Evolving Imagery

Below is an example of how some images evolve in different media over a period of time.  I found a photo of cottonwoods on the Rio Grande in my pictures from past trips and initially produced the watercolor sketch.  After a while I used the sketch as the basis for the oil painting, then did a quick pastel sketch as a preliminary for a print.  The print is actually backward of the original image which I did on purpose to see how it would look in that direction and the colors are significantly altered from the prior images.  As I can no longer find the original photo image this is probably it for this iteration.

Watercolor sketch 8 x 11

Cottonwoods on the Rio Grande
12 x 16  on panel

Pastel sketch 7 x 9

●Cottonwoods on the Rio Grande
7 x 9 reduction linocut print 18 color

Morning Sights on Heckscher Drive

Morning Drive
40 x 30 Oil on Canvas 

 

Bird Study Just for Fun

I was looking at a few small sketches and studies that I had done from looking at Bird of Paradise plants in my garden over the past few years.  This painting takes some of those images from the watercolors and explores them in oil.  The actual plants got zapped by the freezes this past winter and had to be cut to the ground, so it may be a few more years before they produce the masses of flowers again.  The leaves are well on their way back and give amazing color and texture variations every year as they go through the seasons which is the basis of most of this piece.  

A Rumble in the Garden
24 x 18 Oil on Canvas 

Garden Queen

This linocut reduction print recalls one of my favorite canna lilies that grew in the garden at our last house.  Below are photos of the color printing progression along with the final print.

Garden Queen
13 color linocut reduction print
9 x 7 

colors 10 & 11

color 9

Colors, 6,7,&8

Colors 4 & 5

Colors 1,2,&3

On the Waterfront

 

● Cook & Cook Sea Food
18" x 24" Oil on Canvas Panel 

Brigus Newfoundland

Stormy Day in Brigus
16 x 12 Watercolor and Gouache on Aquaboard 

Hollyhocks

Another go at Moku Hanga printmaking but using a reduction method instead of multiple blocks. This  7 color reduction print is on Rives paper. 

Hollyhocks
7 color Moku Hanga reduction print
6 x 6 on BFK Rives paper 

Living on the Edge

 

● Living on the Edge
12 Color Reduction Linocut print
6.5 x 6.5 on Awagami Shiramine Paper

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