Monday, March 22, 2010

48"x36" Orig. Oil Painting - "TAOS AFTERNOON SHADOWS - Work in Progress -- The Glazes

STUDIO #1010 - "TAOS AFTERNOON SHADOWS" - 48"X36" Original Oil on Fine Belgian Linen - THE GLAZES:  Sky:  Dark snowstorm moving off into the Pecos Wilderness - Prussian Blue, Mars Black -- a touch of Permalba White at the horizon.  Trees: "Mud" color from mixing leftover colors on my palette.  Shadows in the foreground" Cobalt Violet Hue, Rose Grey, Payne's Grey, Permalba White.  Stay tuned.

Friday, March 12, 2010

"CANCION DEL SOL" - WORK IN PROGRESS - PHASE II-THE GLAZES

"CANCION DEL SOL" (SONG OF THE SUN) - 30"x60"WORK IN PROGRESS -- Phase II - The Glazes.  Have had the canvas and frame for this painting at least two years and I have painted this in my head at least a thousand times over the past five or six years.  This week I have been working over the glazes to the final painting which should be completed sometime early next week.  From it's inception, from the blocking in stage, this canvas has almost painted itself -- all I have been doing is holding the brush -- it's almost like automatic writing!  Because this is that very last moment of sun at the end of the day, I needed to have the glazes darker than usual.  When the opaque paints are applied, I will put them in lightly in order to protect the essence of this moment in time.  Foreground:  Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna.  Middle Ground:  Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna and Italian Pink. Clouds: Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Violet, Permalba White, Payne's Grey.  Sky:  Thalo Green, Thalo Blue, a touch of Yellow Ochre and Permalba White.  Will send photo of painting as soon as it is completed.  I am really excited to see the finished canvas -- it is truly surprising me!!!!  If you have any questions regarding this new work, just give me a call. (575)758-7454.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

24"x30" ORIG. OIL - "ROAD TO WILDERNESS GATE" - SOLD

 
"ROAD TO WILDERNESS GATE" - SOLD
24"X30" ORIG. OIL/LINEN - Framed in Gold

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

30X60 CANCION - WORK IN PROGRESS - GLAZING THE FOREGROUND

 
 "CANCION DEL SOL" (SONG OF THE SUN) - 30"X60" WORK IN PROGRESS.  From the bottom up today -- Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna in the foreground.  Middle ground a combination of Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Sienna and Italian Pink.  I want the feeling of sunset -- early evening -- will work the opaque paints into the dark colors.  I will finish glazing the middle ground tomorrow and then move on to the sky -- which will inform the opaque colors.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

"CALYPSO" - 24"x24" ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING - SOLD

 
"CALYPSO" - SOLD
New! 24"x24" Orig. Oil on Linen
Framed in Gold with Linen Liner
Call Taos Studio (575)758-7454 

Thursday, February 18, 2010

"CALYPSO" - WORK IN PROGRESS - The Glazes

 

2/18/10- Here is the phase of the painting where I could absolutely go out for a cup of coffee and not return!  The glazes....the middle stage of the painting.  Transparent and semi-transparent colors over the underpainting -- Thalo Blue and Green, Cadmium Yellow, Prussian Blue, Rose Red -- background: Permalba White, Ochre and Payne's Grey.  Stay tuned!  

Thursday, February 11, 2010

"VADITO" - SOLD

"VADITO" - SOLD
6"x8" Orig. Oil on Italian Gessoed Board

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

30"x60" Orig. Oil Painting -"CANCION DEL SOL" Work in Progress

 
"CANCION DEL SOL" - 30"x60" Underpainting - New Work in Progress - Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Have had this large painting in mind and heart for about five years now, and I am very excited to have gotten it down on canvas this week.  Now I have two large format pieces in the works, with two more that I plan to "block" in this weekend.  What I love about putting down several underpaintings at a time is that each morning when I "bounce" through that door toward the easel, I just choose whichever one excites me that day.  Eventually it all gets done.....large canvases are as delightful as a big, heavy book one cannot stop reading -- it is even a little sad on the day of completion!

Thursday, February 04, 2010

#1110 - LLANO SAN JUAN - Available

 

Studio #1110 - LLANO SAN JUAN
NEW 12"X6" Original Oil on Linen
Framed in Silver with Linen Liner
Call (575)758-7454

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

"STORMY WEATHER" - SOLD

 
"STORMY WEATHER" - SOLD
New! 6"x8" Orig. Oil (unframed) on Italian Gessoed Board

HIGH ROAD AFTERNOON - SOLD

 

"HIGH ROAD AFTERNOON" - SOLD
NEW! 6"X8" Orig. Oil (unframed) on Italian Gessoed Board

Sunday, January 31, 2010

FEBRUARY MORNING, LLANO SAN JUAN, NEW MEXICO

 

"FEBRUARY MORNING" - LLANO SAN JUAN, NEW MEXICO
Now available as a Studio Edition Print
19"x13" sheet size - $60.00 includes shipping
Call (575) 758-7454 to order

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

"LADIES WHO LUNCH" - Click here for 100 Small Paintings



"LADIES WHO LUNCH" - Santa Fe Plaza circa 1969
 6"x8" Original Oil on Italian Gessoed Board unframed
 Call Taos Studio at (575)758-7454

Saturday, January 23, 2010

TAOS WINTER SUNRISE 1/23/10 - (Photo)



1/23/10 - Up really early this morning and photographed the beginning of the sunrise through my kitchen window.  It was just a special moment - everything felt as though it was at the beginning again - that from this sunrise there will be a renewal - another spring.  "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" - Shakespeare  Am planning some small studies from these photos this week.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

48"x36" Orig. Oil Painting - "TAOS AFTERNOON SHADOWS" - Work in Progress



16 January 2010 - I didn't want to miss this beautiful light I saw from my kitchen window last winter.  Grabbed my trusty digital camera and shot the photo right through the window.  The 48"x36" canvas is gesso toned with Payne's Grey.  The "cartoon" of the painting is Prussian Blue.  I ran the photo through my large Epson printer to get a 16"x20" print of the photo as a point of reference.  Yesterday I placed a grid on the photo (not the canvas) to guide me in proportions.  This is one of the five large canvases I want to complete this year.   I will begin to lay in the underpainting this afternoon.  DC, Taos, N.M.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

"CALYPSO" - Work in Progress - Underpainting



A perfect day today -- kind of cloudy, waiting for snow.  Here is the underpainting - am working mostly with pure colors - ochres, cadmium reds, cobalt blue, chrome oxide green opaque, cadmium yellow.  Background is a combination of Payne's Grey, a little ochre and MG Fast Drying Underpainting white.  Will let this canvas dry for about a week while I block in new canvases.

"CALYPSO" - Work in Progress



14 January 2010 --  Here is the "cartoon" for my new 24"x24" oil painting "Calypso".  I have done the drawing in Prussian Blue -- working loosely.   I love this color  for sketching in paintings because I believe the strength of the blue comes through the eventual layers of colors.   This is an important week for me -- I have been gathering sketches and photos for about ten new paintings.  The background work is to decide the sizes and shapes of this material, then purchase and prepare the canvases for each work.  Sometimes it takes as many as 100 sketches and photos to make ten paintings -- they need to be edited for composition, color and light -- always subject to artistic license, of course.  Stay tuned.  Am hoping to post my progress on this new work more frequently than usual.  DC, Taos.   

Saturday, January 09, 2010

"VETERAN'S DAY/SANTA FE PLAZA" - SOLD



                          "VETERAN'S DAY/SANTA FE PLAZA"- SOLD    In one of my recent "clear outs" I found the slide for this painting which I took sometime in 1969 or thereabouts.  I worked on this painting today and all the while debated whether I would disclose the  surprise it held for me as I worked on it.  Normally I don't "explain" my work, but after forty years and some quiet moments of sketching and painting this piece I realized what it was.....three veterans from different wars on the same bench on the Santa Fe Plaza.  The man on the left is a WWII vet -- dressed in his afternoon best and not quite comfortable with the other two.  The fellow in the middle is transitioning from Viet Nam, dressed in his old sport coat and slacks, hoping to find some kind of normal.  The fellow on the right has been home a while and hasn't been able to find "normal" nor does he want to try any longer -- he lives quietly in a commune somewhere in northern New Mexico.

Peace!

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

AFTER -- Getting Organized



6 January  2010 - Today is the Feast of the Three Kings at Taos Pueblo -- dances, celebration.  Cleaned up the studio finally -- all prepared for my New Beginning......

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

#820 - THE NEST (NEW BEGINNINGS) - NEW ORIGINAL OIL



4 January 2010 - "THE NEST" (NEW BEGINNINGS) - NEW 10"X10" Original Oil on Linen, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  Call (575) 758-7454 for price and availability.

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end" Seneca, Roman Philospher, mid-1st Century AD.  Found two quotes from Seneca recently.  Another is "Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."   Am a firm believer in starting over -- and the New Year is a great place to begin!  New Year's resolutions don't work for me --  I do, however, have some goals for my work this year (always subject to change, of course).  I'd like to complete at least four large "environment" canvases, do more field work, complete my 100 small paintings project - and work on a book I want to self-publish in time for next Christmas.  My all time favorite quote when I dream big..... "How do you eat an elephant? -- One bite at a time!" DC. Taos, N.M.