EVERYDAY DIGITAL ART
Lino. Photography. An archive of images.
I’m exploring my creative side after a career with numbers, creating colourful digital images through various media.
Use the post and homepage #hashtags to filter by media, theme or colour - or just explore randomly.
Lino prints are hand coloured and then digitally enhanced for colour balance.
Photography is straight out of camera.
There is a smattering of other media. Etching includes drypoint and tetra pack work, and together with ink works are similarly hand coloured before being photographed.
I’m calling this Everyday Art because I don’t pretend otherwise.
To each image I have added context notes, creating a history of my work. Naming has year and month to give an approximate timeline to the work, so I (and you) can see how it has developed over time. The good and the bad (well, there are gaps in the sequence so not the truly awful!) are all included.
My digital art (and stories) has been moved to dbwords.quotion.co
I’m not on social media yet.
0308 - 2026.07 Mountain horizon
A few wriggly pen lines, and a bit of colour, the impression of mountains on the horizon. Just playing around. ———————————————————— Technique: #draw Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #black #yello
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0308 - 2026.07 Mountain horizon
A few wriggly pen lines, and a bit of colour, the impression of mountains on the horizon. Just playing around. ———————————————————— Technique: #draw Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #black #yello
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0272 - 2026.02 Three Beach Huts
With a beach inspiration (see 0167 Beach Tents) I decided to do this as a multi block print - but carving out the blocks from a single piece of Lino and inking each separately. When reassembling the
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0273 - 2026.02 Greeting Cards
The centre holds an art fair each year and our printmaking class has got into the habit of creating cards as saleable items. As my work is digitised it is easy for me to call up and modify old design
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0275 - 2026.03 Three Tents
Following my “Three Beach Tents” design I continue with camping tents, with the same patchy softness of colours. I’m on a roll and do a third design in my series. The thin Akua ink gives a pleasing s
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0276 - 2026.03 Three houses
I’m on a roll and do a third design in my series. The thin Akua ink gives a pleasing softness and similarity to the other two. ———————————————————- Technique: #lino Theme: #abstract Highlight colour:
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0301 - 2026.07 Falling blocks (Playing with charcoal)
The originals of these are charcoal and watercolour, on thick acrylic 300 gsm paper using the rough side. In digitising them I have gone for a monochrome aesthetic. I like the slight blue and black
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0259 - 2025.11 Hornby Light, early morning
After doing Robertson Point I thought I could do a series on lighthouses in Port Jackson. This is Hornby Light. High on South Head, together with the leading light at Mosman it guides shipping into S
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0260 - 2026.06 Fort Denison at Sunset
Sailing - or motoring - westwards down the harbour just after sunset Fort Denison is in shadow, the unmistakeable turret taking shape as darkness descends. At night the light guides you safely to eit
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0247 - 2026.07 White Cloud Black Cloud
I was trying to create a contrast with a layer of black clouds topped by white clouds. The usual technique. Perhaps I should have made the sky bluer? Started it a year ago and only just did the fin
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0100 - 2024.06 Ever Changing Ocean
“Anyone who has been to sea - proper sea that is - will tell you that the sea, the ocean if you go far enough, is not a single blue. It all depends on the sky, the amount of cloud, the ang
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