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63 posts with the tag landscape
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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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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0308 - 2026.07 Mountain horizon
A few wriggly pen lines, and a bit of colour, the impression of mountains on the horizon. Just playing around. ———————————————————— Technique: #draw Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #black #yello
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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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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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0100 - 2024.06 Ever Changing Ocean
“Anyone who has been to sea - proper sea that is - will tell you that the sea, the ocean if you go far enough, is not a single blue. It all depends on the sky, the amount of cloud, the ang
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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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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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0177 - 2025.05 Five trees three hills
Trying to develop a better landscape style I came up with this design. This was the sketch I did to inspire this work. The same but different, the pen can do things the cutting tools cannot. Foolish
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0225b - 2025.08 Alternate Colours for Rising Clouds
In my rising clouds series I wondered if colouring the black and white print using different media would yield different results. Wax crayons These proved a little difficult to fill in precisely on t
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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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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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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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0097 - 2024.06 View from Mars Station
“One of the first settlers on Mars set up a micro web cam looking south. Away from the glare of the sun. A view of rocks, a nearby ridge and a more distant caldera. A time lapse took pictu
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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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0225a - 2025.08 Clouds Rising / Series
Original prints modified in the Percolator app on my iPhone. I think the effect quite charming. Technique: #lino Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #red #yellow Series: #clouds-rising
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0224 - 2025.08 Clouds Rising 3
“It’s warming up, the clouds lifting, now only the upper peaks are hidden.” Technique: #lino Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #red #yellow Series: #clouds-rising
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0134 - 2024.11 Red Mountain
My notes tell me I was out of practice doing tetra prints, so I did a batch of them. Only one was worth showing and it was the smallest, about 6 x 8 cm on an off-cut. Isn’t that always the way, the
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0163 - 2025.04 Storm over Red Mountain
Not my best red mountain, though I liked it when I made it and it looks better in the flesh. This was a tetra pack etching then digitally enhanced. I did it for a charity auction. #tetra_etch #landsc
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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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0225 - 2025.08 Clouds Rising 4
“By late morning the clouds have lifted, only the distant snow capped peak carries any obscuring mist. It’s going to be a beautiful, perfect for hiking in the mountains.” Technique: #lino Theme: #lan
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0223 - 2025.08 Clouds Rising 2
“As we continue our trek, the valley clouds slowly rise, revealing the lower mountains of the main range.” Technique: #lino Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #red #yellow Series: #clouds-rising
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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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0227 - 2025.08 Red Mountain ‘07
Back in 2007 I started playing with ink doodles that I scanned, printed and coloured. (See 0060 for another example.) While I catalogued them at the time I rediscovered this one in a frame that wasn’
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0228 - 2025.08 Red Mountain ‘98
Back in 1998 (it seems like a long time ago) I had an urge to paint that disappeared when life got too busy. Long story short I rediscovered some of my acrylic work when tidying up the roof space rec
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0222 - 2025.08 Clouds Rising 1
“Peeking out of the tent at the high bivouac the rising sun illuminates the top of craggy peaks, while misty cloud is still settled in the valleys.” ———————————————————— The first in a series of four
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0186 - 2025.05 Take Me Home
A set of three similar Lino prints with roads heading into the distance. #lino #landscape #yellow
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0170 - 2025.06 Foggy morning
Sunrise at my local park at dawn. A quick snap while walking the dog. The fog was just rising but elsewhere around the harbour the fog lingered for a few hours. Not really “art”, published as a tes
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0185 - 2025.05 Cooma Rocks 2
Driving into Cooma back in January the boulders on the Monaro Plain are a distinctive feature of the landscape. Unable to stop, I later consulted the internet for an image close to what I had seen ou
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0184 - 2025.05 Red house
Inspired by something I saw in a drawing book. The photo needs to be colour balanced, it’s a bit yellow, but I loaded this when first building the site. The red house was intended to be a black shape
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0183 - 2025.05 Two puppies
Carved on a small offcut quickly, it is not perfect but has some charm nonetheless. I originally coloured this in green and blue but it looked insipid. The yellow and orange gives more of a late afte
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0181 - 2025.05 yellow hills blue clouds
Experimenting with different landscapes, not carving everything out and letting the black do the work. #lino #landscape #yellow
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0179 - 2025.04 Red island
I was playing around with Drypoint technique on tetra pack, cutting items to shape. In this case it’s a rough island shape with a smaller ‘reflection’ to match. The resulting print was fine - see be
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0175 - 2024.04 Cooma Rocks 1
Boulders litter the Monaro Plains driving into Cooma, I sketched this one from memory and did a Lino print. The two are coloured slightly differently. #lino #landscape #yellow
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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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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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0158 - 2025.03 After the Rain
A bit of an experiment trying to depict the countryside after rain has fallen. I did a number of prints, most of them unsatisfactory, and just showing the best one here. #tetra_etch #landscape #black
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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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0148 -2025.03 Bobbin Head Clouds
Sitting in the car park at Bobbin Head, eating ice cream, as one does, I was admiring the clouds at the end of the day. I wondered if I could do a landscape of this, and when I got home attempted to
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0147 - 2025.03 Burn Off
In the autumn the gore authority burns of dry bush land to prevent larger fires later. They are a common sighting around the fringes if the city, the white smoke rising on a calm day from an area of
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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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0138 -2025.02 Middle Harbour
A view of Middle Harbour as if up high, imagined as I have neither a drone nor a helicopter. Originally I did a charcoal sketch, a few lines, then wondered if I could do a Lino print. Charcoal is pr
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0137 - 2024.12 Yosemite Falls. (Evening)
Following the previous work I applied a different colour set to the print to give a warmer look to it. Hence evening. #lino #landscape #yellow
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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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0106 - 2024.06 Mountain studies
After my first mountain, I practiced some more, playing with pen, ink and water colour. This is a selection, just photos of my notebook. #ink #landscape
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0105 - 2024.06 Mountain
On a whim I purchased some Indian Ink and some nibs and this is one of the first drawings I did with the broad nib. Beginners luck, not everything I’ve done since has the same simplicity. #ink #lands
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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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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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0074 - 2024.02 Bird over dry country
Going back to my doodling days. I repeated an earlier design in Lino. Black border, simple design, applying watercolour. Not the best print but it was I did on the day, and it has hand-made look to i
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0021 - 2023.09 “Stars” over mountains
I was playing around with Japanese calligraphy paper when I printed this one. It’s not a bad composition, and I tried different styles of cutting for the trees. But the smudges in the dark area look
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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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0019 - 2023.09 Moonrise
An exercise in simplicity. #lino #landscape #white
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0016 - 2023.09 Sunset mountains
A squiggly line, backwards and forwards, formed a line of mountains. Looks like they’ve caught the sun. #lino #landscape #yellow #horizon
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0009 - 2023.10 Three trees red / yellow
What could be simpler, three trees on a lawn. The original print was a couple of months earlier before I resolved on a colour scheme. #lino #plant #landscape #yellow
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