There’s always a lot of magic submissions and it’s open to all. Post your work during November 17 to 23 and tag it with #folktaleWeek #FolktaleWeek25 so we can see and share what everyone has created. This mainly occurs on Instagram but many, like me, will also be posting here. You should join!
For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).
Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls.
#printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #Indigineer #planetaryScience #linocut #mastoArt
Happy birthday to Danish #physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). One of his most famous contributions to quantum mechanics was the Bohr-Rutherford model of the atom. Bohr is shown next to the Bohr model of the Hydrogen atom (all the concentric circles are actually at the appropriate spacing, proportional to the n squared). Bohr proposed that the orbits of electrons were somewhat like planetary orbits
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #physics #quantum #histsci #quantumMechanics #mastoArt
I have a #linocut question.
Does anyone have a solution for when you mistakenly carve a chunk out of an important part of the piece and you want to repair it?
I have successfully superglued a small piece in place (grey lino) and it printed OKish (better than if it was not there). Does anyone have a better solution?
For the #spacetober_challenge day 6 prompt constellation, I am sharing my portrait of #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. My portrait of Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t).
For the #Spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 5 prompt Voyager I’m sharing my mini #linocut of Neptune for the Voyager program which sent two interstellar probes to the outer planets.
Happy #caturday to all those who celebrate!
I just finished printing this woodcut--appropriate for today.
The #Spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 4 prompt is moon so I’m sharing my Theia #linocut about the formation of our moon. This 6 colour hand printed linocut print illustrates the formation of the Moon in a comic book influenced pop art style. The favoured model of Moon formation is that 4.5 billion years ago, early in the history of our solar system, a Mars-sized astronomical body called Theia crashed
A throwback for Ctenophore Day! If you ever wondered how to pronounce Ctenophore, today is October 4, the 10th month, fourth day and it sounds like ten oh four. They are a phylum of marine invertebrates, like this comb jelly which look a bit like jellyfish, but instead of stinging tentacles they have comb-like cilia (hairs). 1/2
This is a unique hand made cyanotype on handmade paper with a deckle edge, about 7.25" x 9.75" with an image purple clover and bedstraw plus a lino block printed endangered Karner blue butterfly.
For the #spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 3 prompt space weather I thought I would share STEVE.
This is a hand-carved, hand-printed linocut print of a forest with night sky with the atmospheric optical phenomenon called STEVE: Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, a column of shining purple light which is often associated with a green ribbon “picket-fence” aurora or northern lights, as shown.
Day 2 of #spacetober_challenge by @spacetober_challenge is planet(s), so I am sharing two mini #linocut prints of Mars (with Phobos and Deimos) and Mercury, along with my stylized minimalist ‘Transit of Venus’ print, showing Venus eclipsing the Sun.
Find my Mars print here: https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1313889325
I thought I would continue combining other media with cyanotype. This is a unique hand made multimedia print with linocuts and cyanotype on watercolour paper (11” x 14”). On top of the cyanotype print of Canada goldenrod, I made a lino block print of the wildflower along with a monarch butterfly and an endangered Karner blue butterfly.
While at the Lu Xun museum in Shanghai, found this marvelously detailed woodblock print. Roughly 10cm x 15cm.
Lu Xun was a writer and artist responsible for establishing China’s cultural identity in the early 20th century. He popularized woodblock as a medium of choice for its accessibility and portability.
For #InternationalCoffeeDay: Once I’ve had a coffee, I can face the day, and contemplate doing things which require higher brain functions, like carving letters in reverse, or the molecular structure of caffeine. This is a linoleum block print, in a rich, dark, coffee-brown on beige (like creamy coffee) coloured Japanese kozo paper, 8” by 10” paper (20.3 cm by 25.4 cm). The print is my illustration of a coffee mug
A raccoon to appreciate for Raccoon Appreciation Day!
I appreciate raccoons; they are really quite extraordinary. This little guy came to my back door like that to politely inquire where I had moved the compost bin to. I snapped his photo and carved his portrait.
#raccoon #linocut #printmaking #typography #highFive #urbanEcology #washi #RacoonAppreciationDay
#mastoArt
I made some new prints for QWERTY Fest Milwaukee this weekend.
Day 30 of #SciArtSeptember prompt dream: Kepler’s Somnium. This hand-printed linocut illustrates astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler’s science fiction story Somnium, or “The Dream”. Kepler (1571-1630) wrote the strange manuscript in Latin, and circulated it amongst friends, with the intention of eventually publishing it but he died before that could could happen. (It also escaped his control and contributed to
Day 29 #SciArtSeptember prompt foresight: #botanist E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984), here with plants she studied.
A trailblazer for #womenInSTEM in India, expert in cytogenetics, phytogeography, coauthor Chromosomal Atlas of Plants, 1st Indian woman PhD & early woman in US #botany PhD, environmental activist who wrote about need to incorporate indigenous knowledge in sustainable development. Her name lives on in names of plants: Magnolia kobus Janaki Ammal,
Day 28 #SciArtSeptember prompt harvest. Echoing my print of insects for Manufactured Ecosystems about the future of pollination this print is intended to drive home how much we are dependent on insect pollinators. These are many of the food crops we grow here in Ontario which benefit from insects. I didn’t include crops grown for oil or as livestock feed. (Some are representative of a category,
