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.

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.

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.

Rose Color Peonies Painting

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Clina Polloni, Louisburg, NC, North Carolina, Oil paintings, Raleigh, Rose Color Peonies, Wake Forest

“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.