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| Calving Season 24 x 18 mixed media (acrylic, pencil, oil pastel) on watercolor paper mounted to board |
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| Circle Dance 30 x 22 Mixed Media (acrylic, gouache, oil pastel) on Watercolor Paper |
Another learning experience with Japanese woodblock printmaking technique which is still a work in progress for me. This 13 color reduction print is on Awagami Pure Silk paper.
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| Magnolia 13 color Moku Hanga reduction print 7" x 9" |
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| watercolor sketch for print |
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| Sketch on wood block |
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| 2 colors |
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| 3 colors |
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| 4 colors |
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| 5 colors |
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| 6 colors |
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| 7 colors |
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| 8 colors |
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| 9, 10, & 11 colors |
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| 12, 13 colors |
When thinking of the everglades here in Florida most people think of the endless sea of grass and swamp that is most often depicted. I think of the labyrinth of mangrove creeks running off the bay behind the keys. The water is an everchanging reflection of the sun's path through the mangrove forest and the roots below the surface serve as a nursery for an amazing assortment of aquatic life. This print is from one of many photos taken years ago on a slow ride through the mangrove creeks behind Key Largo.
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| Mangrove Creek 12" x 9", 15 color reduction linocut Handprinted on Awagami Shiramine |
We didn't get to Newfoundland this summer to visit family but this painting recalls a shore hike from a previous visit.
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| Shore Hike 8" x 8" oil on canvas |
Another go at capturing the Mendenhall Glacier in a print. This is on Rives paper and I left a couple of color runs grainy because it sort of captured the feel of the glacier in the rainy and snowy April weather. This 19 color reduction linocut is handprinted in a small edition of eight.
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| Mendenhall 11" x 15" Linocut Reduction print, 19 color |
When I think too much about what will be the next print or painting, sometimes that just blocks me and nothing gets done. When that happens, I like to just paint something I have had on the back burner, on a small canvas, or draw in colored pencil to kind of work back into other work. This week's unblocking paintings are from photo references I have taken and printed out in the past. They have been just hanging around for this very task.
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| Road to Ft. Clinch 8" x 8" Oil on canvas |
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| ●Storm Brewing 8" x 8' Oil on Canvas |
The light was just shimmering on our last visit to the Skerwink Trail on Newfoundland's Bonavista peninsula.
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| Skerwink Shimmer 13 color reduction linocut reduction print 6.5" x 6.5" |
This past April I was fortunate to join three of my artist friends on a cruise through the inner passage of Alaska. It was a completely new landscape to me with the grey dawns of April slowly lighting the sky over the peaks as we sailed by. I have just started working on some prints and paintings that are more based on the feel of that landscape than the actual photos that I took there. Here are the first 3 from this effort.
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| Inner Passage 8 color Moku Hanga Reduction Print 9" x 7" |
This wood block print was an experiment with a different kind of washi paper to try and loosely interpret a view of Sitka
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| Mendenhall 30 x 30 Oil on Canvas |
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| Mendenhall Lake 7" x 9" Linocut reduction 9 colors |
I had a small pencil sketch of this hanging around the studio for a while so decided to see how it would translate to a large canvas.
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| Spring Thaw 40" x 50" Oil on Canvas |
I took a walk on the Egan's Creek Greenway one day last month and the clouds were amazing. The water was a perfect mirror of the sky and the colors were vibrant and intense.
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| Cloud Mirror 20" x 36" Oil on Canvas |
Sunburst, 4 x 6 Linocut Reduction 10 color
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| 9 colors |
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| 8 colors |
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| 5, 6, & 7 colors |
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| 4 colors |
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| all that remains of the block |
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| Edition of 12 drying |
