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57 posts with the tag yellow
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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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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0308 - 2026.07 Mountain horizon
A few wriggly pen lines, and a bit of colour, the impression of mountains on the horizon. Just playing around. ———————————————————— Technique: #draw Theme: #landscape Highlight colour: #black #yello
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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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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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0291 - 2023.05 Monoprint
With our regular teacher overseas, the substitute teacher had us doing monoprints. It’s quite good fun but I find laying out bits of shrubbery and inking them up is less creative than designing for L
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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0231 - 2025.08 Hibiscus
Another in my night garden series. Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #yellow Series: #night-garden Merchandise: RedBubble
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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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0242 - 2025.09 Brickwork Variation 2
This is 0241 Brickwork Variation 1 manipulated further. Almost unbelievable, but true. Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #yellow #orange Series: Merchandise: RedBubble
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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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0241 - 2025.09 Brickwork Variation 1
A brick path, digitised, brightened, and an awkward angle to create a little visual tension. Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #yellow #orange Series: Merchandise: RedBubble
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0220 - 2025.07 Three Birds Sitting
I did this quickly to fill an old frame that has three windows in it. I’m not pretending they are great drawings, but they look quite nice in the frame together with my other three birds. (See 0166 a
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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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0229 - 2025.08 Beach 1 ‘98
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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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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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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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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0031 - 2023.12 Kangaroo Paw Yellow
Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #yellow Series: #day-garden
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0061 - 2024.02 The dog chewed my string
I had a bid of plastic twine lying around. I also had a new puppy. You can guess the rest. I took a photograph. Technique: #photo Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #yellow Series:
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0067 - 2024.06 Yellow marigold
It’s summer, print classes haven’t started, and the garden is full of annuals. So why not take the camera for an outing? Technique: #photo Theme: #flower Highlight colour: #yellow Series: #night-gard
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0068 - 2024.02 Clivea
We have a lot of Clivea in the garden, they make an excellent ground cover even if they are inclined to spread and get out of control. The ones in the garden are very orange, but have come out with f
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0230 - 2025.08 Beach 2 ‘98
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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0228 - 2025.08 Red Mountain ‘98
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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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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0170 - 2025.06 Foggy morning
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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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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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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0167 - 2025.04 Beach tents
Playing around with pen and ink and coloured pencil. With little perspective, the tents have the same roofline and so get taller as the beach falls away. It seems I am always “playing around“ with pe
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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