"SCENE FROM A SUNSET WALK" - UNDERPAINTING

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

"BEHIND ADOBE WALLS" - New Underpainting

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

"WILDERNESS ROAD" - STUDY

"WILDERNESS ROAD" - STUDY

NEW 6"x8" Original Oil on Italian Wood Panel
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(575) 758-7454

"YELLOW MUMS" - New 6"x8" SMALL GEM

"YELLOW MUMS"
(One of a new series 100 SMALL GEMS)

NEW 6"x8" Original Oil on Italian Wood Panel
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DONDE NACE LA VIDA - 48"x60" UNDERPAINTING

"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" - New 48"x60" Oil Painting

"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).
I will attempt to journal every phase of this painting on this web log - would love to hear your feedback. DC

STARTING OVER -

ANOTHER NEW BEGINNING -- The reception for the exhibit of my new paintings was Friday - and today I go into the studio with many, many blank canvases talking to me - "Paint me, paint me!" Unlike years past, this time I have a new "starting place" in my head. Normally, I would rest on my laurels for a month or so -- somehow this time I feel a certain urgency to fill up those blank canvases. Am beginning two new projects, which I plan to work on simultaneously -- while parts of one painting is drying, I will work on another. These new projects are: "AMBIENTES" (Environments) - A series of 12 large-format landscapes. At the same time I will focus on "100 SMALL GEMS" - A series of small original oil paintings -- 11"x14" and under - primarily 6"x8". All of this new work will be previewed on this web log and they will also be available on my website or through my studio. To receive advance notice of this new work - "Works in Progress" -- you are invited to subscribe to receive my newsletters. My thanks to McLarry Gallery for a great show -- and, especially to all my Art Friends old and new! DC (PS - My new social media experiment -- a page on FACEBOOK - as they say on Sesame Street, "Let's be Friends".)

HELADOS! HELADOS! - Click here to Purchase

"HELADOS! HELADOS!"
Ice cream salesman watching the Cinco de Mayo
Parade, Juarez, Mexico
6"x8" Orig. Oil Painting unframed on Italian Gesso Panel

AGUA FRIA - SANTA FE EXHIBIT

"AGUA FRIA" - 30" x 24" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.....now on exhibit at McLarry Fine Art Gallery, 225 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, N.M. Gallery opening, Friday, May 22nd - 5 to 7PM -- to view complete exhibit -- http://www.mclarryfineart.com/donnaclair.html

Am in a really quiet place right now -- it's almost here -- Friday evening, Santa Fe, family, friends, collectors. Rather than expection, what I feel is a wonderful sense of accomplishment -- doing the field work, gathering the supplies, gessoing the canvases - preparing the painting medium -- photographing the work, sharing the process on my blog, varnishing and framing the paintings -- and, finally, delivering them to the gallery. Am looking forward to the experience -- and am so happy to share this with Art Friends today -- am so grateful for your lovely e.mails and calls -- and especially for your encouragement....thank you! Time for me to start some new work! DC

A PERSONAL INVITATION.......

YOU ARE INVITED TO AN EXHIBIT OF MY NEW PAINTINGS AT MCLARRY FINE ART GALLERY, 225 CANYON ROAD, SANTA FE, N.M. - May 22nd, 5 to 7PM

"GOOD OL' BOYS" - SOLD

"GOOD OL' BOYS"

NEW Original 6"x8" Oil on Italian Gesso Panel
SOLD

"LA NINA DE SOLOLA" - New Original Oil Painting

"LA NINA DE SOLOLA" (Guatemala)

NEW Original 6"x8" Original Oil on Italian Gesso Panel
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"DULCES, DULCES!" -NEW Original Oil Painting

"DULCES, DULCES!"
(Candy sellers taking a morning break - Juarez, Mexico)

NEW 6"x8" Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel
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"LAST LIGHT" - SOLD

"LAST LIGHT" -- SOLD

"LAST LIGHT" - 6"X8" Original Oil Painting, Framed in Silver with Linen Liner. Oil study/View from my kitchen window after the last snowstorm in Taos Valley -- the last moment before sunset.

"WAITING" - NEW ORIGINAL OIL - SOLD

"WAITING" - SOLD

"WAITING" - 6"X8" Original Oil Painting, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. Oil study/Saturday's groceries - waiting to go home to the pueblo and prepare for the Feast Day. For price and availability, please call my Taos Studio at (575) 758-7454.

"WINTER RIVER" - SOLD

"WINTER RIVER" - SOLD

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

"TRUCHAS" - NEW Original Oil Painting

"TRUCHAS"
6"x8" Orig. Oil on Italian Gessoed Panel
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner
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"LAS TRAMPAS" - NEW Original Oil Painting

"LAS TRAMPAS"

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