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Craig Mitchell Lake Tahoe block art in his Reno studio

Lake Tahoe in Art: How Craig Mitchell Captures ...

Craig Mitchell

Lake Tahoe’s luminous blues, granite forms, and high-elevation light inspire Craig Mitchell’s block prints, each carved and hand-pulled from years of on-location studies around the lake.

Lake Tahoe in Art: How Craig Mitchell Captures ...

Craig Mitchell

Lake Tahoe’s luminous blues, granite forms, and high-elevation light inspire Craig Mitchell’s block prints, each carved and hand-pulled from years of on-location studies around the lake.

Nevada landscape paintings by Craig Mitchell

High Desert Light: Why Nevada’s Sagebrush Lands...

Craig Mitchell

Nevada’s high desert offers a quiet, expansive beauty that artists return to again and again. In this post, Craig Mitchell explores why sagebrush landscapes, Great Basin light, and storm-driven skies...

High Desert Light: Why Nevada’s Sagebrush Lands...

Craig Mitchell

Nevada’s high desert offers a quiet, expansive beauty that artists return to again and again. In this post, Craig Mitchell explores why sagebrush landscapes, Great Basin light, and storm-driven skies...

How Nevada and Lake Tahoe Landscapes Shape Craig Mitchell’s Block Prints

How Nevada and Lake Tahoe Landscapes Shape Crai...

Craig Mitchell

Nevada’s landscapes reveal their beauty through subtle light, shifting weather, and wide-open desert space. This post explores how Craig Mitchell’s decades of plein air painting and his handcrafted block printing...

How Nevada and Lake Tahoe Landscapes Shape Crai...

Craig Mitchell

Nevada’s landscapes reveal their beauty through subtle light, shifting weather, and wide-open desert space. This post explores how Craig Mitchell’s decades of plein air painting and his handcrafted block printing...

Why We Need The Value Scale To Create Beautiful Color In A Lino Print

Why We Need The Value Scale To Create Beautiful...

Craig Mitchell

In multi-colored linoleum block printing, beautiful and harmonious colors don't come out of a tube or tin. Colors are beautiful based on adjacent colors. It's best to consider colors carefully...

Why We Need The Value Scale To Create Beautiful...

Craig Mitchell

In multi-colored linoleum block printing, beautiful and harmonious colors don't come out of a tube or tin. Colors are beautiful based on adjacent colors. It's best to consider colors carefully...

Block Prints: Behind The Scenes

Block Prints: Behind The Scenes

Craig Mitchell

This is how it starts. I draw a design in reverse onto wood or french linoleum (made for artists). The area I want to print is left intact, while the...

Block Prints: Behind The Scenes

Craig Mitchell

This is how it starts. I draw a design in reverse onto wood or french linoleum (made for artists). The area I want to print is left intact, while the...

The Vision-Reality Gap

The Vision-Reality Gap

Craig Mitchell

Problems are opportunities disguised as disasters. What a difference a day makes!

The Vision-Reality Gap

Craig Mitchell

Problems are opportunities disguised as disasters. What a difference a day makes!