Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

Category: Art Journal

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 […]

“ARROYO SECO” – STUDIO EDITION PRINT

“ARROYO SECO” – Archival Giclee Now available from THE HIGH ROAD CATALOGUE atwww.DonnaClairArt.comArchival giclee on fine art professional paper17″x22″ sheet size — $100.0013″x19″ sheet size — $60.00Free shipping and handling within Cont. U.S.To order call my Taos Studio at (505)758-7454

“NIGHTSKY WANDERER”,ORIGINAL OIL – SOLD

“NIGHTSKY WANDERER”-SOLDCompleted 8/27/0724″x30″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Silver with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (505)758-7454.

ELEGY FOR SUMMER – STUDIO EDITION PRINT

‘ELEGY FOR SUMMER” – STUDIO EDITION Now available as an exhibition-quality archival gicleeHand-titled and Hand-signed – in clear PolyFoldLock EnvelopeLarge Size – $100.00 – 17″x22″ Sheet SizeSmall Size – $60.00 – 13″x19″ Sheet SizeTo see the full High Road Catalogue, go towww.donnaclairart.comTo order this print, please call my Taos Studio at (505)758-7454

MORNING POEM – SOLD!

“MORNING POEM” Completed 8/20/07SOLD – 8/21/07 18″x18″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s CanvasFramed in Silver with Linen Liner

TAOS EVENING LIGHT -STUDIO EDITION PRINT

#1307 – “TAOS EVENING LIGHT” – STUDIO EDITION PRINT It’s monsoon season again — a late afternoon storm is moving off into the Pecos Wilderness — everything is fresh and cool after the rain — and the scent of sage is in the high desert air and thunder can be heard in the distance….. Now […]

HIGH ROAD AUTUMN -Orig. Oil – SOLD

“HIGH ROAD AUTUMN” – SOLDCompleted 8/9/07 11″X14″ Original Oil on Cold-Pressed Italian GessoboardFramed in Gold with Linen Liner.For more information, please call my Taos Studio at (505) 758-7454.

HIGH ROAD AUTUMN – Underpainting

“HIGH ROAD AUTUMN”(UNDERPAINTING) 11″x14″ Original Oil on Cold-Pressed Italian GessoboardPrimary palette colors (see right-hand column for my list of colors) mixed with MG White and Turpentine. Allow to dry completely before adding glazes.

DON EUSAVIO’S PARADISE – STUDIO EDITION

“DON EUSAVIO’S PARADISE”New Studio Edition Print A long time ago in Truchas, New Mexico — My neighbor, Don Eusavio, bringing his wood supply in for the day — quiet, peace, serenity, does life get any better than this?Now available as a Studio Edition Print on archival fine art paper (17″x22″ sheet size) – $100.00 To […]

“TRUCHAS TOWN” – Completed Orig. Oil

#3907 – “TRUCHAS TOWN” 14″x11″ Orig. Oil on Cold-Pressed Italian GessoboardFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (505)758-7454.

“TRUCHAS TOWN” – UNDERPAINTING

#3907 – “TRUCHAS TOWN” – UNDERPAINTING14″x11″ Orig. Oil on Cold-Pressed Italian GessoboardFor more information, just call (505)-758-7454

PICURIS PASTORAL – Original Oil-SOLD

“PICURIS PASTORAL” – SOLD 11″x14″ Orig. Oil Painting on Cold-Pressed Italian Gessoboard.To be framed in Gold with Linen Liner.For price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (505)758-7454.

PICURIS PASTORAL – UNDERPAINTING

“PICURIS PASTORAL” – UNDERPAINTING Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico –At the onset of autumn every year, if this field has not been plowed under, the wild asters bloom, along with other fall wildflowers.

FULL MOON RISING – Completed Orig. Oil

#4107 – “FULL MOON RISING” 11″x14″ Original Oil on Cold-Pressed Italian GessoboardFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (505 758-7454.

FULL MOON RISING – UNDERPAINTING

“FULL MOON RISING” – Underpainting 11″x14″ Orig. Oil on Cold-Pressed Italian GessoboardTo be Framed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at(505)758-7454.

HIGH ROAD PASTORAL -Orig. Oil – SOLD

“HIGH ROAD PASTORAL” – SOLD 14″x11″ Original Oil on Cold-Pressed Italian GessoboardTo be framed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (505)758-7454.

“AFTERNOON SUN” – SOLD

Studio No. 4307 – “AFTERNOON SUN” – SOLD14″x11″ Original Oil on Cold-pressed Italian GessoboardTo be framed in Gold with Linen Liner For price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (505)758-7454.

“AFTERNOON SUN” – UNDERPAINTING

Studio No. 4307 – “AFTERNOON SUN” (Underpainting)14″x11″ Original Oil on Cold-pressed Italian GessoboardTo be framed in Gold with Linen Liner Here is a quick oil sketch — MG White mixed with basic oil colors – Cadmium Yellows, Thalo Blue, Prussian Blue and a little Mars Black in the dish at the base of the flowers.

DIAS DE ORO — GLAZES II

WORK IN PROGRESS – LOS DIAS DE ORO(GLAZES II) – 36″x48″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen 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. This week I covered the entire canvas with glazes […]

WORK IN PROGRESS – DIAS DE ORO (GLAZES)

WORK IN PROGRESS – DIAS DE ORO – THE GLAZES Today I worked some glazes into the right side of the painting — these transparent colors – Burnt sienna, alizarin crimson, and yellow ochre (thinned to a transparency with the painting medium) in the autumn trees. The pinons at the top of the canvas: Prussian […]

WORK IN PROGRESS – “LOS DIAS DE ORO” (DAYS OF GOLD)

WORK IN PROGRESS – “LOS DIAS DE ORO” 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 Orange, Cadmium […]

WORK IN PROGRESS – MORNING POEM

WORK IN PROGRESS “MORNING POEM” – PHASE II©DonnaClair2007 – All rights of reproduction reserved. 18×18″Original Oil on Fine Artist’s Canvas Here is my second sitting with this painting – a combination of glazes and opaque colors (See Palette Set-Up). First I put in a thin wash of Payne’s Grey over the top half of the […]

WORK IN PROGRESS – MORNING POEM

WORK IN PROGRESS “MORNING POEM”(Phase One: The Underpainting)©DonnaClair2007 – All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.18″x18″ Original Oil on Fine Artist’s CanvasTo be framed in silver with Linen Liner A late spring snowstorm as seen from my backyard a few weeks ago. Turpentine washes using MG White mixed with regular paletted colors. Sky: Payne’s Grey, […]

“HIGH COUNTRY MONDAY MORNING” SOLD!

“HIGH COUNTRY MONDAY MORNING”SOLD!11″X14″Original Oil on Fine Artist’s Canvas.Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.©DonnaClair2007 – All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

“VADITO” – Original Oil Painting

“VADITO” 8″x10″ Original Oil Painting on Belgian Linen.Framed in gold with linen liner.For price and availability, please call my studio at (505)758-7454.©DonnaClair2007 — All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

“NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ASCUNCION” – SOLD!

“NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ASUNCION” Completed this painting late last week and this morning pulled some proofs for a new Studio Edition Print…….it’s a beauty!“NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ASCUNCION” (The capilla in the small village of Placita along the High Road to Truchas”) — $100.00 — Hand-titled, hand-signed and printed to order on fine art […]

“EVENING THUNDERSPIRITS” -SOLD!

“EVENING THUNDERSPIRITS”- SOLD! 6″x12″ Original Oil Painting on GessoboardCustom-Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.©DonnaClairArt2007 – All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

“SANTISTEVAN LANE” – Original Oil Painting

#2607 – “SANTISTEVAN LANE” 10″x8″ Original Oil Painting on Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen Liner – $1200.00For more information, call (505)758-7454©DonnaClair2007 – All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

PUESTA DEL SOL – ORIG. OIL – SOLD

NEW! “PUESTA DEL SOL” – Completed 5/19/07SOLD!-5/20/07 30″x60″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen.Custom framed in gold with Linen Liner.©DonnaClair2007 — All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

PUESTA DEL SOL – GLAZES

WORK IN PROGRESS “PUESTA DEL SOL” – GLAZES 30″x60″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen — To be framed in gold with linen liner. The glazes are the second phase of the painting and, in this work, they are concentrated in the bottom half of the piece. The sky has been “semi-completed” — that light […]

PUESTA DEL SOL – UNDERPAINTING

#3407 – PUESTA DEL SOL – “SUNSET” – UNDERPAINTING30″x60″ Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian Linen The Rio Pueblo at sunset as seen from the little bridge on Ranchitos Road.My colors are mixed with MG Underpainting White and turpentine. At this stage of the painting I try to work fast and loose — to put […]

DOS ARBOLES DE TAOS – ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING

“DOS ARBOLES DE TAOS”(Completed 4/18/07)48″x36″ Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen LinerFor price and availability, please call my studio at (505)758-7454.©DonnaClair2007 – All rights reserved.

EL RITO DEL NORTE — SOLD!

“EL RITO DEL NORTE” -Completed 3/26/07SOLD 3/27/07 MANY DAYS AND HOURS LATER – I “scumbled” in the final colors, which means “pushing” the opaque colors into the glazes. For the greens: Mixtures of glazes and opaques – burnt sienna and Prussian blue for the darks, and mixtures of ochres and chrome oxide greens with a […]

WORK IN PROGRESS – EL RITO DEL NORTE (GLAZES)

“EL RITO DEL NORTE” (PHASE II – GLAZES) Here is the second phase of this painting– the dark, transparent colors over the underpainting (see the previous post)…..the glazes. If there is any one point in a painting where I want to quit, this is it…..from experience, however, I know that it is these dark colors […]

WORK IN PROGRESS – “EL RITO DEL NORTE”

WORK IN PROGRESS – “EL RITO DEL NORTE”(Underpainting) 30″x40″ Original Oil Painting on Portrait Quality Belgian Linen. The underpainting is essentially a color sketch over a “toned ground” (gesso mixed with Payne’s Grey). This phase of the painting gives me a guide to the light an color of the final piece — it also gives […]

LLANO SAN JUAN DE NEPOMUSENO” 0RIG. OIL

“LLANO SAN JUAN DE NEPOMUSENO” 30″x40″ Original Oil on fine Belgian Linen.Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.For price and availability, please call my studio at (505)758-7454.©DonnaClair2006 — All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

“LLANO LARGO” – Original Oil Painting

“LLANO LARGO” 24″x30″ Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian Linen.Custom-framed in Gold with Linen Liner.For price and availability, please call my studio at (505)758-7454.©DonnaClair2005 — All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

“LOS CAMPOS DE TRUCHAS” – SOLD

“LOS CAMPOS DE TRUCHAS” – SOLD! 30″x30″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian LinenFramed in Gold with Linen Liner©DonnaClair2005 – All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

“THE WAY WE WERE” – ORIGINAL OIL

“THE WAY WE WERE” Studio #2207 – 11″x14″ Orig. Oil/Fine Artist’s Canvas Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. NEW STUDIO LARGER SIZE 2007 EDITION PRINT OF THIS IMAGEPrinted on brilliant white archival stock – 17″x22″ sheet size$75.00 – includes shipping and handling.To order please call my Taos Studio at(505) 758-7454.©DonnaClair2007 – All rights reserved under […]

“VILLANUEVA AFTERNOON” – SOLD

“VILLANUEVA AFTERNOON” – SOLD! 11″X14″ Original Oil Painting on Fine Artist’s Canvas.Custom-framed in Gold with Linen Liner. NEW LARGER SIZE 2007 STUDIO EDITION PRINT — available on brilliant whiteheavy paper stock – 17″x22″Sheet size – $75.00 – includes shipping and handlingCall my studio to order. (505)758-7454) To receive photography of all new paintings, join my […]

“CIELO AZUL” – PECOS, N.M. – SOLD

“CIELO AZUL” – PECOS, N.M. – SOLD! 11″x14″ Original Oil Painting on Fine Artist’s Canvas.Completed 2/7/07 – Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. NEW STUDIO LARGER 2007 STUDIO EDITION PRINT OF THIS IMAGE!On brilliant white archival stock (17″x22″ sheet size)$75.00 includes shipping and handlingTo order, please call (505)758-7454.To receive e.mails of all new paintings, join […]

“HIGH ROAD AFTERNOON” – SOLD

HIGH ROAD AFTERNOON – SOLDStudio #1807 – 20″x20″ Original Oil Painting on Fine Artist’s CanvasFramed in Gold with Linen Liner For more information regarding price and availability of this painting, please contact my studio at (505) 758-7454

“TAOS EVENING LIGHT” – STUDIO EDITION PRINT

“TAOS EVENING LIGHT“ High drama on the high desert — Late afternoon summer rainstorm moving off into the Pecos Wilderness; thunder can still be heard in the distance — late sunlight moving in low to illuminate the landscape — Taos, New Mexico ENJOY! NEW LARGER SIZE! 2007 STUDIO EDITION ARCHIVAL PRINT — On brilliant white […]

“NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS” – STUDIO EDITION PRINT

“NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS” NEW LARGER SIZE! Now available as 2007 STUDIO EDITION ARCHIVAL GICLEE PRINT.Printed on heavy Somerset watercolor paper (17″x22″ sheet size) – brilliant white.Hand-signed and hand-titled – $75.00 includes shipping and handling. To order, please call my Taos studio at (505)758-7454. ©DonnaClair2007 – All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

“SANTUARIO DE CHIMAYO” – STUDIO EDITION PRINT

“SANTUARIO DE CHIMAYO” NEW LARGER SIZE! 2007 STUDIO EDITION ARCHIVAL GICLEE PRINT!On 17″x22″ (sheet size) Somerset heavy watercolor paperHand-titled and hand-signed by the artist…$100.00Price includes shipping and handling.To order, please call my studio at (505) 758-7454.©DonnaClair2007 – All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

“TOMATES DE SOLOLA” – SOLD!

“TOMATES DE SOLOLA, GUATEMALA”SOLD!20″x16″ Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen.Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.©DonnaClair2007 – All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

“WINTER DREAMS” – Click Here to Visit My Website

“WINTER DREAMS” The road to the horse ranch, “Puesta del Sol”, where I once lived in Truchas, New Mexico. This image and many others now available as archival giclee print on Somerset heavy paper stock and fine artist’s canvas — visit the HIGH ROAD CATALOGUE on my website. All images in the catalogue are also […]