Sunday 22 February 2015

Pastel Paintings

These are two soft pastel paintings I did at Lyn Diefenbach's workshop in January.  Her demos on technique were excellent.  I'm still working on a portrait painting.

Pastel painting


From a photograph of waves breaking on sand


Pastel painting


From a photo of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park




Sunday 1 February 2015

Linocuts made mainly in the last year

I have been making linocuts as well as other prints for some time so thought I would display these before my Printmaking Group starts again next week for 2015.



Linocut of Australian native plants
This first one is printed black on white and handcoloured with gouache.  It shows some Australian native plants.

Linocut abstract
This is an abstract begun years ago on a piece of really hard lino.  It is printed in red ink on green paper






Linocut abstract
An abstract based on leaves







Linocut
Hot air balloons

Linocut


Linocut abstract design based on a simple flower and printed in black ink


Linocut

Geometric spires design.  Printed in black ink and the red is handcoloured acrylic