Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

Author: Donna Clair

ABOVE THE VALLEY – 30X40″ NEW COMPLETED ORIGINAL OIL

Good Monday to All! “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – William Shakespeare…….“ABOVE THE VALLEY” – New Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian Linen, completed 10 January 2009. To be framed in gold with linen liner. A view from the rim road at Llano San Juan de Nepomuseno, El Llano, N.M. For price […]

PASSING STORM – SOLD

“PASSING STORM” – NEW ORIGINAL OIL ON LINEN6″x12″ Framed in Gold with Linen Liner SOLD!

WINTER IN TAOS

7 January 2009 — No explanation necessary – huge snowstorm two days ago — the snow plow came through today and helped me dig out the driveway — very quiet, very beautiful — soft and silent, but I do know why birds fly south for the winter! DC

ABOVE THE VALLEY – WORK IN PROGRESS (PHASE II)

“ABOVE THE VALLEY” — NEW WORK IN PROGRESS (PHASE TWO: THE GLAZES) 30″x40″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen — A birds-eye view of Llano San Juan de Nepomuseno, El Llano, New Mexico – 30″x40″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen – Work in Progress (Phase #2 – The Glazes – see definition of colors under […]

ABOVE THE VALLEY – WORK IN PROGRESS

“ABOVE THE VALLEY” – A birds-eye view of Llano San Juan de Nepomuseno, El Llano, New Mexico – 30″x40″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen – Work in Progress (Phase #1 – Underpainting) — Mixing my oil colors with MG Underpainting White and Turpentine: Red foliage – burnt sienna and alizarin crimson. Fields: Yellow Ochre Blues: […]

PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT – Click here for Print Catalogue

“PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT” – Archival Giclee from the High Road Print Catalogue – Prints are made to order – – This image is printed using the highest quality Epson Archival Chrome Inks on Epson Ultra Premium Art Paper (Matte) –heavy-weight stock. The colors highly saturate the bright white base and the end result is an […]

NEW PRINTS AVAILABLE/DONNA CLAIR EBAY STORE – Click here to view

“MORNING POEM” — This image and 24 others are now available at my EBay Store. All Prints are made to order – – This image is printed using the highest quality Epson Archival Chrome Inks on Epson Ultra Premium Art Paper (Matte) –heavy-weight stock. The colors highly saturate the bright white base and the end […]

WINTER GIFTS

FELICIDADES A TODOS! Am headed into my comfy cave for a long winter’s nap — will resume posts and e.mails December 29th…..best wishes to all, Donna. There is nothing I can give you which you have not; But there is much, very much that while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can […]

“NESTLED IN” — 28″x22″ New Original Painting

“NESTLED IN” – 28″X22″ New Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian Linen, framed in gold with Linen Liner. One of the things I truly love about painting is the freedom I have to create my own reality– to change an image — “pentimento” — to paint over what I thought was good two days or […]

DONDE NACE LA LLUVIA (Where the Rain Begins)

“DONDE NACE LA LLUVIA” (Where the Rain Begins) – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings […]

WINTER DREAMS

“WINTER DREAMS” Hello from snowy Taos! — This is one of my all-time favorite places — it was the winter road home to the ranch on Llano Quemado, Truchas. Laid in supplies of groceries – if it snowed during the Christmas holidays, the snow plow wouldn’t make it for a few days. Lots of books […]

GIVING THANKS

BEST WISHES FROM TAOS FOR A VERY PEACEFUL AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

“THE SUN SINGERS”

“THE SUN SINGERS”— #240 Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no obligation […]

EL OTONO DE SANTA FE

“EL OTONO DE SANTA FE” — #115 Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there […]

OUR DAILY BREAD

“OUR DAILY BREAD” – A friend and I visited Taos Pueblo many years ago on a very cold and windy January day — we bought the loaf of bread this lady was taking out of her horno and ate the whole thing! Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are […]

CHAMISAL PASTORAL

“CHAMISAL PASTORAL” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no obligation to […]

“YELLOW MUMS” – NEW Original Painting

“YELLOW MUMS”(Completed 11/18/08)See Oct. 14th post for Underpainting NEW Original 28″x22″ Oil Painting on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

HEART OF VALDEZ (Study) – New Original Oil Painting

“THE HEART OF VALDEZ” (Study)(Completed 11/17/08) New Original Oil Painting – 11×14″ on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

WILD ASTERS AT PICURIS

“WILD ASTERS AT PICURIS” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

EARLY MOONRISE AT TRUCHAS –

“EARLY MOONRISE AT TRUCHAS” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

LAST LIGHT AT TRUCHAS

“LAST LIGHT AT TRUCHAS” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

EL VALLE SIN NOMBRE

“EL VALLE SIN NOMBRE” – (VALLEY WITHOUT A NAME) Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings […]

“EVENING PRAYER STICKS”

“EVENING PRAYER STICKS” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no obligation […]

CASA VIEJA DE CHIMAYO

“LA CASA VIEJA DE CHIMAYO” – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is […]

LOS DIAS DE ORO

LOS DIAS DE ORO – Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

AUTUMN CHAPEL

AUTUMN CHAPEL Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no obligation to buy […]

AUTUMN FIELDS – SOLD

“AUTUMN FIELDS” (Valdez, N.M.)–SOLD28″x22″ Completed Original Oil on Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen Liner 26 October 2008 — Had a great time with this painting and all the while I sat at the easel, I had the feeling I was just holding the brush — that the canvas almost painted itself! When I gathered […]

AUTUMN FIELDS – PHASE TWO — THE GLAZES

“AUTUMN FIELDS” (VALDEZ, N.M.)28″x22″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 21 October 2008 — Have had a great time working into this painting with the glazes. The fields are a combination of Mars Orange, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre and some Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. The Trees: A combination of Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and some […]

AUTUMN FIELDS – Work in Progress

17 October 2008 — WORK IN PROGRESS –“AUTUMN FIELDS” (Valdez, N.M.), 28″X22″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen — Am in the process of blocking in some new canvases for my Santa Fe exhibit next year and here is another — Painted loosely over a “grisaille” (greyed gesso background) — the colors are mixed with Foundation […]

EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS – Archival Giclee

“EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS” Now available as a 17″x22″ (sheet size) Studio Edition Print – you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE on my website. You are invited to become an “Art Friend” – just send e.mail to me and ask to receive photos of new paintings — there is no […]

YELLOW MUMS – Underpainting

14 October 2008 –YELLOW MUMS –28″x22″ Oil on Belgian Linen. Here is the first underpainting of my winter work. It’s raining today — chilly, cold — know it’s snowing on Taos Mountain…..Just thought I’d start out with something bright and cheerful. The colors are mixed with fast-drying Foundation White — highlights on the flowers – […]

WINTER IS A COMIN’!

9 October 2008 — Yep, winter is a comin’ and my supply of paints, turps and brushes have arrived from Jerry’s Artarama! My Santa Fe show is scheduled for May 22, 2009, but photography of the larger paintings needs to be done in January in order to meet advertising schedules — and the work will […]

CAPILLA DE VELARDE – NEW ARCHIVAL GICLEE

“CAPILLA DE VELARDE” New archival giclee Print on Fine Art Paper – Available in two sheet sizes 19″x13″ ($60.00) and 17″x22″ ($100.00), plus $10.00 S&H. Prints are enclosed in PolyFoldlock envelope and shipped flat. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover available through my studio. To order, please call (575)758-7454.

LLANO WINTER – NEW ARCHIVAL GICLEE

“LLANO WINTER” New archival giclee Print on Fine Art Paper – Available in two sheet sizes 19″x13″ ($60.00) and 17″x22″ ($100.00), plus $10.00 S&H. Prints are enclosed in PolyFoldlock envelope and shipped flat. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover available through my studio. To order, please call (575)758-7454.

CAPILLA DE AMALIA – New Archival Giclee

“CAPILLA DE AMALIA” New archival giclee Print on Fine Art Paper – Available in two sheet sizes 19″x13″ ($60.00) and 17″x22″ ($100.00), plus $10.00 S&H. Prints are enclosed in PolyFoldlock envelope and shipped flat. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover available through my studio. To order, please call (575)758-7454.

NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO – NEW GICLEE

“LA NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO”(Truchas, New Mexico) New archival giclee Print on Fine Art Paper – Available in two sheet sizes 19″x13″ ($60.00) and 17″x22″ ($100.00), plus $10.00 S&H. Prints are enclosed in PolyFoldlock envelope and shipped flat. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover available through my studio. To order, please call (575)758-7454.

SNOW DAY

“SNOW DAY” (SANTA FE) New 11″x14″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Silver with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

AMALIA AFTERNOON – New Original Oil

“AMALIA AFTERNOON” New 6″x12″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

HOME, HOME ON THE RANCH – New Orig. Oil

“HOME, HOME ON THE RANCH”(Llano Quemado, Truchas, N.M.) New 11″x14″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

AUTUMN DREAMS – New Original Oil

“AUTUMN DREAMS” New 14″x11″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

RIO PUEBLO – New Original Oil Painting

“RIO PUEBLO” NEW 14″x11″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

PASSING STORM – New Original Oil

“PASSING STORM” New 6″x12″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

EL CORAZON DE PLACITAS — New Original Oil

“EL CORAZON DE PLACITAS” New 14″x11″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

RIO LUCIO – New Original Oil Painting

“RIO LUCIO” New 6″x12″ Original Oil on Fine LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

UNA TARDE EN EL LLANO – New Original Oil

“UNA TARDE EN EL LLANO” – Study New 11″x14″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

IGLESIA DEL NORTE – New Original Oil

“IGLESIA DEL NORTE” New 11″x14″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

BIRTHDAY ROSES

4 September 2008 — Took some much needed time to gather my thoughts, block in some new canvases and continue preparation for my one-person exhibition in Santa Fe next May. Yesterday a friend sent these lovely roses and I photographed them early today in the morning sun — just thought I would share them! Enjoy! […]

MADRUGADA DE PICURIS – 48″X48″ New Oil Painting

“MADRUGADA DE PICURIS” New Original Oil Painting 48″x48″ on Fine Belgian Linen Framed in Gold with Linen Liner 8/8/08 – Here is the completed canvas of the morning trees at Picuris Pueblo. I’ve enjoyed doing this painting — this is one of my favorite places on the High Road — Looking off in the distance […]

MADRUGADA DE PICURIS – GLAZES/OPAQUES

7/27-08 — “MADRUGADA DE PICURIS” – 48″X48″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen. The sky is completed – there are pink and yellow sunrise tones in the sky – hoping this part of the painting will inform the light on the trees and foreground. On a canvas this size everything is a SURPRISE! This canvas […]

MADRUGADA DE PICURIS – 48″x48″ Work in Progress

“MADRUGADA DE PICURIS” – Underpainting48″x48″ Orig. Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 7/23/08 — It seems as though I have been staring at this underpainting for months, perhaps longer. These trees are on Picuris Pueblo land at the turn off to Truchas. They’ve always symbolized something really peaceful and solid for me…..I guess I’ve hesitated because […]

SIESTA IN RED – NEW ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING

“SIESTA IN RED” – NEW24″X24″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

AGUA FRIA – NEW COMPLETED ORIG. OIL

“AGUA FRIA” – NEW ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING30″x24″ on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen Liner It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon here in Taos — Listened to a new audiobook titled “Peace Like a River” by Leif Enger this morning while I worked — thought it was quite appropriate. This is a painting is of […]

AGUA FRIA MIXING PALETTE

Friday, 18 July – Here is the palette for AGUA FRIA from yesterday — I thought these colors were so fantastic, I hated to clean them up at the end of the day. The blue/purple tints are for the sky — saved the rest of these mixes to paint the water today. The orange/reds are […]

AGUA FRIA — MORE GLAZES

“AGUA FRIA” – WORK IN PROGRESS30″x24″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 7/15/08 — If you scroll down to the previous image, you might understand that I wanted to give up on this canvas entirely. Finally, I put a new Audio Book on my CD player and “dived” in — no pun intended. My intention […]

AGUA FRIA – WORK IN PROGRESS – THE GLAZES

“AGUA FRIA” – WORK IN PROGRESS30″x24 Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 7/5/08 – Another painting with a lot of free form — that’s why I love to paint water. Autumn, early evening colors — will work on the glazes more tomorrow. DC

“MOONDREAMS” – More Glazes

“MOONDREAMS” – Work in Progress24″x30″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 6/30/08 — More Glazes! This layer of paint will add a deep richness to the final application of opaque paint. Dark Greens – Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna. Toned Greens: Chrome Oxide Green Opaque and Cadmium Red. Foreground Darks: Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and […]

“MOONDREAMS” – WORK IN PROGRESS

“MOONDREAMS” – GLAZES24″x30″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 6/27/08 — AH! THE GLAZES! — Yes, I have painted this little church before, but never quite in this way. As of yesterday, I have almost completed the sky — and then the foreground was completely “washed” in Cadmium Red thinned down with painting medium. Opaque […]

“MOONDREAMS” – WORK IN PROGRESS

‘MOONDREAMS” – WORK IN PROGRESS24″x30″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 6/26/08 – Blocked in four new paintings this week — I work on portions of one while the others are drying in between underpaintings and glazes. My goal for this piece is to have the autumn moon rising while the sun in setting through […]

LLANO DREAMING – WORK IN PROGRESS

“LLANO DREAMING” – WORK IN PROGRESS30″x40″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen(Underpainting) 6/24/08 — When doing underpaintings — work fast. Mix the colors with turpentine and either Foundation White or MG White — fast drying. This canvas is another perspective of Llano San Juan – one of my favorite places. Trees at the top are […]

AGUA FRIA – WORK IN PROGRESS

“AGUA FRIA” — WORK IN PROGRESS30″x24″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen(Underpainting) 6/24/08 — HERE WE GO AGAIN! Beginning some new work today — my house smells like turpentine — even my three-legged cat, Rosie, is hiding under the covers! This is a “rito” near my home here in Taos. I love to paint water and […]

AUTUMN DREAMING – NEW COMPLETED OIL

“AUTUMN DREAMING”(Completed 6/21/08) 22″x28″New Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(575)758-7454

AUTUMN DREAMING – WORK IN PROGRESS

AUTUMN DREAMING – WORK IN PROGRESS22″x28″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen Monday, 6/16/08 — Working this painting a little differently than many of the others. Rather than just putting in pure glazes, I am mixing a lot of opaque paints with the darker colors. The sky is completed — Thalo Blue, Thalo Green, Permalba […]

TEMPLO SION – Studio Edition Archival Giclee

“TEMPLO SION” – New Studio Edition Print 6/14/08 – This morning I was able to photograph this original painting (only three oils left of my personal “Truchas collection”). For a while I lived next door to this little Assembly of God church on the main road in Truchas — and this is the way it […]

SUENOS DEL NORTE – SOLD

“SUENOS DEL NORTE” – SOLD(Completed 2 June 2008-Sold 3 June 2008) 22X28″ Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos studio at(575) 758-7454

SUENOS DEL NORTE – WORK IN PROGRESS

“SUENOS DEL NORTE” – GLAZES Monday, 5/26/08 – It seems that I mixed a little too much cobalt dryer into my painting medium and the varnish got a little syrupy — added more turpentine. I want this to be a quiet, dreamy full-moon painting, so the lighting is a little tricky…a lot of “invention” will […]

AUTUMN DREAMING – WORK IN PROGRESS

“AUTUMN DREAMING” – UNDERPAINTING Monday, 5/26/08 – 22″x28″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen – All my colors have been mixed with turpentine and MG Underpainting White.  I have used various sizes of bristle brushes to make a color sketch of the scene.  Sky: Thalo Blue, Thalo Green with a touch of Yellow Ochre.  Trees […]

EL LLANO – NEW ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING

“EL LLANO” 22″x28″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen Framed in Gold with Linen Liner On exhibit at McLARRY FINE ART GALLERY 225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, N.M. (505) 988-1161

“ALMOST HOME” – ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING

“ALMOST HOME” – NEW ORIGINAL OIL ONCE UPON A TIME in a place called Llano Quemado (suburban Truchas, New Mexico), I lived on a horse ranch high in the mountains overlooking the Espanola Valley.  One spring a man from Santa Fe brought five pregnant mares to board at the ranch,  along with a “How to […]

EL LLANO – WORK IN PROGRESS – GLAZES

“EL LLANO” – WORK IN PROGRESS – GLAZES 4/17/08 – 22″x28″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen. It’s snowing and cold here today and am enjoying sitting in the warm studio working! Working the Glazes into the Underpainting (See 4/10/08 Post). There is something a little unusual about this painting in that I am adding […]

NEW! UNA TARDE DE RIO CHIQUITO

“UNA TARDE DE RIO CHIQUITO” 11″x14″ Color Study in oil for larger painting (30″x30″-“ALMOST HOME) — This study is painted on gessoed Italian Wood Panel – Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. For more information, please call MC LARRY FINE ART GALLERY, 225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, N.M. (505) 988-1161.

“EL LLANO” – WORK IN PROGRESS

“EL LLANO” – UNDERPAINTING 22″x28″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen – Am trying for a very quiet, early morning feeling. For color mixtures, please view the previous post. Next – glazes, glazes, glazes……Keep coming back!

ALMOST HOME – WORK IN PROGRESS

“ALMOST HOME” – UNDERPAINTING 30″x30″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s Canvas –A full color turpentine wash over the whole canvas…..my usual mixtures from Cadmium Yellow, to Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and some Diox. Purple. Next come the glazes…..Stay Tuned!

LLANO SAN JUAN -PHASE TWO – GLAZES

“LLANO SAN JUAN” – PHASE II – GLAZES The glazes are transparent colors — usually the darkest on my palette. The color at the top of the canvas is a mixture of a glaze (Burnt Sienna) and an opaque (Yellow Ochre). The same combination for the winter bushes, as well as the addition of Mars […]

SUMMER ELEGY – SOLD

NEW! SUMMER ELEGY – SOLD 40″x30″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen Liner

VALDEZ AUTUMN – COMPLETED OIL – NEW

“VALDEZ AUTUMN”New – Completed 12 March 200830″x30″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s CanvasFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor more information please call MC LARRY FINE ART GALLERY,  225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, N.M. (505) 988-1161.

HIGH DESERT AUTUMN – SOLD!

“HIGH DESERT AUTUMN” – SOLD! 6″x12″ Original Oil Painting on GessoboardFramed in Gold with Linen Liner.©DonnaClair2008 – All Rights of Reproduction Reserved.

“SUMMER ELEGY” – Work in Progress

“SUMMER ELEGY” – Work in Progress40″x30″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen Canvas. This painting is far more complicated than it appears — a lot of detail even though the brushwork is laid in very loosely in places. I hope this photo gets across the true value of glazes and how they add such richness […]

VALDEZ AUTUMN – WORK IN PROG. – GLAZES

“VALDEZ AUTUMN” – WORK IN PROGRESS- GLAZES30″x30″ Original Oil on CanvasTo be framed in Gold with Linen Liner AH, THE GLAZES AGAIN! — This is where I would like to just give up because there seems to be so much work. My walls are blank, a new year and all new canvases — I have […]

LLANO SAN JUAN – UNDERPAINTING

“LLANO SAN JUAN” – Underpainting36″x48″ Original Oil on fine Belgian Linen.To be framed in silver with linen liner. Am hoping that this painting will have a quiet, “waking up” feeling to it. It is a large canvas, which I prepared with three coats of gesso mixed with Payne’s Grey. This “grisaille” sets the tone for […]

EL CORAZON DEL NORTE – SOLD!

“EL CORAZON DEL NORTE” – SOLD!30″x40″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen Liner San Antonio Catholic Church in the heart of the Hispanic village of Valdez in northern New Mexico (view from the Rim Road). This painting was completed 27 December 2007. For price and availability, please e.mail at dclair@donnaclairart.com or […]

CORAZON DEL NORTE – PHASE II – GLAZES

“CORAZON DEL NORTE” – GLAZES30″x40″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen This is the second phase of this painting — adding the dark, transparent and semi-transparent glazes over the underpainting after it has dried. For the dark greens: Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna — then for the richer, lighter areas of the trees – Chrome […]

EL CORAZON DEL NORTE – Underpainting

“EL CORAZON DEL NORTE”(UNDERPAINTING)30″x40″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 30 November — The weather is really rainy and snowy — more snow expected tomorrow; a perfect time to just block in new canvases I plan to complete over the winter months. Each canvas has a drying time of about ten days before I can […]

SUMMER ELEGY – UNDERPAINTING

“SUMMER ELEGY” – UNDERPAINTING40″X30″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen Am so happy with all the new material gathered in the past six weeks, I have decided to begin several large canvases and work on them through the winter months. So, I will be “blocking in” a few more and will keep you posted on their […]

VALDEZ AUTUMN – UNDERPAINTING

#108 – VALDEZ AUTUMN DAY – Underpainting30″X30″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s Canvas Here is the very beginning of a new painting (most colors are mixed with MG Fast Drying White and Turpentine– My colors in the sky are Indanthrone Blue and a little Thalo Green. The highlights in the clouds are MG with a […]

GIVING THANKS

GIVING THANKS 2007 Just watched the news and all the frenzy about whether or not the stores will be up or down in sales this Christmas season…….this obvious time filler seems so superficial considering all that is going on in the rest of the world. Sometimes it’s so easy to believe the commercials and think […]

WORK IN PROGRESS – “SIESTA” ORIG. OIL

“SIESTA” – WORK IN PROGRESS 24″x24″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenTo be framed in Gold with Linen LinerFor more information, please call my Taos Studio at(505)758-7454

“DIAS DE ORO” – COMPLETED ORIGINAL OIL

“LOS DIAS DE ORO”Completed October 9, 2007 36″x48″ – Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (575) 758-7454

LOS DIAS DE ORO — PHASE II – GLAZES

WORK IN PROGRESS – LOS DIAS DE ORO(Color notes from July Blogpost)(GLAZES II) – 36″x48″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenProjected date of completion – 10/10/07 In my last post to this web log, I demonstrated the difference between the underpainting and the beginning of the glazing process — laying in the dark, transparent colors. […]

“DIAS DE ORO” – ORIGINAL OIL (UNDERPAINTING)

WORK IN PROGRESS- “LOS DIAS DE ORO”(UNDERPAINTING – From July Blogpost)36″X48″ – Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenTo be framed in Gold with Linen Liner My colors in this underpainting are laid in loosely and mixed with MG Underpainting White and Turpentine using a variety of bristle brushes. Colors in the trees: Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium […]