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33 posts with the tag blue
0316 - 2026.09 Receding Hills
An experimental Lino print for seeing how the effect of distance can work. I colour the black and white print digitally - not my usual watercoloring - to see the effect, which is the bright print ab
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0313 - 2026.08 Flower with black leaves
Did this on vinyl rather than Lino. Different cutting experience but smoother lines. For fun I then ran it through an app on my old iPhone. Added colour. Certainly quicker than getting the paintbrush
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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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0312 - 2026.08 Town and Country
I scratched this on a napkin while out and about, like so: Which became this on my phone: This is one of those prints that I think could be better, but I’m not sure how many iterations that would t
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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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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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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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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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0233 - 2025.09 Black cloud / White cloud
I imagine looking over the fields at distant clouds. ———————————————————— Technique: #lino Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #yellow #blue Series:
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0295 - 2026.06 Yellow Meadow
I haven’t done much Lino art over the last couple of months, so this was getting my hand back into it. The design is based on a dream, where the dream was more vivid and better, as if often the case.
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0258 - 2025.11 Sow and pigs channel marker, at dawn
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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0256 - 2025.10 Robertson Point at Sunset
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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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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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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0132 - 2024.11 Northbridge Sailing
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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0229 - 2025.08 Beach 1 ‘98
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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0230 - 2025.08 Beach 2 ‘98
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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0176 - 2025.04 White mountains
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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0153 - 2025.03 Six landscapes
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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0150 - 2025.03 Blue Eyed Flowers
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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0136 - 2024.12 Yosemite Falls (Morning)
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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0135 - 2024.12 Half Dome
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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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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0082 - 2024.04 Sydney Heads
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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0081 - 2024.04 The Bridge incl opera house and Fort Denison
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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0060 - 2024.02 Three yachts on the horizon
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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0003 - 2024.06 Four Leaves
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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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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