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Working on my next #printerSolstice print for the prompt oxygen- another woman who was there and involved in the chemical revolution and development of the idea that burning might be due to an element that got named oxygen rather than a substance possessed by combustible things called phlogiston.

Chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist and scientific translator Claudine Picardet…

#wip #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM #chemistry #mineralogy

My mostly carved green vinyl Lino block of Claudine Picardet in last 17th century wig with ringlets and dress, holding a book behind a table with a collection of minerals and scientific glassware for chemistry experiments.

Until I can catch up on #printerSolstice, a throwback which fits the prompt oxygen: Antoine (1743-1794) & Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758 – 1836) worked closely together modernizing & quantifying #chemistry & the scientific method, recognized & named oxygen & hydrogen, explained the role that oxygen plays in combustion, helped modernize chemical nomenclature & discovered that mass is conserved in chemical reactions. 🧵1/n
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#sciArt #linocut #printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM #MastoArt

Portrait of Antoine and Marie-Anne Lavoisier at a table surrounded by glassware for chemistry. A vertical rectangular linocut print on cream coloured washi (posted as square with white around it to fill space) printed largely in silver to look like a tarot card with numeral ‘VI’ on top and words ‘L’AMOUREUX’ at the bottom. Her sash is pale blue. His vest is a flowered pattern on pale blue and his jacket is brown. Above them is a flaming lungs in pink, with red and blue blood vessels surrounded with dark orange flames.

For #printerSolstice prompt carbon: my #linocut portrait of Japanese #geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi (1920-2007) who created tools that allowed her to make 1st measurements of CO2 in seawater, raised alarm about nuclear fallout, tracing it in oceans & researched peaceful uses of nuclear power. A supporter of women in science, she established the Society of Japanese Women Scientists & the Saruhashi Prize for Japanese women🧵

#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #climateChange #oceanography #MastoArt

Printed in a gradient of dark blue-green at the bottom through dark blue to light blue at the top, this is my 9.25” x 12.5” portrait of Japanese geochemist in the lab adjusting a round bottomed flask with other posts and an array of chemical glassware in the foreground. In the background are carved ocean waves so the top looks like sky over wavy ocean.

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.

#linocut #printmaking #wip #ReliefPrint #EarthScience #sciart #MastoArt

Partially carved green vinyl linocut portrait of young Japanese woman geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi facing the viewer in a lab coat adjusting a round bottomed flask with other posts and array of chemical glassware in the foreground. There is a fine u-gauge with wood handle on top.

For #printersolstice prompt gold, my #linocut of Sophie Brahe (1556 or 1559-1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the supernova she observed as Tycho’s assistant.

Tycho trained her in horticulture & chemistry but initially discouraged astronomy. 🧵1/n

#womenInSTEm #histsci #printerSolstice #sciart #MastoArt

My 11” x 14” linocut portrait of Sophie Brahe, a Renaissance aristocrat in headgear, ruff, dark clothing with medallion on a wide band and a long scarf or other thin fabric draped over her shoulders with her hands folded in front of her and alchemical vessels, printed in dark bronze ink, on a bronze background. In green behind her head is a map of the gardens at Uranienborg, with her head at the centre of the diamond shaped pale green knot garden (geometric planned gardens). This is surrounded by an orchard in darker green with semicircle bump outs on each side of the diamond. The stars of Cassiopeia from De stelle nova are printed in gold on top of everything; there are stars across her chest and ruff and in the garden and the large supernova is above her head.

I still haven’t had much chance to carve this year, or catch up with the #PrinterSolstice prompts, so until I can, here’s a carbon-themed print from my portfolio: Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017). She was a professor of physics and electrical engineering at MIT, known as the Queen of Carbon Science.
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#linocut #printmaking #engineering #physics #carbon #nanotube #buckyball #womenInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt

My linocut portrait of Millie Dresselhaus in white sweater, red blazer, and C for carbon necklace, with the structure of a carbon nanotube behind her, in red, silver and black ink.

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

#womenInSTEM #printmaking #reliefPrint #alchemy #MaryTheJewess #histsci #MastoArt

My linocut portrait ‘Mary the Jewess, Mother of Alchemy’ with 3 devices attributed to her: the bain-marie (essentially a double boiler, shown as a large round brick furnace complete with orange flames, water bath and vessels), the kerotakis (which allowed one to heat items while collecting vapors, shown as a diagram with tube, with orange flames, below a heated substance, grill and a dome on top) and the tribikos (a kind of alembic with three arms that was used to obtain substances purified by distillation, here like a smaller bain-marie complete with orange flames in furnace, heated vessel and 3 arms to 3 alembics). Mary herself is printed in a gradient of purple to bronze to purple (top to bottom) on ivory paper. She is a Hellenistic Jew, dressed in a draped Classical style dress and wears a veil over her long hair. Her clothing was the frescos of the Dura-Europos synagogue built in Syria in 244 CE.

December 1 already! For the first day of #ArtAdventCalendar, I am sharing the first print I made in 2024. I made this #linocut for the #PrinterSolstice prompt complementary! Orange and blue. An ornamental white and orange carp or koi fish. The edition of prints are made on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper, 8” by 10” (20.3 cm by 25.4 cm).

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#sciart #koi #carp #fish #SundayFishSketch #MastoArt

Here’s my linocut ornamental white and orange carp or koi fish against a blue watery background with a smattering of bubbles. The edition of prints are made on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper, 8” by 10” (20.3 cm by 25.4 cm).

Another 2024 print on the eve of #ArtAdventCalendar2024: I made this one a #PrinterSolstice prompt primary colours. I combined 3 print media for each of blue, red and yellow. This print is about how fractal patterns appear in nature. I have combined a cyanotype of a fern leaf on Japanese paper, with a red gel print and yellow lino block print of a fractal Sierpiński triangle. 🧵1/2

#printmaking #multimedia #cyanotype #gelPrint #linocut #fern #fractal #SierpińskiTriangle #mathArt #MastoArt

$In this print is I have combined a cyanotype of a fern leaf on a vertical rectangle of Japanese paper on the left side, with a red gel print on top of the fern and yellow lino block print of a fractal Sierpiński triangle set at an angle overlapping the cyanotype, red dot and the white sheet on the right of the print.$

For #InsertAnInvert2024 worm prompt “not long, limbless” an animal that is fuchsia, indigo and yellow (that I used for the #printerSolstice split complimentary colour scheme prompt). 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #invertebrates #fuchsiaFlatworm #miniPrint #printersolstice2024

My tiny linocut fuchsia flatworms on a white background. The animals are an amorphous wiggly oval shape, fuchsia with pale indigo blue dots in the centre, a ring of fuchsia without dots and some yellow orange on its circumference.

The final #printerSolstice prompt is warm colours, so I made an animal in hues of orange and red. My hand-printed red frog crab (Ranina ranina), also known as a spanner crab or Huỳnh Đế crab, is hand-printed on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. This crab is found in tropical and sub-tropical waters offshore Australia, the Philippines, Vietnam, the east coast of Africa, 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #printerSolstice2024 #crustacean #crab #frogCrab #spannerCrab #Ranina #wildlifeArt #MastoArt

My frog crab (Ranina ranina) linocut print in orange and red on white washi paper, 8” x 8”. It’s viewed from above and has white spots and hairs.

A phalanx of frog crabs in warm colours coming up for #printerSolstice

The final #printerSolstice2024 prompt is warm colours.

#linocut #printmaking #frogCrab #spannerCrab #ranina #sciArt #crustacean #MastoArt

A collection of linocut prints laid out to dry of red and orange frog crabs (Ranina ranina) viewed from above.

For #PrinterSolstice prompt primary colours I combined 3 print media for each of blue, red and yellow. This print is about how fractal patterns appear in nature. I have combined a cyanotype of a fern leaf on Japanese paper, with a red gel print and yellow lino block print of a fractal Sierpiński triangle.

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#printmaking #multimedia #cyanotype #gelPrint #linocut #fern #fractal #SierpińskiTriangle #mathArt #MastoArt #primarycolours

The next prompt for #printerSolstice is Triadic Colours, or 3 equidistant colours on the colour wheel. I went with secondary colours: orange, purple & green. My Lino block print of 2 Pisaster ochraceus, generally known as the purple sea star, ochre sea star, or ochre starfish, on a bed of kelp, is hand-printed on delicate white Japanese paper with bark inclusions. 🧵1/n
#starfish #seastar #ochreStarfish #invertebrate #sciart #purpleSeaStar #PisasterOchraceus #kelp #MastoArt

My Lino block print of two ochre sea stars (one purple and one orange) on kelp (in khaki green) is printed on white washi paper with speckled bark inclusions.

Next up for #printerSolstice @printersolstice is CMYK so I got out my process cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink and started experimenting with the gel plate. The first is my favourite, made with cut paper stencils and patterned Japanese tissue paper. I also used some carved Lino blocks and plant materials on the other prints.

#printersolstice2024 #gelPlate #printmaking #gelPlatePrinting #cmyk #gellimonoprint #MastoArt

Abstract mono print made with 4” x 6” gel plate with cut paper stencil shapes including some lace like Japanese patterned tissue paper. Printed in overlapping layers in cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink.

Abstract mono print made with 4” x 6” gel plate with cut paper stencil shapes and monarch butterfly Lino block. Printed in overlapping layers in cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink, primarily magenta.

Abstract mono print made with 4” x 6” gel plate. Printed in overlapping layers in cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink, using yew and cedar branches.

Abstract mono print made with 4” x 6” gel plate with cut paper stencil shapes including some lace like Japanese patterned tissue paper and several hearts. Printed in overlapping layers in cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink.

For #PrinterSolstice prompt spectrum: my #linocut of trailblazing American #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941) with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue stars to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named after the university the Harvard Classification her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM

Next prompt for #printersolstice is spectrum so it was clear to me I should add another #astronomer to my #womenInSTEM series.

Instead of the visual spectrum of light 🌈 the colours in this rainbow roll relate to temperature of stars. Astronomers will have guessed: this is a portrait in progress of Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) who developed the Harvard Classification Scheme for stars, a modified version of which is still used today.

#linocut #printmaking #wip #sciart #histsci #astronomy

They are in their first state with coloured inks printed on white 11” x 14” paper in a gradient (left to right) of dark blue, light blue, yellow, pale yellow, pale orange, orange and red. There is a silhouette of shoulder and head left white with the exception of a smattering of small dots in a swath from upper left to lower right (which extends to white spots on the coloured background). Also along the bottom are a series of circles of decreasing size (left to right, blue through red) labelled O, B, A, F, G, K, M. There’s a axis line along the bottom with 6 tick marks. Vertically from top to bottom along the left side are 15-, 10-, 5-, 0, 5, 20, 15.

For the #printerSolstice prompt split complimentary I was reminded of an animal that is fuchsia, indigo & yellow. So I made some wee little prints of a strange & beautiful creature, the fuchsia flatworm (Pseudoceros ferrugineus) from the tropical Indo-Pacific. Their gorgeous colours are aposematic - a warning to predators that they are not worth eating. So they can crawl around & feed on coral reefs without concern.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #invertebrates #fuchsiaFlatworm #miniPrint

Working on a tiny print of a marine creature with a split complementary colour scheme for #printerSolstice (with #insertaninvert2024 in mind)

#linocut #printmaking #wip #invertebrates

Three small Lino blocks with an awl and a carving knife on a cutting mat. The upper and lowest blocks are irregular organic shapes and the middle block looks like the exterior of such shapes. The upper block has many tiny round holes in it.

For the #printerSolstice prompt monochromatic I made a #linocut in tints of coral for your nature loving Valentine with three heart cockles (Corculum cardissa) and the words, “You warm the cockles of my heart”. Perfect for your favourite malachologist, beach comber or shell collector, 🐚

Corculum cardissa, the heart cockle, is a species of marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae found in the Indo-Pacific. 🧵1/
#printmaking #cockle #shell #valentine #sciart #heartCockle #MastoArt

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