Rocks, Sand and Sea - Reduction Woodcut Print by Gordon Mortensen cf-vendor-furmani 19" x 21" Unframed Etching

19" x 21" Unframed Etching on Paper

Regardless of whether she is working in oil

Inspired by the 19th-century tonalists and by the Barbizon School of French  landscape painting

and a delight in the ability of light and shadow to create atmosphere in painting

building on the foundation he gained with Robert Hoffmann and feeling that the way to gain knowledge of landscape painting was through portrait painters

Rocks, Sand and Sea - Reduction Woodcut Print by Gordon Mortensen cf-vendor-furmani 19" x 21" Unframed Etching24 x 32" 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