Paint-Brush

 

Gordon Louis Mortensen

  1938 - PRESENT (biography)

2004  

color reduction woodcut, printed in 40 colors with 32 press runs. 

18 1/2 x 12" image size 

pencil, lower right 

42 of 110  

pencil titled, editioned, dated and copyrighted 

 

white wove Arches 88 

published 

artist 

GoMo119 

SOLD

Gordon Mortensen commented on the process he uses: "Only one woodblock is used. On it an image is drawn in India ink. Before the first color is printed, any areas that are to remain unprinted (white or the color of the paper) are cut away from the surface of the block. Then an oil base ink is used to print the first color on all of the sheets of paper that are to be used for the edition and proofs.

After the first printing the block is again cut, removing any surface of the block that is to remain the first color in the finished print. After each subsequent color is printed, the block is cut, the process continues until the print is finished and most of the surface of the block is cut away."

. This print took 32 separate cuttings of the block and is printed in 40 colors.