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#printmaking

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Some Irish folklore this St Patrick’s Day: the Sídhe, the Aos sí, the fair folk, the good people, or the people of the shee from Irish folklore, who live underground. You may know the banshee, or Bean sídhe or woman of the sídhe. In fact the very word Sídhe is the term for earthen mounds like the one in my #linocut and the Aos sí are “the people of mounds.” The Sidhe evolved from a mythological people known as the Tuatha De Danaan, 🧵
#printmaking #folklore #mythology #AosSí #Sidhe #folktales

My linocut print shows an Irish earthen mound or sídhe at night covered in dark green grass under a cyan blue starry sky with moon. The base of the mound is marked with grey rocks and there is a shaft-like entrance with post and lintel rocks that is black inside. Below this is a black region underground and then there’s a gathering of 6 human-like Aos Sí, 3 men and 3 women in long robes printed in a gradient of green and gold ink who appear to glow and have pointed ears. They wear flowers and branches and antlers in their hair. 11” x 14”
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A while ago when i saw in the book See Red Women’s Workshop a reprint of poster showing how to make posters, i've wanted to try it out. That project bore fruit at the weekend when the staple-gun came back from long-term loan, and i could tack on the organza to the wooden frame. Then it was time to cut a stencil, and... squeegee a print off! Fun (and terrifying) project and will try again. Would recommend.

Some notes on materials and construction in 🧵 ⬇️ .

On the left a sheet of newspaper cut with stencil art. The design is a blocky sunflower with the words "SEEK THE SUN". On the right a pile of tiny bits of newspaper cut from the stencil, a few letters like S and U are visible, but it is mostly petals and tiny rectangles.
Hobby-style screen print frame, through which we can see the newspaper stencil underneath. The actual sunflower design appears in white because we can see the white paper ready to printed underneath the stencil.
A print of the SEEK THE SUN sunflower design. Orange on white paper.
#printmaking#Screenprint
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Happy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!

Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 🧵1/n

My portrait of Anna Atkins combines a linocut print illustrating her (a Victorian woman in a dress with lace collar in silver ink on white) with a background of a cyanotype with two white fern leaves silhouettes on a Prussian blue.
#sciart#printmaking#linocut
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Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,🧵

Linocut portrait of Caroline Herschel against a starry sky with comet and 5 inset diagrams of her observations
#printmaking#sciart#WomenInSTEM
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Next on our tour of Canada 🇨🇦 is the west coast. The symbols of British Columbia, its provincial flower, the Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttalli) and its animal, the Spirit Bear (also known as the Kermode bear, a white morph of the American Black Bear, Ursus americanus kermodei) cover the hand-carved map of BC in this linocut. The block was inked ‘à la poupée’ (with different colours in different areas) and 🧵
#Canada #linocut #printmaking #BC #BritishColumbia #dogwood #SpiritBear #MastoArt

As described: The symbols of British Columbia, its provincial flower, the Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttalli) and its animal, the Spirit Bear (also known as the Kermode bear, a white morph of the American Black Bear, Ursus americanus kermodei) cover the hand-carved map of BC in this linocut. The block was inked ‘à la poupée’ (with different colours, green and gold, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. The bear is printed in light gold with much of its fun carved away to reveal white. The rest of the province is printed in bright green. Each print is 23.5 cm by 31.8 cm (9.25” by 12.5”).
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A kaleidoscope of butterflies for #WorldButterflyDay. It’s also #PiDay so I feel this the symmetries of this print which I laid out with a compass and some geometric tricks, seems apt.
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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

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.
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Mercury, final prompt for #printerSolstice2425, made me think of #alchemy. It is an element the alchemists favoured & felt was fundamental in their efforts to transmute base into precious metals, both in western & Chinese alchemy (from whence western alchemy emerged).

This is my #linocut portrait of an #alchemist known as Master Geng (before ~975, 耿先生; Gěng Xiānshēng, sometimes Kêng Hsien-shêng). 🧵1/n

Inspired by Song Dynasty Chinese painting this is my linocut portrait of Geng Xiansheng outlined in black on ivory paper, seated at a table with alchemical furnace, vessels cups by a building and bamboo plants covered in snow. She has a flower in her hair and wears a green robe. The vessels are red, and blue. The bamboo is green with black. The roof of the building lintel has a red stripe below a pattern of blue and green.
#printmaking#sciart#histsci
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Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This #lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠
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Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #chemistry #MastoArt #dye #histsci #chemist #FashionHistory #purple #mauve #colour

Linocut print of Perkins in grey, a suited, bearded Victorian, at a wooden lab bench covered in glassware and chemical apparatus. He holds a flask at eye level with bright mauve fluid. Wide bright mauve lines radiate outward from it in the background.
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