Unblocking

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.  

Road to Ft. Clinch
8" x 8" Oil on canvas

●Storm Brewing
8" x 8' Oil on Canvas

Skerwink Shimmer

 The light was just shimmering on our last visit to the Skerwink Trail on Newfoundland's Bonavista peninsula. 

Skerwink Shimmer
13 color reduction linocut reduction print
6.5" x 6.5" 

Alaska Inner Passage Cruise

 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.   

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  

Mendenhall
30 x 30 Oil on Canvas 

Mendenhall Lake
7" x 9" Linocut reduction 9 colors