Monthly Archives: August 2011

a woodblock for colour printing requires

each colour impression to be on a flat block which matches each of the others, a few tries at it tells you this.  So when I painted this study, based on a Ukiyo e print by Utamaro, I reworked the … Continue reading

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A walk in the damp underbrush…

of a landscape. Here is a watercolour i did of Wilson’s prom in 2006.  I worked this in terms of the use of negative spaces and the manipulation of liquid colour across the surface to gain a lovely hue and … Continue reading

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how now…

A friend persuaded me to make this cow, as she likes them.  I experimented with materials as the essence of this work is the use of  an outline of the cow, which is a cutout  as a layer  patterned paper, … Continue reading

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caring about 2 figs

I drew some lush ripe figs on a tablecloth at a winery in the Adelaide hills at lunch with friends.  A lovely afternoon and a nice little watercolor on rough watercolorpaper about the size of an A4 sheet and this … Continue reading

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