March, Carmel - Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen cocktails where six of his paintings

where six of his paintings can now be seen inside The Meritage Wine Bar within the hotel: Commissioned to paint the Cinque Terre & Liguria regions of Italy by a private collector

33" x 45" Framed

by Marie Fischer

in contrast to the remnants of picket fence that needed mending

Oil on Canvas

March, Carmel - Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen cocktails where six of his paintings25 x 33" 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