobe Church”
“Casa de Campo”

To view larger images click on the photos >>

The North Carolina State Capitol

Old Baldy. Bald head Island Lighthouse, NC

Old Baldy. Bald head Island Lighthouse, NC

Casa Campesina. Chile in the 1800’s

White Adobe Church from Chile

Casa de Paja. A straw house in Chile

Casa de Campo. Chile in the 1800’s

For more information about Clina Polloni, visit:
http://www.clinapolloni.com/
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.
Vice-Chair of The Franklin County Art Council and member of The Wake Forest Guild of Artists, of North Carolina.

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The Fishermen, Oil Painting of Constitución, Chile

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Chile, Clina Polloni, Constitución, Oil paintings

“The Fishermen”

Oil Painting by Clina Polloni
24”x36”

“The Fishermen”, this painting was done in the beautiful fishing town of Constitución, Chile. Based on a painting that my great-grandfather did in 1913. Bright and changing colors of the sunset, the fishermen were coming back with their rich catch on a summer evening after a day at the sea.

Who could imagine that almost a hundred years after, this village was going to be destroyed by the fury of the waters, an earthquake and tsunami that killed 350 people in Constitución, Chile. March 1, 2010.

Antonio Polloni, My Great Grandfather.

He was a talented Chilean Artist. He painted with oils winning many prices for his art. In 1920 he received the 1st National Award for his self portrait “El Pobre Diablo” (“The Pour Devil”). He was also a very well known Chilean photographer, commissioned by the Chilean Navy, traveling through the Chilean territory taking panoramic photos, unifying his photos one by one in his laboratory creating a horizontal photo of the landscape.

 

 

 

 

Next Group Painting Class, January 20, 2018

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Announcing Next Group Painting Class, January 20, 2018.

Fishing Village in NC

Date: Saturday, January 20, 2018.
Time: 1:00pm to 4:00pm.
Location: Clina Polloni Studio.
13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27527
Painting: “Fishing Village Painting in NC”. Click painting to see a larger image.

You can bring a painting that you had already started and your supply. We can paint it together! Or paint the following paint:

“Fishing Village Painting in NC”: This painting 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: 14″x11″

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. Raw Umber
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.
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:
http://www.clinapolloni.com/painting_classes.html .
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.

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How to Paint Red Geraniums in a Stone House.

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Cary, Clina Polloni, Durham, Franklinton, Landscape, NC, NC Colonial Houses, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Red Geraniums, Wake Forest

“Red Geraniums in a Stone House, NC”.
Oil painting 16″x20″ by Clina Polloni.

Traveling through the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, I was inspired to paint this colonial stone house with the red geraniums in the window.

This is a simple painting that would be good to learn in the painting class.

The “Red Geraniuns in a Stone House, NC” painting is FOR SALE at the Sugar Magnolia Cafe in Wake Forest, NC:
https://www.sugarmagnoliacafe.com/

Instructions of how to do this painting:

1. Draw a 2″ border around the painting.
2. Start by drawing the window, geraniums, door, stones and tree in the front, defining the light and the shade. Look at image. Click the images to view a large painting >>
3. Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of gold acrylic. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. They creates a worm color that once you put the oils in the top, they look brighter.

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

1. Using oils or acrylics, start painting the stones, window and door.
2. Paint the red geraniums and leaves in the front.
3. Last, paint the tree in the front.
4. Sign your work of art.

Supply:

Canvas: 16″x20″

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Gold
3. Cadmium Yellow Light
4. Yellow Ochre
5. Cadmium Red Medium
6. Cadmium Red Light
7. Alizarin Crimson
8. Magenta
9. Burnt Sienna
10. Van Dyck Brown
11. Greenish Umber
12. Thalo Green
13. Payne’s Gray
14. 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 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 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:
http://www.clinapolloni.com/painting_classes.html
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.

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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 paint an 1800’s Country Scene.

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Cary, Clina Polloni, country scene, Durham, Franklinton, Landscape, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Learn to paint an 1800’s Country Scene from Chile.

This is a simple painting designed to learn to paint a country scene, trees, sunset skies, reflections in the water.

I was born and raised in Chile, and in my memories, I remember country roads, when traveling with my family through the beautiful land of Chile. This painting is based in sketches that my great grandfather, Antonio Polloni did when painting the landscape of Chile in the 1800’s.

Click the images to view a large painting >>

Instructions:

1. Start by drawing the country houses and landscape.
2. Give a soft coat of gold acrylic. Acrylics are very good for under-painting, they creates a worm color that once you paint in the top, the colors looks brighter.
3. Next star painting from the back, sky, road, grass, trees, houses, and reflections in the water.
4. Sign your work of art.

Supply: This painting can be done in acrylics or oils.

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 Hobby Lobby, Michael’s, ACMoore, but again the most affordable ones are at Jerry’s Arterama and their brand is LUKAS.

Canvas: 12″x16″

Colors:

1. Gold
2. Titanium White
3. Cadmium Yellow Light
4. Cadmium Yellow Medium
5. Cadmium Red Medium
6. Venetian Red
7. Alizarin Crimson
8. Yellow Ochre
9. Raw Sienna
10. Burnt Sienna
11. Van Dyck Brown
12. Royal Blue
13. Prussian Blue
14. Sap Green
15. Greenish Umber

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 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 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:
http://www.clinapolloni.com/painting_classes.html

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

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How To Paint A White Adobe Church

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Adobe Church, Cary, Clina Polloni, Franklinton, Landscape, NC, North Carolina, Oil paintings, Raleigh, Wake Forest

This painting was inspired by my life in Rabones, a valley of dreams located in the mountains of the central region of Chile.

I lived for 10 years in our farm called “Las Puertas de Rabones”. I was close to God, to nature and to animals. Memories of golden sunny days, enjoying the company of beautiful people with spirits as clear as the crystal waters of “Rio Putagan” running through the fertile land. I learned about their culture, their traditions and the purity of their lives. Visit http://www.clinapolloni.com/paintings_of_rabones.html

Click the images to view a large painting >>

Instructions:

1. Start by drawing the church and landscape.
2. Give a soft coat of acrylic gold to the church and silver for the sky. Acrylics are very good for under-painting, they creates a worm color that once you put the oils in the top, they look brighter.
3. Next paint with oils sky, grass, clouds, church, mountain and land.
4. Sign your work of art.

Supply:

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: 16″x20″

Colors: 

Acrylics:
Gold
Silver

 Oil paintings:

1. Titanium White
2. Cadmium Yellow Light
3. Yellow Ochre
4. Raw Sienna
5. Burnt Sienna
6. Van Dyck Brown
7. Cerulean Blue
8. Ultramarine Blue
9. Sap Green
10. Dioxazine Purple
11. 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.
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, 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:
http://www.clinapolloni.com/painting_classes.html

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

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