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12 posts with the tag colours
0101 - 2024.06 Curvature of the Earth
“Ascending high above the ground, the curve of the distant horizon becomes apparent. Horizontal lines take on a curve, especially with a wide angle lens! Ascend at different times and in d
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0099 - 2024.06 Line of the horizon
“In flat country the distance is s horizontal line, the boundary of earth and sky. This line may be a constant but the shade of the landscape adjust to the season, the weather, the time of
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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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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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0162 - 2025.04 Henry’s Rocket
One of the joys of being a grandparent is having a grandson for whom one can create a little art. In the blog heading I refer to what I do as being “everyday art”. This is the perfect example. A sket
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0155 - 2025.03 funny houses
Based on a micro/art drawling I did years ago I was just fooling around with the nib and ink. #ink #urban #colours l
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0129 - 2024.10 Flower pot
My mother had a metal sculpture on her kitchen wall that inspired this, although when I started I was thinking about a mind map. It’s not a great print, you can see patchy black spaces, and maybe the
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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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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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0116 - 2024.09 Flower Mandala
A case here where the technical execution did not match the mental vision. It’s pretty enough in a bright colourful way. That’s all I’ll say. #lino #flower #colours
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0112 - 2024.07 Mesmerised
I decided to enter the local art competition and partly as an attempt to be noticed I did a Lino triptych printed the maximum allowable size. It was an example of go big or go home! Each panel is A2
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0027 - 2023.11 Snake
If one flower is good, then lots of flowers are better. Just be careful! #lino #flower #colours
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