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

The final prompt is warm colours.

#linocut #printmaking 🧪🐡🦀
A collection of linocut prints laid out to dry of red and orange frog crabs (Ranina ranina) viewed from above.
March 6, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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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.

#sciart #koi #carp #fish #SundayFishSketch
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).
December 1, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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The #PrinterSolstice prompt list is out! I like to try and participate every year. The prompts are mathematical in flavour this year so I feel like it’s a cue to make more mathematician portraits….

But you can interpret the prompts however you want. Join in!

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The prompt list is typed in a rounded rectangle with block printed black on white patterned border. The text reads: Printer Solstice 2026-26 1. Addition Dec 21-27 2. Even Dec 28-Jan 3 3. One Jan 4-10 4. Subtraction Jan 11- 17 5. Odd Jan 18-24 6. Expression Jan 25-31 7. Division Feb 1-7 8. Two Feb 8-14 9. Volume Feb 15-21 10. Fraction Feb 22-28 11. Angle Mar 1-7 12. Multiplication Mar 8-20 Tag & add Collaborator @printersolstice @speedballart @flexcut_tools Hashtag: #printersolstice #printersolstice2526 Hosted by @follydomeprints @linocaveprints Sponsored by @speedballart @flexcut_tools
December 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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.

#printmaking #EarthScience ⚒️ #sciart 🧪
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.
January 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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In 1626 she published a 900 page genealogy of Danish nobility. She remained famous for garden till her death in her 80s.

#womenInSTEm #histsci #printerSolstice #sciart
Sophie Brahe Linocut Print: Woman Astronomer, Alchemist, Horticulturalist - Etsy
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September 22, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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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.
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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.
January 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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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: 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci Millie Dresselhaus (née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017). She was a professor of physics and 🧵
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.
January 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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So they can crawl around & feed on coral reefs without concern.

With their fuchsia, indigo and yellow colour scheme I made these prints originally for the #printerSolstice split complimentary colour scheme prompt. 🧵2/2

#linocut #printmaking
April 15, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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The final #printerSolstice prompt is warm colours, so I made an animal in hues of orange & 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 & subtropical 🧵1/n
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.
March 7, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Working on a tiny print of a marine creature with a split complementary colour scheme for #printerSolstice (with #insertaninvert2024 in mind)

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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.
February 1, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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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👩🏻‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci 🧵
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.
January 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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For #PrinterSolstice prompt analogous colours I made linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea. 🧪🐡 #invertebrates

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. 🧵1/
My Portuguese man o’ war linocut is printed in blues, turquoise, violet and pink on white 9.25” by 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. The float is above the water surface, the tentacles below.
January 26, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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This year’s #PrinterSolstice prompts are math themed, which seems perfect for my #womenInSTEM series. 🧪🐡 The first prompt, “addition” made me think of the greenhouse effect, excess additional atmospheric CO2 and the resulting excess terrestrial temperatures. It made me think of a scientist who has 🧵
My carved green vinyl Lino block on a cutting mat shows a Victorian woman in dress with apron and sleeves working at a table. She’s viewed from over her shoulder so you can only see her cheek and not her whole face. She has an open book in which she is writing. There is an air pump to one side and two large glass cylinder, each with two thermometers inside.
December 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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,
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.
November 30, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Working on my next #PrinterSolstice print for analogous colours - a Portuguese man o’ war in turquoise, blue & violet. 🐡🧪 A beautiful translucent, floating siphonophore, is neither a jellyfish nor in fact a single animal. It’s a colonial organism made up of genetically identical zooids 🧵1/2
A photo of a grid of my 9.25” by 12.5” linocut prints on white Japanese paper printed in blue, turquoise and violet ink showing a Portuguese man o’ war floating at the ocean surface in cross section so you can see the float above water and various long tentacles below.
January 24, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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My lino block print portrait for #PrinterSolstice prompt addition shows the amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women's rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬#histsci who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases & correctly concluded 🧵
My linocut shows a Victorian woman in dress with apron and sleeves working at a table. She’s viewed from over her shoulder so you can only see her cheek and not her whole face. She has an open book in which she is writing. There is an air pump to one side and two large glass cylinders, each with two thermometers inside. She is printed in a gradient of pale blue at the bottom to bronze at the top on cream coloured washi paper. The numbered and signed print is titled “Eunice Newton Foote.”
December 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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For #printerSolstice prompt oxygen: my #linocut of Claudine Picardet (1735-1820) #chemist, #mineralogist, meteorologist & perhaps most importantly, translator of latest science from Swedish, English, German, Italian & possibly Latin to French at the height of the chemical revolution. 🧵🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci
My linocut portrait of Claudine Picardet in late 17th century wig with ringlets and dress, holding a book behind a table with a collection of minerals and scientific glassware for chemistry experiments. The print on white Japanese paper is made in a gradient of pale purple at the top through magenta to rose-bronze at the bottom with the exception of the taps at the top of one of the vessels which are in bronze.
January 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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For #printersolstice prompt gold, my #linocut of Sophie Brahe (1556 or 1559-1643) 👩🏼‍🔬🔭🧪🐡 #histsci horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustration of
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.
January 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Working on my next block for #PrinterSolstice for the prompt “even.” This is particle physicist Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) known for her work on cosmic rays, which were the primary way physicists could study particle physics before particle accelerators. 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬 #histsci We know quarks have fractional
As described this is my mostly carved green vinyl Lino block portrait of Bibha Chowdhuri. Her head and shoulders appear with carved area in lighter green. Across the bottom of the block Sandpakphu mountains appear. Behind here is a schematic of an extensive air shower with branching straight, wiggly and dotted lines indicating a cascade of high energy particles
December 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The next prompt for #printerSolstice is Triadic Colours, like secondary colours.
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/
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.
February 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Until I can catch up on #printerSolstice, a throwback which fits oxygen: 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci Antoine (1743-1794) & Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758 – 1836) worked closely together modernizing & quantifying #chemistry & scientific method, recognized & named oxygen & hydrogen, explained role that oxygen 🧵
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.
January 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Here’s my next 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).

They are supposed to be lucky. First print of 2024!
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).
January 10, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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The next #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt is expression so I am working on a portrait of one of the great 20th century mathematicians, Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004). 🧪😁👩🏼‍🔬🧮 #histsci She made immense contributions to the study of partial differential equations, particularly the Navier-Stokes equations 🧵
Green Lino block in progress is mostly carved and shows a young Olga Ladyzhenskaya in profile, from the shoulders up. She’s wearing a shirt and jacket with her hair up. She’s facing some text, carved in reverse, with some words in Russian and mathematics. The text explains this is the system of Navier-Stokes equation, initial and boundary conditions. Below her is a diagram of laminar flow eddying into turbulence.
January 27, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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I’m excited to join #printersolstice - the element themes are a great fit for science stories I want to tell. 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci But I have no time to carve now, so until I can catch up, here’s the earliest recorded #alchemist for “gold”: Mary the Jewess (aka Maria Hebraea, Miriam, or Maria Prophetissa).🧵
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 29, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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Once again, #PrinterSolstice is back! This year their 12 prompts are on colour themes. I’m all about colour, but as it happens I often carve first & figure out colours second, so making prints to meet colour prompts will be a challenge to give my brain a workout, starting with perhaps the most 🧵1/2
My 6” x 9” embossed print on watercolour paper shows three large and several small snowflakes.
December 22, 2023 at 4:30 PM