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Waratah Tryptich – A Fine Art Linocut

Lyn

Well anyone who has followed me on this blog for a while will know I LOVE Waratahs. There is such a majesty & structural quality to these particular Australian wildflowers not withstanding their bright red colouring with deep green leaves & the fact the flowers occur on long stems coming up from the ground. They really can be ‘seen from afar’ as their name means. For a while now I have planned to do a Tryptich design using waratahs as a kind of companion print for my Flannel Flower Tryptich. This particular print was a commission for someone as a … Continue reading Waratah Tryptich – A Fine Art Linocut

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Blue Mountains Wildflowers Fine Art Linocut – A Step back in Time

Lyn

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

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Design work – value adding with commercial projects

Lyn

As many of you know it is extremely difficult to survive on just income from being an artist. Essentially when people have spare money they will buy work and when money becomes a little more difficult to come by pictures for walls become a luxury. So I have tried to ‘value add’ to me work a little. I have done this largely to this point with quality commercially print wildflower card designs. They allow people the luxury for a small amount of money to have an image of your work – in fact many people who cannot afford the artwork … Continue reading Design work – value adding with commercial projects