Spring in Arizona - Woodcut on Paper by artist Gordon Mortensen portrait Principato started his art training

Principato started his art training at an early age

Wes Shaw spent his whole life painting and drawing

42" x 32" Framed

Even while pursuing a career in software engineering

Spring in Arizona - Woodcut on Paper by artist Gordon Mortensen portrait Principato started his art training17 x 22" 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