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56 posts with the tag landscape
David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
“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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
“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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
“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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
“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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
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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David Bentley
lino
I imagine looking over the fields at distant clouds. Technique: #lino Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #yellow #blue Series:
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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
“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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
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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David Bentley
acrylic
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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David Bentley
lino
“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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David Bentley
lino
“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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David Bentley
acrylic
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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David Bentley
micro-art
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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David Bentley
acrylic
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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David Bentley
lino
“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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David Bentley
lino
A set of three similar Lino prints with roads heading into the distance. #lino #landscape #yellow
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David Bentley
photo
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
Experimenting with different landscapes, not carving everything out and letting the black do the work. #lino #landscape #yellow
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David Bentley
tetra_etch
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
ink
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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
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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David Bentley
lino
A variation on Snow Gums 1. #lino #landscape #green
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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
ink
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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David Bentley
ink
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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David Bentley
tetra_etch
“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 can be, it depends on the sky, the amount of cloud,
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David Bentley
digital
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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David Bentley
drypoint_etch
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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David Bentley
drypoint_etch
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
An exercise in simplicity. #lino #landscape #white
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David Bentley
lino
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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David Bentley
lino
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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