Orchid 1

Thanks kalaryder. My favourite medium for creative expression is printmaking, so a lot of my work is based on, and influenced by printmaking techniques.

You are very kind, Helene. Thank you. Yes, I guess this is a start – hopefully I’ll get to work with my printmaking press again too.

Oh it’s so good for the soul to read such encouraging comments, Krys!

Sylvia thank you so much for your feedback on my work.

I really value this comment from you Anita, especially since I’ve just come from viewing your gallery! Thank you so much.

Lovely to receive this comment from you, Lucindawind. Thanks.

Wow, what lovely, in-depth feedback from you, hugo. Much appreciated, as always. Yes, this work has it’s origins from past outings to Kangaroo Ground, in my search for ground orchids. To sketch them literally required me to almost lie on the ground at “eye” level with them.

Thank you Marion! Monoprints are great that way because (as you know of course) they can really lend themselves to lovely textures – and it’s wonderful to have access to that modern-day tool, digital manipulation, with which to work further into the image if we want to.

Thank you so much, Karin. You certainly do a good job promoting other artists!

Thank you Belinda……it is only the colours that are digitally changed, and a very small amount of digital drawing added around the petals – the textured look is how it turned out in the original monoprint. It was a rough monoprint on an odd sheet of paper that I had lying around, so not really valuable as a print on its own. I have this habit of doing monoprints with leftover inks on my ink plate, and don’t always use good quality paper for these. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. But I was happy with the digital colour enhancement on this one.

Thank you, Kathie. I appreciate your feedback.

Many thanks for your encouraging comment, Richard.

Hi stahlsz. Thanks so much for visiting my site and for taking the time to comment.