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27 posts with the tag abstract
0307 - 2026.07 Edge of the World 4
Another in the series, this time I’ve actually done a Lino print with watercolour, and brightened digitally. What’s at the bottom? ———————————————————— Technique: #lino Theme: #abstract Highlight col
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0305 - 2025.07 Edge of the World 3
The hand drawn digital prints (like 0304 and 0300) are lovely and bright, but lack texture. This is from a charcoal drawing, water coloured in grey, pale red and a muted yellow, with a little blue Ju
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0309 - 2026.07 Blue Bars
Looking out the window of an old prison, up at the blue sky of freedom. A napkin sketch (I’ve been doing a few of these lately) scanned and digitally coloured in a background layer. I don’t think I w
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0311 - 2026.08 Kimberley
This bears no relationship to the inspiration, a simple drawing of two hills in muted greys. Done in print class with a limited range of Akua colours to choose from - and not the yellows I was planni
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0310 - 2026.08 Sunset
Tried another multi piece Lino print. Had trouble thinning the ink so it went on too thick, not helped by the small pieces and trying to avoid inking my fingers. Here’s the pieces, assembled The gho
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0291 - 2023.05 Monoprint
With our regular teacher overseas, the substitute teacher had us doing monoprints. It’s quite good fun but I find laying out bits of shrubbery and inking them up is less creative than designing for L
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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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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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0304 - 2026.07 Edge of the World 2
Hand drawn, photographed and then digitally coloured. Variation on a theme, interpret it as you like. ———————————————————— Technique: #draw #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #red #orange #
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0300 - 2026.07 edge of the world 1
A random idea - the best sort - popped into my head while visiting my mother, scribbled onto a card in my pocket. I scribbled around on my phone with a few ideas before trying this out. A hand drawin
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0303 - 2026.07 Which way?
Scratched the original idea on a napkin, like so. Always pays to have a sharpie in one’s pocket. I had a couple of titles before settling on “Which way?” The usual Lino cut, watercolour and digital
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0145 - 2025.02 SOCIAL TRUTH (The Land & The Sea)
I am rarely politically opinionated, but this statement accidentally fell into place. I started off doing an abstract design, based on something I sketched in my notebook. Just some horizontal lines
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0242 - 2025.09 Brickwork Variation 2
This is 0241 Brickwork Variation 1 manipulated further. Almost unbelievable, but true. Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #yellow #orange Series: Merchandise: RedBubble
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0241 - 2025.09 Brickwork Variation 1
A brick path, digitised, brightened, and an awkward angle to create a little visual tension. Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #yellow #orange Series: Merchandise: RedBubble
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0097 - 2024.06 View from Mars Station
“One of the first settlers on Mars set up a micro web cam looking south. Away from the glare of the sun. A view of rocks, a nearby ridge and a more distant caldera. A time lapse took pictu
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0102 - 2024.06 In the year of the comet
It had been over a century since anyone had seen a good old-fashioned comet. You know, like the one’s described in old texts and woodgrain prints, lighting up the night sky with glowing tails portend
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0107 - 2024.06 Ice storm approaching (Ganymede )
Of the Jovian moons one can say there is plenty of variety, and not be wrong. But like the Confucian saying of “may you live in interesting times“ that is a very broad statement. Small, cold and bath
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0218 - 2025.07 Out of the dark
The title says it all. Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #green #white Series:
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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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0061 - 2024.02 The dog chewed my string
I had a bid of plastic twine lying around. I also had a new puppy. You can guess the rest. I took a photograph. Technique: #photo Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #yellow Series:
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0128 - 2024.10 Three views different titles
Sunset reflections The sea outside Path amid the green The joy of abstract art is that colour is everything. Doing a single Lino print design and then making three differently coloured versions I f
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0127 - 2024.10 Sunset Fences
Like the last one, I just made cuts in the Lino in rows, more or less, after a quick sketch of something similar, in turn a memory of something I saw in a magazine. When colouring it in red orange ye
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0126 - 2024.10 Snow falling
Having photographed fruit in September I felt like doing some abstract work in October. There was no purpose to this design, the title came afterwards. #lino #abstract #yellow
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0114 - 2024.08 Flame
I was thinking of a design that could be printed onto a cushion cover or a throw - something bright and abstract - and continuing the idea of a black background. I did a few cuts on lino and decided
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0007 - 2023.06 Shell vortex
A bit of a cheat on this one, let me explain. The original was a drawing of a shell on Japanese drypoint paper. The print itself is rubbish, but as sometimes happens the original unwashed surface loo
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