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20 posts with the tag black
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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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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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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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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0220 - 2025.07 Three Birds Sitting
I did this quickly to fill an old frame that has three windows in it. I’m not pretending they are great drawings, but they look quite nice in the frame together with my other three birds. (See 0166 a
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0158 - 2025.03 After the Rain
A bit of an experiment trying to depict the countryside after rain has fallen. I did a number of prints, most of them unsatisfactory, and just showing the best one here. #tetra_etch #landscape #black
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0148 -2025.03 Bobbin Head Clouds
Sitting in the car park at Bobbin Head, eating ice cream, as one does, I was admiring the clouds at the end of the day. I wondered if I could do a landscape of this, and when I got home attempted to
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0138 -2025.02 Middle Harbour
A view of Middle Harbour as if up high, imagined as I have neither a drone nor a helicopter. Originally I did a charcoal sketch, a few lines, then wondered if I could do a Lino print. Charcoal is pr
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0122 - 2024.09 Coconut
Same notes as the last couple of photos. The coconut was interesting to photograph, and final print shows a slight tinge of brown that is less obvious here. #photo #still-life #black
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0094 - 2024.05 Grass samples
Continuing my run of dry point work I did a few more grass plants collected on the daily dog walk. #drypoint_etch #plant #black
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0091 - 2025.05 Pear and Apple
If three pears are good then is a pear plant that and an apple better? I don’t think so! Very simple with little nuance. Keeping up the skills. #drypoint_etch #still-life #black
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0089 - 2025.05 Three pears
Experimenting with a still life, I also did this as a tetra pack but wasn’t happy with the result, so it’s not in this archive. I did water colour the final print but have chosen to show just the bla
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0077 - 2024.02 Magpie
This was a woodcut, not an original design but a trial of a technique other than Lino cut. I printed on cheap paper which may be why the print isn’t the best. I found getting clean edges and detail t
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0021 - 2023.09 “Stars” over mountains
I was playing around with Japanese calligraphy paper when I printed this one. It’s not a bad composition, and I tried different styles of cutting for the trees. But the smudges in the dark area look
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0023 - 2023.10 Colour Maze
Not one of my best, I was having fun drawing a maze on a piece of blue Lino. The print was ordinary, and then I coloured it in bright colours. I thought of making each segment a district colour, but
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0010 - 2023.06 Night & Day
This set was the first Lino cuts I entered into an art show. Apparently when being hung they were discussed, being totally different to anything else on display, but it didn’t sell. In entering I to
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0011 - 2023.07 Yacht on horizon
A simple design on a small piece of Lino, selective inking rather than masking. #lino #black #horizon
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0005 - 2023.05 Pear from internet
My first attempt at drypoint etching. I’m sure the original image came from the internet. The paper was a bit wet so it smudged. #drypoint_etch #still-life #black
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