Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

Author: Donna Clair

ON THE RIO GRANDE – Sold

100 Small Paintings No. 61 – ON THE RIO GRANDE – NEW 8″x6″ unframed original oil on Italian Gessoed Panel.  Sold

EARLY MORNING LIGHT – SOLD

100 SMALL PAINTINGS – NO. 59 – EARLY MORNING LIGHT – NEW Original Oil on Handmade Italian Gessoed Panel. Sold

HOKUSAI……..

Taos Art Supply posted this wonderful quote from Hokusai – the greatest Japanese printmaker. Gives me the impetus to continue and to hope I can have the experience that “every dot, every dash – will live”! What a great thought to prepare for a new year of painting….. I have drawn things since I was […]

WINTER GIFTS……

To Art Friends Everywhere!  Those of you who have been with me a long time know I send out the same holiday greeting every year.  The original of this painting was “adopted” by some very special art collectors years ago and still resides in a lovely home here in Taos.  The street in this painting […]

GIVING THANKS!!

OUR DAILY BREAD – Taos Pueblo “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” Albert Schweitzer 

LLANO SAN JUAN IN AUTUMN – NEW 16″x20″ Work in Progress (Underpainting)

LLANO SAN JUAN IN AUTUMN – 16″x20″ Work in progress, the Underpainting.  Colors mixed with Grumbacher Underpainting White and turp. Color notes: Sky & Shadows-Indanthrone Purple, Cerulean Blue and Cobalt Blue.  Fields:  Yellow Ochre.  Trees: Outlined in Prussian Blue.  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque and Ochre.

RODARTE (NEW MEXICO), Archival Giclee

RODARTE (NEW MEXICO) – Archival Giclee now available at my Online Gallery/Store.  Went past this spot on a field trip last month and it has all changed! The original of this painting was completed quite some time ago — what I know about the High Road after living and painting here for 45 years, sooner […]

REMEMBRANCE……

Remembering: Many years ago my friend Susie Romero, daughter of Truchas Mayordomo Cosme Romero, took me to the loft of this old church (La Nuestra Senora del Rosario) to show me the lists of Truchas men who had served in war. It was an unforgettable homage. Today I would also like to remember my uncle […]

WINTER FIELDS AT LAS TRAMPAS, Archival Giclee

WINTER FIELDS AT LAS TRAMPAS, Archival Giclee now available at my Online Gallery/Store.  From my kitchen window I can see it is snowing in the Pecos this afternoon – heavy winds and rain in Taos. This image is of the field on the left side of the highway just past the San Jose de Gracia […]

RIO CHIQUITO, Archival Giclee Print

RIO CHIQUITO, Archival Giclee Print now available at my Online Gallery/Store.  In the villages of northern New Mexico, after many trips to the mountains with chainsaw and pick-up truck, the fire wood is chopped and stacked — the chilis are roasted and in the freezer….all’s well with the World!

EARLY MOONRISE AT TRUCHAS, Archival Giclee

EARLY MOONRISE AT TRUCHAS, LARGE ARCHIVAL GICLEE now available at ONLINE GALLERY/STORE   Note: To view smaller version of this print or to view the entire gallery/store inventory, click on the small red door! ENJOY!

WILD ASTERS AT PICURIS PUEBLO, Archival Giclee

WILD ASTERS AT PICURIS PUEBLO, Archival Giclee Print now available at my Online Gallery/Store.  Just coming to the end of autumn in all its glory – Aspens, Chamisa (big sneeze!), and Wild Asters! Filling up the pantry, unhooking the garden hose, putting some plastic up on some of the windows, gessoing new canvases for my […]

ESPIRITU BLANCO, Archival Giclee (Available)

ESPIRITU BLANCO, Archival Giclee now available at my Online Gallery/Store   The white horse, one of my frequent afternoon visitors, standing guard in front of the capilla Don Eusavio built for his wife. This original painting was completed after he died as an homage to his life.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON STROLL – Archival Giclee Print

SATURDAY AFTERNOON STROLL, Archival Giclee Print (13″x19″) Sheet Size – From my time in Truchas – view from in front of the Old Church, La Nuestra Senora del Rosario, toward the main road in town….. beginning to fill up my Online Gallery/store for the holidays — You are invited to take a peek! 

SNOW IN AUGUST! – Sold

  STUDIO NO. 1712 – WINTERMOON AT PICURIS – NEW 16″x16″ (Study) Original Oil Painting on Canvas unframed (painting continues on side panels). Completed 8/21/12 –Sold

HIGH COUNTRY AFTERNOON – 24″X30″ WORK IN PROGRESS

STUDIO NO. 1712 –HIGH COUNTRY AFTERNOON – NEW WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING) – 24″x30 Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Color notes:  – Colors mixed with MG Fast Drying White and Turp.  Sky – Indanthrone Blue/Payne’s Grey.  Yellows:  Naples Yellow, Yellow Ochre.  Trees:  Chrome Oxide Gr. Opaque, Burnt Sienna, Prussian Blue.  Road:  Yellow Ochre, Holbein Rose […]

HOW I PAINT – TONED GROUND

HOW I PAINT – Primed, stretched Antwerp Belgian Linen – 36″x36″, with braces.  TONED GROUND:  Gesso thinned slightly and mixed with Payne’s Grey.  Two to three coats.  Wait until each coat is thoroughly dry before applying the next.  Let canvas sit for about a week before beginning.

STRETCHED CANVAS

STUDIO NEWZ:  A thing of true beauty is a perfectly stretched canvas from Artisan/Santa Fe.  Antwerp Belgian Linen on heavy-duty stretcher bars with the back braced for sturdiness.  Blank canvas – Wow!  ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! 

CELEBRATING 45 YEARS!  NEW 30″x60″ OIL PAINTING…. STUDIO NO. 1412 – “BESIDE STILL WATERS” New 30″x60″ Original Oil (wrap around painting) – Completed 7/25/12  (Available) Call (575)758-7454 Celebrating 45 years as a New Mexico artist!  Here is an excerpt from my book Taking the High Road to Taos…   My sincere thanks to each and every […]

ASPEN SHADOWS – 6″x8″ Original Oil (Sold) 100 Small Paintings No. 51 – ASPEN SHADOWS –  New 6″x8″ Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel,framed $250, Sold

 AGUA NEGRA IGLESIA CATOLICO – 6″x8″ New Original Oil – Sold 100 Small Paintings No. 50 – AGUA NEGRA IGLESIA CATOLICO – New 6″x8″ Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel, unframed.  Sold

BESIDE STILL WATERS – 30″x60″ New Work in Progress, the Underpainting COLOR NOTES:  SKY:  Thalo Blue,Thalo Green, Titanium White – touch of Ochre.  Trees:  Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Water:  Sky colors and some Indanthrone Blue and Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Grasses:  Yellow Ochre, Aliz. Crimson, Burnt Sienna.  Stay Tuned!

“BESIDE STILL WATERS” – NEW 30″X60″ Work in Progress   STUDIO NO. 1412 – NEW WORK IN PROGRESS BESIDE STILL WATERS 30″x60″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen

100 SMALL PAINTINGS NO. 49 – SANTISTEVAN LANE, 6″x8″ Original Oil – Sold   NEW 3-DAY AUCTION – 100 SMALL PAINTINGS NO. 49 – SANTISTEVAN LANE, 6″x8″ Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Board, Unframed. 

100 Small Paintings No. 47 – JAKE’S LILACS (Sold) #47 –  JAKE’S LILACS – 6″x8″ New Original Oil Painting on Italian Gessoed Panel, unframed.  Completed 5/26/12  — Sold

LILIAS DE TAOS – NEW 10″X10″ Original Oil Studio No. 1312 – LILIAS DE TAOS – 10″x10″ New Original Oil, framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  (Available) This lilac bush resides in front of my house. The root stock goes back five generations to Mora, N.M.

PERALTA ROAD, TAOS – NEW 12″x12″ Original Oil – Sold Studio No. 1512 – PERALTA ROAD, TAOS – NEW Original Oil Painting, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  Completed 5/24/12 – Sold

GARCIA PARK – New 30″x40″ Original Oil, Framed.   Studio No. 1212 – GARCIA PARK, 30″X40″ New Original Oil on Belgian Linen – Framed, Completed 5/22/12.  Available for purchase. Call (575)758-7454

30″x40″ Work in Progress – EARLY SNOW AT GARCIA PARK (Underpainting)…. COLOR NOTES:  Sky:  Ultramarine Blue, Payne’s Grey, Titanium White.  Trees:  Various combinations of Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Orange,  Burnt Sienna and Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Shadows under Trees and Dark Soil:  Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber and Burnt Sienna.  Grasses:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, […]

EARLY SNOW AT GARCIA PARK, New Work in Progress (Sketch) 30″x40″ Oil on Belgian Linen.  Initial sketch made on a Grisaille (toned ground – gesso and Payne’s Grey) and sketch done loosely with Burnt Sienna and some Prussian Blue.  Stay tuned for step by step process!  DC

MY NEW BOOK! TAKING THE HIGH ROAD TO TAOS – Donna Clair Paintings TAKING THE HIGH ROAD TO TAOS — A new book from my Taos Studio.  From the dust jacket: “In 1967 Donna Clair began a new, adventurous chapter in her life by leaving Chicago and moving across the country to Santa Fe,New Mexico. […]

AGUA NEGRA MISSION CHURCH – 16″x20 New Original Oil on Belgian Linen, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  (Completed 5/2/12) Available for purchase.  

NEW WORK IN PROGRESS – “Agua Negra Mission Church” – 16″x20″ Original Oil on Canvas.  Stay tuned!

Studio #1012 – SPRING SNOW AT TRUCHAS 22″x28″ New Original Oil Painting

HOW DO I LOVE PAINT?  LET ME COUNT THE WAYS!!!

STUDIO #1012 – WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING)  – SPRING SNOW AT TRUCHAS – 22″X28″ Original Oil on Linen.  This painting will take no more than five or six colors, not counting the white.  Underpainting is done with oil colors and MG Fast Drying Underpainting White mixed with turpentine.  Payne’s Grey, Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome […]

NOCHECITA DE CHIMAYO Completed 4/21/12 New Original Oil on Linen – 22″x28″ – Available

RIO GRANDE AT PILAR – 40″x30″ WORK IN PROG. UNDERPAINTING

  3/5/12 – RIO GRANDE AT PILAR – 40″X30″ WORK IN PROGRESS – Original Oil on Belgian Linen – Color notes:  All colors mixed with MG underpainting white and turpentine and applied with a bristle brush.  Foreground:  Grasses – Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna.  Willows:  Burnt Sienna and Indian Red.  River:  Indanthrone Blue.  Hills to the […]

AUTUMN FIELDS AT SECO – 22″X28″ WORK IN PROGRESS (GLAZES)

  AUTUMN FIELDS AT ARROYO SECO – 28″X22″ ORIGINAL OIL ON BELGIAN LINEN, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.   Color Notes:  Pinon Trees:  Olive Green and Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Yellow Fields:  Italian Pink and Burnt Sienna.  Shadows:  Dioxazine Purple.  Autumn Trees:  Italian Pink, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow.  Stay tuned!

AUTUMN FIELDS AT SECO – 28″X22″ WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING)

  2/6/12 – All colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White.  Color Notes:  Greens:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque and Yellow Ochre.  Shadows:  Diox. Purple.  Trees:  Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, CadmiumRed – Mars Red – Indian Red.  All in various combinations.

NOCHECITA DE CHIMAYO – 22″X28″ WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING)

  2/6/12 – Most colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White and turpentine.  Sky: Thalo Rose Red, Indanthrone Blue, Payne’s Grey.  Trees: Combination of Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque and Yellow Ochre.  Earth:  Mars Orange, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Holbein Rose Grey.

NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU – 24″x30″ WORK IN PROGRESS (GLAZES)

NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU – 24″x30″ Work in Progress – The Glazes:  I’d be lying if I told you I knew how this painting will look when it’s completed – just finished the glazes; will let them dry for a couple of days and then take that empty-handed leap into the oil paints once again! Stay […]

NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU – 24″X30″ WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING)

“NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU” 24″x30″ Work in Progress – Underpainting 5 January 2012 – Basic colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White.  Sky: Cobalt Blue with a touch of Thalo Rose Red.  Trees:  Ochre, Cadmium Red, Burnt Sienna, some Prussian Blue and Cobalt Blue.  Stay tuned! 

NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU – 24″x30″ Work in Progress

  28 December 2011- New Work in Progress – 22″x28″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Phase I – Initial Oil Sketch – primed canvas with “grisaille” ground – Gesso with Payne’s Grey.  Sketch in Prussian Blue oil thinned with turpentine.  Let dry for a couple of days before applying underpainting.  ©DonnaClair 2011/Taos.

DEEP RIVER DREAMING

DEEP RIVER DREAMING- 12″X12″ Original Oil on Canvas, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  $1300 plus shipping. Visa, Mastercard, Amer. Exp. available through my studio.  For price and availability, please visit www.DonnaClairArt.com STUDIO NEWZ:  The image for this painting was taken last fall on the Rio Chama.  Am thinking of doing a larger painting from […]

MORNING POEM

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. Rumi ♥

WINTER GIFTS

  To Art Friends Everywhere!  Those of you who have been with me a long time know I send out the same holiday greeting every year.  The original of this painting was “adopted” by some very prolific art collectors years ago and still resides in a lovely home here in Taos.  The street in this […]

LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ – 36″x24″ – Completed Orig. Oil on Canvas

1 December – LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ – New! 36″x24″ Original Oil on Canvas – Framed.  $2400 – You are invited to scroll down and follow the progress of this painting.  This last step was to glaze the inner part of the window with a combination of Ivory Black, Olive Green and Ultramarine Blue.  […]

EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS PUEBLO – Archival Giclee

GIVING THANKS TODAY! “The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again. Children, everybody, here’s what to do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A […]

24″x96″ Original Oil – PEDERNAL (Work in Progress – Diptych)

 Studio #1611- “PEDERNAL” 24″x96″ Diptych (Work in Progress – the Glazes) — Thinning my oil colors with my painting medium (after letting the underpainting dry for at least a week to ten days), I cover the underpainting with glazes – transparent and semi-transparent colors.  Trees: Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and some Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  […]

24″x96″ PEDERNAL – WORK IN PROGRESS (THE GLAZES)

8/23/11 – PEDERNAL – 24″x96″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Work in Progress – The Glazes.  This is a diptych – the canvases are put together now so that I can have uniform colors in the glazes between the two canvases.  I previously said I would work on these canvases separately and discovered that is […]

24″x96″ PEDERNAL – Work in Progress

STUDIO #1411- PEDERNAL – 24″x96″ Work in Progress – Sky: Deep bright violet underpainting.  Blue:  Permalba White, Thalo Blue, some Indanthrone Blue with a touch of ochre.  Dry Brush!  Clouds: Permalba White – touch of Cadmium Yellow with tiny bit of Cadmium Red.

24″x96″ Oil Painting – “PEDERNAL” Work in Progress (Underpainting)

23 July 2011 – PEDERNAL – 24″X96″ Diptych – Work in Progress – The Underpainting.  Toned Ground:  Gesso mixed with Payne’s Grey.  Underpainting: All colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Fast Drying White — Sky:  Diox. Purple.  Distant Mountains:  Indanthrone Blue and Prussian Blue  Earth Colors:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow.  […]