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.
0274 Flower 4 block print
An experiment. Carved 4 blocks off the same design, each printed with a different colour. Lessons learned Alignment and registration Test overlap before final carve Chatter (or masking) It’s col
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0274 Flower 4 block print
An experiment. Carved 4 blocks off the same design, each printed with a different colour. Lessons learned Alignment and registration Test overlap before final carve Chatter (or masking) It’s col
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David Bentley
lino
0171 - 2025.04 Two Flowers A
After impressing myself with three flowers (0164) I decided to do another one with two flowers. I made a mock up in my sketchbook, but when I came to the lineup, I had left the book at home. So I did
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David Bentley
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0164 - 2025.04 Three Flowers
I did this for a charity auction, and really like the result, I have a duplicate framed at home. The colours were modelled on my four flowers work (number) and it seemed to me that it made a pleasant
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0151- 2025.03 Four Flowers
After 0147, I thought it may look nice in my lounge room, but the colours were wrong. Easily fixed! The previous print, Van Gogh’s cornfield, had faded and looked drab, but was in a very large frame
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0154 - 2025.03 Three sunflowers
I thought I would do something resembling a real flower rather than my generic flower designs. Always cheerful, and two versions! Technique: #lino Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #yellow Series: #g
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David Bentley
ink
0161 - 2025.04 Lines and Colours
Revisiting the old pen and ink, adding a dash of watercolour, then thinking of a title. Desert sands. Forest and trees. These are the best of an ordinary bunch. Technique: #ink Theme: #abstract High
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0071 - 2024.02 Rainbow Lorikeet on Gum blossom
It’s summer. Walking the dog I found a tree with the gum blossoms in full flower getting the attention of an upside down rainbow lorikeet. I took a very poor iPhoto to remind me and then made up thi
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0072 - 2024.02 Hibiscus
I discovered that the hibiscus is quite difficult to do as a Lino print with its variegated petals. When I saw and photographed the flower it was a windy afternoon and I thought to try c and build it
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0075 - 2024.02 Two flowers and one bud
I had several attempts at this one, starting with a sharpie pen to try and do something different. It was rubbish. But when I get back to Lino the design comes out better. Something to do with the cu
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0078 - 2024.04 Firewheel
Firewheel flowers are hard to draw, as they are often high in the tree and hard to see. But this one was low, so I had a go doing a Lino cut. The print at the top I ran through an iPhone app to give
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