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50 posts with the tag flower
David Bentley
lino
An experiment. Carved 4 blocks off the same design, each printed with a different colour. Lessons learned Alignment and registration Test overlap before final carve Chatter (or masking) It’s col
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David Bentley
photo
Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #red Series: #day-garden
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David Bentley
photo
See notes under Bottlebrush Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #purple Series: #day-garden
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David Bentley
lino
My notes say that this was a quick Lino cut done in class (yes, I am still learning) intended to be coloured - sometimes they may be a black and white print and then I colour them, but more recently
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David Bentley
photo
A month or so ago I went exploring for new subjects for my photography. Some nearby friends had poppies coming into flower, so an easy choice of subject. Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight co
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David Bentley
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Another in my night garden series. Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #yellow Series: #night-garden Merchandise: RedBubble
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David Bentley
lino
Continuing my flower designs, I left the flowers uncoloured and let the white paper show through. Then I printed it again and painted it red. Which is better? #lino #flower #white #red Merchandise:
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David Bentley
ink
I thought I could do a mass of flowers, much as one sees in spring time. It took quite a long time to draw all the little flowers and then colour them in. But when I stood back from all the work I re
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David Bentley
lino
Seeing all the C spring flowers glowing brightly in the morning sunshine what else could I do? I didn’t get the perspective right, but it’s bright and cheerful. Then for fun I did a second print in a
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David Bentley
lino
Inspired by my ‘Three Flowers’ that I did for charity (0164), I expanded the concept to five, and used the same colouring. It’s part of a set hanging in a nice brown frame at home. Technique: #lino T
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David Bentley
lino
My notes tell me I did this on the last day of term, meaning that I’ve been going to print making classes for two years. I think I may have got a little bit better over time and I’ve certainly settle
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David Bentley
lino
See notes on 0170 Two Flowers A Technique: #lino Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #red #green Series: #garden
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David Bentley
lino
After impressing myself with three flowers (0164) I decided to do another one with two flowers. I made a mock up in my sketchbook, but when I came to the lineup, I had left the book at home. So I did
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David Bentley
lino
I did this for a charity auction, and really like the result, I have a duplicate framed at home. The colours were modelled on my four flowers work (number) and it seemed to me that it made a pleasant
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David Bentley
lino
After 0147, I thought it may look nice in my lounge room, but the colours were wrong. Easily fixed! The previous print, Van Gogh’s cornfield, had faded and looked drab, but was in a very large frame
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David Bentley
lino
I thought I would do something resembling a real flower rather than my generic flower designs. Always cheerful, and two versions! Technique: #lino Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #yellow Series: #g
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David Bentley
lino
I discovered that the hibiscus is quite difficult to do as a Lino print with its variegated petals. When I saw and photographed the flower it was a windy afternoon and I thought to try c and build it
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David Bentley
lino
I had several attempts at this one, starting with a sharpie pen to try and do something different. It was rubbish. But when I get back to Lino the design comes out better. Something to do with the cu
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David Bentley
lino
Firewheel flowers are hard to draw, as they are often high in the tree and hard to see. But this one was low, so I had a go doing a Lino cut. The print at the top I ran through an iPhone app to give
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David Bentley
lino
Every free steps forward has a step backwards too. At this point I have been creating images for just a year, well creating Lino cut images. I have been photographing and doodling for ages. To do the
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David Bentley
photo
I can’t remember the name of this flower, and I failed to get a clear background. It is still quite nice, though. Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #pink Series: #day-garden
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David Bentley
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Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #pink Series: #day-garden
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David Bentley
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Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #yellow Series: #day-garden
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David Bentley
photo
I had a rush of blood to the head and went and took a series of pictures of flowering plants. This and others in the series were photographed in situ; no plants were harmed, as they say. How I did i
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David Bentley
photo
Just starting to bloom, it’s Spring after all. Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #purple Series: #night-garden
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David Bentley
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This is across the side fence with my neighbour - who loves the purple colour! Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #purple Series: #night-garden
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David Bentley
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Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #white Series: #night-garden
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David Bentley
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If agapanthus appear often in this archive it’s because all the neighbours grow them along their front fences. And they are photogenic. Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #purple Seri
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David Bentley
photo
Another photo of our flowering gum. This time a single gum blossom, there were not many this season and they came later. Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour:#purple Series: #night-garde
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David Bentley
photo
It’s summer, print classes haven’t started, and the garden is full of annuals. So why not take the camera for an outing? Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #yellow Series: #night-gard
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David Bentley
photo
We have a lot of Clivea in the garden, they make an excellent ground cover even if they are inclined to spread and get out of control. The ones in the garden are very orange, but have come out with f
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David Bentley
photo
A lovely port wine magnolia spotted while walking the dog one night on a young tree about my height. Easy to photograph, no ladders required. Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #pink
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David Bentley
lino
Pursuing my idea of a Gymea Lily, I crafted a small (30 cm) Lino as a design mock up. The flower on the lily is quite tricky to reduce to a few lines, especially at the small size of print I was tr
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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
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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David Bentley
ink
I had the idea to do a Gymea Lily, noticing many of them coming into flower while walking the dog. This was a quick sketch to get my mind around the idea of what I may do. The original sketch (below)
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David Bentley
lino
This was an arrangement by my wife on the dining table. It was too nice not to do a Lino cut print. I have an A1 sized poster of this on the wall of my stairwell. It looks great! #lino #flower #red
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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
drypoint_etch
After my Lino design I thought I would try a drypoint version. The plant is on my garden, one of two varieties we have planted. It shows how the stamens open progressively for the honey eating birds
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David Bentley
lino
The grevillea has become my favourite plant and it took some time to work out a design for its oh-so-interesting flowers. They progressively open to release their nectar to the honey-eaters, maximisi
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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
I did a batch of tetra pack prints to see how they came out, different papers and inking, all at home without a commercial press. Red tulip was the best. It has a quaint likability to it. Second best
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David Bentley
lino
I promised the good and bad, this is definitely “less good”. I was a bit out of practice when I did it. In the garden shade the original plant was very dramatic, deep pink red against dark green leav
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David Bentley
flower
Following the idea of Flower(a) I drew another similar design in ink - again about 1 inch / 2 cm in size, hand coloured before photography. My iPhone photo app allowed me to extract the core image an
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David Bentley
lino
I had a small off-cut of Lino and used it to do a quick flower, printed on rough calligraphy paper, hand coloured. Then photographed and digitally fiddled with the saturation settings. The original is
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David Bentley
lino
The flowers on the Castanospermum Australe Black Bean tree were, I discovered when out walking, more on the internal branches. Different, I thought; I should do a Lino print, and took a photo. The le
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David Bentley
lino
If one flower is good, then lots of flowers are better. Just be careful! #lino #flower #colours
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David Bentley
lino
Spring flowers in a nice vase formed the basis of this still life, all flowers coming from the garden. #lino #flower #yellow
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David Bentley
lino
A winter flowering plant, Strelitzia is an impressive sight. It took me a few attempts to get this right, especially the colouring that I had all wrong initially. The background for such a design didn
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David Bentley
lino
This is a reduction print, trying the technique for the first time, in two colours. The inspiration came from a flower in my mother’s garden. #lino #flower #orange
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