Working on my next linocut for the #printerSolstice prompt carbon! A geochemist for my ongoing series of #womenInSTEM portraits.

Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) made the first measurements of CO2 in seawater.

I’m excited to join #printersolstice - the element themes are a great fit for science stories I want to tell. But I have no time to carve now, so until I can catch up, here’s a the earliest recorded #alchemist for “gold”: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa). She likely lived in 1st century Alexandria. Zosimos of Panopolis (~300 CE) relates that she wrote a treatise called 1/n

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar post!

Next in my series of somewhat darker holiday folklore cards is Mari Lwyd, a traditional Welsh hobby horse in a field. As part of a wassailing tradition from south Wales, a hobby horse made of a horse skull on a pole, decorated with buttons and ribbons, with sack cloth shrouding the poll and porter is carried through the local area at Christmas time. 1/n

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 3 my final hand-printed lino block print with gel plate printed areas is about Coronula diadema, a barnacle which specializes in humpback and some other baleen whales for #InsertAnInvert2024. Each print is 20.3 cm x 20.3 cm (8” x 8”) on lovely Japanese mulberry paper and shows the humpback whale swimming above and a close up of the whale below with six barnacles. 1/3

Another print in progress for next week - #FolktaleWeek2024 #FolktaleWeekDepth ! First layer: water, of course.

For the #Spacetober day 15 prompt celestial event: the Transit of Venus.

Much like a solar eclipse, when our moon's orbit brings it between the Earth and sun, the transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes directly between the sun and us (or any other planet) partially obscuring or occulting the disk of the sun. Venus is much larger than our moon, 1/n

Portrait of the artist holding his coffee roastery print (now available) in the coffee shop that inspired it
https://willowhouseprints.uk/shop/the-roastery-limited-edition-linocut-print-a4/

First prints in ‘the roastery’ edition. This is now a two-plate print, as I wanted to add a few details (quite literally three lines of less than an inch) in an area I had over-cut. Not sure of the edition size as yet #coffeeshop #coffee #linocut #linoprint #linocutprint #linogravure #reliefprint

Husband saw a black bear on his way to the lake, the other day. I haven’t seen one, but I have seen their tracks in the woods.

I made this linocut a few years ago on delicate translucent washi paper with bark inclusions.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/819759593

My #linocut #tiger for #GlobalTigerDay. ⁠ Habitat loss is a great threat to these great cats. They are endangered after a century of decline and only about 4,500 remain in the wild. The good news is there are signs of an uptick in numbers globally but the need for habitat preservation is urgent.
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#sciart #printmaking #conservation #tiger #printmaker #reliefPrint #InternationalTigerDay #MastoArt

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I thought I should submit my portrait of Gregor Mendel to the Pressing Matters Magazine pink & green challenge.

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), was a scientist & Augustinian friar who posthumously gained fame for establishing many of the rules of heredity, fundamental to modern genetics. By carefully crossbreeding pea plants & tracing 7 characteristics (plant height, pod shape & 1/2
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#sciart #linocut #printmaking #histstm #biology #botany #genetics #reliefPrint #printmaker #washi #peaplant

April 25 is #WorldPenguinDay so enjoy some Adélie penguins! ⠀
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This handsome couple, two Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), common to all the Antarctic coasts, are hand printed in black ink with a hint of orange on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. Each print is 12.5” x 9.25” (31.8 cm x 23.5cm). Adélie penguins are the most widely spread and southernly penguins (along with the Emperor penguins).⠀
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#linocut #AdéliePenguin #printmaking #Antarctica #reliefPrint #printmaker #MastoArt

Enjoy a wee rat mini linocut for World Rat Day (invented by pet rat enthusiasts to challenge any rat stigma). They do actually make great pets.