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15 posts with the tag tetra_etch
David Bentley
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Around the beginning of May I start to experiment with multimedia. In this print I’m using over-inked tetra pack shapes and biro and some watercolour. I have a large envelope of experimental drawings
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David Bentley
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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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