Industrial Dawn

It seems like paintings come off my easels in flurries...  This one has been hanging on for a while as I have changed colors and tones in places several times until I was happy with it.  It is once again a memory recreation of the mills on the Island.  

 

●Dawn
36 x 24 Oil on Canvas on Birch Panel

Fog on the Bonavista

This is my latest experiment in reduction Linocut printing. The print has 13 colors because I am working to get a feel for how the inks react with one another, how the colors mix, and how they work on different papers. This is an edition of 8 prints that are 9 x 12 on the printed area that I hand printed using a baren.

Port Cranes 2

 

Port Cranes 2    
30 x 20 Oil on Canvas Panel 

Do Over...

 Sometimes a painting just doesn't feel quite right to me and if it sits in the studio long enough I just start painting over parts and adjusting until I feel better about it.  This painting is one of those.  Here is the new version and the old version of Blue Industry.

Blue Industry (New)
30 x 30 Oil on Canvas

Blue Industry (old version)

More experiments with reduction printing

 

This is a 7 color reduction linocut print on japanese mulberry paper, roughly 9 x 11 in size.  Below are each of the different colors as they were printed.

Hecksher Drive

 We have lived here on the island for 15 years and typically drive around on Hecksher Drive when going into Jax instead of taking the freeway.  It is a beautiful and ever changing scene of the river, marsh, and industrial areas of NE Florida.  There is a fuel tank farm just past the port that I have been interested in painting for years.  The light on the tanks and pipelines reflects in so many varied ways depending on when you pass by the facility.  There is no good place to stop and take photos but I have snapped some on the phone through the car windows while driving by over the years.  This painting is a collage of the shapes and feeling of the "farm" from those images and my mental images just to experiment with a first attempt at capturing some of those on canvas.  

Hecksher Drive
18 x 23 Oil on canvas panel 

Heading In

 

●Heading In
28 x 35 Oil on Canvas Panel

Garden Drama

 

Garden Drama
36 x 36 Oil on Canvas

Portside

 

Portside
15 x 20 Oil on Canvas panel 

Circular Reference

Circular Reference 2
24 x 32 oil on canvas panel

 

More in the garden series

Since the lockdown I have been looking at, and working in, the gardens a lot and they have taken on some new life in recent paintings.  This is from watching monarch buttlerflies in our porterweed plant this past fall. 

Porterweed
24 x 18 Oil on Canvas panel 

 

Reduction prints continue

Below are some photos of the process for a new 7 color reduction linocut print.  The photos aren't that great but detail some of the process.  I hand printed this one instead of using the press.

 I covered the plate with a 
stencil and rolled ink only on the area
to be orange

Original sketch