Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

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 […]