Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

RIO CHAMA AT ABIQUIU, 20″x20″ Work in Progress (Underpainting)

STUDIO NO. 1513 – RIO CHAMA AT ABIQUIU, 20″x20″ Original Oil on Canvas, wrap-around paintingWork in Progress (Underpainting) – Pinon Trees:  Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna for the darks, chrome Oxide Green and Ochre for lighter areas.  Trees:  Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna.  Water:  Indanthrone Blue with Permalba White and touch of ochre to […]

30″x60″ GARCIA PARK, New Original Oil (Completed 8/24/13)

30″x60″ GARCIA PARK II — New Original Oil Painting on fine Belgian Linen – wraparound painting.  Free shipping.  This painting can be purchased through my Studio 0r Online Gallery.  My first large painting from Tesuque — blocked the underpainting in at the end of May.  Determined it would be completed before the aspens turned. Extra blanket […]

30″x60″ Work in Progress – GARCIA PARK II, Original Oil

PREVIEW!  GARCIA PARK II – 30″x60″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen – work in progress.  This is the first of many large canvases to be completed in this new Tesuque studio.  The different phases of this painting are posted to my Art Journal along with accurate color notes.  This canvas is unusual in that it […]

GARCIA PARK II – 30″x60″ Work In Progress – the Glazes – Color Notes

Studio No. 1413- GARCIA PARK II, 30″x60″ – The sky has been completed – a combination of warm and cool grays.  Foreground:  Combinations of Yellow Ochre, Mars Orange, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna.  Middle Ground:  Snow – same pile of sky mixture (see previous post) Aspen Trees:  A wash of Yellow […]