Donna Clair

Southwest Contemporary Artist

NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU – 24″x30″ WORK IN PROGRESS (GLAZES)

NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU – 24″x30″ Work in Progress – The Glazes:  I’d be lying if I told you I knew how this painting will look when it’s completed – just finished the glazes; will let them dry for a couple of days and then take that empty-handed leap into the oil paints once again! Stay […]

NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU – 24″X30″ WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING)

“NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU” 24″x30″ Work in Progress – Underpainting 5 January 2012 – Basic colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White.  Sky: Cobalt Blue with a touch of Thalo Rose Red.  Trees:  Ochre, Cadmium Red, Burnt Sienna, some Prussian Blue and Cobalt Blue.  Stay tuned! 

NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU – 24″x30″ Work in Progress

  28 December 2011- New Work in Progress – 22″x28″ Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Phase I – Initial Oil Sketch – primed canvas with “grisaille” ground – Gesso with Payne’s Grey.  Sketch in Prussian Blue oil thinned with turpentine.  Let dry for a couple of days before applying underpainting.  ©DonnaClair 2011/Taos.

DEEP RIVER DREAMING

DEEP RIVER DREAMING- 12″X12″ Original Oil on Canvas, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  $1300 plus shipping. Visa, Mastercard, Amer. Exp. available through my studio.  For price and availability, please visit www.DonnaClairArt.com STUDIO NEWZ:  The image for this painting was taken last fall on the Rio Chama.  Am thinking of doing a larger painting from […]

MORNING POEM

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. Rumi ♥

WINTER GIFTS

  To Art Friends Everywhere!  Those of you who have been with me a long time know I send out the same holiday greeting every year.  The original of this painting was “adopted” by some very prolific art collectors years ago and still resides in a lovely home here in Taos.  The street in this […]