Monday, April 27, 2015

CORAZON SAGRADO - 40"x30" Work in Progress (Glazes)

Studio No. 1115 - CORAZON SAGRADO (Rio Chiquito, N.M.) - 40"x30" Work in Progress (Glazes) - Colors are thinned to transparency or semi-transparency with painting medium.  Color Notes:  Tree - Italian Pink, Brown Pink, Cadmium Red, some Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Sky:  Payne's Grey, Permalba White, Cobalt Blue.  Green Trees:  Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre.  Foreground:  Burnt Sienna, some of the sky mixture, Yellow Ochre.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

CORAZON SAGRADO - New 40"x30" Work in Progress (Underpainting)

CORAZON SAGRADO (Rio Chiquito, New Mexico) - New Work in Progress (Underpainting) 40"x30" Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Color Notes:  All colors mixed with MG Underpainting White and Distilled Turpentine.  Sky:  Payne's Grey, Cobalt Blue  Tree:  Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red and some Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Greenery:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna.  Stay Tuned for the next step:  The Glazes.  DC

Monday, April 20, 2015

WINTERLIGHT - Completed 22"x28" Original Oil - Sold

Studio No. 1015 - WINTERLIGHT (View from my kitchen window, Tesuque, N.M.)  New 22"x28" Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Completed 4/20/15 - Sold

Friday, April 17, 2015

WINTERLIGHT - Work in Progress - the Middle Tones

WINTERLIGHT - Work in Progress  (Middle Tones) - 22"x28" Original Oil on Belgian Linen - If at any phase of the painting I begin to get excited, this is it - I see the end in sight, the possibilities.  This phase is the transition from the darks to the lights.  Am using more opaque paints and "scumble" them on top of the darks.  This painting has been painted in my head a hundred times - ever since I saw the evening light coming across the front yard.  Stay tuned!  DC

Thursday, April 16, 2015

EXPERIMENT!

Something New!  Another phase of WINTERLIGHT painting - in order to modulate light and hopefully give it that "last moment before sunset feeling" have used a transparent Payne's Grey glaze thinned with fast drying painting medium.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

WINTERLIGHT (Tesuque, N.M.) Work in Progress

Studio No. 1115 - WINTERLIGHT (From my kitchen Window, Tesuque, N.M.)  - New 22"x28" Original Oil on Belgian Linen - All colors mixed with MG Fast Drying Underpainting White and Distilled Turp.   Color Notes:  Sky: Paynes Grey, Cobalt Blue  Trees:  Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red and Cadmium Yellow.  Light Areas on Snow:  Permalba White, Yellow Ochre Pale  Foreground:  Paynes Grey and Cobalt Blue  Tire tracks:  Perylene Maroon, Burnt Sienna, Dioxazine Purple.

Monday, April 13, 2015

PLACITAS - New 40"x30" Original Oil


PLACITAS (Placitas, New Mexico) - New 40"x30" Original Oil Painting on Belgian Linen.  Completed 4/13/15.  Preview/Purchase.

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

PLACITAS - 40"x30" Work in Progress (Underpainting)

Studio No. 1215 - PLACITAS - 40"x30" Work in Progress (Underpainting) - All color are mixed with MG Underpainting White and applied with distilled turpentne.  Sky:  Thalo Blue, Thalo Green, Dioxazine Purple.  Greens:  Chrome Oxide Green Opaque.  Chamisa:  Yellow Ochre, White, Cadmium Yellow, Mars Orange.

SANTUARIO - 60"x50" Work in Progress (Loose Sketch)

Studio No. 1115 - SANTUARIO (Rio Pueblo at Martinez Hacienda, Taos, N.M.) - 60"x50" Work in Progress - Okay, here we go!  This is a very loose sketch - working with distilled turpentine, Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna.  A long way to go before I begin to lay in the underpainting - tighten sketch - have the source material right next to the canvas where I can look at it all day long - imagining the darks in my head - they are the strongest element of the composition. 

Monday, March 16, 2015

PROCESS - A GRID AS A GUIDE

3/16/15 - SANCTUARY -This is a 60"x50" Belgian Linen canvas.  Most often a painting is a long time in the making -- and most of it is painted in my head months, or  sometimes years, before it finds life on a canvas.  A few years ago my traveling buddies, Jerry Walter and Rick Finney, and I were at the Martinez Hacienda early one beautiful fall morning.  The Rio Pueblo was quiet - the scene was serene - another unforgettable moment.  It was preserved in a photograph and for all this time quietly bouncing around in my head, popping up when I least expected it.  Here is what I hope is the beginning of a really good painting (one never knows how things will turn out - hoping to be surprised!).  This is a 60"x50" canvas prepared with three coats of gesso toned with Payne's Grey.  I have blocked out the grid in ten inch squares so that I can put the sketch on with fairly accurate proportions.  Stay tuned! 

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

STUDIO WORK IN PROGRESS - Untitled 30"x24" Original Oil

STUDIO WORK IN PROGRESS (Sketch) - Untitled 30"x24" Original Oil on Linen.  Loose sketch applied to a toned ground with Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and Distilled Turpentine.  This is a little road in the Village of Tesuque late on a February afternoon.  Often I block in six or eight paintings at a time for a couple of very good reasons - this has been part of my process for as long as I can remember.  First of all these sketches are from field trips and stand out from the collected material as the most visually exciting.  I usually compose with my camera (taking many shots of the same subject at different angles) and in the end choose the strongest composition.  The way I paint the canvases are all in various stages of drying so there is a necessary rotation process.  It is possible this routine wouldn't work for a lot of artists, but somehow this process has kept me excited enough to keep painting for many years!

STUDIO WORK IN PROGRESS - WINTERLIGHT (Sketch) 22"x28"

WORK IN PROGRESS (Oil Sketch) - WINTERLIGHT - 22"x28" Orig. Oil on Linen - Loose sketch on "toned ground" with two colors - Prussian Blue and Burnt Sienna - applied with distilled turpentine.  This is the view from my studio window one evening when the sun was coming in low - right before sunset.

Tuesday, March 03, 2015

SUENOS DEL RIO - NEW 22"X28" Original Oil - Sold

Studio No. 915 - SUENOS DEL RIO (Dreams of the River, Rio Grande at Pilar, N.M.) - New 22"x28" Original Oil on Belgian Linen - Completed 3/3/15.  Sold

Saturday, February 21, 2015

MIS SUENOS DEL RIO - 22"X28" Work in Progress (Glazes)

Studio No. 915 - MIS SUENOS DEL RIO (Rio Grande at Pilar, N.M.) - Work in Progress (Glazes) - New 22"x28" Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  This is the second phase of the methods I use to do my paintings.  I thin the colors to a transparent or semi-transparent glaze with my painting medium and apply over the underpainting.  Color Notes:  Hills:  Dioxazine Purple, Cobalt Blue Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre.  Trees:  Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Cobalt Blue.  Water:  Olive Green, Cobalt Blue, Prussian Blue, Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Sienna, Doxazine Purple.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

MIS SUENOS DEL RIO - Work in Progress (Underpainting)

Studio No. 815 - MIS SUENOS DEL RIO (Rio Grande at Pilar, N.M.) 22"x28" Work in Progress (Underpainting).  All colors mixed with Underpainting White and Turpentine.   Color Notes:  Hills - Combinations of Prussian Blue, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre, Dioxazine Purple.  Trees: Combinations of Prussian Blue, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow.  Water:  Cobalt Blue, Dioxazine Purple. 

MIS SUENOS DEL RIO (Rio Grande at Pilar, N.M.) - 22"x28" Work in Progress (Sketch)

Studio No. 815 - MIS SUENOS DEL NORTE (My Dreams of the River - Rio Grande at Pilar, N.M.)  22"x28" Work in Progress (Sketch) - Original Oil on Belgian Linen.  Sketch is applied with Prussian Blue oil paint and turpentine.

Sunday, February 15, 2015

ROMERO ROAD (Tesuque, N.M.) - 9"x12" Original Oil - Sold

Studio No. 2214 - ROMERO ROAD (Tesuque, N.M.) - 9"x12" Original Oil, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  Sold

Friday, February 06, 2015

CHIMAYO - New 16"x12" Original Oil

Studio No. 715 - CHIMAYO - New 16"x12" Original Oil on Italian Panel, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  Completed 2/6/15 - Sold 2/7/15 (Bernardsville, N.J.) - Thank you!