Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

FIELD WORK/TESUQUE – 2014

  January 2014 – Field work:  Looking around.  Becoming acquainted with my new neighborhood.  Nothing replaces a good friend with whom to “roam” the roads, a good camera, a good eye — and perhaps a willing spirit.

UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO – 12″X24″ Work in Progress (Underpainting) – Color Notes

Studio No. 114 – UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO (A Path Unknown) – 12″x24″ Work in Progress (Underpainting)  – Original Oil on Canvas — Sky:  MG Underpainting White and Yellow Ochre Light.  Trees:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre, Prussian Blue.  Snow:  Payne’s Grey and Underpainting White.  Road:  Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna.

CALLECITA DE TESUQUE, 40″x40″ Work in Progress (Underpainting) – Color Notes

  Studio No. 314 – CALLECITA DE TESUQUE, 40″x40″ Work in Progress (Underpainting) – Colors are mixed with MG Underpainting White and applied with turpentine.  Sky:  Paynes Grey.  Road: Yellow Ochre/Dioxazine Purple in the Shadows.  Outline/Trees: Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna.  Brush:  Indian Red.  When I make an underpainting, I try to see the colors […]

LA TIENDITA DE ANTIGUA GUATEMALA – Orig. Oil Painting – Special Offer

LA TIENDITA DE ANTIGUA, GUATEMALA – 51″x 39″Donna Clair Original Oil completed in 2001 – Framed with Linen Liner. My friend Joan Norris, midwife, sent me an e.mail asking if I would help sell this painting to benefit the Northern New Mexico Birth Center.  This painting has been hanging in the Birth Center all these […]