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110 posts with the tag lino
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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0307 - 2026.07 Edge of the World 4
Another in the series, this time I’ve actually done a Lino print with watercolour, and brightened digitally. What’s at the bottom? ———————————————————— Technique: #lino Theme: #abstract Highlight col
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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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0311 - 2026.08 Kimberley
This bears no relationship to the inspiration, a simple drawing of two hills in muted greys. Done in print class with a limited range of Akua colours to choose from - and not the yellows I was planni
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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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0310 - 2026.08 Sunset
Tried another multi piece Lino print. Had trouble thinning the ink so it went on too thick, not helped by the small pieces and trying to avoid inking my fingers. Here’s the pieces, assembled The gho
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0272 - 2026.02 Three Beach Huts
With a beach inspiration (see 0167 Beach Tents) I decided to do this as a multi block print - but carving out the blocks from a single piece of Lino and inking each separately. When reassembling the
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0273 - 2026.02 Greeting Cards
The centre holds an art fair each year and our printmaking class has got into the habit of creating cards as saleable items. As my work is digitised it is easy for me to call up and modify old design
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0275 - 2026.03 Three Tents
Following my “Three Beach Tents” design I continue with camping tents, with the same patchy softness of colours. I’m on a roll and do a third design in my series. The thin Akua ink gives a pleasing s
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0276 - 2026.03 Three houses
I’m on a roll and do a third design in my series. The thin Akua ink gives a pleasing softness and similarity to the other two. ———————————————————- Technique: #lino Theme: #abstract Highlight colour:
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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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0303 - 2026.07 Which way?
Scratched the original idea on a napkin, like so. Always pays to have a sharpie in one’s pocket. I had a couple of titles before settling on “Which way?” The usual Lino cut, watercolour and digital
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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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0296 - 2026.06 Fungi and Friends
After seeing little sprouts of mushroomy things rising in the grass, I thought I should do a picture on the same theme. So a simple Lino print that I did with 2 versions coloured differently. Techn
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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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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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0151- 2025.03 Four Flowers
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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0294 - 2026.06 Song of Songs
As a class project we did postcards to reflect a poem by Antigone Kefala, a poet known to the tutor. I chose Song of Songs from her book Fragments. I send you the echoes of light that move on the w
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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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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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0001 - 2023.04 My first Lino cut
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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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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0133 - 2024.12 Eight Flowers
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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0180 - 2025.05 Monarch
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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0104 - 2024.06 Four flowers red / white
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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0145 - 2025.02 SOCIAL TRUTH (The Land & The Sea)
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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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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0118 - 2024.09 Osteospermum (Sunny Flowers)
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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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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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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0169 - 2025.06 Eucalyptus
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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0132 - 2024.11 Northbridge Sailing
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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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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0174 - 2025.04 Flower and Bee
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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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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0154 - 2025.03 Three sunflowers
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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0071 - 2024.02 Rainbow Lorikeet on Gum blossom
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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0072 - 2024.02 Hibiscus
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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0075 - 2024.02 Two flowers and one bud
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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0078 - 2024.04 Firewheel
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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0079 - 2024.03 Tibouchina
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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0080 - 2024.03 Three Pears
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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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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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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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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0162 - 2025.04 Henry’s Rocket
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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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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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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0150 - 2025.03 Blue Eyed Flowers
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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0144 - 2024.02 Gum tree test
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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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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0129 - 2024.10 Flower pot
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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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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0127 - 2024.10 Sunset Fences
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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0126 - 2024.10 Snow falling
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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0111 - 2024.07 Winter Flowers
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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0114 - 2024.08 Flame
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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0116 - 2024.09 Flower Mandala
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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0113 - 2024.07 Grevillea
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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0112 - 2024.07 Mesmerised
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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0084 - 2024.05 Two Cranky Cockatoos
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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0076 - 2024.02 Class project 1
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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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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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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0070 - 2024.02 Impatiens
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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0057 - 2024.01 Flower (a)
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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0056 - 2023.12 Blackbean
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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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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0027 - 2023.11 Snake
If one flower is good, then lots of flowers are better. Just be careful! #lino #flower #colours
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0025 - 2023.11 Flowers in striped bowl
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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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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0026 - 2023.12 Bird of paradise
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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0023 - 2023.10 Colour Maze
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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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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0020 - 2023.10 Right of Way
The large and the small of it #lino
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0019 - 2023.09 Moonrise
An exercise in simplicity. #lino #landscape #white
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0017 - 2023.09 Segmentef Fish
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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0018 - 2023.07 Solitary Tree
An exercise in simplicity, reproducing a tree with selective inking and masking. #lino #plant #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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0014 - 2023.08 Gazania
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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0003 - 2024.06 Four Leaves
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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0010 - 2023.06 Night & Day
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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0011 - 2023.07 Yacht on horizon
A simple design on a small piece of Lino, selective inking rather than masking. #lino #black #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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