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I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration of a moon festival for Walpurga, 🧵

#monoprint #monotype #gelplateprinting #Walpurgisnacht #folklore #mastoart

I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration of a moon festival for Walpurga, 🧵

#monoprint #monotype #gelplateprinting #Walpurgisnacht #folklore #mastoart

I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration of a moon festival for Walpurga, 🧵

#monoprint #monotype #gelplateprinting #Walpurgisnacht #folklore #mastoart

I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration of a moon festival for Walpurga, 🧵

#monoprint #monotype #gelplateprinting #Walpurgisnacht #folklore #mastoart

I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration of a moon festival for Walpurga, 🧵

#monoprint #monotype #gelplateprinting #Walpurgisnacht #folklore #mastoart

I’m traveling to a Zentangle workshop near Toronto in a few weeks and someone has organized an Artist Trading Card exchange, so I made my first set of ATC’s ever! No idea why I didn’t do this before. I thought it would be tedious but it was actually super fun! These are a combination of #gelplateprinting and #zentangle. Today I custom made a little box to display them in and also covered it with one of my hand painted papers. #atc #artisttradingcards

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

I pulled some more prints from my #gelplate on my #horse theme. I was thinking of the extraordinary #paintings on the walls of caves in Southern France created by our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago.

#cavepaintings #gelli #printmaking #gelplateprinting #painting #art

My #gelplate #printmaking experiments continue using hand-cut stencils of #horses. I 😍 horses!)

(The fact that it's Grand National day today is entirely co-incidental. What an unnecessarily cruel race that is!)

It's quite easy to get a half-decent print off a #gelli plate, but to get something really worthwhile requires a depth of expertise I simply don't have. But the process is immense fun. What's not to like about playing with fields of pure colour?

#art #artist #gelplateprinting

My #gelplate #printmaking experiments continue using hand-cut stencils of #horses. I 😍 horses!)

(The fact that it's Grand National day today is entirely co-incidental. What an unnecessarily cruel race that is!)

It's quite easy to get a half-decent print off a #gelli plate, but to get something really worthwhile requires a depth of expertise I simply don't have. But the process is immense fun. What's not to like about playing with fields of pure colour?

#art #artist #gelplateprinting

My #gelplate #printmaking experiments continue using hand-cut stencils of #horses. I 😍 horses!)

(The fact that it's Grand National day today is entirely co-incidental. What an unnecessarily cruel race that is!)

It's quite easy to get a half-decent print off a #gelli plate, but to get something really worthwhile requires a depth of expertise I simply don't have. But the process is immense fun. What's not to like about playing with fields of pure colour?

#art #artist #gelplateprinting

My #gelplate #printmaking experiments continue using hand-cut stencils of #horses. I 😍 horses!)

(The fact that it's Grand National day today is entirely co-incidental. What an unnecessarily cruel race that is!)

It's quite easy to get a half-decent print off a #gelli plate, but to get something really worthwhile requires a depth of expertise I simply don't have. But the process is immense fun. What's not to like about playing with fields of pure colour?

#art #artist #gelplateprinting

My #gelplate #printmaking experiments continue using hand-cut stencils of #horses. I 😍 horses!)

(The fact that it's Grand National day today is entirely co-incidental. What an unnecessarily cruel race that is!)

It's quite easy to get a half-decent print off a #gelli plate, but to get something really worthwhile requires a depth of expertise I simply don't have. But the process is immense fun. What's not to like about playing with fields of pure colour?

#art #artist #gelplateprinting

What a fun afternoon we had yesterday at Brook Arts Hub in #StratforduponAvon learning the basics of #gelplateprinting.

Since I sold my etching press I've been looking for an alternative printmaking method which can easily be done from a small home studio. Perhaps the playful and experimental process of #gelliprinting is the answer? We shall see.

Thanks to Stephanie for guiding us!

#art #workshop #printmaking

Working on several new prints for #folktaleweek2025 …

A hint: a good place to find echoes is in the mountains. This first layer I made with a gel plate for the second prompt #FolktaleWeekEcho. Next up will be a #linocut.

The story of Echo and Narcissus is lovely but I wanted a more unusual story so I found a story about echoes from Japan.

#printmaking #wip #gelPlatePrinting #folktaleWeek #illustration #MastoArt

Little islands without enough vegetation to support human habitation can form a small, protected habitat for other life. My islet is a monoprint I made with pencil and painted ink on gel plate.

#printmaking #sciart #islet #gelPlate #GelPlatePrinting #natureArt #mastoArt

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I’m seeing invasive dog-strangling vine pop up around my neighbourhood. Now’s a great time to get rid of it… long before it goes to seed or starves monarch butterfly caterpillars who thought they were safely on milkweed. Join my anti-dog-strangling vine vendetta on behalf of the monarchs?

Summer is a good time to remove it. Look for the lance-shaped leaves, green stem that twists around 🧵1/n

#mastoArt #linocut #gelPrinting #gelPlatePrinting #swallowwort #monarchButterfly #sciart #pollinators

I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration 🧵

#monoprint #monotype #gelprint #gelplateprinting #bonfire #Walpurgisnacht #Hexennacht #folklore #spring #MayEve #witches

For the #Spacetober prompt astronomical object: a mono print built up with layers of ink on a gel plate of a Super Massive Blackholes (SMBH) with relativistic jets.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1327046019

#printmaking #monoprint #gelPlate #gelPlatePrinting #sciArt #spaceArt #blackhole #MastoArt

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt cursed - monarch butterflies who are fooled into laying eggs on the invasive dog-strangling vine (European swallowwort, Vincetoxicum rossicum) due to its similarities to its host plant milkweed are cursed to hatch larvae which starve and die. Dog-strangling vine unlike milkweed doesn’t serve as a food source for the caterpillars, 🧵1/

#linocut #printmaking #gelplateprinting #sciart #monarchButterfly #urbanEcology #MastoArt #invasiveSpecies #speciesAtRisk

And now we have whales! Added my humpbacks to the background colours. Next up: whale barnacles C. diadema for #InsertAnInvert2024

#linocut #printmaking #gelPlatePrinting #sciArt #humpbackWhale #barnacle #wip #MastoArt

I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration of a 🧵1/n

#monoprint #monotype #gelprint #gelplateprinting #Walpurgisnacht #Hexennacht #folklore #spring #MayEve #witches

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

Today’s #Spacetober prompt is Hubble. This print is built up with layers of ink on a gel plate and illustrates a Super Massive Blackholes (SMBH) with relativistic jets. Hubble provided the first observational evidence of the existence of SMBHs. Sharp images from Hubble have helped astronomers determine the abundance of SMBHs and their influence on galaxies and how they evolve over time.

#printmaking #sciArt #spaceArt #blackhole #SuperMassiveBlackhole #gelPlate #gelPlatePrinting #MastoArt

I'm trying to remember that just because I didn't have the best day today doesn't mean that tomorrow won't be better, and that success is often the result of small repeated actions that may not make sense until further on in the process.

There's no need to be harsh and unkind to myself because I did less than I'd wanted to.

#art #GelPlatePrinting #monoprinting #heart

Tried out a new technique on the gel plate today where I used Play-Doh to make an impression of a texture and then used it like a stamp on the plate.

This one was of one of those Mardi Gras bead necklaces.

Seems like a great technique to take impressions of textures that aren't on a flat surface or textures of objects that you don't want to cover in paint.

Super excited to try this out more!

#GelPlatePrinting #GelPlate #GelliPlate #AbstractArt #Art #Monoprint

I have no idea what I'm going to use these grungy textured papers I've been printing for, but they sure are satisfying...

#GelPlatePrinting #AbstractArt #GelliPlate #monoprint

OMG! I finally had success doing a gel print transfer from a laser print!! I turned a photo I took of my cat with a comic book style filter into a print! This is so fun!

#GelPlate #GelPlatePrinting #GelliPlate #GelliPrint #monoprint #art #MastoArt #cats

A bit of printing last night. There's something about stripes 😁 .
Incidentally, the usual fab offerings served up on #LyricFM's The Blue of the Night included beautiful music from the album Terres Turquoises (Turquoise Lands) by Constaninople/Françoise Atlan.
#mastoart #printmaking #gelprinting #gelplateprinting

I have been making some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches' Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient …

#monoprint #monotype #gelprint #gelplateprinting #bonfire #Walpurgisnacht #Hexennacht #folklore #spring #MayEve #witches

I tried my hand at some hand printing with a #gelliplate #gelplateprinting #gelliprint here are four of my favourites. #mastoart #mastoartist