EARLY SNOW CLOUDS AT PICURIS - Archival Print from an original painting - you are invited to visit The High Road Print Catalog.
Oh
yes! It's that time of year again - fall sneaked up on us here about
two nights ago - a chill in the air. This morning landlord checking the
heating zones in the house so I won't freeze and fall on a brush
midstroke! Moved to New Mexico 47 years ago this month. This morning I
was looking at all these images in this catalog - painted over my years
in Truchas - and I wondered how it happened that I got so lucky to land
in this place - such a chaotic set of circumstances brought me here all
that long time ago - another storm of events brought me full circle to
Tesuque - right up the street from El Nido where I had my first New
Mexico "art show" - bet those paintings still resonate with the sweat
and stomps of flamenco dancer Vicente Romero! Just coming home to
myself again (I am slow to change) - carry these places with me every
day when I sit down at that big easel of mine. What I am feeling today
is a deep and profound gratitude.
On the Easel: CALLECITA DE TESUQUE, 40"x40" Original Oil on Belgian Linen.
CORAZON SAGRADO (Tesuque Village, New Mexico) - 20"x20" Original Oil, wrap-around painting. $750.00 - Preview/Purchase.
Studio No. 3414 - PUESTA DEL SOL (Taos Mountain, Taos, New Mexico) - New 30"x40" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, unframed. $3500. Completed 8/13/14 - Sold
ON THE EASEL NOW -- WORK IN PROGRESS - STUDIO NO.3414 - PUESTA DEL SOL (Taos, New Mexico) 30"x40" Original Oil on Belgian Linen. ( This is the second in a series of 30 new paintings from northernNew Mexico) The color notes and process of the beginning of this painting are posted below.
Studio No. 2814 - EL RITO DEL NORTE (Garcia Park, Taos, New Mexico) - 20"x16" Original Oil, Framed - $800.00. Preview/purchase.
U.S. HILL (Taos, New Mexico) - 8"x10" Original Oil, framed - $350.00. Preview/purchase.
LLANO SAN JUAN (Llano San Juan de Nepomuseno, New Mexico) - 11"x14" Original Oil, Framed - $500 - Preview/purchase.
DOWN A COUNTRY LANE (Tesuque, New Mexico) - 12"x9" original oil, framed in gold with linen liner -$450.00 - To preview/purchase.
Studio No. 214 - WINTERLIGHT (Tesuque, New Mexico) - 48"x36" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, unframed - now available for purchase - $4500.00. Preview/Purchase.
Studio No. 2614 - TWILIGHT ON TAOS MOUNTAIN - New 16"x20" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. Completed 8/3/14. SOLD
GARCIA PARK (Taos, New Mexico) New 8"x16" Original Oil on Canvas, unframed. Completed 7/31/14 - Sold
ABIQUIU - New 40"x40" - painted the bottom of
the canvas this week - upside down to dry for ten days or so and then
on its way to a new happy home in Ohio!
Studio No. 3414 - PUESTA DEL SOL - 30"x40" Original Oil on Belgian Linen - Work in Progress (Underpainting). Color Notes: All basic colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White and Turp. Sky - Dioxazine Purple. Mountains - Cerulean Blue, Sky Color. Trees: Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre. Foreground: Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Olive Green, Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna.
Studio No. 3314 - ABIQUIU - New 40"x40" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, wrap-around painting. $4000.00 Completed 7/23/14. Sold
ROMERO ROAD IN APRIL (Tesuque Village, New Mexico) - 11"x14" Original Oil on Belgian Linen - Sold
Studio No. 3314 - ABIQUIU - 40"x40 Work in Progress (Underpainting) - Color Notes: All colors mixed with Grumbacher Underpainting White and turp. Sky and Water: Cobalt Blue, Turquoise Green. Back Mountains: Cobalt Blue and Dioxazine Purple. Yellow Ochre and a dirty brush. Earth: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, dirty brush. Trees: Prussian Blue, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. Chamisa: Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre. Set aside and let dry thoroughly for about a week.
ABIQUIU - Work in Progress - sketch on 40"x40" primed, gessoed and toned canvas. Very loose "cartoon" with Prussian Blue, some Burnt Sienna and turpentine.
Blank is the end and blank is the beginning --
A whole new chapter - the front yard was full of magpies this morning -
a wonderful omen. I learned a new word today - "hybridity" - and
realized, yes I am a hybrid - a life lived in many layers!
Find your own way of doing things - this just happens to be how I begin a painting. There is a "craft" to creativity! This is a 40"by 40" canvas - plan to block
it in with a painting of Abiquiu - I use a fine textured/pre-primed Belgian Linen on heavy-duty stretcher bars. Mix gesso with water to a medium consistency, add Payne's Grey for a light blue/grey ground - a "grisaille". The toned ground eliminates a fight with the white spaces and nicely modulates the colors of the final painting.
Studio Clean-up Day - New Auctions as listed below - preparing
canvases to block in new paintings this week. Would love to send my
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