Dawn’s diptych
November 4, 2015 Basil Hall
Tasmanian artist, Dawn Blazely is seen here working on a sugar lift, which will later become a diptych or possibly a small concertina book. Dawn usually paints in her…
Basil and Pam have just returned from King Island in the Bass Strait. Over 5 days, Basil, Andrew and Dianne Blake (local organisers of the printmaking workshops on King…
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Another Workshop in Braidwood
September 27, 2015 Basil Hall
Our latest weekend workshop has just taken place in the Braidwood studio. The four participants experimented with soft ground, multi plate colour, chine colle, aquatint and photo etching, so…
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The Fire Station: a blaze of colour
September 21, 2015 Basil Hall
Basil and most of the participants at last weekend’s “Painterly Prints” workshop at the Fire Station in Victoria. (6th from left is Margaret, the FS technical officer – many…
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Here is the print being peeled off the press. The colours are extremely subtle (blending nicely with the tone of the Iwaki Japanese paper) and many participants were eager…
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Basil and his 32kg suitcase then headed to Melbourne (after the Grampians adventure) and he ran a workshop at the Fire Station Printmaking Workshop in Armidale. Participants were given…