Rainforest Wildflowers – Northern NSW – Linocut Design

No I haven't dropped off the end of the earth - things have just been hectic and stressful this year. I have however just finally got around to posting a new design!! It had it's beginning a few years ago in one of my sketchbooks as a scribbled design that I developed last year and... Continue Reading →

June 3, 2011 3

Old Man Banksia – Freshly Framed!

I have just had a design I finished last year framed - Banksia serrata and Seedpod or 'Old Man Banksia'. The 'story' of this particular design began here, then progressed through Designing a linocut – the process of one design – Part 1, Designing a linocut – the process of one design – Part 2,... Continue Reading →

March 15, 2011 0

New Linocut! Banksia serrata – Saw Banksia with Seedpod

Saw Banksia with Seedpod I have finally finished this Banksia serrata linocut - after designing 1, designing 2, designing 3, carving, printing and last night handcolouring it's done! This was a complex carving but has a more limited palette for colouring. It will be part of the Design Art series.

November 23, 2010 2

Designing – Redesigning and ‘Re-tweeking’ Linocut Designs

Sometimes I do some drawings and leave them in my sketchbooks for later reference. Likewise with some linocut designs - for a number of reasons including not being fully happy with a particular design I will set them aside. In the case of two new designs this is what happened. I had worked up both... Continue Reading →

November 12, 2010 4

and PRINTED!!! Linocuts to Linoprints

Just finished printing the last 3 designs I carved. After getting all organised to start early this morning in my old printing clothes I went to the paper drawer to find what I thought was a packet of the particular acid free rag paper was not the one I was using for this particular series....sigh...... Continue Reading →

November 1, 2010 4

Currently carving – some of my lino carving methods No. 3

This is the final result of the carving!! It is the most tedious section of the carving but it means that essentially I will gain the neatest and cleanest edge so that when I roll the ink over the uncarved remaining raised areas of the lino block the ink if applied carefully, evenly and in... Continue Reading →

October 26, 2010 0

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