Thinking Cool Thoughts in this Hot Florida August

 

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.  

Mendenhall
11" x 15" Linocut Reduction print, 19 color 

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 

Mountain Vision

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.  

Spring Thaw
40" x 50" Oil on Canvas

 

Another Greenway Walk

 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.  

● Cloud Mirror
20" x 36" Oil on Canvas 

Sunburst

This is a 4" x 6" linocut reduction printed on Awagami Hosho Select paper for the Emerald Print Exchange.  

Sunburst, 4 x 6 Linocut Reduction 10 color

 

9 colors

8 colors

5, 6, & 7 colors

4 colors

1, 2, 3 colors 

all that remains of the block

Edition of 12 drying 

 

My Favorite Tulips

 I haven't been able to find any bouquets or potted plant, parrot tulips this year but luckily I still have a lot of photos from the last ones I had a few years ago.  

Parrot Bouquet
20" x 20" oil on canvas 

In Rita's Garden

Every year that we are in Sibley's Cove Newfoundland, we visit the garden of Rita Button.  It is a wonder of flowers and vegetables that she harvests and shares each year.  We are always told we "should have been here last week it was so much nicer then..." We love Rita and her garden even if we are never there in the best week. 
 

In Rita's Garden
20" x 16" watercolor on Fabriano Paper

Zion Riverwalk

Zion Riverwalk
20 color reduction linocut handprint
6.5 x 6.5 on Awagami Shiramine paper

 

Hoodoo Magic

Hoodoo Magic

12 color reduction linocut handprint, 

6.5 x 6.5, on Awagami Bamboo Select paper

 

Parrot Tulip

This small painting was for a holiday gift exchange with a painting group I belong to.  I love parrot tulips but haven't been able to find any locally for a few years.  This is from photos of the last parrot tulips I had probably 5 years ago.

• Untitled - Parrot Tulip
 8 x 8 oil on canvas