Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

Author: Donna Clair

WINTER DREAMS – Fine Art Prints, Greeting Cards, Gifts…

  WINTER DREAMS (Truchas, New Mexico) and PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT (Taos Pueblo, N.M.)  – From an original Donna Clair oil painting – fine art prints (framed or unframed), greeting cards, and great gift items now available at FINE ART AMERICA.

GIVING THANKS…..

11/24/15 – Giving thanks today – tremendous gratitude for all the likes and wonderful comments from my Art Friends…..as some of you know, this has not been an easy year for me but as of this morning I am still here in my little studio in Tesuque, have just had a delicious cup of coffee […]

LA SENDA DESCONOCIDO – 22″x28″ Work in Progress

Studio No. 2615 – LA SENDA DESCONOCIDO – 22″x28″ Work in Progress (Glazes).  Color notes: Glazes are the transparent or semi-transparent oil colors applied over the underpainting.  This step in my process adds depth to the final painting.  Sky: Cobalt Blue, Cerulean, Thalo.  Mountains: Darks – Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna.  Lighter areas: Chrome Oxide […]

HOMENAJE A LA VIDA….

Homenaje a la Vida – A very large painting I did years ago – Mexican women mourning – honoring the lives of loved ones now gone. I love the strength of these women – the power in their faces – the way they have come together. Lighting a candle today….. This painting was purchased by […]

WINTER GIFTS – Prints, greetings cards, great gift items….

WINTER GIFTS (Memory of my grandmother, Ella, who went everywhere with her bag full of goodies – I placed her on the main road in Truchas – my favorite grandma in my favorite place!) Now available as prints (framed or unframed), greeting cards and other great gift items. Take the armchair tour of my Fine […]

WINTER DREAMS – Prints, greeting cards, gift items….

WINTER DREAMS (Road home to the horse ranch on Llano Quemado – Truchas, N.M.) Now available as prints (framed or unframed), greeting cards and other great gift items. Take the armchair tour of my Fine Art America website – enjoy!

ON THE EASEL NOW – WORK IN PROGRESS – 22″x28″ A PATH UNKNOWN

Studio No. 2616 – A PATH UNKNOWN (Una Senda Desconocido) – Work in Progress (underpainting) – 22″x28″ Original Oil on Linen.  Color Notes:  Colors are mixed with MG Underpainting White and distilled turpentine and applied with a bristle brush.  Sky: Cerulean Blue, a touch of yellow ochre.  Mountains:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre (light […]

A FEAST OF COLOR!! 100 Images now available as prints, greeting cards…

Happy Monday morning from Tesuque Village! – At the urging of a new friend on Facebook, I began building a new website about four months ago.  Went through years and years of archival photography and chose what I believe to be 100 of my best images to be included in my FINE ART AMERICA page […]

HIGH COUNTRY AUTUMN – Prints, greeting cards…..

HIGH COUNTRY AUTUMN (near Mora, New Mexico) – From an original oil painting – new extensive portfolio of images now available as prints (framed or unframed), greeting cards and other related items now available from FINE ART AMERICA.

SUENOS DEL RIO – Prints, Greeting cards….

SUENOS DEL RIO (Rio Grande at Pilar, New Mexico) – From an original oil painting – new extensive portfolio of images now available as prints (framed or unframed), greeting cards and other related items now available from FINE ART AMERICA.

CALLECITA DE TESUQUE – Prints, Greeting Cards

CALLECITA DE TESUQUE  (Tesuque Village, New Mexico) – From an original oil painting – new extensive portfolio of images now available as prints (framed or unframed), greeting cards and other related items now available from FINE ART AMERICA.

PUESTA DEL SOL – Prints, Greeting Cards…

PUESTA DEL SOL (Taos, New Mexico) – From an original oil painting – new extensive portfolio of images now available as prints (framed or unframed), greeting cards and other related items now available from Fine Art America. 

NIGHTSKY WANDERERS – New 40″x40″ Work in Progress (Glazes)

Studio No. 2315 – NIGHTSKY WANDERERS – New 40″x40″ Work in Progress (Glazes) – Color Notes:  Working glazes over the thoroughly dry underpainting.  Glazes are oils (usually the darker colors) thinned  to a medium transparency with painting medium (not turpentine).  Foreground:  Darkest darks are Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Olive Green, some Italian Pink.  Middle ground:  […]

HARVEST MOON (Near Chupadero, New Mexico) – from an original oil painting – new prints, greeting cards and other related items are now available from my new portfolio of images at Fine Art America.

SUMMER LOVE – New 8″x10″ Original Oil

Studio No. 2015 – SUMMER LOVE (Taos, New Mexico) – New 8″x10″ Original Oil on Gessoed Panel, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  Completed 8/25/15.  Preview/Purchase.

LA CASA VIEJA, New 10″x8″ Original Oil

Studio No. 2115 – LA CASA VIEJA (Taos, New Mexico) – New 10″x8″ Original Oil on Gessoed Panel, Framed in Silver with Linen Liner.  Completed 8/25/15.  Preview/Purchase.

RIO CHAMA – Prints, greeting cards….

RIO CHAMA – From an original oil painting – this image is now available for purchase as prints, greeting cards and other related items – you are invited to visit my new website at Fine Art America.

PUESTA DEL SOL – 40″x40″ Work in Progress (Underpainting)

Studio No. 1915 – PUESTA DEL SOL – 40″x40″ Work in Progress (Underpainting) – Color Notes:  All colors blocked in mixing oils with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White and Distilled Turpentine.  Foreground:  Yellow Ochre and Cobalt Blue.  Trees:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, some Burnt Sienna and Cobalt Blue.  Darker Sky:  Dioxazine Purple, Cobalt Blue, some Cadmium […]

PUESTA DEL SOL – 40″40″ WORK IN PROGRESS (Sketch)

Studio No. 1915 – PUESTA DEL SOL – Work in Progress – Sketch (cartoon) blocked in on a “toned ground” – Gesso mixed with Payne’s Grey.  Sketched in trees with Burnt Sienna mixed with Distilled Turpentine.

INTO THE LIGHT – New Print….

INTO THE LIGHT (Garcia Park, New Mexico) – From an original oil painting.  New print, greeting card and other related items now available at Fine Art America.

RIO CHIQUITO – 12″x24″ Work in Progress (Glazes)

Studio No. 1615 – RIO CHIQUITO – 12″X24″ Oil – Work in Progress (Glazes) – Sky: Payne’s Grey, Prussian Blue, Permalba White.  Autumn Trees:  Italian Pink, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red, some Chrome Oxide Green, Opaque.  Road:  Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber.  Dark Trees and Grasses:  Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. 

RIO CHIQUITO – 12″X24″ WORK IN PROGRESS (Underpainting)

Studio No. 1615 – RIO CHIQUITO – 12″x24″ on cradled panel Work in Progress  (Underpainting) –  All colors are mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White and Distilled Turpentine.  Color Notes – Sky:  Payne’s Grey.  Trees: Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Burnt Sienna.  Road:  Holbein Rose Grey, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna.

ABIQUIU DREAMING – New Print!

ABIQUIU DREAMING (Rio Chama at Abiquiu, New Mexico) – from an original oil painting – new prints, greeting cards and other related art items now available at Fine Art America.

CAMINITO DE TESUQUE – 30″x24 Work in Progress (Underpainting)

Studio No. 1415 – CAMINITO DE TESUQUE – 30″x24″ Work in Progress (The Glazes) – Sky and Snow:  Cobalt Blue, Payne’s Grey, Permalba White.  Dark darks:  Burnt Umber, Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Mars Black.  Highlights:  Naples Yellow Light, Cadmium Red, Yellow Ochre. 

ALMOST HOME – new prints, cards….

ALMOST HOME (The back road home to Taos through the village of Rio Chiquito, New Mexico) – from an original oil painting.  New prints, cards and other related items now available at Fine Art America.

GARCIA PARK – Print

GARCIA PARK (Taos, New Mexico) – From an original oil painting – new print, greeting cards and related products now available at Fine Art America.

RIO CHAMA AT ABIQUIU – New Print

RIO CHAMA AT ABIQUIU (Abiquiu, New Mexico) – from an original oil painting – new print, greeting cards and related products now available at Fine Art America.

BACK TO BASICS: A TONED GROUND – GESSOING

Starting from the Beginning – again! Friend Carol pitched in to help gesso canvases in preparation to paint – behind the scenes studio work – the part that no one sees or considers when looking at a finished painting! GESSO RECIPE: Gesso, Payne’s Grey – enough color to create a toned ground. If necessary, thin […]

POEMA DE LA NOCHECITA (Taos, New Mexico)

POEMA DE LA NOCHECITA – (Evening thunderspirits – Taos, New Mexico) from an original oil painting.  Prints, greeting cards and related products now available at Fine Art America.

PASSING STORM (Pecos, New Mexico)

PASSING STORM (Pecos, New Mexico) – from an original oil painting – prints, greeting cards and related products now available at Fine Art America.

LILAS DE TAOS (Taos, New Mexico)

LILAS DE TAOS (One fine spring day in front of the old Taos News building – Taos, New Mexico) – from an original oil painting – prints, greeting cards and related products now available at Fine Art America.

MORNING POEM (Taos, New Mexico)

MORNING POEM (View from my kitchen window of 23 years – looking out toward the Pecos Wilderness, Santistevan Lane, Taos, New Mexico) – 60 images now available as prints and related products – Fine Art America

SANCTUARY OF PADRE MARTINEZ – Work in Progress (Glazes)

Studio No. 1115 – SANCTUARY OF PADRE MARTINEZ – 60″x50″ Work in Progress (Glazes) – Color Notes:  Left side:  Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Sky and Water: Permalba White, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Blue.  Autumn Trees:  Naples Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre.  Foreground:  Dark Prussian Blue, Perelyne Maroon, Mars Black.  Lighter Trees:  […]

SANCTUARY OF PADRE MARTINEZ – 60″x50″ Work in Progress

SANCTUARY OF PADRE MARTINEZ ( Martinez Hacienda – Taos, New Mexico) – New 60″x50″ Work in Progress – Yesterday completed the underpainting on the 60″x50″ Sanctuary of Padre Martinez.  It is of the Rio Pueblo that runs in front of the Martinez Hacienda in Taos.  Got this view on a photo trip with my dear […]

CLOSEOUT! STUDIO EDITION PRINT INVENTORY

Great News!  In anticipation of a new venue for my print images  from my fairly large body of work (in other words a diary of the last 48 years of my life in painting northern New Mexico) – I am offering the existing inventory of my Studio Edition Prints at very affordable closeout prices.  There […]

TAOS EVENING LIGHT – 16″x20″ Work in Progress (Glazes)

TAOS EVENING LIGHT – 16″x20 Original Oil – Work in Progress (Glazes) – The sky and the mountains are complete.  Sky:  Cobalt Blue, Paynes Grey, Cadmium Red, Permalba White, Naples Yellow Pale.  Mountains:  Cobalt Blue, Payne’s Grey, Yellow Ochre, Permalba White.  Trees:  Dark Trees – Perelyne Maroon, Dioxazine Purple, Mars Black.  Lighter Trees:  Burnt Sienna, […]

TAOS EVENING LIGHT – 16″x20″ Work in Progress (Overall Glaze)

TAOS EVENING LIGHT – 16″x20″ Work in Progress – Overall Glazes.  This is a somewhat new step for me, especially for late afternoon or evening paintings.  I used my painting medium to thin Payne’s Grey and Dioxazine Purple and glazed over my underpainting (make sure the underpainting is thoroughly dry).  As you can see the […]

TAOS EVENING LIGHT – Work in Progress (Underpainting)

TAOS EVENING LIGHT – 16″x20″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen – Work in Progress (Underpainting) – Color notes:  All colors are mixed with MG Underpainting White and Distilled Turpentine.  Sky:  Cadmium Red.  Trees:  Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red and Cadmium Orange.  Darker Trees:  Brush with yellow colors on it (dirty brush) and Dioxazine Purple.  Foreground:  Yellow […]

CORAZON SAGRADO – 40″x30″ Work in Progress (Glazes)

Studio No. 1115 – CORAZON SAGRADO (Rio Chiquito, N.M.) – 40″x30″ Work in Progress (Glazes) – Colors are thinned to transparency or semi-transparency with painting medium.  Color Notes:  Tree – Italian Pink, Brown Pink, Cadmium Red, some Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Sky:  Payne’s Grey, Permalba White, Cobalt Blue.  Green Trees:  Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome […]

CORAZON SAGRADO – New 40″x30″ Work in Progress (Underpainting)

CORAZON SAGRADO (Rio Chiquito, New Mexico) – New Work in Progress (Underpainting) 40″x30″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Color Notes:  All colors mixed with MG Underpainting White and Distilled Turpentine.  Sky:  Payne’s Grey, Cobalt Blue  Tree:  Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red and some Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Greenery:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Prussian Blue […]

WINTERLIGHT – Work in Progress – the Middle Tones

WINTERLIGHT – Work in Progress  (Middle Tones) – 22″x28″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen – If at any phase of the painting I begin to get excited, this is it – I see the end in sight, the possibilities.  This phase is the transition from the darks to the lights.  Am using more opaque paints […]

EXPERIMENT!

Something New!  Another phase of WINTERLIGHT painting – in order to modulate light and hopefully give it that “last moment before sunset feeling” have used a transparent Payne’s Grey glaze thinned with fast drying painting medium.

WINTERLIGHT (Tesuque, N.M.) Work in Progress

Studio No. 1115 – WINTERLIGHT (From my kitchen Window, Tesuque, N.M.)  – New 22″x28″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen – All colors mixed with MG Fast Drying Underpainting White and Distilled Turp.   Color Notes:  Sky: Paynes Grey, Cobalt Blue  Trees:  Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red and Cadmium Yellow.  Light Areas on Snow:  Permalba White, Yellow […]

PLACITAS – 40″x30″ Work in Progress (Underpainting)

Studio No. 1215 – PLACITAS – 40″x30″ Work in Progress (Underpainting) – All color are mixed with MG Underpainting White and applied with distilled turpentne.  Sky:  Thalo Blue, Thalo Green, Dioxazine Purple.  Greens:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Chamisa:  Yellow Ochre, White, Cadmium Yellow, Mars Orange.

SANTUARIO – 60″x50″ Work in Progress (Loose Sketch)

Studio No. 1115 – SANTUARIO (Rio Pueblo at Martinez Hacienda, Taos, N.M.) – 60″x50″ Work in Progress – Okay, here we go!  This is a very loose sketch – working with distilled turpentine, Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna.  A long way to go before I begin to lay in the underpainting – tighten sketch – […]

PROCESS – A GRID AS A GUIDE

3/16/15 – SANCTUARY -This is a 60″x50″ Belgian Linen canvas.  Most often a painting is a long time in the making — and most of it is painted in my head months, or  sometimes years, before it finds life on a canvas.  A few years ago my traveling buddies, Jerry Walter and Rick Finney, and […]

STUDIO WORK IN PROGRESS – Untitled 30″x24″ Original Oil

STUDIO WORK IN PROGRESS (Sketch) – Untitled 30″x24″ Original Oil on Linen.  Loose sketch applied to a toned ground with Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and Distilled Turpentine.  This is a little road in the Village of Tesuque late on a February afternoon.  Often I block in six or eight paintings at a time for a […]

STUDIO WORK IN PROGRESS – WINTERLIGHT (Sketch) 22″x28″

WORK IN PROGRESS (Oil Sketch) – WINTERLIGHT – 22″x28″ Orig. Oil on Linen – Loose sketch on “toned ground” with two colors – Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna – applied with distilled turpentine.  This is the view from my studio window one evening when the sun was coming in low – right before sunset.

MIS SUENOS DEL RIO – 22″X28″ Work in Progress (Glazes)

Studio No. 915 – MIS SUENOS DEL RIO (Rio Grande at Pilar, N.M.) – Work in Progress (Glazes) – New 22″x28″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  This is the second phase of the methods I use to do my paintings.  I thin the colors to a transparent or semi-transparent glaze with my painting medium and […]

MIS SUENOS DEL RIO – Work in Progress (Underpainting)

Studio No. 815 – MIS SUENOS DEL RIO (Rio Grande at Pilar, N.M.) 22″x28″ Work in Progress (Underpainting).  All colors mixed with Underpainting White and Turpentine.   Color Notes:  Hills – Combinations of Prussian Blue, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre, Dioxazine Purple.  Trees: Combinations of Prussian Blue, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium […]