Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

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 […]