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... 

This is a 6 color, 2 block Moku Hanga print.  I am teaching myself that process and this is the first testing of the printing method and materials.  

Summer Feeling

 It has been extremely hot here in NE Florida this year and having to spend so much time inside has the effect of time just drifting by like the lilies in a pond.  

Drift
24 x 36 Oil on Canvas on birch panel 

November Walk on the Greenway

I am still working from reference photos taken last winter while walking on the greenway.  The color and light changes so dramatically from week to week that even the same part of the creek will look incredibly different.    This was from a walk in late November under a grey and cloudy sky.  

● November Greenway 
18 x 24 Oil on Canvas 

 

More Neighborhood Birds of Paradise

This stand of Bird of Paradise had been on a street corner in our neighborhood for years producing magnificent blooms each season.  This is from the last set of photos I took of the plant before the new owners had it removed and replaced with grass.  I have since put in my own plant and hope to see my own "squadron" of blooms on it after it establishes.  

In Flight
30 x 20 Oil on Canvas 

February

 

February
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Winter Colors

This painting is one that came out of recent walks on the greenway here with my dog Marlowe.  

●Winter Colors 
12 x 24 Oil on canvas 

Rio Grande Gorge #2

 

Rio Grande Gorge #2
6 1/2 x 6 1/2 
10 color reduction linocut

Color 6 & 7 

Color 8

Color 3, 4 , 5 

Color 1 & 2

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