Whispering Ridge - Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Nature As a young boy

As a young boy

17 x 22" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

By William Ternes (1933 – 2014)

to expand and grow as the work is executed

After a long period of creating trompe l’oeil pieces and designing large scale sets for theater

Whispering Ridge - Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Nature As a young boy20 x 26" 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