MY PROCESS--DOCUMENTING "WORKS IN PROGRESS"- NEW PAINTINGS AND PRINTS. -- INCLUDES PALETTE AND COLOR NOTES.
Saturday, February 12, 2022
ALPENGLOW - NEW! 24"x24" (Work in ProgressII-Glaze)
Friday, February 11, 2022
ALPENGLOW - NEW 20"X20" ORIGINAL OIL (WORK IN PROGRESS - UNDERPAINTING)
Tuesday, February 08, 2022
PRIVATE ROAD - NEW! 8"x10" Original Oil, framed
Friday, February 04, 2022
AFTERNOON MOON (PLACITA, NEW MEXICO) - NEW! 8"x10" Original Oil
AFTERNOON MOON (Placita, New Mexico) - NEW! 8"x10" Original Oil on linen panel, framed - https://www.ebay.com/itm/393914302827
Tuesday, February 01, 2022
OJO SARCO PASTORAL - NEW!! 8"x10" Original Oil, framed
OJO SARCO PASTORAL - NEW! 8"x10" Original Oil on Italian Linen Panel, framed - available https://www.ebay.com/itm/154822575174
Monday, January 31, 2022
NEW! GOOD FENCES - 10"x10" Original Oil, Framed
NEW! GOOD FENCES (Santistevan Lane - Taos, New Mexico) - 10"x10" Original Oil on Canvas, framed - now available at Chimayo Trading del Norte.
Saturday, January 29, 2022
NEW! PLACITA - 8"x10" Original Oil
Studio # 622 - PLACITA (Placita, New Mexico) - NEW! 8"x10" Original Oil on Linen Panel, framed in gold with linen liner - available at Online Gallery.
Thursday, January 27, 2022
NEW!! HEAVEN'S GATE - 8"x8" Original Oil, Framed
Studio #322 - HEAVEN'S GATE - NEW! 8"X8" Original Oil on linen panel, framed now available - Online Gallery Store.
NEW!! THREE PUMPKINS AND A LITTLE BLUE WINDOW, 8"x8"Original Oil, Framed
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
ON MY EASEL - 1/26/22
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
WORD PAINTINGS #113 - INTO THE DREAMTIME
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
WINTER GIFTS.....
20 December 2021 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) Today my studio is fresh with some New Beginnings - planning to send newsletters right after the first of the year; in the meantime....
This painting is "Winter Gifts". The original of this work was "adopted" by some great friends and very prolific art collectors years ago and still resides in a lovely home 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 and place very close. The woman is the memory I've kept of my little Polish grandmother, Ella -- she carried a shopping bag with her everywhere -- those were her "gifts" her "surprises". The words of Fra Giovanni never fail to inspire and uplift - especially at this time of the year. From my heart I wish each and every one of 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
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
BLESSINGS....
Best wishes to all for a Happy Thanksgiving!!! "OUR DAILY BREAD" (Taos Pueblo - Taos, New Mexico) - Still grateful for this wonderful day with artist and friend Dan Bodelson. We bought that splendiferous loaf of bread straight from the oven. Best lunch ever!! Must have been over 50 years ago - so Grateful!!!!
Wednesday, November 03, 2021
THUNDERSPIRITS - NEW! 40"x30" Original Oil, framed
HOT OFF THE EASEL! THUNDERSPIRITS (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) - NEW! 40"x30" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, framed - Now available for purchase at Chimayo Trading Del Norte - Ranchos de Taos Plaza, New Mexico.
Tuesday, November 02, 2021
MORNING POEM (Santistevan Lane) - Greeting cards, prints, posters...
Sunday, October 31, 2021
RIO CHIQUITO (New Mexico) - Prints, greeting cards, posters.....
Saturday, October 30, 2021
PUESTA DEL SOL (Taos, New Mexico) - Greeting cards, prints....
Friday, October 29, 2021
CAPILLA DE SANTO NINO (Amalia, New Mexico) - Greeting, cards, prints, posters.....
Tuesday, October 05, 2021
SUNDAY WITH SARAH - NEW! 20"x20" Original Oil on Linen, framed - Sold
Studio #2921 - SUNDAY WITH SARAH (Ranchitos Road - Taos, New Mexico) - NEW! 20"x20" Original Oil, Framed in gold with linen liner....Sold
Friday, October 01, 2021
LOS RECUERDOS (Alcalde, New Mexico) - NEW! 10"x8" Original Oil, Framed
Studio #2721 - LOS RECUERDOS (Alcalde, New Mexico) NEW! 10"x8" Original Oil on Linen Panel- framed in gold with linen liner....https://www.ebay.com/itm/154634256583
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
RIO CHAMA (Abiquiu, New Mexico) - NEW! 9"x9" Originl Oil on Linen Panel, Framed
Studio #2621 - RIO CHAMA (Abiquiu, New Mexico) - NEW! Original Oil on Linen Panel, framed in gold with linen liner....https://www.ebay.com/itm/393606090460
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
VICTOR COURT (Taos, New Mexico) - NEW! 8"x6" Original Oil, Framed
Friday, September 24, 2021
TAOS PASTORAL - NEW! 8"x10" Original Oil, Framed - SOLD
Thursday, September 23, 2021
LLANO QUEMADO SUNSET - NEW! 6"x9" Original Oil, Framed
LLANO QUEMADO SUNSET (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) - NEW! 6"x9" Original Oil, framed in gold with linen liner - https://www.ebay.com/itm/154623574319
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
CASITA DE LA CRUZ (Questa, New Mexico) - NEW! 6"x8" Original Oil
Studio #2321 - CASITA DE LA CRUZ (Questa, New Mexico - NEW! 6"x8" Original Oil on Linen Panel, framed in gold with linen liner - https://www.ebay.com/itm/393590045133
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
LA PUERTA DE SAN JOSE DE GRACIA - NEW! 8"x8" Original Oil - Sold
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
LLANO QUEMADO - CLOUDS 9/15/21
Llano Quemado 9/15/21 - From the little bench on the front portal - the clouds were so spectacular all day - I photographed until my little camera told me its "battery was exhausted"!
Sunday, August 29, 2021
WORD PAINTINGS #113 - THE LITTLE RED FOX AND A GIFT OF FRESH PEACHES
Sunday, August 22, 2021
SILENCE - Thomas Merton
"To deliver oneself up, hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and hill, or sea, or desert: to sit still while the sun comes up over the land and fills its silence with light. To pray and work in the morning and to labor in meditation in the evening when night falls upon that land and when the silence fills itself with darkness and with stars. This is a true and special vocation. There are few who are willing to belong completely to such silence, to let it soak into their bones, to breathe nothing but silence, and to turn the very substance of their life into a living and vigilant silence." Thomas Merton
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
STUDIO #2121-THUNDERSPIRITS - 40"X30" Work in Progress
Studio #2121 - THUNDERSPIRITS - Work in Progress - (Monsoon Clouds - Llano Quemado, New Mexico) 40"x30" Original Oil on Belgian Linen
Darks: Payne's Grey, Cobalt Blue, Blue Grey Middle Tones Clouds: Mixture of Blue Grey, Light Greys, Portland Blue Grey Cool - variety of Holbein Greys - Sky: Blue Grey, King's Grey Lights: Titanium White, touch of Naples Yellow
Sunday, August 15, 2021
WORD PAINTINGS #112 - DUST DEVILS AND A DOUBLE RAINBOW
WORD PAINTINGS #112 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) - DUST DEVILS AND A DOUBLE RAINBOW! - https://donnaclairwordpaintings.blogspot.com/
DON GREGORIO'S WINTER FIELD - 48"x36" Original Oil - Available
Thursday, August 05, 2021
Studio #2021- SUNDAY WITH SARAH - WORK IN PROGESS (GLAZES) - NEW 20"x20" ORIGINAL OIL
Sunday, August 01, 2021
WORD PAINTINGS #111 - THIS HOUSE OF CLOUDS AND BIRDS
WORD PAINTINGS #111 - THIS HOUSE OF CLOUDS AND BIRDS (How I Came to New Mexico and learned about Art and Life) - https://donnaclairwordpaintings.blogspot.com/
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Friday, July 23, 2021
Hot off the Easel!!! SUMMER RAIN - New 8"x10" Original Oil
Thursday, July 15, 2021
WORD PAINTINGS #110 - MONSOON
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
SUNDAY WITH SARAH (Study) - NEW 10"x10" Original Oil
Studio #1721 - SUNDAY WITH SARAH (Study) (Ranchitos Road, Taos, New Mexico) - NEW 10"x10" Original Oil on canvas, framed - Available at Chimayo Trading Del Norte, Ranchos de Taos, N.M.
Saturday, July 10, 2021
AUTUMN DREAMING - Prints, posters, greeting cards....
TAKING THE SUN - Prints, greeting cards, posters...
Prints, greeting cards, posters and many other great items now available at Fine Art America - https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-donna-clair
Friday, July 09, 2021
AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Placitas, New Mexico) - New 8"x10" Original Oil - Sold
Friday, June 25, 2021
RIO CHIQUITO (Ojo Sarco, New Mexico) NEW 40"X30" Original Oil
Sunday, June 20, 2021
WORD PAINTINGS #109 - RETURN TO LIFE
Sunday, May 30, 2021
RIO FERNANDO - 40"X30" WORK IN PROGRESS (GLAZES)
Friday, May 28, 2021
ON THE EASEL TODAY - AUTUMN DREAMING - 24"x24" Work in Progress (Underpainting)
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
LOS CAMPOS DEL LLANO (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) New 24"x30" Original Oil
Hot off the Easel!! LOS CAMPOS DEL LLANO (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) New 24"x30" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, Framed - Available at Chimayo Trading del Norte - Ranchos de Taos Plaza, Ranchos de Taos - Preview/Purchase.