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. […]
