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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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

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

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

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 my next #PrinterSolstice print for the prompt analogous colours - a Portuguese man o’ war in turquoise, blue & violet. A beautiful #siphonophore translucent & floating, neither a jellyfish nor in fact a single animal, but a colonial organism made up of genetically identical zooids which each perform different roles. It’s filled with venomous microscope nematocysts which can kill fish & even occasionally a person.

#linocut #printmaking #portugueseManOWar #blueBottle #invertebrate

Happy birthday to writer, statesman and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). Made for the #printersolstice Fauvism prompt: This print is a hand-printed, limited edition, reduction block print portrait. While best known for his contributions to German literature, he pursued natural sciences, studying morphology,

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#linocut #printmaking #sciart #histstm #artHistory #colour #Fauvism #perception #Goethe #NaturalScience #reductionPrint #printmaker #MastoArt

It’s a 54th #womanInSTEM for my last #printerSolstice prompt: variety. Once again I am playing with two concepts of the theme: as design element and scientific term, as in the varieties of #butterfly specimen collected by Victorian lepidopterist, scientific illustrator, traveller and diarist Margaret Fountaine.

#linocut #printmaking #histSTM, #lepidopterist #scientificIllustrator #entomology

I had a little fun interpreting the #printerSolstice prompt unity both literally and figuratively. In mathematics unity of course means 1. This 1 is a linocut and I built up the background with layers of colour on my gel plate. The pattern and textures in the background also give the print unity.

#linocut #printmaking #gelliplate #gelplate #mathArt #unity #colour #one

For the @printersolstice #printerSolstice prompt proportion, my print comparing my own hand to the golden ratio/rectangle/spiral. The golden rectangle has sides which are at the golden ratio and the spiral is constructed by making a series of smaller golden rectangles on the smaller side of the previous one.

#mathematics #mathart #sciart #GoldenRatio #GoldenRectangle #GoldenSpiral #Fibonacci #FibonacciSequence

#linocut #printmaking #proportion

Here’s my #printerSolstice @printerSolstice #linocut for the prompt “texture”. The Eastern Snail Shell Mason Bee (Osmia conjuncta) is a small North American blue bee which makes nests in suitable empty snail shells! In my linocut I show this adorable little pollinator with a Cepaea shell. Each print is 8” by 8” on delicate Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

#printmaking #masonBee #snailShell #OsmiaConjuncta #Cepaea #sciart #EasternSnailShellMasonBee #nativeBees #pollinator #washi