Raccoon Greetings for National High Five Day! This is a portrait of a former neighbour who showed up at my back door like this, to enquire as to where I had moved the compost bin. So I took his photo and made a print.
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#Raccoon 
#linocut #printmaking #HighFive #typography #urbanEcology #wildlife #Toronto 
Relief printing using Lego. This is lots of fun. Designs are pretty quick and easy to try out.
#Lego #printmaking
Also finished printing a new round of linocut pocket journals. These and the shirts will unfortunately take forever to fully dry/cure but the wait will be worth it I hope.
Happy birthday to #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She established that “no bases other than adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine were present in appreciable amounts” in DNA -
#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci #printmaking #linocut #histmed #MastoArt
I got some lightweight mulberry paper (except for the first print), which is lovely to work with, and made it a lot easier to troubleshoot my inking issues. I’m feeling very encouraged!
#linocut #printmaking
Packing this edition up and sending to the UK, would you buy this album if this was the cover? Really happy with how they came out, each print has some nice subtle differences. Now to pick one to keep.
Pilot G2 gel pens on 12-3/8" square Arches paper
Thinking about pollinators, so sharing a favourite. This is a hand-printed lino block print of the charming Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe) seeking pollen from cherry blossoms. The olive-headed burgundy moth has transparent wings (though colour can be variable). It beats its wings rapidly to hover above flowers, like a hummingbird, meaning it is often confused with a hummingbird or bee. It has a 5 cm wingspan.
Ok I'm making a new intro post to try to find more of "my" people out here.
I like the #indieweb, #aquarium keeping, #printmaking and other #art, I'm in #arteducation in various capacities (higher ed, hospitals, schools), force-free #dogtraining and #americanhistory (esp the #civilwar).
I am moving to #baltimore in two weeks after years of planning and trying to make friends :) Social and outdoorsy. #sober and a little #woo after #longcovid recovery.
𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞
Work in progress - Sgùrr nan Fhir Duibhe, Beinn Eighe, Torridon, Scotland. The walk, the photo, the sketch, the engraving and eventually the printing.
If it looks wrong - everything has to be reversed so the prints are the right way round.
a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel.
#linocut #printmaking #physics #Bauhaus #quantumMechanics #FeynmanDiagram #penguinDiagram #particlePhysics #sciart #WorldQuantumDay
*I am somewhat dubious of this date because a) I was trained to use the metric convention day/month/year and b) physicists use the reduced constant h-bar (that’s h divided by 2 pi) and then, cause it’s easier they just change units such that h-bar = 1 but it’s as good an excuse as any
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Er komt nog een laagje in rood bij, maar dan weet u het alvast!
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#printmaking #letterpress #poster #typography
YAY!!! It took a few tries to get the ink and pressure right to print a woodcut on textured canvas, but all my tea drinking bear tote bag dreams have finally come true!!!
Last night, I had trouble falling asleep, so I watched videos about dendritic monoprinting instead.
Today, I tested it a bit.
I didn't have glass that I trusted not to break, so I used some plexiglass scavenged from some random thing instead.
I tried two types of acrylic paint:
1. Paint in bottles by Plaid and Decoart, which made wider branches despite being thinner paint.
2. My old old old Winsor & Newton paints, which are much thicker, resulting in thin branches.
