WORK IN PROGRESS - "EL RITO DEL NORTE"

WORK IN PROGRESS - "EL RITO DEL NORTE"
(Underpainting)

30"x40" Original Oil Painting on Portrait Quality Belgian Linen. The underpainting is essentially a color sketch over a "toned ground" (gesso mixed with Payne's Grey). This phase of the painting gives me a guide to the light an color of the final piece -- it also gives me the information I need regarding composition -- if a painting doesn't "click" at this point, usually it won't work at all. I've mixed all the basic colors (ochre, chrome oxide green opaque, cadmium yellow) with MGWhite and applied them to the canvas with turpentine. Now I will let the canvas dry for several days before applying the glazes (dark transparent colors) To follow the progress of "El Rito del Norte", stay tuned to this web log!

Be first in line to receive a photo of this completed painting -- just send an e.mail to dclair@donnaclairart.com and join my list of Art Friends. For price and availability, please call my studio at (505) 758-7454.

LLANO SAN JUAN DE NEPOMUSENO" 0RIG. OIL

"LLANO SAN JUAN DE NEPOMUSENO"

30"x40" Original Oil on fine Belgian Linen.
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
For price and availability, please call my studio at (505)758-7454.
©DonnaClair2006 -- All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"LLANO LARGO" - Original Oil Painting

"LLANO LARGO"

24"x30" Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian Linen.
Custom-framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
For price and availability, please call my studio at (505)758-7454.
©DonnaClair2005 -- All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"LOS CAMPOS DE TRUCHAS" - SOLD

"LOS CAMPOS DE TRUCHAS" - SOLD!

30"x30" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner
©DonnaClair2005 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"THE WAY WE WERE" - ORIGINAL OIL

"THE WAY WE WERE"

Studio #2207 - 11"x14" Orig. Oil/Fine Artist's Canvas

Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.

NEW STUDIO LARGER SIZE 2007 EDITION PRINT OF THIS IMAGE
Printed on brilliant white archival stock - 17"x22" sheet size
$75.00 - includes shipping and handling.
To order please call my Taos Studio at
(505) 758-7454.
©DonnaClair2007 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"VILLANUEVA AFTERNOON" - SOLD

"VILLANUEVA AFTERNOON" - SOLD!

11"X14" Original Oil Painting on Fine Artist's Canvas.
Custom-framed in Gold with Linen Liner.

NEW LARGER SIZE 2007 STUDIO EDITION PRINT -- available on brilliant white
heavy paper stock - 17"x22"Sheet size - $75.00 - includes shipping and handling
Call my studio to order. (505)758-7454)

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"CIELO AZUL" - PECOS, N.M. - SOLD

"CIELO AZUL" - PECOS, N.M. - SOLD!

11"x14" Original Oil Painting on Fine Artist's Canvas.
Completed 2/7/07 - Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.

NEW STUDIO LARGER 2007 STUDIO EDITION PRINT OF THIS IMAGE!
On brilliant white archival stock (17"x22" sheet size)
$75.00 includes shipping and handling
To order, please call (505)758-7454.
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"HIGH ROAD AFTERNOON" - SOLD

HIGH ROAD AFTERNOON - SOLD

Studio #1807 - 20"x20" Original Oil Painting on Fine Artist's Canvas
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner

For more information regarding price and availability of this painting, please contact my studio at (505) 758-7454

"MY TAOS WILDFLOWERS" - Click for Studio Print

"MY TAOS WILDFLOWERS"

"If winter comes can spring be far behind?" - Shakespeare

"TAOS EVENING LIGHT" - STUDIO EDITION PRINT

"TAOS EVENING LIGHT"

High drama on the high desert -- Late afternoon summer rainstorm moving off into the Pecos Wilderness; thunder can still be heard in the distance -- late sunlight moving in low to illuminate the landscape -- Taos, New Mexico ENJOY!

NEW LARGER SIZE! 2007 STUDIO EDITION ARCHIVAL PRINT -- On brilliant white somerset heavy watercolor paper (17"x22" sheet size) - hand-titled and hand-signed....$75.00 (includes shipping and handling). Purchase any combination of three ($75.00) prints and get a fourth one free. To order, please call (505) 758-7454.

The original of this painting (20"x40" canvas size) is available for purchase -- for price and availability call (505) 758-7454.

"NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS" - STUDIO EDITION PRINT

"NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS"

NEW LARGER SIZE! Now available as 2007 STUDIO EDITION ARCHIVAL GICLEE PRINT.
Printed on heavy Somerset watercolor paper (17"x22" sheet size) - brilliant white.
Hand-signed and hand-titled - $75.00 includes shipping and handling. To order, please call my Taos studio at (505)758-7454.

©DonnaClair2007 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"SANTUARIO DE CHIMAYO" - STUDIO EDITION PRINT

"SANTUARIO DE CHIMAYO"

NEW LARGER SIZE! 2007 STUDIO EDITION ARCHIVAL GICLEE PRINT!
On 17"x22" (sheet size) Somerset heavy watercolor paper
Hand-titled and hand-signed by the artist...$100.00
Price includes shipping and handling.
To order, please call my studio at (505) 758-7454.
©DonnaClair2007 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"TOMATES DE SOLOLA" - SOLD!

"TOMATES DE SOLOLA, GUATEMALA"
SOLD!
20"x16" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen.
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
©DonnaClair2007 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"WINTER DREAMS" - Click Here to Visit My Website

"WINTER DREAMS"

The road to the horse ranch, "Puesta del Sol", where I once lived in Truchas, New Mexico.

This image and many others now available as archival giclee print on Somerset heavy paper stock and fine artist's canvas -- visit the HIGH ROAD CATALOGUE on my website. All images in the catalogue are also available in new STUDIO EDITION format - 13"x19" sheet size archival print - $65.00 - buy three and get one free. For more information, just call my Taos studio at (505) 758-7454.

COMING SOON: New original oil paintings! Stay tuned.

MADRECITA DE SOLOLA - CLICK TO VISIT MY WEBSITE

"MADRECITA DE SOLOLA"

You are invited to visit my website -- the above image and many others, including New Mexico landscapes, are available in a wonderful selection of sizes on both archival printing paper and fine artist's canvas.

New STUDIO EDITION PRINTS, printed on 13"x19" sheet size - $65.00 per hand-signed image - order three studio editions and get one free! All major credit cards accepted. Free shipping and handling within Cont. U.S. if ordered through my studio. Colorful, affordable, collectible!

To order call my Taos studio at (505) 758-7454.

"TAOS EVENING LIGHT" - ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING

"TAOS EVENING LIGHT" - Original Oil Painting

20"x40" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen
(Measures 28"x48" Framed)
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner
For price and availability, please call my studio at (505)758-7454.
©DonnaClair2007 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"ODE TO A WINTER MORNING"

FELICIDADES!

AM JUST SETTLING DOWN FOR A LONG WINTER'S NAP.....
WILL RESUME POSTS TO THIS BLOG JANUARY 2, 2007

Wishing everyone a joy-filled holiday season....
Donna Clair

EL VALLE SIN NOMBRE - Click to visit EBAY STORE

"EL VALLE SIN NOMBRE"
(VALLEY WITHOUT A NAME)

NEW STUDIO EDITION ARCHIVAL GICLEE - $65.00
Printed on Somerset Fine Art Paper - 19"x13" Sheet Size
BUY THREE (any combination) AND GET ONE FREE!
To see more images you are welcome to visit my new EBAY STORE!
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

WORK IN PROGRESS - "TAOS EVENING LIGHT"

"TAOS EVENING LIGHT"
(©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Fed. Copyright Law.)
20"x40" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen.
To be custom framed in Gold with Linen Liner.

This is the second phase of this painting -- to view the Underpainting, go to my blog entry of November 30th. Here I have combined both opaque and transparent colors -- as bright and as brilliant (and also as dark) as I possibly could. The dark mountains are a combination of Prussian Blue and Mars Black. The foreground darks are Prussian Blue, Dioxazine Purple - Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. The cloudy sky Prussian Blue, Mars Black and Permalba White.

Oh yes, I "threw" in some Cadmium Red in the trees (Cadmium Yellow and Yellow Ochre) just for the heck of it!

If you have any questions regarding price and availability, just call my studio at (505) 758-7454. Stay tuned to see the finished painting.

(©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Fed. Copyright Law.)

"NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS" - SOLD

"NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS" (LITTLE NIGHT) - SOLD!

20"x30" Original Oil Painting on Fine Artist's Canvas.
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
For more information call my studio at (505) 758-7454.
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"RANCHITOS AFTERNOON" - SOLD!

"RANCHITOS AFTERNOON" - SOLD!

6"x8" Original Oil on Fine Artist's Canvas.
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"THE WEDDING SHAWL" - ORIGINAL OIL

"THE WEDDING SHAWL"

14"X11" Original Oil on Belgian Linen
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
For more information call my studio at (505)758-7454.
©DonnaClair2006 -- All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"LA NOCHEBUENA" - LIMITED EDITION GICLEE

"LA NOCHEBUENA"

A hand-painted archival limited edition (35) giclee
Image Size 24"x24" - hand-signed and numbered
$650.00 - Free shipping and handling within Cont. U.S.
Call my studio to order - (505) 758-7454
Please allow fourteen days for delivery.
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"CAMINITO DE CHIMAYO" - Original Oil Painting

"CAMINITO DE CHIMAYO"

8"x10" Original Oil Painting on Fine Artist's Canvas.
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
For more information, call my studio at (505) 758-7454.
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

CAPILLA DE ARROYO SECO - SOLD

"CAPILLA DE ARROYO SECO"
SOLD
9"x12" Original Oil on Fine Artist's Canvas.
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

WORK IN PROGRESS - "TAOS EVENING LIGHT"

WORK IN PROGRESS - "TAOS EVENING LIGHT"
(20"X40" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen)

Basic Oil Sketch -- the "underneath" colors -- Painted over a toned ground of gesso mixed with Payne's Grey. Oils mixed with MG White and using Distilled English Turpentine as the medium. For more information regarding this painting, just call my studio at (505) 758-7454.

©DonnaClair2006 -- All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

WORK IN PROGRESS - NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS

"NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS"
(20"x30" Original Oil on Fine Canvas)

It's a cold and snowy day here in Taos -- a fire in the woodstove in the studio - getting down to some serious winter work. The second phase of this painting are the glazes and some middle tones in the sky. Sky -- I glazed the underpainting (see previous post) with Transparent Gold Ochre and Thalo Red Rose -- then "scumbled" (pushed the opaque colors into the glazes while they were wet) in some Permalba White and Cadmium Yellow - Ochres and Cadmium Red for the highest lights -- and moved into the shadow areas with Paynes Grey and my blue sky color. The lower half of the painting -- I have put in the glazes -- dark colors - See my Palette Set up on this page. Now this canvas needs to dry for about a week -- stay tuned!

"TAOS AFTERNOON MOON" - Original Oil Painting

"TAOS AFTERNOON MOON"

15"x30" Original Oil on Fine Artist's Canvas
Custom Framed in Gold with Linen Liner
For mor information, call my studio at (505) 758-7454.
©DonnaClair2006 -- All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

WORK IN PROGRESS - "NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS"

WORK IN PROGRESS - "NOCHECITA DE TRUCHAS"
©DonnaClair2006 -- All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.
(UNDERPAINTING - 20"x30" Orig. Oil on Fine Artist's Canvas)

Color sketch over a "toned ground" - the canvas is covered with two to four layers of gesso mixed with Payne's Grey. This mixture can be thinned (one part water to two or three parts gesso) so that the interstices of the canvas are filled and create a smoother painting surface. For more texture, tone the gesso, but don't add water.

The "color sketch" -- a loose version of the finished painting is done using colors mixed with M-G White or Foundation White. Important to see "underneath" the colors of the completed painting -- this phase of the painting shines through the glazes and even the middle tones and final opaque highlights.

"BENEATH JICARITA PEAK" - Sold!

"BENEATH JICARITA PEAK" --SOLD!

8"x10" Oil on Fine Artist's Canvas
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner
For more information call my studio at (505) 758-7454.
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"CHAMA" - SOLD!

"CHAMA" - SOLD!

8"x10" Original Oil Painting on Belgian Linen.
Framed in Silver with Linen Liner.
For more information call my studio at (505) 758-7454.
©DonnaClair2006 -- All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

WORK IN PROGRESS - TAOS AFTERNOON MOON

"TAOS AFTERNOON MOON" - WORK IN PROGRESS
(15"x30" Original Oil on Canvas)

About a week ago I posted a photo of the underpainting of this work -- This post shows you the second phase of this process -- laying in the darkest darks -- the glazes. Glazes are transparent or semi-transparent colors -- the light is still refracted through these colors from the underpainting, giving the paint "life". Instead of black, two of my favorite mixtures are Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna and sometimes I add Alizarin Crimson to this mix. Another of my favorite "warm" dark color mixtures is Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Umber. Coming soon: the middle tones and final highlights. Stay tuned! - ©DonnaClair2006 -- All rights reserved under Fed. Copyright Law.

"PASSING STORM" - SOLD

"PASSING STORM" - SOLD!

6"x12" Original Oil on Fine Artist's Canvas.
Framed in Gold with Liner.
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"TAOS WINTER DREAMS" - Original Oil Painting

"TAOS WINTER DREAMS"

6"X8" Original Oil on Canvas/Wood Panel
Framed in Silver with Linen Liner.
For more information call my studio at (505) 758-7454
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"MOUNTAIN DAYS - Original Oil Painting

"MOUNTAIN DAYS"

6"x8" Original Oil on Fine Artist's Canvas.
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
For more information call my studio at (505) 758-7454
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT - Click for EBayStore

"PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT"

Click above to view three pages of new
Studio Edition Prints. ENJOY!
©DonnaClair2006 - All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS

"EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS"

NEW! STUDIO EDITIONS
Exhibition-quality archival giclee prints now available.
Go to the HIGH ROAD CATALOGUE at

www.DonnaClairArt.com

Choose any three images at $65.00 each and get one FREE!
Printed on brilliant Somerset stock on 19"x13" sheets
All prints are hand-signed and titled.
Prints are individually enclosed in clear envelope.
FREE shipping and handling within Cont. U.S.
To insure holiday delivery all orders must be in no later than 12/15.
©DonnaClair2006 -- All rights of reproduction reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

"LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE" - Original Oil Painting

"LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE"

6"x8" Original Oil Painting on Fine Artist's Canvas.
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.
For more information call my studio at (505) 758-7454.
©DonnaClair2006 -- All rights reserved under Federal Copyright Law.

TAOS AFTERNOON MOON - UNDERPAINTING

Studio #1207 - TAOS AFTERNOON MOON - UNDERPAINTING

15"x30" Oil on Canvas -Blocked this painting in late last night -- to make the "oil sketch" I mixed oil pigments with MG Fast Drying White and Turpentine. Work fast and loose -- this stage of the painting is only a "road map" -- Keep coming back!