RIO GRANDE AT PILAR - NEW 40"x30" Original Oil

"RIO GRANDE AT PILAR"

40"x30" Original Oil on Belgian Linen

Framed in Gold with Linen Liner

Available.  Call (575)758-7454

"WHITE MAGNOLIA" 6"x8" Orig. Oil, Framed - SOLD

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!!!  "WHITE MAGNOLIA" 6"X8" Original Oil on Panel, framed in Gold with Linen Liner. SOLD

#45 - AGUA NEGRA MISSION CHURCH - 6"X8" ORIG. OIL - Sold

 

100 Small Paintings #45 - "AGUA NEGRA MISSION CHURCH" - 6"x8" Original Oil on Italian Panel, Framed - Sold.

RIO GRANDE AT PILAR - 40"x30" WORK IN PROG. UNDERPAINTING

 

3/5/12 - RIO GRANDE AT PILAR - 40"X30" WORK IN PROGRESS - Original Oil on Belgian Linen - Color notes:  All colors mixed with MG underpainting white and turpentine and applied with a bristle brush.  Foreground:  Grasses - Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna.  Willows:  Burnt Sienna and Indian Red.  River:  Indanthrone Blue.  Hills to the right:  Yellow Ochre and Holbein Rose Grey.  Sky: Indanthrone Blue and Payne's Grey.  Stay tuned!

AUTUMN FIELDS AT ARROYO SECO - NEW 28"X22" ORIGINAL OIL

"AUTUMN FIELDS AT ARROYO SECO" - NEW 28"X22"ORIGINAL OIL ON BELGIAN LINEN - Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  Completed 3/1/12.  Available.  Call (575)758-7454 or e.mail.  Enjoy!

AUTUMN FIELDS AT SECO - 22"X28" WORK IN PROGRESS (GLAZES)

 

AUTUMN FIELDS AT ARROYO SECO - 28"X22" ORIGINAL OIL ON BELGIAN LINEN, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.   Color Notes:  Pinon Trees:  Olive Green and Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Yellow Fields:  Italian Pink and Burnt Sienna.  Shadows:  Dioxazine Purple.  Autumn Trees:  Italian Pink, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow.  Stay tuned!

A LITTLE MORE POPPY LOVE - 6"x6" Orig. Oil on Canvas Panel-Sold

"A LITTLE MORE POPPY LOVE" - 6"X6" Orig. Oil on Canvas Panel, Framed  - Sold

AUTUMN FIELDS AT SECO - 28"X22" WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING)

 

2/6/12 - All colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White.  Color Notes:  Greens:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque and Yellow Ochre.  Shadows:  Diox. Purple.  Trees:  Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, CadmiumRed - Mars Red - Indian Red.  All in various combinations.

NOCHECITA DE CHIMAYO - 22"X28" WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING)

 

2/6/12 - Most colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White and turpentine.  Sky: Thalo Rose Red, Indanthrone Blue, Payne's Grey.  Trees: Combination of Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque and Yellow Ochre.  Earth:  Mars Orange, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Holbein Rose Grey.

TRUCHAS IN WINTER - 22"X28" WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING)

2/6/12 - Most colors mixed with Grumbacher Underpainting White - Trees:  Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre.  Sky:  Davy's Grey, Payne's Grey.

24"X30" NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU - SOLD

STUDIO #212 -  NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU -  NEW 24"x30" Original Oil on Belgian Linen - .  SOLD

"ESTACA" - NEW 11"x14" Original Oil

"ESTACA" - New 11"x14" Orig. Oil on Canvas

Framed in Gold with Linen Liner

For price and availability visit www.DonnaClairArt.com

WINTER MORNING ON SANTISTEVAN LANE--new 10"x10" Original Oil - Sold

"WINTER MORNING ON SANTISTEVAN LANE" - NEW! 10"x10" Original Oil on Linen, Framed in Silver with Linen Liner. Sold

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 tuned! DC

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 this study.  Began work on a new book recently - have designed the cover for ON THE ROAD: Paintings of New Mexico - hope to have it completed sometime late next year.  It will cover new paintings from 2010 thru 2012. FYI -  Saw a great documentary "THE CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS" by Werner Herzog.  In 1994 some hikers in France discovered a cave with magnificent wall paintings of prehistoric animals.  Later the cave was carbon dated and thought to be 30,000/40,000 years old!  It is called Chauvet cave after one of the hikers.  They even found bone flutes that still can play music.  The joy of Neanderthal art and music!  PROSPERO ANO NUEVO A TODOS!  - Best regards, Donna

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 painting is the main street in Truchas -- I walked to the post office from my little adobe house every day and still keep the memories of that special time very close.  The woman is the memory I've kept of my little Polish grandmother -- she carried a shopping bag with her everywhere -- those were her "gifts" her "surprises".  The words of Fra Giovanni never fail to uplift - especially at this time of the year.  From my heart I wish you all the best of this holiday season -- Hug someone special today!  Sincere best wishes, Donna

"There  is nothing I can give you which you have not;
But there is much, very much that while I cannot give it,
 you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts
find rest in today.  TAKE HEAVEN.
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden
in this present moment.  TAKE PEACE.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow.
Behind it, yet within reach is joy.
There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see,
and to see we have only to look.  I BESEECH YOU TO LOOK.

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by
their covering, cast them away as ugly, or heavy or hard.
Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it
a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom with power.

Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that
brings it to you.  Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or
a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there; the gift is there,
and the wonder of an overshadowing presence.
Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys.
They, too, conceal diviner gifts.

And so, at this time, I greet you.
Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with
profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and
forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away."

Fra Giovanni, 1513 AD
 

SANTISTEVAN LANE - 12"x6" Orig. Oil - Sold

1 December -    SANTISTEVAN LANE, 12"x6" Original Oil Sold.

LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ - 36"x24" - Completed Orig. Oil on Canvas

1 December - LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ - New! 36"x24" Original Oil on Canvas - Framed.  $2400 - You are invited to scroll down and follow the progress of this painting.  This last step was to glaze the inner part of the window with a combination of Ivory Black, Olive Green and Ultramarine Blue.  (575)7587454

CAPILLA DE SANTA CRUZ I - 10"X10" ORIGINAL OIL ON LINEN

CAPILLA DE SANTA CRUZ  - $600

10"x10" Original Oil on Linen (Available)

Framed in Gold with Linen Liner

Call (575) 758-7454

CAPILLA DE SANTA CRUZ II - 12"X12" ORIGINAL OIL ON LINEN

CAPILLA DE SANTA CRUZ - $800

12"x12" Original Oil on Canvas (Available)

Framed in Gold with Linen Liner

LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ - Work in Progress (State II - Opaque Paints)

LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ

(PHASE III - Opaque Paints)

One more step to go - glazing down the inner part of the window once the opaque paints are dry.

LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ -Work in Progress (State II - Glazes)

LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ

PHASE II - THE GLAZES

Thinned down Ivory Black Glaze to "age" the window

LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ - Work in Progress - 36"x24 Orig. Oil (Underpainting)

 "LA VENTANA DE SANTA CRUZ"

New Original Oil on Canvas

36"x24" Work in Progress (Underpainting)

 Yes, the Window takes up the whole canvas! Have new "floater" frame - putting Ivory black glaze over the underpainting to "age" the image.

EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS PUEBLO - Archival Giclee

GIVING THANKS TODAY!

"The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again.

Children, everybody, here's what to do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment."

—From THE FIFTH BOOK OF PEACE, Maxine Hong Kingston

TRUCHAS AFTERNOON - NEW 11"x14" Original Oil

TRUCHAS AFTERNOON

NEW 11"x14" Original Oil - $1400

Framed in Gold with Linen Liner

Available from my Taos Studio - call (575)758-7454

TAOS PUEBLO, SAN GERONIMO CATHOLIC CHURCH - 8"x48" Original Oil Painting Completed

SAN GERONIMO CATHOLIC CHURCH

TAOS PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO

8"x48" Original Oil on Linen - $1800 plus shipping

(575)758-7454

SAN GERONIMO CATHOLIC CHURCH - TAOS PUEBLO - 8"x48" Work in Progress (Underpainting

SAN GERONIMO CATHOLIC CHURCH - TAOS PUEBLO, TAOS NEW MEXICO - 8"X48" Work in Progress (Underpainting) - Original Oil Painting on Belgian Linen

DEEP RIVER DREAMING - 12'X12" Oil Study on Canvas

DEEP RIVER DREAMING - WORK IN PROGRESS - 12"X12" Study for 60"x50" canvas.  Stay tuned!

PEDERNAL - 24"x96" Diptych Original Oil - Completed

 PEDERNAL - 24"x96" diptych - Original Oil - $8500 plus shipping

Detail: Left side of painting

Detail: Right side of painting

24"x96" Original Oil - PEDERNAL (Work in Progress - Diptych)

 Studio #1611- "PEDERNAL" 24"x96" Diptych (Work in Progress - the Glazes) -- Thinning my oil colors with my painting medium (after letting the underpainting dry for at least a week to ten days), I cover the underpainting with glazes - transparent and semi-transparent colors.  Trees: Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and some Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Earth:  Yellow Ochre, Rose Grey, Burnt Sienna and Dioxazine Purple for the shadows.  Dry Shrubs:  Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.

 Detail:  Left-hand side of the painting.

Detail:  Right-hand side of the painting.

NEW "ACEQUIA DEL LLANO" - 22"x28" Original Oil

"ACEQUIA DEL LLANO" - Sold

22"X28" ORIGINAL OIL ON LINEN

FRAMED IN GOLD WITH LINEN LINER

24"x96" PEDERNAL - WORK IN PROGRESS (THE GLAZES)

8/23/11 - PEDERNAL - 24"x96" Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Work in Progress - The Glazes.  This is a diptych - the canvases are put together now so that I can have uniform colors in the glazes between the two canvases.  I previously said I would work on these canvases separately and discovered that is not an option.  Will work with both canvases on the easel and then I can bounce the colors back and forth between the canvases for a more uniform color quality.  DC

24"x96" PEDERNAL - Work in Progress

STUDIO #1411- PEDERNAL - 24"x96" Work in Progress - Sky: Deep bright violet underpainting.  Blue:  Permalba White, Thalo Blue, some Indanthrone Blue with a touch of ochre.  Dry Brush!  Clouds: Permalba White - touch of Cadmium Yellow with tiny bit of Cadmium Red.

CASITAS DEL NORTE - Studio Edition Print - Click here to preview/purchase

CASITAS DEL NORTE - $40.00

(View to Truchas main road as seen from in front of the Old Church) 

Now available as a 13"x19" Studio Edition Print

Click here to preview/purchase

"ABIQUIU DREAMING" - NEW 30"x40" SOLD

STUDIO #711  - "ABIQUIU DREAMING - NEW 30"x40" Original Oil Painting, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. Sold

24"x96" Oil Painting - "PEDERNAL" Work in Progress (Underpainting)

23 July 2011 - PEDERNAL - 24"X96" Diptych - Work in Progress - The Underpainting.  Toned Ground:  Gesso mixed with Payne's Grey.  Underpainting: All colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Fast Drying White -- Sky:  Diox. Purple.  Distant Mountains:  Indanthrone Blue and Prussian Blue  Earth Colors:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow.  Am trying to eat this elephant one small bite at a time!  Stay tuned!  DC

SATURDAY AFTERNOON STROLL - 13"x19" Archival Giclee (Click here to view/purchase)

 

SATURDAY AFTERNOON STROLL - A view from in front of the Old Church looking toward the main road in Truchas, N.M.  Now available as a 13"x19" archival giclee  $40.00 - Click here to preview/purchase.

HOW DO YOU EAT AN ELEPHANT?

18 July 2011 -- HOW DO YOU EAT AN ELEPHANT?  ONE BITE AT A TIME!  My new exciting blank canvases for a 24"x96" painting of Pedernal.  Stay tuned!  ENJOY!