HIGH DESERT AUTUMN - SOLD!

"HIGH DESERT AUTUMN" - SOLD!

6"x12" Original Oil Painting on Gessoboard
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
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"CHAMISA DAYS" - SOLD!

"CHAMISA DAYS" - SOLD!

6"X8" Original Oil on Belgian Linen
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.

"SUMMER ELEGY" - Work in Progress

"SUMMER ELEGY" - Work in Progress
40"x30" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen Canvas.

This painting is far more complicated than it appears -- a lot of detail even though the brushwork is laid in very loosely in places. I hope this photo gets across the true value of glazes and how they add such richness to the final painting. Again, these are transparent colors -- a layer of paint thinned with medium (see Palette Colors and recipe for painting medium in the margin of blog) over the pastel colors of the underpainting. Can you see how the light is refracted through all the way to the toned ground (gesso and Payne's grey) then bounced out again? -- there is LIFE to these colors! Working on this canvas while the glazes on the Valdez Autumn canvas dry -- having several canvases going at one time allows me to come to each canvas with a certain excitement and freshness -- it never gets boring! Stay tuned.

VALDEZ AUTUMN - WORK IN PROG. - GLAZES

"VALDEZ AUTUMN" - WORK IN PROGRESS- GLAZES
30"x30" Original Oil on Canvas
To be framed in Gold with Linen Liner

AH, THE GLAZES AGAIN! --- This is where I would like to just give up because there seems to be so much work. My walls are blank, a new year and all new canvases -- I have a lot of work ahead of me!!!

The blue in the sky is a mixture of Permalba White, Indanthrone Blue, Thalo Yellow Green and a little Payne's Grey. The highlights in the clouds are Permalba White mixed with just a touch of Cadmium Yellow and Cadmium Red -- the shadows: that same combination with a little Davy's Grey -- the darker shadows, Payne's Grey. The tall poplars: Burnt Sienna, Olive Green - some Prussian Blue to enforce the "cartoon". The shadowed mountains: Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna. The highlights in the mountains: Chrome Oxide Green with Cadmium Orange. The same combination in the grasses in the foreground. The chamisa in the foreground: Yellow Ochre -- then a dirty brush with all the earth colors, plus Diaxozine Purple into the darkest darks. Stay tuned?

For price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (575)758-7454 - or send e.mail to dclair@donnaclairart.com.