"NOCHECITA DE CHIMAYO" - Just published as a small-format Studio Edition print - 8"x10"; 9"x12" - On Ultra Premium Presentation paper with Ultra Chrome Inks -- hand-titled and hand-signed - $35.00, plus $5.00 S&H. To order, call my Taos Studio at (575)758-7454.
9 June 2009 - WORK IN PROGRESS - "FROM A SUNSET WALK" - 8"x28" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen. This underpainting has been drying for a little over a week - My painting medium has turpentine in it, so the oil sketch must be dry, otherwise the color would be picked up. Now I can "lay in" the glazes -- the transparent dark colors, which is what I will do today. DC
1 June 2009 - "BEHIND ADOBE WALLS" - NEW 24x30" Underpainting. FYI -- While the large 48"x60" underpainting "Donde Nace la Vida" is drying, I am spending this week "blocking in" several more canvases. Sitting at an easel for long periods to complete a painting is not easy -- and there are days when I lack a certain enthusiasm. Usually five or six underpaintings (oil color sketches - MG Fast Drying White and pigment) sit all around me....and as long as they are "down" on the canvas -- I can paint them in my head anytime of the day or night. When I finally put them on the easel, the difficult work of planning the light and shadows, colors, etc. is mostly done -- the excitement has built to complete the canvas and my days at the easel go much more smoothly! DC
"YELLOW MUMS"
"DONDE NACE LA VIDA" - New 48"x60" Original Oil (Underpainting) - Here is the palette for the underpainting - using MG White with turpentine and mixing the colors. Sky: Davy's Grey, Payne's Grey, Cadmium Yellow. Middle ground: Cadmium Red, Yellow Ochre and Burnt Sienna. Trees & Foreground: Same colors as middle ground, adding Chrome Oxide Green Opaque and Prussian Blue. This canvas now needs to be set aside for about ten days to "cure". In the meantime I will block in several new underpaintings, which I plan to post here. (To keep track of my studio work, you are invited to become a Facebook Friend!) Stay tuned!
"DONDE NACE LA VIDA" -- Here is the "cartoon" for a new 48"x60" Canvas -- this begins a series of 12 large format oils titled "AMBIENTES" (Environments).
"DULCES, DULCES!"
"THE READER" - Not for Sale
15 April 2009 -- DANCING WITH THE EASEL! Getting back to work after taking some time off to regenerate and trying to create some order in my life (chuckle, chuckle!). Need to warm up again (the yoga of painting) -- have begun some small oil studies which I will post here and then put up for auction on eBay -- am going to challenge myself to finish one small painting a day for the next two weeks......hmmmm! DC
"GUADALUPITA" -- #112 in THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE -- you are invited to browse -- just click the above link -- ENJOY!
"ANCIENT WALLS AT LA CUEVA" -- The old Salman Ranch. Every fall a visit to buy baskets and baskets of fresh raspberries to freeze for winter treats. A stop at the little restaurant for an incredible fresh raspberry sundae -- and then a leisurely drive home made for a perfect Sunday!
"MAYORDOMO" - Now available as a Studio Edition Print.
"AFTERNOON VISITORS" - A Truchas neighbor let his horses out every afternoon for a free lunch......Now available at THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE AS #013 - Call my Taos Studio at (575)758-7454 to order.
"ESPIRITU BLANCO"
"DON EUSAVIO'S PARADISE" - My Truchas neighbor, Don Eusavio, bringing his wood in for the day -- every morning he would hammer away at some project in his barn, when the apricots were ripe he would don his orange baseball cap and he would climb the tree to fill his little green bucket. Spring ,summer, fall and winter - each season fell into the other; just observing Don Eusavio's quiet routines taught me a new way to live -- Now available as a Studio Edition Print - visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE at my website (click the above link). ENJOY!
"UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO" (A PATH UNKNOWN) - #001 in the HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE. Exhibition-quality archival giclee -- available as a Studio Edition print. To order call my studio at (575)758-7454.
