Well after all the cleaning out, re-organisation and upgrading of my art studios I was finally ready to get right back into things wasn’t I? Feeling good and starting to do things…then…struck down with a shocker of a ‘flu!! Let me say NOT IMPRESSED!! So over a week later and feeling much better but still… 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 →
I thought I would work through the process I have used to design the current linocut I am currently working on and a few of the thought processes. In my previous post I noted I have been looking at banksias lately and in particular Banksia serrata from my garden. I have been photographing my own… Continue Reading →
Wildflowerings - Art Studio Diary 