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42 posts with the tag red
David Bentley
lino
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
photo
Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #red Series: #day-garden
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David Bentley
lino
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
photo
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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David Bentley
lino
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
ink
I thought I could do a mass of flowers, much as one sees in spring time. It took quite a long time to draw all the little flowers and then colour them in. But when I stood back from all the work I re
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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
lino
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
lino
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
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
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
lino
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
lino
See notes on 0170 Two Flowers A Technique: #lino Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #red #green Series: #garden
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David Bentley
lino
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
lino
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
lino
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
lino
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
lino
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
lino
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
photo
I had a rush of blood to the head and went and took a series of pictures of flowering plants. This and others in the series were photographed in situ; no plants were harmed, as they say. How I did i
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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
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
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
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
lino
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
photo
To complete the session I got three of the models to sit together for a group shot. Delicious. #photo #still-life #red
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David Bentley
photo
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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David Bentley
ink
I had the idea to do a Gymea Lily, noticing many of them coming into flower while walking the dog. This was a quick sketch to get my mind around the idea of what I may do. The original sketch (below)
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David Bentley
lino
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
drypoint_etch
After my Lino design I thought I would try a drypoint version. The plant is on my garden, one of two varieties we have planted. It shows how the stamens open progressively for the honey eating birds
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David Bentley
lino
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
tetra_etch
I did a batch of tetra pack prints to see how they came out, different papers and inking, all at home without a commercial press. Red tulip was the best. It has a quaint likability to it. Second best
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David Bentley
lino
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
flower
Following the idea of Flower(a) I drew another similar design in ink - again about 1 inch / 2 cm in size, hand coloured before photography. My iPhone photo app allowed me to extract the core image an
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David Bentley
lino
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
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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