Seasons in the Studio

Fine art Inspired by Nature: Illustration in watercolor and pencil, White Line Woodcuts, Photography

Friday, January 3, 2025

Studio Update-January 3, 2025

 Happy New Year!

Working on several projects these days in the Studio.  I like the quiet and lack of distractions in the wintertime to focus on my work.  I'm working a series of three prints of flowers from my garden.  The first floral is still on the block, not yet completed.

I also have a landscape in colored pencil that is about halfway finished.  It's slow going with the drawing, as it is with realism.  I probably have a month in this drawing already.  It's Lake 22 in the Cascades in Washington State.  This is a magical place with a glacier to the left of the scene in my drawing.  I have a way to go until it's completed.




"Alpine Oasis"



"Hollyhocks"


This is an idea I'm playing with and is experimental.  I might not finish it.  White line woodcut with Chine Colle.  I used a luster pigment mixed with color.  Japanese paper at the bottom.


Another snow day experiment.  "Winter Bird" white line woodcut with Chine Colle.  Kikura paper.