WORD PAINTINGS #71 – INTO THE DREAM

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Making Room “Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall […]

#1519WorkinProg. – DON GREGORIO’S WINTER FIELD, NEW 48″X36 – UNDERPAINTING

Srudio No. 1519 Work in Progress (Underpainting)-DON GREGORIO’S WINTER FIELD – 48″x36″ Oil on Belgian Linen – Painted over toned ground and oil sketch.  Sky: Paynes Grey, Prussian Blue & Mars Black.  Trees, Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna – some Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. Snow (all blue & White middle tones: Titanium White and same […]

WORD PAINTINGS #70 – DANCING WITH MY EASEL

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Llano Quemado, New Mexico – 8/16/19 – My synapses are firing again!!! It has been such a long time since I felt connected to my easel.  It is almost human – stares at me accusingly if I am not working, laughs at my avoidance routines, makes me feel guilty for taking a nap when I […]

48″x36″ WORK IN PROGRESS (Oil Sketch) -DON GREGORIO’S WINTER FIELD

  STUDIO #1519 WORK IN PROGRESS – DON GREGORIO’S WINTER FIELD 48″X36″ – Centurion Linen Canvas.  Toned Ground: Two coats Gesso mixed with Payne’s Grey acrylic – mix intensity to your liking.  Sketch – Oil paint mixed with Winsor-Newton Distilled Turpentine – Burnt Sienna and Prussian Blue, Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and some Ochre and […]

WORD PAINTINGS #69 – HEAVEN, I’M IN HEAVEN!

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Llano Quemado, New Mexico 8/11/2019 – Moved into this new studio/home exactly three weeks ago.  Most of the moving boxes are gone – now it is down to sorting and putting things where they belong.  Windows everywhere –  360 deg. views – monsoon clouds and spectacular sunsets.  Last night hellacious thunder and lightning.  Three easels […]