Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

16″x16″ New Work in Progress (Glazes) – ASPENS

  16″x16″ Work in Progress – New Original Oil on Canvas “ASPENS” – All colors are thinned with painting medium.  Sky: Thalo Blue, Thalo Green – a touch of Gold Ochre & Permalba White.  Fir Trees – Burnt Sienna and Prussian Blue – Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Aspens:  Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre – a touch […]

PROGRESS, NOT PERFECTION….YET!

Hello from Tesuque!  A lovely and most welcome drenching rain this afternoon — just when we thought that moisture was a figment of our imaginations, the Rain Gods smiled on us!  Longtime Art Friend Dr. David Reagan of Texas suggested I send photos of my new place – here they are.  Just getting started again […]

Change!

New Photoshop, computer upgrade, new studio arrangement, unfamiliar surroundings – strangeness — unfamiliar lighting on palette and easel – the word for the Day is ADAPT!!

MOVING ALONG! THREE NEW AUCTIONS ENDING FRIDAY.

Moving cartons arrived today…..giving away, packing up years and years of stuff.  Five paintings were “adopted” last week – would love to find good homes for these three as well.  Have my blank canvases all shapes and sizes ready for the new studio in Tesuque.  If you have any questions, just give me a call […]

MY EASEL AND I ARE MOVING TO TESUQUE!

Hello!  This past Sunday, after a lovely drive through Taos Canyon and seeing some early bird apple trees in bloom at Velarde, I was driven up a very narrow dirt road to an old compound of houses in Tesuque.  There it was… a casita, a perfect studio with wonderful skylights, brick floors, a fireplace and […]

WINTERLIGHT QUARTET NO. 3 – UNDERPAINTING

WINTERLIGHT QUARTET NO. 3 – “DOWN THE LANE” – 11″x14″ New Work in Progress (Underpainting) – Clouds: Rose Grey/Payne’s Grey.  Trees:  Ultramarine Blue/Burnt Umber.  Buildings & Highlights:  Cadmium Yellow/Cadmium Red.  Shadows:  Dioxazine Purple/Payne’s Grey.