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20 posts with the tag blue
David Bentley
lino
There’s a fairly substantial channel marker in Port Jackson, sitting on a reef in the main channel. Definitely a hazard to shipping. On a calm morning there is no bustle of ferries, shipping and plea
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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
Robertson Point sits at the end of the Cremorne peninsula in Sydney Harbour. The lighthouse is iconic and much photographed. Walking the dog there recently reminded me of it, and how in the evening t
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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
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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David Bentley
lino
I imagine looking over the fields at distant clouds. Technique: #lino Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #yellow #blue Series:
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David Bentley
lino
I sail at Northbridge. When the land was first opened up for housing a century or more ago a suspension bridge was built across a deep valley, later reconstructed as a concrete arch. There is no wate
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David Bentley
acrylic
Another 1998 work rediscovered recently, this was trying to capture that first impression of going to the beach in Spring. No crowds, high clouds, the sun low enough to give the ocean a deeper shade
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David Bentley
acrylic
I did a second beach scene, though it has suffered a little from roof storage, so this is s partial extract cropped. The same idea as 0229 but recognising that the ocean is really just a small portio
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David Bentley
lino
I imagined what a sawtooth chain of snow covered mountains would look like from the sea. Could be the Antarctic or Patagonia, Alaska or Kamchatka. Places I have never been and never likely to go to.
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David Bentley
lino
Following the same design theme from. 0149 this was carved at the same time, a similarly small piece of Lino. This time I decided on small landscapes with coloured and uncoloured versions. All panel
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David Bentley
lino
Back to flowers! I thought I would do some more flowers, four as it turns out so it didn’t matter too much which way was up. Nice enough, a bit dark (blue) in the lower right corner when photographed
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David Bentley
lino
When I first saw Yosemite Falls in 2015 it was a very crisp December morning, the water flow was light and the falls appeared between a gap in the redwoods. I’ve tried to capture this from a photo I
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David Bentley
lino
Based on a photo I took during a late Autumn visit to Yosemite in 2015, looking over the shaded redwoods in the afternoon. It’s not my greatest Lino print but it brings back happy memories of a very
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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
drypoint_etch
Same technique as The Bridge, done at the same time. Though I wonder if the original print isn’t better, though it isn’t flipped so north is left and south is right, observing from the harbour. #dry
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David Bentley
drypoint_etch
Back to the drypoint , a view of my local bridge looking eastward, with a little watercolour. It’s not going to win any prizes, I was mostly keeping my hand in on this technique as I had not done it
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David Bentley
ink
Back in my doodling days this was something I drew, so I thought to reproduce it in Lino. Except I didn’t. I just got the old doodle art out and photographed it. The dodgy lower frame line sort of su
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David Bentley
lino
As Autumn turned into Winter, leaves were plentiful and an obvious target for a beginner. The original Lino cut was pleasant enough, not outstanding. So I decided to create four prints and colour the
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David Bentley
digital
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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