Australian Alphabets – Fine Art Linocuts Tutorial Video
– Australian Alphabets by Lynette Weir – The process of developing my Australian Wildflower & Wildlife Alphabets Continue reading Australian Alphabets – Fine Art Linocuts Tutorial Video
– Australian Alphabets by Lynette Weir – The process of developing my Australian Wildflower & Wildlife Alphabets Continue reading Australian Alphabets – Fine Art Linocuts Tutorial Video
The linocut ‘Blue Mountains Wildflowers’ is really a step back in time for me on many levels from the design inspirations to my memories of this region. As I’ve spoken about before I love the Blue Mountains region west of … Continue reading Blue Mountains Wildflowers Fine Art Linocut – A Step back in Time
SEASIDE WILDFLOWERS – CREATING A FINE ART LINOCUT The centrepiece artwork for an exhibition at the Northern Rivers Art Gallery was a new linocut – Seaside Wildflowers. Back in February I was approached by the Northern Rivers Art Gallery Director Ingrid Hedgcock, to exhibit alongside an exhibition of the Master Woods Craftsman & his students. For me it came at a time when recently becoming an ’empty nester’ & my shoulder was looking like it was going to recover after surgery & allow me to work – carve – again. It was also when I really need to get my … Continue reading Seaside Wildflowers – The Development of a new Fine Art Linocut
Designing linocuts or any artwork can be a very individual process depending on many factors including the nature of the artist and the media they work in, the style of work and can even come down to the space/time available. … Continue reading Designing linocuts…inside the process…
I thought I would work through the process I have used to design the Banksia serrata – Old Man Banksia linocut and the process of its development. Over some time I had been looking at banksias and in particular Banksia … Continue reading Designing a linocut – the process of one design – Part 1
After working through design ideas using a number of photocopies cut up and moving them around and then adding them lightly over the template (size/shape of the basic linocut from the DESIGNART series) I settled on the seedpod over to … Continue reading Designing a linocut – the process of one design – Part 2
They say sometimes what goes around comes around. Or perhaps it should be called in this instance the sometimes ‘obsessive’ nature of artists!! After spending ages on the original drawing design – inking it up and then deciding to … Continue reading Designing a linocut – the process of one design – Part 3
This is a design based around waratahs…we have 2 quite large local plants which flower really well each spring/summer. One is a roadside planting – mind you the people who live there wondered what this odd person was doing drawing … Continue reading Designing a new linocut…and the use of photcopies and computers…
All artists will work differently but following is the process is the one I usually use in designing my linoprints. Basically the process that I use in designing new linoprints involves a lot of pre-designing ‘thinking’. I take all my … Continue reading The Designing Process – New Zealand Wildflowers