Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

PERALTA ROAD, TAOS – NEW 12″x12″ Original Oil – Sold Studio No. 1512 – PERALTA ROAD, TAOS – NEW Original Oil Painting, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  Completed 5/24/12 – Sold

GARCIA PARK – New 30″x40″ Original Oil, Framed.   Studio No. 1212 – GARCIA PARK, 30″X40″ New Original Oil on Belgian Linen – Framed, Completed 5/22/12.  Available for purchase. Call (575)758-7454

30″x40″ Work in Progress – EARLY SNOW AT GARCIA PARK (Underpainting)…. COLOR NOTES:  Sky:  Ultramarine Blue, Payne’s Grey, Titanium White.  Trees:  Various combinations of Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Orange,  Burnt Sienna and Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Shadows under Trees and Dark Soil:  Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber and Burnt Sienna.  Grasses:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, […]

EARLY SNOW AT GARCIA PARK, New Work in Progress (Sketch) 30″x40″ Oil on Belgian Linen.  Initial sketch made on a Grisaille (toned ground – gesso and Payne’s Grey) and sketch done loosely with Burnt Sienna and some Prussian Blue.  Stay tuned for step by step process!  DC

MY NEW BOOK! TAKING THE HIGH ROAD TO TAOS – Donna Clair Paintings TAKING THE HIGH ROAD TO TAOS — A new book from my Taos Studio.  From the dust jacket: “In 1967 Donna Clair began a new, adventurous chapter in her life by leaving Chicago and moving across the country to Santa Fe,New Mexico. […]

AGUA NEGRA MISSION CHURCH – 16″x20 New Original Oil on Belgian Linen, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  (Completed 5/2/12) Available for purchase.  

NEW WORK IN PROGRESS – “Agua Negra Mission Church” – 16″x20″ Original Oil on Canvas.  Stay tuned!

Studio #1012 – SPRING SNOW AT TRUCHAS 22″x28″ New Original Oil Painting

HOW DO I LOVE PAINT?  LET ME COUNT THE WAYS!!!

STUDIO #1012 – WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING)  – SPRING SNOW AT TRUCHAS – 22″X28″ Original Oil on Linen.  This painting will take no more than five or six colors, not counting the white.  Underpainting is done with oil colors and MG Fast Drying Underpainting White mixed with turpentine.  Payne’s Grey, Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome […]