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/January 17, 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.

UPDATE:  I've made good progress on this drawing and will be posting another photo this weekend!  It's not finished yet but getting there!




"Ghost Trees"


"The Unconfined 2020"



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.