Tree in a Field of Lavender Painting

Painting Class Taught by Artist Clina Polloni.

Tree in a Field of Lavender Painting

This painting was inspired by the mountains and landscape of North Carolina. A simple painting created for the painting classes.

Instructions:

1. Draw tree and mountains.
2. The best and easier way of painting this landscape is by doing an under-paint with acrylics using: Titanium White, Cerulean Blue and Ivory Black. Paint the entire canvas with a mixture of Titanium White and Cerulean Blue. Outline tree with black.
3. Now you can start the painting. It can be done with oils or acrylics. First is the mountains, second the grass, walkway and flowers. Finally, the leaves of the tree with shades of greens for light and shading.

Supply: This painting can be done in 2 medias, Oil Paintings or Acrylics:

Tree in a Field of Lavender-Starting to Paint

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: 9”x 12”

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Cadmium Yellow Light
3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
4. Cerulean Blue
5. Ultramarine Blue
6. Sap Green
7. Yellow Ochre
8. Raw Sienna
9. Dioxazine Purple
10. Van Dyck Brown
11. 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/

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.

Rose Color Peonies Painting

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“Flores Para Mi Madre”.

By Clina Polloni.

Oil on canvas board 16”x 20”.

Rose Color Peonies Painting

I did this painting with my mother. She loves pink peonies and she asked me to paint it together.

The Rose Color Peonies painting belongs to the collection of “Flowers of Love”, Inspired by my poem “An Instant of Time”, about love and flowers.

Instructions:

1. Draw the Peonies.
2. Under paint and background: In acrylics, paint gold with a little bit of Alizarin Crimson.
3. Painting: With acrylics or oils paint beautiful colors to create a harmony of magenta and whites.
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: 16″x 20″

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Cadmium Yellow Light
3. Cadmium Yellow Medium
4. Cadmium Red Light
5. Violet de Cobalt or Thio Violet or Deep Magenta
6. Ultramarine Blue
7. Sap Green
8. Greenish Umber (Grumbacher) or a Deep Green
9. Alizarin Crimson
10. Prussian Blue

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.

For information about this painting visit: https://clinapolloni.com/rose-color-peonies-painting/

August and September 2019. The Rose Color Peonies Painting is exhibit at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre. 405 Brooks St, Wake Forest, NC 27587.

Learn more: https://clinapolloni.com/flowers-of-love-poem-exhibition/ 

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.

Inspiring Imagination Exhibition at Wake Forest NC.

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You are cordially invited to the

“Inspiring Imagination Exhibition” at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre.

Paintings inspired by music, dance, literature and poetry.

Colors Of Flowers Painting

Opening Reception: Friday, August 2, 2019.

Time: 6:00 to 8:00pm.
Location: Arts Annex Wake Forest Renaissance Centre.
405 Brooks St, Wake Forest, NC 27587
This exhibition will last August and September 2019.

Clina Polloni will exhibit her flowers and poem paintings from the collection of “Flowers of Love”, Inspired by her poem “An Instant of Time”, about love and flowers:

4 Paintings:

1. Flowers of Love Poem. Oil on canvas18”x 24”. https://clinapolloni.com/flowers-of-love-poem/
2. Rose Color Peonies. Oil on canvas board 16”x 20”.
3. Colors Of Flowers. Oil on canvas 24”x 30”.
4. Pink Petunia. Oil on canvas16”x 20”.

Exhibition info: https://clinapolloni.com/flowers-of-love-poem-exhibition/

Rose Color Peonies Painting

Flowers of Love Poem Painting

Pink Petunia Painting

For more information about Clina Polloni, visit: https://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.

Flowers of Love Poem

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“Flowers of Love” are oil paintings by Clina Polloni.

 Inspired by my poem “An Instant of Time”, about love and flowers:

Flowers of Love Poem Painting

Love like flowers
is a fragile breeze;
it is a flash of time,
born on a clear day,
explodes in magnificent
colors and feelings,
and diminish in the
shadows of life.

Poem by Clina Polloni ©

After the cold days of winter. I can’t wait for the warm days of spring to see the pale daffodils or the purple irises emerging, green baby leaves appearing in the old oak tree and finally a rainbow of colors; camellias, geraniums, tulips, peonies, crape myrtles, dahlias, roses and pansies. I get my canvas, brushes, bright colors and go outside, seat in the purple chair and paint. I live in Franklinton, NC, USA, travel to Chile to see my family and also paint.

Flowers of Love Poem Drawing

Instructions:

1. Start by drawing the poem with a mediaeval calligraphy. The first letter of the poem is at the right side with a gold background and decorated with flowers.
2. Draw flowers around the poem.
3. Create a border with gold and heavy gesso.
4. Paint with acrylics or oils.

Clina’s paintings are for sale at her studio, The Renaissance Centre for The Arts in Wake Forest and The Franklin County Art Council, NC.

To learn more about this poem and instructions visit:
https://clinapolloni.com/flowers-of-love-poem/ 

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

Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio and Gallery.

Medieval Letter F

13 Garner Road, Franklinton NC 27525.
Take a drive to the beautiful country of North Carolina. Only half an hour from downtown Raleigh.

2019 Spotlight on Wake Forest Artists Exhibit

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You are cordially invited to the 

Opening Reception of the

2019 Spotlight on Wake Forest Artists Exhibit

Clina Polloni Artist

The Wake Forest Public Art Commission (PAC) will host a special reception Saturday, July 27, from 9 a.m. until noon to formally open its 2019 Spotlight on Wake Forest Artists Exhibit. The gathering will take place inside the Arts Annex at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre, 407 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587.

The reception will have an informal, open house-style format, so you may drop in anytime between 9 a.m. and noon. Program begin at 10 a.m. PAC members and several featured artists will be on hand throughout the morning to answer questions and share information about the selected works of art.

2019-Spotlight on Wake Forest Artists Exhibit

Each painting is a mural applied to the facade of a buildings in downtown Wake Forest. The “Orange Reflections in the River” is at Taylor Street Park Sprayground, 416 N. Taylor St. with a plaque with information about the artist. Maps highlighting the locations of the paintings/murals will be available.

To learn more about the “Orange Reflections in the River” visit:
https://clinapolloni.com/orange-reflections-in-the-river/

Orange Reflections in the River Painting

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Orange Reflections in the River.

By Clina Polloni.

Original oil painting on canvas 30″x 36″.

Mural applied to the facade of a buildings in downtown Wake Forest.

Orange Reflections in the River

This is a sunset of the beautiful Oconaluftee River that flows through The Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Transitions from blues to reds and yellows reflected in the water.

The Oconaluftee River is an inspiration for painting because of its beauty and legends. The Cherokee Indians considered the waters of the Oconaluftee River sacred. It was the deeper part of the river, where all the animals came to wash and heal their wounds when they had been hurt by hunters.

This painting has been selected by The Wake Forest Public Art Commission among 5 paintings of participant local artists, for the “2019 Spotlight on Wake Forest Artists Exhibit”.

Each painting is a mural applied to the facade of a buildings in downtown Wake Forest. The “Orange Reflections in the River” is at Taylor Street Park Sprayground, 416 N. Taylor St. with a plaque with information about the artist.

Visit: https://clinapolloni.com/paintings/landscapes/
Learn more: https://clinapolloni.com/orange-reflections-in-the-river/

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.

Exhibition at the Mims Gallery

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The Gourd Artist Painting

Artist Clina Polloni cordially invites you to the Wesleyan’s Dunn Center Mims Gallery for a group exhibition. “Mr. Chips Loses His Way”

Reception: Thursday, May 16, 2019.
Time: 5:00pm to 8:00pm.
Duration: Until August 26, 2019.
Location: Dunn Center for the Performing Arts, North Carolina Wesleyan College.
3400 N. Wesleyan Blvd. Rocky Mount, NC 27804-8699.
Telephone: 252-469-8577.

Artists from the area will display their paintings in a variety of mediums and styles, including acrylics, oils and watercolors paintings.

Clina Polloni will exhibit “The Gourd Artist”. This oil painting is in honor to all the gourd artists of North Carolina that works their craft in silence.
Medium: Oil on Canvas – 24”x 30”

For information about this painting visit:
https://clinapolloni.com/the-gourd-artist-painting/

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

How to Paint an Oil Pet Portrait of Bibo

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Pet Portrait of Brown Chow Chow

Bibo is a Brown Chow Chow.  I was commissioned by my friend Phylliss to paint Bibo. Laying under my feet, I would go “Bibo raise your head so I can see your beautiful eyes”. Her hair is brown but with beautiful copper colors.

Canvas: 11″x14″.

Instructions and Progression:

1. Draw and paint the under-paint: It was done in acrylics because they dry faster and it gives you the opportunity to paint immediately. Use a washed of Yellow Ochre, but be sure to saturate the canvas. Also you can draw the eyes with black acrylic.
2. Paint the background: In his portrait I painted the background in dark colors because I wanted to highlight her beautiful brown/copper hair to show well with contrast.
3. Continue with Bibo’s face: Put special detail in the eyes, hair and nose. It will give you a better understanding of her features
4. Paint Bibo’s body: Taking advantage of the texture and the many tones of her hair. The hair was painted with a #1 pro-white brush using it sideways, look at picture.

Colors:

1. Titanium White
2. Flesh, Portrait Pink or Pale Pink
3. Cadmium Yellow Light
4. Cadmium Yellow Medium
5. Yellow Ochre
6. Raw Sienna
7. Burnt Sienna
8. Van Dyck Brown
9. Alizarin Crimson
10. Greenish Umber
11. Thalo Green
12. Ivory Black

Brushes, multi-purpose, polyvalent, from the finest 0 to 6.
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.
Plastic plate to mix colors or a Paper Palette.

For commissioned pet portraits visit: 
https://www.clinapolloni.com/pet_portraits.html

For Pet Portraits business site visit:
https://portraits-paintings-raleigh-nc.business.site/

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.

2018 Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
To all our dear friends and family,

Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased.

We are very thankful for all the good things that God have given us in this year of 2018. Family togetherness, health and happy moments.

“Ascension of Jesus” painting by Deb Allen.

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Feliz Navidad y Prospero Año Nuevo.
A nuestros queridos amigos y familia.

Gloria a Dios en las alturas,
Y en la tierra paz entre los hombres en quienes el esta bien agradecido.

Estamos agradecidos a Dios por todas las cosas que nos dio en el año 2018. La unidad familiar, salud y momentos felices.

“Asunción de Jesús” pintura por Deb Allen.

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Thomas C. Allen and Clina Polloni Allen
13 Garner Road, Franklinton, NC 27525
919-841-3132
http://www.clinapolloni.com/ 

Miniature Quilt Block for a Christmas gift!

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Get a Miniature Quilt Block for a Christmas gift!

Only $20.00 at the Little Art Gallery.
Early American Designs. Original art created with acrylics and quilt materials on canvas – 8”x 8”

The “Little Art Gallery” is located inside Southern Suds & Gifts, Wake Forest NC. Painting classes, acrylic and oils.
213 S White St, Wake Forest, NC 27587, call 919.841.3132
https://little-art-gallery.business.site/