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.

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/

Merry Christmas Feliz Navidad 2019.

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Cary, Clina Polloni, Feliz Navidad, Franklinton, Merry Christmas, NC, North Carolina, Raleigh, Wake Forest

To our dear family and friends,

This year 2019, God had blessed us and gave us many reasons to be thankful.

The family is doing well, growing and healthy. Summer and Autumn are living permanently with Thommy and April, going to a new school here in Franklinton that they like. James surprised us with a welcome visit. Patricia and David came to visit us for the Allen reunion.

Oil Portrait of my mother Clina Becker

It has been a very sad year for Chile after the continues destruction by communist terrorist. We thank to God that the family is fine. My mother is stable and with a very positive spirit. Enjoying our company when we are able to go to Chile.

We took the granddaughters Summer, Autumn and Melissa to historical sites of North Carolina to learn about the history of our state and about their ancestors. Visited their graves and plantations.

I have to be thankful to my students, they had brought me great happiness seeing their accomplishments and paintings.

The painting in the top is the “Children Sleigh Ride” inspired by my husband Thom’s three children Thommy, Patricia and James, playing in the snow when they were small. Joyful days of growing up in their beautiful farm in Franklinton, North Carolina.

God bless you on this Holiday Season of 2019 and bring you lots of happiness for 2020,

Thom and Clina

Read more: https://clinapolloni.com/merry-christmas-feliz-navidad-2019/

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A nuestra querida familia y amigos.

Este año del 2019, Dios nos ha bendecido y nos dio muchas razones para estar agradecidos. La familia esta bien, creciendo y saludable. Summer y Autumn están viviendo con Thommy y April, ahora van a un colegio que les gusta, aquí en Franklinton. James nos sorprendió con una linda visita. Patricia y David vinieron a la reunión de la familia

Ha sido un año muy triste para Chile por la continua destrucción echa por los terroristas comunistas. Agradecemos a Dios porque la familia esta bien. Mi madre esta estable y con buen espíritu, disfrutando nuestra compañía cuando podemos ir a Chile.

Llevamos a las nietas Summer, Autumn y Melissa a visitar lugares históricos de Carolina del Norte para aprender sobre la historia de nuestro estado y sus ancestros. Visitamos sus tumbas y plantaciones.

La pintura es “Niños en el trineo de nieve” inspirada por los tres hijos de Thom, Thommy Patricia y James jugando en la nieve cuando eran pequeños. Días felices creciendo en su lindo fundo en Franklinton, Carolina del Norte.

Que Dios los bendiga en estas fiestas Navideñas 2019 y les traiga muchas felicidades el 2020,

Thom y Clina

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Girl Making Butter Painting.

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Cary, Child Portrait, Clina Polloni, Colonial People of NC, Franklinton, Girl Making Butter, NC, North Carolina, Oil paintings, Raleigh, Wake Forest

Oil painting 24″x 36″ by Clina Polloni.

Girl Making Butter Painting

This painting is about a girl concentrating in making butter. Children have always been my inspiration, portraying the innocence of their young life.

Also, my admiration for the beauty and history of North Carolina. Traveling through the mountains I admired the rocks formations and colors, from browns to yellows, greens, aquamarines and blues.

Clina Polloni is a contemporary artist born in Chile. Her oil paintings are inspired by her love for people, animals and nature. Her new project: “The motif of the human figure in a dialogue with natures light and colors.” In these new paintings she is portraying the people of North Carolina in their environment and activities, representing the colonial times and history of our state.

Instructions of how to do this painting:

1. Start by drawing the girl and rocks setting defining the light and the shade. I draw with pencils, permanent pens and acrylics. Look at image.
2. Do your under-paint or imprimatura with a wash of acrylic gold and silver. Acrylics are very good for under-painting because they dry faster. They create a worm color that once you put the oils in the top, they look brighter.
3. Apply a coat of heavy gesso in the walls to create texture.

Girl Making Butter Drawing

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

1. Using oils, start painting the background, stones, window, chair, floor, vegetables, etc.
2. Using oils paint the skin, blending light and shade to the color of the skin. Paint the features of the face and hands.
3. Paint hair, hat and clothe.
4. Sign your work of art.

Call Clina: 919-841-3132.

Email: clinapolloni@gmail.com

For more information and instruction of how to do this painting, click in the following link: https://clinapolloni.com/girl-making-butter-painting/

Visit Clina Polloni Art Studio and Gallery.

Girl Making Butter Underpaint

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 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, 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

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

Ballerina Dress Painting

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Ballerina Dress Painting, Cary, Durham, Franklinton, NC, North Carolina, Painting Classes, Wake Forest

Learn To Paint A Ballerina Dress

This painting is a self portrait of Clina Polloni student Labannya Samanta. The challenge is to get a perfect definition of light and shadow, creating the many colors tones to accomplish the folding of the close.

Instructions and Progression:

1. You start by drawing and painting a good under-paint. It was done in acrylics because they dry faster and it gives you the opportunity to paint immediately. Draw with your acrylics the light and shade.
2. Continue with oils, light areas first, then medium tone and finally shading colors. Blend these colors very softly to create a fine transition

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 portraits visit:
https://clinapolloni.com/portraits/

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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Ascension of Jesus, Cary, Clina Polloni, Durham, Franklinton, Merry Christmas, NC, North Carolina, Raleigh, Wake Forest

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/