Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

CALLECITA DE TESUQUE – 36″X36″ Work in Progress – Orig. Oil (Glazes)

Studio No. 514 – CALLECITA DE TESUQUE – 36″X36″ Work in Progress (Glazes) Orig. Oil on Linen – The glazes are the dark, transparent and semi-transparent colors that add depth to the final painting.  I thin my colors with painting medium and lay them over the underpainting after it is thoroughly dried. To add strength […]

WINTERLIGHT/TESUQUE – 48″x36″ Work in Progress

WINTERLIGHT/TESUQUE – 48″x36″ Work in progress – Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Eureka! I found a New Color in my stash of oil paints today!  Like discovering gold!  It is Grumbacher Perylene Maroon!  Working on the dark foreground today – the dirt:  Burnt Umber, Ultramarine Blue, the new Maroon color, some ochre – Snow on […]

CORAZON SAGRADO, New 20″x20″ Original Oil

  Studio No. 414 – CORAZON SAGRADO (Sacred Heart – Tesuque, New Mexico) – New 20″x20″ Original Oil on Canvas – wrap-around painting.  Completed 2/3/14.  Now available at my Online Studio Gallery.

WINTERLIGHT – TESUQUE, 48″x36″ Work in Progress (Opaques)

Studio No. 214 – WINTERLIGHT/TESUQUE – 48″x36″ Original Oil – Work in Progress (Opaque Paints) — There is a very good reason why I block in several paintings at a time – Corazon Sagrado is too wet to work on – needs a couple of days to dry. 

CORAZON SAGRADO – 20″x20″ Work in Progress (Glazes)

Studio No. 314 – CORAZON SAGRADO – 20″x20″ Original Oil – Work in Progress (Glazes).  Color Notes:  Sky:  Permalba White, Payne’s Grey, Cerulean Blue.  Building:  Yellow Ochre, Italian Pink, Burnt Sienna – with Dioxazine Purple in the shadows.  Foreground:  Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Burnt Sienna and Prussian Blue.  Snow:  I found a wonderful […]