"Autumn" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print cf-vendor-bumbeckd Marie says every social observation

Marie says every social observation is a potential painting for her

studying large scale monotypes

Unframed Monoprint on Paper

His work is done with a palette knife

By Janis Sanders

"Autumn" by Gordon Mortensen - Limited Edition Landscape Reduction Woodblock Print cf-vendor-bumbeckd Marie says every social observation11" X 13" Unframed Woodcut on Paper Gordon Mortensen (b. 1938, American) is one of the best known reduction woodcut print artists working in the U. S today. He works from watercolor studies to understand the color dynamics needed for the woodcut. The artist uses up to sixty four colors and takes as long as three months to create the woodblock image. Although the final outcome has a painterly feel, it is unmistakably a woodcut with rich layered colors