Bass Harbor Lighthouse - Daytime version - Work in Progress

Bass Harbor Lighthouse - 3x3" mini reduction linocut

Since I really enjoyed my previous "Nubble Lighthouse" mini linocut I decided to make a couple more Maine lighthouses.  That trip for my wife and I was incredibly rewarding in so many ways and the various lighthouses to be found along the coast of Maine was definitely a highlight of the trip.

My second miniature reduction linocut is the Bass Harbor Lighthouse which is located inside of Acadia National Park on Desert Island in Maine.  It sets on top of a rocky coastline overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and there is a short trail that leads down to water below and you can crawl over the rocks to get some very nice shots of the lighthouse from down below.

 

My very first color I mixed was completely wrong for the grasses on the hillside so I wound up just stopping where I was and remixing the ink so that it was a much more pale yellow (you can compare the two colors above in the very first photo).

Someday I will learn to just ink up the entire block when printing....I consistently try to only do part of the block and each time thereafter I find myself regretting doing so.  I had to print the sky on this piece twice to cover up the printed yellow area (grass).  It seems that due to doing so my sky is now a lot darker than I originally wanted, but it also isn't too bad and I am happy with it.

I printed a very light grey for the shadowed end of the lighthouse and for areas of the rocks below.  This is the current state of the print and I'm hoping to get to printing it sometime this upcoming week.  I would try tomorrow, but I have to do some work on my large "Pluto's" neon sign.  I only have two colors to go until that one is finished and I wound up having to put off printing it last week.  Very excited to get that one closer to being finished.

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Porsche Spyder - Reduction Linocut - Finished!!

 

Spyder - 12x16" - 7 Color Reduction Linocut

Somehow in all the craziness of this year I forgot to post the final product of my Hot Wheels die-cast car inspired "Spyder".  I had anticipated a 6 to 7 color final piece and it did indeed turn out to be 7 colors.

It was a nice change of pace to the type of artwork that I had been focusing on.  I really have been wanting to expand my subject matters and had a fun time working on the two Hot Wheels inspired pieces that I've done.  Each one bringing it's own set of challenges and exciting finishes.  Though I currently don't have anymore Hot Wheels linocuts in the production pipeline...you never know what the future will hold.  =)

Second to last stage. - Darkest Red printing

 

Detail from the front of the car

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