"LAS TRAMPAS" - NEW Original Oil Painting

"LAS TRAMPAS"

6"x8" Original Oil on Italian Gessoboard
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner
For price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at
(575)758-7454

"NOCHECITA" - Sold

"NOCHECITA" - SOLD

6"x8" Original Oil on Italian Gesso Panel
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner

"CAMPOSANTO" - New Original Oil

"CAMPOSANTO"

6"X8" Orig. Oil on Italian Gesso Panel
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner
For price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at
(575)758-7454

"YELLOW ROSES" - New Original Oil

"YELLOW ROSES"

8"x6" Original Oil on Italian Wood Panel
Framed in Gold
For price and availability, call my Taos Studio at
(575)758-7454

"THE READER"

"THE READER" - Not for Sale

6"x8" Original Oil on Italian Wood Panel
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner

TABORET - 15 APRIL 2009

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

"BEARERS OF LIGHT" - Click here to visit my website

"THE BEARERS OF LIGHT"
Chichicastenango, Guatemala

This image is available as a Studio Edition print. You are invited to visit my website at the above link. To order, call (575)758-7454.

"COFRADIA" - Click here to visit my Website

"COFRADIA"

Easter Sunday -- The hermanos of the Cofradia - Antigua, Guatemala
This image is available as a Studio Edition Print
You are invited to visit my website at the above link
Or just call my Taos Studio to order
(575) 758-7454

BLANK IS THE BEGINNING

BLANK IS THE END, AND BLANK IS THE BEGINNING - After completing the paintings for my Santa Fe exhibit, a lot of catch up work on the house, including a spring cleaning for the studio. I looked at that blank canvas on the easel today and thought it would be wonderful if I could start out everyday with a symbolically blank canvas in my head -- no complaints, no judgments -- perhaps that would qualify me for sainthood! New underpaintings with color descriptions to be posted here in the next couple of days. DC

"GUADALUPITA" - Click here to visit The High Road Print Catalogue

"GUADALUPITA" -- #112 in THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE -- you are invited to browse -- just click the above link -- ENJOY!

"ANCIENT WALLS AT LA CUEVA" - Click here to visit The High Road Print Catalogue

"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!
This image is available as a Studio Edition print -- you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE, just click the above link. ENJOY!

"CAPILLA DE PLACITAS" Click here to visit The High Road Print Catalogue

"CAPILLA DE PLACITAS" -- One of my "touchstones" on the High Road to Truchas -- As I remember this day, I climbed a little way up the water tower across the street from this church in order to take this photograph -- ah, Youth! This image is now available as a Studio Edition Print in the High Road Catalogue -- click the above link for an armchair tour! DC

"INTO THE LIGHT" - Click here to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE

"INTO THE LIGHT" -- There are backroads; there are days where the wind blows strong, the clouds fly fast over the landscape -- one minute you are in deep shadows and soon you emerge into the light....just another day in the north country!
This image is now available as a Studio Edition Print -- click above link to visit The High Road Print Catalogue. ENJOY! DC

EARLY MOONRISE AT TRUCHAS - Click here for High Road Print Catalogue

"EARLY MOONRISE AT TRUCHAS" - Now available as a Studio Edition Print - view the HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE via the above link. Enjoy!

CASITAS DEL NORTE = Click here to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE

"CASITAS DEL NORTE" - A view of the main street in Truchas town from in front of the old church, La Nuestra Senora del Rosario......wonderful old adobes, another time..... Now available as a Studio Edition Print from The High Road Print Catalogue -- you are invited to visit my website through the above link.

"NUESTRA SENORA" - Click here to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE

"LA NUESTRA SENORA DEL ROSARIO" - Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, Truchas, N.M. -- The foundations of this church are over 250 years old -- there is a new church down the road a bit where the priest says Sunday Mass -- but this old church is the heart of the village. Now available as a Studio Edition print - you are invited to click the link above to visit THE HIGH ROAD CATALOGUE. To order call (575)758-7454 or use Pay Pal shopping cart on website. ENJOY! DC

"MAYORDOMO" - Click here to visit The High Road Catalogue

"MAYORDOMO" - Now available as a Studio Edition Print.
(Visit the High Road Print Catalogue to order)

A Mayordomo is the official elected to maintain the irrigation system known as the Acequia Madre -- centuries old "Mother Ditches" that bring water from the mountains to the villages here in northern New Mexico. He oversees the spring cleaning of the ditches (as seen in the painting) and manages control of the water to ranches and fields. The original painting "Mayordomo" was completed as an homage to my first Truchas friend, the local Mayordomo, Cosme Romero. I was living at the ranch on Llano Quemado on the outskirts of Truchas. One day Cosme brought his wife, Carmelita, and his daughter, Susie, to welcome me to the community. He was a kind and gracious man with a wonderful sense of humor.

AFTERNOON VISITORS - Click here to visit The High Road Print Catalogue

"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" - Click here to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE

"ESPIRITU BLANCO"

Now available as an exhibition-quality archival giclee (#010) -- you are invited to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE -- to order, please call my Taos Studio at
(575) - 758-7454

"DON EUSAVIO'S PARADISE" - Click here to visit THE HIGH ROAD PRINT CATALOGUE

"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!