Just a quick note just to show the very slow progress (due to things like unexpected trips to Sydney) on carving the banksias design. It is also a bit challenging to place all those veins in from the perspective of carving with lino that can be soft and pliable and therefore easily chipped out where... Continue Reading →
This is my latest design - it is part of the same format and ideas/possibilities I have been working with in regards to my Design Art series. More on all that later. In describing some of the processes I that go through in designing my linocuts I have not talked a lot about the 'art-thinking'... Continue Reading →
After completing the linocut then the framing decision had to be made. This is always a tricky and very subjective issue. People can get very 'iffy' about what frames are used and what one person likes another doesn't. Framing also seems to go in 'fads' from large ornate timber to gold frames to timber etc.... Continue Reading →
Earlier this year I was asked to complete a small linocut of Tasmanian Christmas Bells. Fortunately I had taken some photos a long time ago of the Blandfordia punicea and have in my garden grown the local NSW Christmas Bells Blandfordia nobilis and Blandfordia grandiflora. I had previously completed a small linocut of the NSW... Continue Reading →
They say sometimes what goes around comes around. Or perhaps it should be called in this instance the sometimes 'obsessive' nature of artists!! After spending ages on the original drawing design - inking it up and then deciding to fiddle around with it to make it just that little bit better - I have taken... Continue Reading →
After working through design ideas and adding them lightly over the template (size/shape of the basic linocut from the DESIGNART series) I settled on the seedpod over to the right of the template and spilling off. It needed something else so after consulting my plant and photos I decided to add a more 'ragged' representation... Continue Reading →
Wildflowerings - Art Studio Diary 