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One of my favourite #termsOfVenery prints for #pollinatorWeek:

A kaleidoscope of butterflies!
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There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) in this #linocut kaleidoscope.⠀
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #typography #mastoart #insect

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This lino block print is printed in black ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper 12.5 inches by 12 inches, or 31.7 cm by 30.5 cm in dimension. Each butterfly involves 'chine collé' (collaged, delicate, Japanese paper) for their glorious colour. They are arrayed with a three-fold symmetry, like images in a toy kaleidoscope. There are three each of the orange Isabella's Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax). There is text reading ‘A kaleidoscope of Butterflies’ with a butterfly for the f.

Work progress on SFLY, portrait nine. Dye sublimation print 40x40 cm.

#art #fineart #artprint #fineartprint #dutchart #dutchartist #printmaking #printmaker #bzzrtart #digitalart #dyesublimation

Deconstructed portrait in bold colors and soft blobby shapes. The colors are vibrating purple, magenta, orange, blue and green with a side of grey.

@niptoronto: They were able to explore their artistic side and create beautiful art!

#Community #Toronto #YouthArt #CreativeCommunity #Printmaking #Ceramics #Photography #Filmmaking #FreeWorkshop #ArtMatters

For #PollinatorWeek I am sharing the pollinator garden work which I made for my show *next week* about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Using collaged linocut prints I built up this little garden with multiple native wildflowers, bees, moths, butterflies, beetles and a log, complete with some holes as homes for native bees. 🧵1/2

#printmaking #wildflowers #sciart #pollinators #nativeBees #linocut #mastoArt #manufacturedecosystems

As described this is a my collaged linocut pollinator garden artwork featuring a log, wildflowers and pollinators including: Canada goldenrod, purple coneflower, wild geraniums, wild columbine, common milkweed, black eyed susans, monarch butterflies, red-spotted purple butterfly, white underwing moth, Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly, bumblebee, sweat bee, resin bee, large milkweed bug and milkweed leaf beetle.

The mini PlotParty theme is Flowers. 100x150mm, plotted on AxiDraw. @penplotart on Instagram #penplotter #plotterart #flowers #plotparty #printmaking

Pollinator Week is a great time to share this print, which expresses the central theme of my work about the Future of Pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Our food sources & ecosystems around us are dependent on pollinators (mostly bees & other insects, some birds & mammals) but insects populations have lost huge numbers and many species altogether.🧵

#PollinatorWeek #nativeBees #entomology #ecology #sciart #insects #butterflies #beetles #moths #printmaking #linocut #ManufacturedEcosystems

As described this 16” x 20” linocut print combines gold text in a central circle reading “OUR FATE” arching upwards, “IS TIED” horizontally across the middle, “TO THAT OF THE INSECTS” arching downwards in two lines with insects.
Clockwise from top: two leaf cutter bees (Megachile relativa and M. brevis), the Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Virgin Tiger moth (Apantesis virgo), an Isabella’s Longwings butterfly (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), a blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), a firefly (Photinus pyralis), the rusty patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), a white underwing moth (Catocala relicta), an eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), a sweat bee (Agapostemon sericeus), a hummingbird clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe), the common eastern bumblebee (B. impatiens), a long-horned bee (Melissodes sp.), a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and centre: eastern snail-shell nesting bee (O. conjuncta).

On an abstract background of teal and sand, black text on a white background reads, ‘Manufactured Ecosystems
The Art and Science of Ecosystem Design’

Three more Artist Postcards and sneak peak of a larger WIP in the background. #art #artist #ArtIsWhatYouMakeIt #collage #printmaking #acrylic #postcards #papercraft

Artist postcards from today #art #artist #ArtIsWhatYouMakeIt #collage #printmaking #abstract #abstraction #postcards

These are the end result of a printmaking workshop I attended over the weekend. Most were made with block printing, but a few are screen printed. They're all fabric patches that I plan to sew onto clothing/patch holes with.

The class was at a secondhand art supply shop, and all of the fabric we printed on was secondhand!

#art #crafts #printmaking #upcycling #DIY

An image of 29 different fabric patches of various sizes and colors, with different designs printed onto them. There are butterflies, moths, snakes, flowers, beetles, suns, ferns, and a cat.

New scientist portrait block! Neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) has long been on my radar for a portrait, being so well-known for many years, the oldest surviving Nobel laureate. Pictures abound online of her apparently living her best life, with a knowing smile & signature swirled updo, often with a glass of wine in hand into her 90s & beyond. I had imagined a fun portrait of this delightful, 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci #wip #neuroscience

Photo of my carved Lino block portrait (on green vinyl, against a white background) of neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini in 1940, at a desk with compound binocular microscope, leaning on an incubator, holding an egg and looking at the viewer. Behind her is a large circular image of a photograph of nerve cells she took with this microscope.

All the things in the sky ☁️
This linocut print was more complex than i had anticipated, due to both the big printed areas in the sky and the thin lines at the bottom; or maybe also because i was a bit rusted with the technic 🥲 all went well in the end though!

#linocut #LinocutPrinting #printmaking #HandmadePrintmaking #ArtPrint #MastoArt #CreativeToots #illustration

Linocut picture printed in blue ink. A few houses and power lines under a blue sky filled with flying objects: a huge cloud, a satellite, planets, sun and moon, a plane, a hot air balloon, a dragon, a UFO, a leaf, insects and birds.

Progress on 'Seashore of Santa Maria de Castellabate'y. I'm looking for a level of detail that doesn't compromise its simplicty. It's possible that most of the detail will eventually be stripped back to essentials.

#pixelfedart #printmaking #mastoart #fineartprint #fineart #vectorart #bzzrtart

This is a screenshot of the artwork in progress, titled 'Seashore of Santa Maria de Castellabate'. It features a yellow beach, blue skies and a large, antique house standing on the beach. The sun, the main feature of this print, is illuminating the landscape from the southwest.

More linocut zine progress...

#linocut #linoprint #printmaking #BlockPrinting #MaryMagdalene #reliquary

Portion of a linoleum block carved with a stylized depiction of the Mary Magdalene skull reliquary at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France. It's a bust of woman with long hair, and the face opens to reveal the relic.

Just for fun, here’s my logo stamp—I created the design but ordered a stamp made instead of carving it myself.
#linocut #printmaking

It’s so amazingly humid lately that the cards I printed last weekend are still tacky —they’re dry to the touch but when stamping the backs they’d stick the tiniest bit to my desktop when pressed against with the stamp. Now I’m worried they won’t ever quite dry, especially since I tended to over-ink them.

Any advice would be appreciated
#linocut #printmaking

A linocut image on a card of a dragon sitting and reading a book

This wonderful moment, when the image you have made emerge from the dark of the plate for hours also emerges from the dark of the ink.

Taken during the first inking and test printing, to know where to focus the efforts next.

#printmaking #intaglio #mezzotint #bird #egret #wip

Photo of a small copper plate held in hand, previously inked and wiped, engraved with the image of a white heron-like bird perched on a branch.

By popular demand, it’s time for a new edition of my original’Turtles all the way down’ #linocut. 🧪🐡 Made for an exhibition about #cosmology I also took the opportunity to highlight the #biodiversity of #turtles. This hint of an infinite stack includes from the top down: an eastern mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum), a red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), a
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#printmaking #mastoArt

As described this is a shot of 6 of my original ‘Turtles, all the way down’ linocut. This hint of an infinite stack of titles supporting the Earth against the starry black backdrop of space includes from the top down: an eastern mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum), a red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), a black pond turtle (Geoclemys hamiltonii ), a painted batagur (Batagur borneoensis), a Oaxaca mud turtle (Kinosternon oaxacae), a green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the hint of something larger.⁠

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Final preparations for the #gpn23

I've now made five different A6 pattern stamps and a few smaller ones. You can use them to create postcards at #GPN. I'll bring black and "hidden" UV fluorescent ink pads, some acrylic neon pens, and empty postcards. :)

I don't know the exact location and time yet, so I haven't listed the session as a self-organized session yet—but I'll do that at some point.

#postcard #uv #CreativeToots #pattern #linocut #printmaking #MastoArt #rubberstamps