CAPILLA DE RIO LUCIO (NEW MEXICO) - NEW! 8"x10" Original Oil

CAPILLA DE RIO LUCIO (NEW MEXICO) - New! 8"x10" original oil on linen panel, framed +free shipping - https://www.ebay.com/itm/157431813033
 

CALLECITA DE TRUCHAS (NEW MEXICO) - new! 8"x10" Original Oil

 CALLECITA DE TRUCHAS (NEW MEXICO) - NEW!  8"x10" Original Oil on linen panel, custom framed - free shipping - https://www.ebay.com/itm/157431783113

PRINTS, GREETING CARDS, POSTERS, ETC.

Prints and greeting cards are once again available on my Fine Art America web pages - an armchair visit to all my favorite places in New Mexico! ENJOY! https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-donna-clair
 

FIVE DAY AUCTION - ADOBE WALLS - ALCALDE - NEW 6"X8" Original oil - SOLD

 FIVE-DAY AUCTION - ADOBE WALLS - ALCALDE - NEW 6"X8" ORIGINAL ON LINEN PANEL - unframed, free shipping - SOLD!

RIO CHAMA, NEW MEXICO - NEW FIVE DAY AUCTION 6"x8" Original Oil - Sold

NEW 5-DAY AUCTION - RIO CHAMA (ends Sunday 8/24) (New Mexico) - 6"x8" Original oil on Linen Panel, unframed - SOLD

LOS PINONES - CHIMAYO, NEW MEXICO - NEW 5 DAY AUCTION - 6"x8" Original oil - SOLD

NEW 5-DAY AUCTION - LOS PINONES - CHIMAYO, NEW MEXICO (ends Sunday 8/24) - 6"X8" Original oil on linen panel - SOLD

LA CRUZ BLANCA - 6"x6" Original Oil

 

 

LA CRUZ BLANCA -(Taos, New Mexico) - 6"x6" Original Oil - now available at McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe - https://mclarryfineart.com/donna-clair#21

DISTANT THUNDER (Taos, New Mexico) - 24"x36" Original Oil

DISTANT THUNDER - 24"x36" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, Framed in Gold with linen liner - now available at McLarry Fine Art in Santa Fe - https://mclarryfineart.com/donna-clair

WORD PAINTINGS #149 - PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION

WORD PAINTINGS #149 - (How I Came to New Mexico and earned about Life and Art) - PROGRESS NOT PERFECTION - https://donnaclairwordpaintings.blogspot.com/
 

OJO SARCO - 30"X30" ORIGINAL OIL

OJO SARCO - 30"x30" Original oil on Belgian Linen, framed in gold with Linen Liner - now available at McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe. New Mexico - https://mclarryfineart.com/donna-clair#17

WORD PAINTINGS #148 - OUT OF MY MIND

 

WORD PAINTINGS #148 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) - OUT OF MY MIND

TAOS AUTUMN AFTERNOON - 8"x10" Original Oil

 

TAOS AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Este Es Road) 8"x10" Original Oil - now available at McLarry Fine Art -  Santa Fe -  https://mclarryfineart.com/donna-clair#24
 

LA CRUZ BLANCA - New 6"x6" Original Oil

 LA CRUZ BLANCA - New 6"x6" Original Oil - available at McLarry Fine Art/Santa Fe - https://mclarryfineart.com/contact

VICTOR COURT - NEW! 6"x6" Original Oil

VICTOR COURT (Santistevan Lane, Taos, New Mexico) - New 6"x6" Original oil - Contact McLarry Fine Art/Santa Fe - info@mclarryfineart.com

LA NOCHEBUENA (Llano Quemado, N.M.) New 8"x10" Original Oil

 

LA NOCHEBUENA (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) - 8"x10" Original oil now available - contact McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe - info@mclarryfineart.com  SOLD
 

AUTUMN LEAVES (Este Es Road - Taos) - New 16"x8" Original Oil

AUTUMN LEAVES (Este Es Road - Taos, N.M.) - 16"x8" Original Oil - now available through McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe - https://mclarryfineart.com/contact

WORD PAINTINGS #147 - CELEBRATING STILLNESS

WORD PAINTINGS #147 (How I Came to new Mexico and learned about Art and Life) Studio #125 - BESIDE STILL WATERS (Rio Grande at Pilar, New Mexico) - NEW! 24"x30" Original Oil on Belgian Linen, framed in gold with Linen Liner. Now available at McLarry Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

4 December 2024 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) - Oh my, hasn't this been an interesting year?    Felt numb after the election results came in.  Honestly I am still ashamed that I spent the greater part of 10 years engulfed in chaos and fear. Political chaos and the horrendous predictions from cable newscasters left me limp.  As a result, one morning I woke up determined to ditch cable news!  Close to 30 quiet days now - and the improvement in my day to day life restores my balance.  Almost like taking a long hot shower for days, blissful sleep and happy winter dreams - and a feast of tacos from Taco Bell.  Call me simple, but am finding that life is so much better if I reduce the noise and roll with the punches.

12 December 2024 (Llano Quemado) - Over 30 Days without cable news - and TV news of any kind!!! What is really interesting is that I don't even turn on the TV for a couple of days!!!  What am I missing?  Murders, political mayhem, hours and hour of mind-numbing Christmas commercials....yahdahyahdah!  I'd like to say I'm smarter, perhaps even more spiritual...turns out that my little world is just a helluva lot more peaceful.  Am back at listening to my Audible books while I paint, good music, working my crosswords, exercising my old brain with some matching games on my ipad - and piling up all the books I've been wanting to read before I go to that Big Easel in the Sky - which means I will have to live for another 85 years at the minimum!  

Best news of all - Today "Beside Still Waters" is being delivered to McLarry Gallery in Santa Fe.  Had worked with Chris McLarry for about ten years, and now I am "back home" - safe and sound!  Chris, John Knox his gallery director and my daughter Sarah Hasted visited last month and we all agreed that McLarry Fine Art will be my exclusive sales representative going forward.  https://mclarryfineart.com/donna-clair -18 paintings are now available for purchase.  Stop in and wander through the peaceful rooms filled with outstanding paintings and sculpture! 

Now my job is to enjoy the winter months in the quiet of this house on the Llano. This past month the flocks of migrating birds have been a joy to watch through the big window next to my easel.  A feast of winter clouds blowin' and goin' - each one a possible painting!  Ordering my new supply of paints tomorrow.  Canvases are all prepped and frames are at the ready.  Hibernating - painting - "stillness" is my challenge - the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.  Until next time.....DC

LLANO STORM AND SHADOWS - NEW 30"x30 ORIGINAL WORK IN PROGRESS

Studio #225 -  LLANO STORM AND SHADOWS (view from my kitchen window - Llano Quemado, New Mexico) - New! Work in Progress - 30"x30" Original Oil on Belgian linen.  COLOR NOTES -   Sky: Prussian Blue, Paynes Grey, Portland Cool Grey.  Mountain: Prussian Blue, Mars Black.Trees: Radiant Yellow, Naples Yellow Deep, Burnt Sienna, Mars Orange, Light Green. Foreground: Same as trees.  Dark Foreground: Burnt Sienna, Dioxazine Purple.
 

IN MY STUDIO TODAY - 11/20/24

In my studio today (River painting on the left from Pilar - "Beside Still Waters" - on the easel Llano Passing Storm and Shadows") - ten days without cable news, going for 30! There is HOPE!!! Slowly returning to sanity! Being peaceful could again become a habit!!!!
 

WORD PAINTINGS #147 - FEAR, UNCERTAINTY AND DOUBT

 

WORD PAINTINGS # 147 (How I came to New Mexico and learned about Art and Life) - FEAR, UNCERTAINTY AND DOUBT

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a manipulative propaganda tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics, polling, and cults. FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information, and is a manifestation of the appeal to fear - Wikipedia

12 November 2024 - Even though cable news tells us we have never been here before - it is the Fear stoked by politicians and cable news that immobilizes us!   Yesterday was Veteran's day and I remembered my uncles Alvin Hermesdorf who fought  bravely in the Battle of the Bulge. Uncle Roy Knoll who fought alongside the British in Burma and Calcutta. Hitler invaded  the port of Gdansk, Poland, on September 1st 1939 - I was born two days later.  Am certain that the months, perhaps years before the conflict began my family sat around the kitchen table, elbows on much worn flowered tablecloths, and discussed all the "What-ifs" leading up to the invasion.  There were still  relatives in Gdansk and inland Poland. Their worst fears grew and came to fruition as ordinary worlds exploded. 

No one would ever be the same!  Battles, invasions, Omaha Beach, family separations, losses of life, relocations in Europe, food shortages, prison camps, concentration camps -  immense suffering and unbelievable atrocities!!!  These were the stories of the first six years of my life. What I remember most is the FEAR!  Adult fears were magnified a thousand times in my child's mind.  We all gathered around the radio to listen to President Roosevelt's Fireside chats.  Letters from Uncle Roy telling me that there were huge snakes under the hammock where he slept and his best British buddy had been killed in battle the day before.  I sent him letters and drawings and my child mind could only imagine what "being in danger" meant, but I was seriously afraid of losing him.Let us not forget the atomic bomb!  Hiroshima and Nagasaki!!! As young children we had "bomb drills" and hid under our desks to protect us from an enemy attack!  There were city wide sirens blaring - warnings to find a safe place to hide.  Not much comfort after seeing the rubble of the two cities in Japan!  Today our "babies" wear bullet-proof backpacks to school and are terrified by regular "active shooter" drills. They and their Moms and Dads live in constant fear.

The Japanese surrendered on Sept. 2 1945  Then came the announcement that the Big War was over!!! I was six years old and  vividly remember how we celebrated VJ Day at our house on Whipple Street in Chicago!  My uncles returned searching for their places among families and friends. They were strangers - their old lives were happy memories. Everything had changed, they were forever changed. No longer young and beautiful they had returned from the pits of hell only to begin again at the beginning, while dealing with nightmares and unimaginable memories of bombs and bullets.

And then came Vietnam!!! The same horrific consequences of fighting a war in a land no one even knew existed until they were drafted!  More losses and atrocities - years of FEAR! Anti-war demonstrations tore this country apart - are you old enough to remember Kent State? Henry Kissinger regularly on TV outlining all the reasons why we are in another "necessary" war! "Remember the secret invasion of Cambodia?  Young soldiers taken to prison camps and tortured, Agent Orange, Mai  Lai massacre - Remember?   Our veterans returned to be ignored and ostracized - some of whom are still struggling or died by suicide!

Can the modern newscasters even imagine the state of our world at war?  I sincerely doubt that they have any idea of what it was like to live in those times.  Instead they help to scare the bejeezus out of little old ladies who believe they will suffer at the hands of mad Haitians!  Modern day media is a money-making proposition and our once a future king is the centerpiece for most of our fear and confusion.  Truth-telling is a total stranger to many politicians and some media pundits. Where is Walter Cronkite when you need him?

Sadly our lives are governed by our fears! For some eerily strange reason, this new administration is too ambitious and terribly messy.  Instead I believe it will fail under the weight of  lofty goals to change the world order in their bleached and entitled image of themselves. No doubt there will be severe consequences as a result of the passionate advocacy for their 2025 Project.  Enacting their policies will affect everyone in  this country, including their own constituents - much to the shock and surprise of many voters - you know who they are! The disruptions will be broad and severe and the economic policies will cause great hardship. They have caught the car. 

The results of this election changed our country Forever!! What the agents of change have forgotten is the strength and power of the American people.   WE ARE SURVIVORS!!!!  The Great Depression, WWII, Korea, Vietnam - we have met each challenge with fierce bravery and have emerged from the darkness of then and we will emerge from the darkness of now!!!

Time to slow down. Most of what we fear today might never happen and our energy and time would be wasted. They only win if we give into our Fears!!  Believe in the goodness of "US"....

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound...