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42 posts with the tag green
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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0235 - 2026.06 One flower with vines
Another one I started in August 2025 (like 0261) but didn’t finish until much later. ———————————————————- Technique: #lino Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #red #green Series: #garden
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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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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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0306 - 2026.07 Trees
In my mind’s eye this should have turned out better, but it didn’t. This was the napkin sketch. In a strange way it’s got more feeling, though it could be an orange waterfall, from high peaks framed
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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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0291 - 2023.05 Monoprint
With our regular teacher overseas, the substitute teacher had us doing monoprints. It’s quite good fun but I find laying out bits of shrubbery and inking them up is less creative than designing for L
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0297 - 2026.06 Tahiti
Took a scan from an old book. Added a cropped flower image (ref 0150 / 0151 Four flowers). Combined and printed on watercolour paper, then hand coloured. The original is 6 x 8, probably smaller than
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0274 - 2026.03 Flower (4 block print)
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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0234 - 2026.06 Grass Fire
I started this back in August 2025 but didn’t get to print it until June. Took a couple of attempts at colouring to get the sky dark enough, and it’s gone a bit blue in the photography and saturation
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0280 - 2026.05 Thinking and destiny (flower pot) - proof
An experiment printing onto a page of an old book, in this case Thinking and Destiny by Harold W. Percival 1946. This is a picture of the framed result, I don’t have the proportions quite right. Or m
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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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0261 - 2026.06 Five flowers square
I started this back in November but never got around to printing it. Which I did in June, six months later. ———————————————————- Technique: #lino Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #red #green Series:
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0182 - 2025.05 Five flowers
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. ——————————————————
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0278 - 2026.04 twisted flowers
After a brief absence, I’ve done some more flowers. Technique: #lino Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #red #green Series: #garden
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0098 - 2024.06 Imagined landscapes
“A sense of place, of home, comes from a familiar landscape, a local landscape, a place we have spent time. Life takes us places, to many locations, some fleetingly glimpsed out of a holid
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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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0107 - 2024.06 Ice storm approaching (Ganymede )
Of the Jovian moons one can say there is plenty of variety, and not be wrong. But like the Confucian saying of “may you live in interesting times“ that is a very broad statement. Small, cold and bath
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0218 - 2025.07 Out of the dark
The title says it all. Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #green #white Series:
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0024 - 2023.10 Anthurium
Where it all came together. After a term and a bit at print making class I took a retirement holiday in Perth. A print in the Kings Park visitors centre, by local artist Nicola Cowie, with beautiful W
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0172 - 2025.04 Two Flowers B
See notes on 0170 Two Flowers A Technique: #lino Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #red #green Series: #garden
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0171 - 2025.04 Two Flowers A
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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0164 - 2025.04 Three Flowers
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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0178 - 2025.05 experiments in cooking
Around the beginning of May I start to experiment with multimedia. In this print I’m using over-inked tetra pack shapes and biro and some watercolour. I have a large envelope of experimental drawings
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0168 - 2025.04 Landscape with trees
Exploring landscapes. Ink and a little watercolour, in two versions. Not happy either either of them, but there you go. #ink #landscape #green
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0125 - Gymea Lily 2
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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0159 - 2025.04 Tree Sketches
Playing around with pen and ink, just doodling. Probably shouldn’t be in the archive but they are not horrible either. #ink #tree #green
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0149 - 2025.01 Fifteen Trees
In trying to draw better landscapes I carved this one. A certain naïveté perhaps, the trees cut in odd shapes- at least when smoothed as part of the photographic process. #lino #landscape #green
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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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0152 - 2025.03 Still Life in shadow
Done on a single small piece of lino I originally intended the dark areas to be light but mid carve changed my mind and left them solid. So the coloured version gets highlighted on the hatched area
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0141 - 2024.02 Snow Gums 2
A variation on Snow Gums 1. #lino #landscape #green
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0140 - 2025.01 Snow gums 1
In Thredbo town square there is a stone sculpture of snow gums, which was the inspiration for this design. It feels a little 1960s. #lino #landscape #green
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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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0123 - 2024.09 Papaya
Same notes as last few photos. The papaya just lay there, it was hard to find its best side. #photo #still-life #green
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0119 - 2024.09 Pear
Why go out into the cold night air to photograph flowers? A visit to the local fruit market brought a handful of subjects home. The same technique as for my night garden compositions, but done in th
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0093 - 2024.06 Maidenhair and friend
A drypoint etching, hand coloured. I used a clipping taken from our plant and traced it (with some difficulty) since I’m not that great at copying. I also fund a random plant at the same time (didn’
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0085 - 2024.04 Faint Glimmer
I was trying to catch that moment at the end of the day when the sun picks out from under a dark cloud. I used my drypoint technique with plenty of leftover ink and some watercolour. The first pictu
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0073 - 2024.02 Tulips in jar
This was based on my wife’s flower arrangement in the dining table. So simple, so elegant. It is one of my favourites and a poster size version is hanging in the stairwell leading to my study (which
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0038 - 2023.11 Gum leaves and flower buds
When I first created and printed this I was not sure about it. But in adding it to the archive I had another go at colour balancing and the brighter image, while not as true to life, has more “pop”.
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0036 - 2023.11 Leaves and twigs
A drypoint etch from collected plant cuttings, printed at 1:1 size. Pleasant enough but lack oomph. Interestingly this is one of my last drypoints - did I subconsciously lose interest, or was it sim
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0022 - 2023.10 Red tree (four seasons)
I carved a simple Forest in Lino, an imaginary scene as there is nothing like this where I live. Then I made several versions of it , representing the seasons. Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Easy
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0004 - 2023.08 Inked leaves
An experiment inking leaves directly. I didn’t have the right process and the result is just okay. Part of the learning process. #ink #plant #green
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