Archive for September, 2008

The tool and the mark

Posted by linden on September 17th, 2008 filed in general, my art

Finally after hours and hours and hours… and hours of working on this plate it is ready to go into the etch! It is 60 x 60cm.

It is a copper plate coated with bitumen as a ground and I have used the beautiful Nothofagus gunnii or Deciduous Beech as the image inspiration. It is quite […]

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Spring in the botanical gardens

Posted by linden on September 12th, 2008 filed in general

Each year the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens have a plant sale put together by the ‘friends of the gradens’ group. It is a great way to start off the spring planting as they have some unusual plants on sale as well as the expected splashes of colour to lift the winter greys away.
Their flyer offers […]

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A printmakers day

Posted by linden on September 8th, 2008 filed in general, my art, printmakers

When I head off to uni to work for the day the usual comment is - ‘just going in to do some printing’ which is probably an understatement. So I thought I would a visual list of an average day!

The quality of these images is not so great as I was caught out without my […]

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More prints

Posted by linden on September 5th, 2008 filed in my art, prints

With an exhibition date looming rapidly it has been a push to complete the sequences that I have planned for the three Precipice groups of prints. Of course there is nothing finalised about the prints in terms of how they will work together, and that is what my mad slippery slope of frantic and determined printing […]

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