WORD PAINTINGS #102 – MAKING SPACE TO CREATE
Creativity begins with the heart and mind….however there is so much more to making a painting than hopes and wishes….. Here is the first in my series of “sharing my painting secrets” blog posts. Back in the day I created and taught a very popular workshop called “The Craft of Painting”. Artists and newbies came […]
WORD PAINTINGS #101 – SECOND THOUGHTS
9/23/20 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Yesterday the United States reached a turning point of over 200,000 deaths from the Corona virus. It was 191,000 when I wrote the following blog post on the 9th. In light of all the losses this year – jobs, incomes, fires, hurricanes and all the ever-emerging human tragedies at […]
8/31/20 – MY MORNING STUDIO
8/31/20 – Llano Quemado, NM – My morning Studio today. Hunter’s Moon on the big easel will be varnished today and will be framed to ship to a new client in Massachusetts. First Snow (on the floor) – hope to have it completed by the end of the week – then shipped to long time […]
WORD PAINTINGS #100 – TODAY IS ALL WE HAVE
DON GREGORIO’S WINTER FIELD – 48″X36″ ORIGINAL OIL 23 August 2020 (Llano Quemado -Taos, New Mexico) – Life is uncertain. Taos Mountain is obscured by smoke from the raging fires in California and Arizona. The Medio fire that began in Tesuque near Santa Fe contributes to the soft blurry haziness. My neighbor’s forty or fifty […]
WORD PAINTINGS #99 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS V – Birthday Girl!
COSME’S OAKS – Friend Cosme Romero Mayordomo of Truchas for many years LLANO QUEMADO – TRUCHAS, N.M. – September 3, 1984….We had a party! My 44th birthday celebration. Made pots of green chile and posole, nachos, tortillas – and many, many margaritas. Pedro Ribera Ortega the local geneologist and historian sat under the portal for […]
WORD PAINTINGS #98 – MONSOON!!!!
7/18/20 – MONSOON CLOUDS – LLANO QUEMADO, NEW MEXICO 3 August 2020 (Llano Quemado, N.M.) 6AM – The kitchen window is open about 6 inches – very cold air is pouring in – thinking that it will only be about five weeks before there will be the first snow on Taos Mountain and Truchas Peaks. […]
WORD PAINTINGS #97 – LISTENING TO MOUNTAINS IV – NEW LIFE
HOME, HOME ON THE RANCH (LLANO QUEMADO, TRUCHAS, NEW MEXICO) 1983 – Llano Quemado, Truchas, New Mexico – The horse trailers with our six new guests arrived in late winter after the first of the year. Three were definitely with foal. We purchased many bales of hay in anticipation and when the day came, we […]
SANCTUARY OF PADRE MARTINEZ (Martinez Hacienda – Taos New Mexico) – 60″x50″ Original Oil
SANCTUARY OF PADRE MARTINEZ (Martinez Hacienda – Taos, New Mexico) 60″x50″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen w/gallery wrap – https://www.ebay.com/itm/DonnaClairArt- PREVIEW
HIGH ROAD SUMMER STORM – NEW 6″x8″ Original Oil – sold
Studio #2820 – HIGH ROAD SUMMER STORM (Near Truchas, New Mexico) – NEW 6″x8″ Original Oil, framed – Sold
FORTY ACRES (Carson, New Mexico) – NEW 9″x6″ Original Oil – sold
Studio #2220 – FORTY ACRES (Carson, New Mexico) – NEW 9″x6″ Original Oil – SOLD
