pacific rose 2025 dry dock sailboat print fine art seattle port townsend charles spitzack seattle artist printmaker woodcut woodblock mokuhanga
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Another dry dock sailboat from the Port Townsend series — Pacific Rose is the vessel's name, paired here with Amazing Grace and Summer Palace as a sequence of working-boat portraits from the same Washington State yard. Despite the metadata tag of Birds & Flowers, the subject is a boat, suggesting the tag was applied based on the vessel's floral-sounding name rather than its image content. The dry dock setting again presents the hull lifted free of water, exposing the underbody as a study in compound curves. Mokuhanga's water-based pigments and [washi](/glossary/washi) paper allow soft tonal transitions across large color fields — useful for rendering wood grain, hull paint weathering, and the matte surfaces of canvas sail covers. The repetition of subject across prints invites the viewer to read each image against the others, comparing how Spitzack handles vessel character through palette and registration. Within the broader American mokuhanga movement, this place-specific serial approach mirrors how contemporary Japanese mokuhanga artists treat regional subjects, and how Edo-period printmakers built series around a single locale.
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
pacific rose 2025 dry dock sailboat print fine art seattle port townsend charles spitzack seattle artist printmaker woodcut woodblock mokuhanga was created by Charles Spitzack.
pacific rose 2025 dry dock sailboat print fine art seattle port townsend charles spitzack seattle artist printmaker woodcut woodblock mokuhanga depicts birds & flowers.
