Haze on the North Rim

 

Haze on the North Rim
10 color linocut reduction print 
6.5 x 6.5 on Awagami Shiramine paper 

The Bridge and Blount Island

 More visions of the Dames Point Bridge and the port below.   This is the first painting off the easel for 2023.  

Dames Point
36 x 24 Oil on canvas 

Queen of Needles

 

●Queen of Needles
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

Dames Point

This is kind of a fanciful mash up of images and memories of this bridge into Jacksonville that we drive over at least a couple of times a month.  It never fails to be interesting.  

Dames Point
36 x 48 Oil on Canvas 

 

Palace Saloon

Fernandina Beach is home to Florida's oldest operating tavern, The Palace Saloon.  I don't usually paint a lot of local scenes but something about the light on it that day I walked by and took this photo just caught my eye.  

● The Palace
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Memories of Savannah

When we were in Savannah a few years ago I really liked this sign and took a few photos thinking I might do something with it in the future.  I pulled it out and finally got around to painting it and hope someday to have a cocktail there.  

● Sorry Charlie's
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

 

Waiting for Charlie

● Waiting For Charlie
 8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

 

Another Amaryllis from the Garden

 I love the way I can grow Amaryllis outside in the yard with little to no effort here.  This pinkish colored one popped up this year and bloomed spectacularly. 

●Amaryllis
8 x 8 oil on Canvas 

Bend

Bend
16 x 20 Oil on Canvas 

 

Milan

I saw this interesting platn in the botanical garden in Milan and have been trying to identify it since.  It appears to be some type of euphorbia but I haven't seen an exact match yet.  

●Milan
20 x 20 Oil on canvas 

Another Mill....

I continue to find the local industrial landscapes fascinating as they butt up against the beautiful natural environments here in NE Florida.  

Steam
40 x 30 Oil on Canvas 

 

Glide

 Glide, 3.5 x 5.5, six color Moku Hanga print on Bamboo paper. The experiments continue. I used a piece of 1/4 inch birch plywood I had laying around and carved on both sides for this two block reduction print. Things learned: birch ply does not cut as easily or hold line as well as shina, 1/4" ply is too thin to use both sides and warped badly, and the bamboo paper I used (a thick card stock), did not take the ink as well as the rice papers. The learning continues...