Rio Grande Reduction Print

As I continue exploring the use of color in reduction linocut printing I have just completed a 2 print series on the Rio Grande Gorge.  This is print 1 of a limited edition of 14.  The color progression prints are below the final product. 

Rio Grande Gorge #1
6.5 x 6.5 Reduction Linocut

Colors 6 & 7

Color 5

Color 4

   

Colors 2 & 3

Color 1

 

More from the Apalachicola waterfront

 

●Shrimp...Fish...Oysters
12 x 24 Oil on canvas 

Re-Visiting Colorado

 Another take on the scenic drive up mountain from Durango to Ouray during the fall. 

 •Going Up

30 x 40 Oil on Canvas 

Oyster Docks in Apalachicola

In one of our last excursions around Florida before Covid we stayed in Apalachicola.   I have been looking at these images for a while now and just got the urge to put it on canvas.  This was from photos I took down at the old Oyster docks in town.  I think at the time it was still in business and hope they are still processing the oyster catch there today.  

 ●Apalachicola
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

 

Big Talbot Island

This a scene from a walk on Big Talbot Island after winter storms had re-shaped it's dune last year.

● Big Talbot
12 x 24 Oil on Canvas 

 

Monday Ride through Fort Clinch

Some friends who ride with the island bike group commissioned me to paint a view of the canopy road in Fort Clinch for their new house.  The Amelia Island bike group rides this at least twice a week as part of their regular routes.  The sun and shadows are ever changing and mysterious on that stretch of road and there is always something new to stop and look at.  

●Monday Ride
30 x 40 Oil on Canvas 

 

Egan's Creek January Colors

I am still getting warmed up on painting the local landscape for a commission.  This is from a photo I took while walking the greenway here last winter.  That landscape is a constantly changing color palette and on this day it had a lot of lavender and mauve tones in the grasses. 

●Egan's Creek - January
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

 

Littoral

One of the things I see when we are driving along the river on Hecksher Drive, are fleeting glimpses of the navy's littoral combat ship.  They appear off in the distance at the Mayport Naval station and sometimes closer in while being worked on at BAE.  Ships at BAE are often shrouded in a white plastic covering over large parts which gives them a very sculptural look, as if they weren't quite fully carved.  Anyway, this is an impression from those sightings.

• Littoral

36 x 36 Oil on Canvas 

 

Egan's Creek

●Egan's Creek
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas

 

Marmot sighting

●Trail Buddy
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

Small commission for friends.  
 

Chama

I am still experimenting with reduction linocut prints and getting familiar with the inks.  This latest print is of the Chama river in New Mexico.  It is 11 x 15, hand printed edition of 8, 11 color reduction.  Still learning....

Chama
10 x 13 Reduction Linocut edition of 8

Channeling My Inner Baumann

 Continuing my production of possible prints for this year's exchanges I used an image from a trip we took to Colorado 2 years ago.  This is from a drive up the "Million Dollar Highway" from Durango to Ouray.  It is a spectacular drive in the fall when the leaves are turning.  

• Million $ Highway
7 x 9 - Twelve color reduction linocut
Hand print edition of 15