C.D. Clarke uses the highest quality art materials.  His oil paintings are made on the finest gessoed linen, mounted with acid-free glue on coated 0.25” panels (panels are much safer than stretched canvas for field work).  Watercolors are painted with Winsor & Newton professional-grade pigments, on Arches 300-lb. acid-free rag paper.

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When working in the studio, C.D. uses high-quality linen canvas mounted on 0.75” thick panels.  Studio works are larger, ranging in size from 9"x12” to 36”x40” (sometimes larger).  Studio watercolors can be larger, as well, up to 20”x30”.

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C.D.’s paintings are custom-framed using archival materials and procedures.  Subtle variations in the mat colors and frame styles are carefully selected for each painting.  The mats are acid-free, and are typically linen-covered.  The frames are hand-gessoed and -leafed, and only ultraviolet-filtering conservation glass is ever used on watercolors.