LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Pilar, New Mexico) - 30"x24 Work in Progress

LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Rio Grande at Pilar, New Mexico) - New 30"x24 Work in Progress - Glazes & Middle Tones. Glazes are usually the dark colors on your palette thinned to a transparency with painting medium.  Middle tones are a mixture of opaque colors and glazes. Color Notes:  Sky: Permalba wite, Cerulean Blue.  Hills: Holbein Portland warm greys, Dioxazine Purple, Paynes Grey. Foliage; Yellow Ochre, Gold Ochre, Burnt Sienna.  Holbein Green grey, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. Water: Permalba White, Cerulean Blue, Paynes Grey, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque - some Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna for darkest Glazes. 

OUR DAILY BREAD - Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

 GRACIAS A LA VIDA!-( OUR DAILY BREAD, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico)

ALMOST HOME - Studio Edition Print

ALMOST HOME (RIO CHIQUITO, NEW MEXICO) - Studio Edition Print - (17"x22" paper size) now available at my online Gallery/Store - https://www.ebay.com/str/Donna-Clair-Art?_trksid=p2047675.l2563

DON JUAN'S PARADISE - Studio Edition Print

DON JUAN'S PARADISE (Valdez, New Mexico) - Large Studio Edition print (17"x22" sheet size) now available at my online Gallery/Store - https://www.ebay.com/str/Donna-Clair-Art?_trksid=p2047675.l2563

PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT - Studio Edition Print - sold

PUEBLO MORNING LIGHT (Taos Pueblo, New Mexico) - Studio Edition Print  - sold

SUMMER STORM AT ALCALDE - 6"x8" Original Oil Painting - sold

SUMMER STORM AT ALCALDE (Alcalde, New Mexico) - 6"x8" Original Oil Painting, framed  - sold

EL VALLE SIN NOMBRE - Studio Edition Print

EL VALLE SIN NOMBRE (Valley Without a Name - Northern New Mexico) - Studio Edition Print (17"x22" sheet size" now available at my Online Gallery/Store - https://www.ebay.com/str/Donna-Clair-Art...

MY TAOS WILDFLOWERS - Large Studio Edition Print

MY TAOS WILDFLOWERS - Studio Edition Print (17"x22" sheet size) - now available at Online Gallery/Store - https://www.ebay.com/str/Donna-Clair-Art...

MORNING POEM - Large Studio Edition Print

MORNING POEM (Santistevan Lane-Taos, New Mexico) - Large Studio Edition Print (17"x22" Sheet Size) - now available at my Online Gallery/Store - https://www.ebay.com/str/Donna-Clair-Art...

ANCIENT WALLS AT LA CUEVA - Large Studio Edition Print

ANCIENT WALLS AT LA CUEVA (La Cueva, New Mexico) - Large Studio Edition Print (17"x22" Sheet Size) - now available at my Online Gallery/Store - https://www.ebay.com/str/Donna-Clair-Art...

CANTO HONDO (Deep Song - Llano San Juan, New Mexico) - Large Studio Edition Print - 17"x22" sheet size. Now available at Online Gallery/Store - Preview/Purchase

ASSEMBLA DE DIOS - Studio Edition Print

ASSEMBLA DE DIOS (Truchas, New Mexico) - Large Studio Edition Print - 17"x22" sheet size. Now available at my Online Gallery/Store -Preview/Purchase

28 October 2020....

 With love from Llano Quemado, New Mexico.....

WORD PAINTINGS #103 & 104 - MAKING A PAINTING

Have been asked to describe how I make a painting...here is my initial source for First Snow. A "looking back" last minute photo on a stormy day in Truchas. You are welcome to follow this process thru subsequent posts at WORD PAINTINGS Nos. 103 & 104 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) - https://donnaclairwordpaintings.blogspot.com/

FIRST SNOW (Truchas, New Mexico) - New 40"x40" Original Oil

FIRST SNOW (Truchas, New Mexico) - NEW 40"X40" Original Oil - all framed up and on the way to its new home in Virginia!!!! Photo Credit: Doug Yeager

LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Rio Grande at Pilar) - New 30"x24 Work in Progress - Glazes

LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Rio Grande at Pilar, New Mexico) - New 30"x24 Work in Progress - Glazes & Middle Tones. Glazes are usually the dark colors on your palette thinned to a transparency with painting medium.  Middle tones are a mixture of opaque colors and glazes. Color Notes:  Sky: Permalba wite, Cerulean Blue.  Hills: Holbein Portland warm greys, Dioxazine Purple, Paynes Grey. Foliage; Yellow Ochre, Gold Ochre, Burnt Sienna.  Holbein Green grey, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. Water: Permalba White, Cerulean Blue, Paynes Grey, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque - some Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna for darkest Glazes.  

LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Pilar, New Mexico) - NEW 30"x24" Work in Progress

 LAZY RIVER DREAMING (Pilar, New Mexico) - 30"x24" Work in Progress - Underpainting.  On Blue Gray toned ground.Most Colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White & Winsor Newton Distilled Turpentine. Hills: Burnt Sienna, Ochre, Payne's Grey.  River: Prussian Blue, Permalba White.  Foliage: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.

FIRST SNOW (Truchas, New Mexico) - New 40"x40" Original Oil

 FIRST SNOW (Truchas, New Mexico) - 40"x40" Original Oil - Completed 10/8/20 - SOLD

RIO CHIQUITO - LARGE & SMALL STUDIO EDITION PRINTS

RIO CHIQUITO - Large and small Studio Editon Prints now available at my Online Gallery/Store - https://www.ebay.com/str/Donna-Clair-Art...

WORD PAINTINGS #102 - MAKING SPACE TO CREATE

WORD PAINTINGS #102 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) - MAKING SPACE TO CREATE - https://donnaclairwordpaintings.blogspot.com/