SPRING FLING! STUDIO EDITION ARCHIVAL PRINTS - 3 for the price of 2

SPRING FLING!!  THREE PRINTS FOR THE PRICE OF TWO ($210.00) - Now available from my High Road Catalogue - http://www.donnaclairart.com/prints.html     Offer good until April 30th.   "LILAS DE TAOS" - Spectacular spring show of lilacs in front of the old Taos News Building! - Available in two sizes - Small: $60, Large: $110.  Prices include shipping.  -  Call my Taos Studio at (575)758-7454.

"POPPY LOVE" - Archival Studio Edition Print

"POPPY LOVE" - Now available as a Studio Edition Print - Ultra Chrome Inks on Matte Presentation Paper - 17"x22" sheet size.  $110.00, Free Shipping.  Call (575)758-7454 to order. 

30"x60" Original Oil - NEW! "CANCION DEL SOL" - SOLD

SOLD

STUDIO #1010 - "CANCION DEL SOL" - 30"X60" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen - Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  Completed 3/21/10.  This painting has been a long time in the "dreamtime" -- which is where I usually spend most of my days.  It is a view from Middle Road here in Taos on a late summer evening's walk....quiet, pastoral....peaceful.  As I hinted in an earlier post, I had "painted" this canvas in my head so many times that all I had to do was essentially sit there, mix the paint and hold the brush....something else took over.  However, once it was completed this weekend, I sat back and looked at it and realized it is one of my very best paintings. Once I walked away from the easel, I felt stunned and a little lonely....this image has been my companion for years!

STUDIO NEWS:  Am working on a 48"x36" canvas which I previewed in yesterday's post - "TAOS AFTERNOON SHADOWS" -- I love the colors so far.  It is from a digital photo I took through my kitchen window (one of my favorite places on earth) -- I made a digital print of the photo and am working freehand from that image.  House repair and spring cleaning taking up the rest of my time -- and watching the apricot tree in front of the house "bud" -- lots of happy chirpy birds in that tree this week!  DC

48"x36" Orig. Oil Painting - "TAOS AFTERNOON SHADOWS - Work in Progress -- The Glazes

STUDIO #1010 - "TAOS AFTERNOON SHADOWS" - 48"X36" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen - THE GLAZES:  Sky:  Dark snowstorm moving off into the Pecos Wilderness - Prussian Blue, Mars Black -- a touch of Permalba White at the horizon.  Trees: "Mud" color from mixing leftover colors on my palette.  Shadows in the foreground" Cobalt Violet Hue, Rose Grey, Payne's Grey, Permalba White.  Stay tuned.

"CANCION DEL SOL" - WORK IN PROGRESS - PHASE II-THE GLAZES

"CANCION DEL SOL" (SONG OF THE SUN) - 30"x60"WORK IN PROGRESS -- Phase II - The Glazes.  Have had the canvas and frame for this painting at least two years and I have painted this in my head at least a thousand times over the past five or six years.  This week I have been working over the glazes to the final painting which should be completed sometime early next week.  From it's inception, from the blocking in stage, this canvas has almost painted itself -- all I have been doing is holding the brush -- it's almost like automatic writing!  Because this is that very last moment of sun at the end of the day, I needed to have the glazes darker than usual.  When the opaque paints are applied, I will put them in lightly in order to protect the essence of this moment in time.  Foreground:  Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna.  Middle Ground:  Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna and Italian Pink. Clouds: Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Violet, Permalba White, Payne's Grey.  Sky:  Thalo Green, Thalo Blue, a touch of Yellow Ochre and Permalba White.  Will send photo of painting as soon as it is completed.  I am really excited to see the finished canvas -- it is truly surprising me!!!!  If you have any questions regarding this new work, just give me a call. (575)758-7454.

24"x30" ORIG. OIL - "ROAD TO WILDERNESS GATE" - SOLD

 

"ROAD TO WILDERNESS GATE" - SOLD

24"X30" ORIG. OIL/LINEN - Framed in Gold

30X60 CANCION - WORK IN PROGRESS - GLAZING THE FOREGROUND

 

 "CANCION DEL SOL" (SONG OF THE SUN) - 30"X60" WORK IN PROGRESS.  From the bottom up today -- Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna in the foreground.  Middle ground a combination of Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Sienna and Italian Pink.  I want the feeling of sunset -- early evening -- will work the opaque paints into the dark colors.  I will finish glazing the middle ground tomorrow and then move on to the sky -- which will inform the opaque colors.