More Lino Cuts

Lino cut based on my drawing of a tree in a road in Reading, Berkshire.  A4 size (approx 8" x 11.5")

The drawing, made with silver pencil on black paper, is on the left.  Obviously the lino print is mirror image.

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I made a few different versions of this using different colours and inks...

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My favourite is bottom right, which I had framed.  It printed with a kind of dendritic texture that suited the bark perfectly.

Lino Cuts

I made a lino cut of a friend's favourite tree and tried a number of different printing styles with it.

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Small lino cut - about A5 (4.5" x 6.5")

Lines and planes

Thinking about abstracting images with a focus on lines and planes.
[I later sold these all to the same collector.]

I've made three versions of a garden (image shared by Julia from Sarah Holliday's Blog Group).  Always an interesting project to make multiples.

Plans

Plan for the next 50cm square canvas...

When I'm planning, I make some small, very simple line drawings, to check the format I have chosen, and to work out the 'flow' of the painting.  I draw the shape of the canvas or paper, then add the flow lines, then the very basic shapes involved.  At this point I can extend the drawing in some directions, if it looks as though it needs it.
When that looks OK, I make a similar plan, but this time for the tonal values.  I try to stick to three tones - dark, mid, light/white.
After that, I might try out some colour combinations.  I have been doing these in the sketchbook, but I decided to make some little painted squares today, so I can swap them around.  

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Fishy

Today I procrastinated by painting a pebble to look like a fish.
       

And more...

Look better in real life as they are metallic paints.  Still mucking about as you can see.

Sketchbook

Some sketchbook pages...

Art Cards

ACEOs, painted silk abstracts. 

As usual, I have assigned pretentious titles.

'3 is a Magic Number'.................'Baffle'.........................'In The Pink'

'Shifting Sands'.........................................'The Course of True Love'

'At The Source'.................................'Explosion'

'Road Signs'

'Rock Fall'.......................................'Sharply Defined'

'Indoor/Outdoor'.................'Emerging'.................'String of Pink Pearls'

'Catch a Falling Star'......................................'Hook, Line and Sinker'

Les Petites Cigognes

Had a brilliant holiday in a gite at Les Petites Cigognes.  

The owners were kind enough to buy this facetted painting, to go with a more impressionistic one I painted a couple of years earlier.