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Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
2025-08-27

Find this pattern in the minouette Spoonflower and the original prints in the minouette Etsy shops.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #pattern #seastar #ochreStarfish #linedChiton #chiton #mastoArt

Fabric:
spoonflower.com/en/fabric/1993

Chiton print:
minouette.etsy.com/listing/168

Starfish print:
minouette.etsy.com/listing/167

🧵3/3

Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
2024-03-18

This week the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt is crawler, about shellfish who can drag themselves over surface like the spectacularly coloured lined chitons (Tonicella lineata), beautiful, tiny marine mollusc of the North Pacific. I don’t usually make reduction prints but I think I might otherwise loose my mind trying to capture the complex patterns. Each 5 cm long animal has zigzag purple or black lines on 8 valves 🧵1/n

#linedChiton #linocut #printmaking #invertebrate #chiton #sciart #wildlifeArt

Final stage of my chiton print shows the ovoid animal from above with a series of plates surrounded by a girdle. The plates have pale pink and orangey brown downward pointing triangles down the middle with slanted thin stripes of burgundy, blue and black on either side. The girdle around the circumference has a reddish rim with yellow and blue dashes and a burgundy ring around the plates.
Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
2024-03-13

The next shelled creature prompt for #InsertAnInvert2024 is a crawler - an invertebrate which can drag itself across surfaces. I cannot resist the spectacular lined chiton (Tonicella lineata) which have amazing, varied, complex multicoloured patterned shells. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #wip #reliefPrint #reductionPrint #sciArt #linedChiton #chiton #MastoArt

A grid of drying linocut prints on a tabletop with cutting mats. There are at least 13 prints in the photo and they are on white printmaking paper 4” x 6”. They each have one registration tab attached and show the first stage of my chiton print with the cool pale pink ovoid shape with some white triangles and fine striped lines on the plates.The next shelled creature prompt for #InsertAnInvert is a crawler - an invertebrate which can drag itself across surfaces. I cannot resist the spectacular lined chiton (Tonicella lineata) which have amazing, varied, complex multicoloured patterned shells. I don’t usually do reduction prints, but it seems the only sane way to get the registration right and reproduce the pattern. This print is going to need a lot of layers! #linocut #printmaking #wip #reliefPrint #reductionPrint #sciArt #linedChiton #chiton

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