Category Archives: shaped canvas

a woodblock for colour printing requires

Posted on 14 August 2011 by sgolding

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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how now…

Posted on 8 August 2011 by sgolding

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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A flight of ducks

Posted on 18 July 2011 by sgolding

  I did a small ink and wash drawing in sepia of a swimming duck in a muddy river. From that I developed a small series of three paintings, the veritable 1950’s icon of a flight of three plaster ducks … Continue reading →

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