MY PROCESS--DOCUMENTING "WORKS IN PROGRESS"- NEW PAINTINGS AND PRINTS. -- INCLUDES PALETTE AND COLOR NOTES.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
LA TIERRA DE PADRE MARTINEZ - Exhibition-quality fine art print.
No. 159 - LA TIERRA DE PADRE MARTINEZ (From the bridge at Martinez Hacienda, Taos, N.M.) - Exhibition-quality archival print now available at the High Road Fine Art Print Catalogue.
Friday, January 17, 2014
WINTER FIELDS AT LAS TRAMPAS - Exhibition-quality archival print
WINTER FIELDS AT LAS TRAMPAS - Exhibition-quality archival print now available at The High Road Print Catalogue.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO - 12"X24" Work in Progress (Underpainting) - Color Notes
Studio No. 114 - UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO (A Path Unknown) - 12"x24" Work in Progress (Underpainting) - Original Oil on Canvas -- Sky: MG Underpainting White and Yellow Ochre Light. Trees: Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre, Prussian Blue. Snow: Payne's Grey and Underpainting White. Road: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
ESPIRITU BLANCO - Exhibition-quality fine art print
ESPIRITU BLANCO (homage to my Truchas neighbor, Don Eusavio - 1982) Exhibition-quality fine art print now available at the High Road Fine Art Catalogue
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
CALLECITA DE TESUQUE, 40"x40" Work in Progress (Underpainting) - Color Notes
Studio No. 314 - CALLECITA DE TESUQUE, 40"x40" Work in Progress (Underpainting) - Colors are mixed with MG Underpainting White and applied with turpentine. Sky: Paynes Grey. Road: Yellow Ochre/Dioxazine Purple in the Shadows. Outline/Trees: Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna. Brush: Indian Red. When I make an underpainting, I try to see the colors underneath the final application of opaque paints.
Monday, January 13, 2014
LA TIENDITA DE ANTIGUA GUATEMALA - Orig. Oil Painting - Special Offer
LA TIENDITA DE ANTIGUA, GUATEMALA - 51"x 39"Donna Clair Original Oil completed in 2001 - Framed with Linen Liner.
My friend Joan Norris, midwife, sent me an e.mail asking if I would help sell this painting to benefit the Northern New Mexico Birth Center. This painting has been hanging in the Birth Center all these years after I donated it for one of their auctions. They loved it so much, as did the many, many mothers they have helped through the years, that it has had pride of place at the center. Times have changed and now with some reluctance, they need to sell this original painting.
If you are interested -- Contact ED, Sandy Campbell, here at the Birth Center: 575-758-1216 or by email: sandy.campbell@gmail.com
Price: $9500 (starting price) it is framed with a linen liner.
Happy 2014!
Best regards, Donna
My friend Joan Norris, midwife, sent me an e.mail asking if I would help sell this painting to benefit the Northern New Mexico Birth Center. This painting has been hanging in the Birth Center all these years after I donated it for one of their auctions. They loved it so much, as did the many, many mothers they have helped through the years, that it has had pride of place at the center. Times have changed and now with some reluctance, they need to sell this original painting.
If you are interested -- Contact ED, Sandy Campbell, here at the Birth Center: 575-758-1216 or by email: sandy.campbell@gmail.com
Price: $9500 (starting price) it is framed with a linen liner.
Happy 2014!
Best regards, Donna
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Saturday, January 11, 2014
CALLECITA DE TESUQUE - 40"x40" Work in Progress (Sketch)
Studio No. 214 - CALLECITA DE TESUQUE, 40"x40" Work in Progress - Sketch in Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna. It is my habit to have six or seven paintings blocked in at a time -- each morning I work on the one that calls "Paint ME!"
Friday, January 10, 2014
WINTERLIGHT - 48"x36" Work in Progress - Glaze
Studio No. 214 - WINTERLIGHT - 48"x36" Work in Progress. Glazes. Hoping this painting will have the feeling of late afternoon light. Decided to thin Payne's Grey with painting medium (not turpentine) and cover canvas. This is an experiment!
Thursday, January 09, 2014
WINTERLIGHT (TESUQUE) - 48"x36" Work in Progress - Underpainting
STUDIO NO. 214 - WINTERLIGHT (TESUQUE) - 48"x36" Work in Progress - The underpainting - Turpentine and color mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White. Hoping this will have the feeling of a late winter afternoon - am thinking of glazing over the entire underpainting with a thin film of Payne's Grey. Snow - Payne's Grey and MG White. Shrubs and the Road: Indian Red, Mars Orange, Burnt Umber. Pine tree: Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Prussian Blue - a little Ochre in the lighter areas. Planning to block in a few more canvases this week before I begin the final painting on this canvas. Stay tuned.
Wednesday, January 08, 2014
IGLESIA DEL VALLE - Exhibition-quality archival giclee
IGLESIA DEL VALLE (El Llano, New Mexico) - Exhibition- quality archival giclee print now available from the High Road Print Catalogue - Click here to preview/purchase.
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT - Exhibition-quality archival giclee print
PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT (Taos, New Mexico) - Exhibition-quality archival giclee print now available - Click here to preview/purchase.
Monday, January 06, 2014
WINTER DREAMS - Exhibition-quality archival giclee
WINTER DREAMS - (Llano Quemado, Truchas, New Mexico - 1982) - Exibition-quality Archival Giclee - Click here to view/purchase.
Sunday, January 05, 2014
UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO - Exhibition-quality Archival Print
UNA SENDA DESCONOCIDO (A Path Unknown) - Click here for the High Road Print Catalogue.
Long, long ago, after moving to New Mexico, I discovered the mystery and fascination of back roads - some led to quiet pastures, and some to old churches, capillas, ghost towns-- old crumbling buildings, broken fences -- signs of lives having lived in another time-- places where all you can hear is the wind and perhaps the whisper of birds' wings as they pass by overhead.......these roads always seem to appear at the beginning of one's journey....... Enjoy!
Saturday, January 04, 2014
FIELDWORK 2014.......
Una Senda Desconocido (A Path Unknown) - For me all it takes is a good camera and my 20-year old pick-up truck - maybe a sandwich and some cookies! In every place I have lived and painted - Santa Fe, Truchas, Taos - there has been a period of excitement in the beginning and once I begin to feel at home, I seem to find my heart in that place and it then becomes a part of the story of my life. Now I am at home in Tesuque - coming full circle....it is important to go beyond what my eyes see.....
Friday, January 03, 2014
STUDIO WORK.....
Once or twice a year I order my paints, canvases and panels. As long as the gesso is mixed, it pays to build an inventory of supplies at the ready. If in the middle of a "work blockage" -- don't fight it -- gesso canvases, build your source material with some field trips. Taking a break once in a while is great for inspiration -- most of my work is painted in my head long before the brush ever hits the canvas!
Thursday, January 02, 2014
PREPARING TO PAINT -- GESSOING CANVAS
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Thursday, December 26, 2013
RIO CHAMA (ABIQUIU, N.M.) 20"X20" Orig. Oil - Sold
Friday, December 20, 2013
WINTER GIFTS......
To Art Friends Everywhere! Many of you have been with me a long time and know I love to send this
greeting every year. The original of this painting 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 -- 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 each and every one of you all the best of this holiday season --
Hug someone special today! Sincere best wishes, Donna - Tesuque, New
Mexico - 12/20/13
"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
"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
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