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David Bentley
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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
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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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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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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
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Recording this for posterity, this was lesson number one, cutting and inking a piece of Lino. As you can see registration wasn’t perfect, and as time has since shown one of very few two colour reduct
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David Bentley
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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
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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
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A change from flowers, butterflies have a nice symmetry. This is modelled on a Monarch butterfly not intended to be true to life. Once designed and cut into the Lino I had to decide on the background
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David Bentley
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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
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I am rarely politically opinionated, but this statement accidentally fell into place. I started off doing an abstract design, based on something I sketched in my notebook. Just some horizontal lines
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David Bentley
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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
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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
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I imagine looking over the fields at distant clouds. Technique: #lino Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #yellow #blue Series:
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David Bentley
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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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David Bentley
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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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“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
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I’ve seen this tree by the side of the road nearly every day for the last seven years. I don’t know what its formal name is. After the Gymea Lily https://dbart.quotion.co/post/0125---gymea-lily-2_pRQ
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David Bentley
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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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David Bentley
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“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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“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
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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
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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
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See notes on 0170 Two Flowers A Technique: #lino Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #red #green Series: #garden
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David Bentley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It’s summer. Walking the dog I found a tree with the gum blossoms in full flower getting the attention of an upside down rainbow lorikeet. I took a very poor iPhoto to remind me and then made up thi
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David Bentley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My first still life? Not really, as flowers in vases are much the same thing. Technique: #lino Theme: #fruit Highlight colour: #red #yellow Series: #still-life
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David Bentley
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“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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A set of three similar Lino prints with roads heading into the distance. #lino #landscape #yellow
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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
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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
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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
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Experimenting with different landscapes, not carving everything out and letting the black do the work. #lino #landscape #yellow
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David Bentley
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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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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
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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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David Bentley
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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
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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
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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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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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David Bentley
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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
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For some time I have been thinking about how to Lino cut a tree. Beautiful as they are, the question arises as to how much detail is needed, which in turn leads to how big the print needs to be. I di
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David Bentley
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A variation on Snow Gums 1. #lino #landscape #green
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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David Bentley
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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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David Bentley
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Having photographed fruit in September I felt like doing some abstract work in October. There was no purpose to this design, the title came afterwards. #lino #abstract #yellow
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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
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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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David Bentley
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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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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
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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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Cockatoos are beautiful birds and renowned for being very smart. Feed than at your peril, for they can be destructive. My window frames bear witness to teeth marks. When they set their eyes on you, w
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David Bentley
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As I’m still learning and go to class, occasionally we do a class project. This one was for postcards as the size constraint, food as the topic. I did four designs, the first two were displayed. Orang
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David Bentley
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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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David Bentley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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David Bentley
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If one flower is good, then lots of flowers are better. Just be careful! #lino #flower #colours
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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
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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
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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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Not one of my best, I was having fun drawing a maze on a piece of blue Lino. The print was ordinary, and then I coloured it in bright colours. I thought of making each segment a district colour, but
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David Bentley
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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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The large and the small of it #lino
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An exercise in simplicity. #lino #landscape #white
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An exercise in simplicity, selectively inking the cut Lino to avoid chatter around the edges. I had doodled this design some years ago so it was interesting to try as a Lino cut. #lino #fauna #white
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David Bentley
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An exercise in simplicity, reproducing a tree with selective inking and masking. #lino #plant #white
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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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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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As Autumn turned into Winter, leaves were plentiful and an obvious target for a beginner. The original Lino cut was pleasant enough, not outstanding. So I decided to create four prints and colour the
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David Bentley
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This set was the first Lino cuts I entered into an art show. Apparently when being hung they were discussed, being totally different to anything else on display, but it didn’t sell. In entering I to
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A simple design on a small piece of Lino, selective inking rather than masking. #lino #black #horizon
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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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