Happy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! She was the 1st author of a monumental scientific paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars, which became known as B2FH from the initials of its authors: Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge (her 
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US customer announcement!
I will be closing orders on Wednesday 13th August for the foreseeable future due to Trump suddenly ending De Minimis.
Until USPS can collect customs fees there is a risk you could be charged $80 per shipment, and I’m not prepared to take that risk on your behalf.
I will look at ways to reopen and update you when I can. Very sad times!
#deminimis #fucktrump #america #usa #linoprint #linocut #halloween #spooky #printmaker #artist #art #illustration #print
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Conservation efforts include reducing conflict with humans, protecting habitat and scientific studies to better understand populations and how to protect them.
#lion #linocut #printmaking #conservation #savannah #mastoArt
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Another postcard design. I was sketching some cats and mushrooms yesterday evening. Both have something mystical - don't know why 
so I made this mystic forest :)
Gravure du jour : mon vélo en 3 couches (rose fluo, bleu ultramarine et noir).
C’est pas super ultra bien aligné mais ça rends pas si mal que ça.
#linogravure #linocut #linocutprinting #diy
I made this linocut for a friend's birthday. Yesterday I printed some postcards with it. But, I still need to figure out how much paint I have to apply to the linoleum and how to get a good amount of pressure everywhere.
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simple substances should have simple names & compounds should have compound names designating their parts. A 19th century painting of them notably includes both Picardet & Mme Lavoisier who deserve to be remembered.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to 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.
She married barrister & member of the Académie royale des sciences, arts, et belles-lettres de Dijon, Claude Picardet in 1755, her entry into the high society scientific
#sciart #printmaking #histsci #womenInSTEM #linocut #chemistry #mastoArt
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The transverse-banded flower fly and purple coneflowers are native to eastern North America. Each print is made by hand on assorted, beautiful Japanese washi papers and collaged to make the final 8” x 10” image, which are hand-embellished with posca pens.
#linocut #printmaking #washi #flowerFly #insect #pollinator #echinacea #coneflower #sciart #mastoArt
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I'm preparing a new linocut print, and this time i wanted to preview the balance between the black zones and the thin lines. I'm pretty pleased with the result, so before i start actually carving the picture on lino, here's a sneak peek 
#linocut #printmaking #illustration #WIP #CreativeToots #MastoArt
Next print in progress, starting with the centre of the echinacea or purple coneflower…
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“Parliament” is in a gothic script. “Owls” has an owl eye for ‘o’ and the remaining letters are feathered. The owls are, right to left and top to bottom: the Eastern screech, Northern saw-whet, long-eared, Barred, Great Horned and the American Barn owls.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #owls #typography #termsOfVenery #screechOwl #GreatHornedOwl #BarnOwl #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay
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The finished #linocut birthday cake for my #MetalDrummer son! 
I'm really rather pleased with this one. I even added a #GutteralSlug 
(If you know you know)
#BirthdayCake #XRatedCake #over18 #linocutIting #linocutart #CakeDecorating #Tool #metal #Xrated #SlamMetal #ProgressiveMetal
It's been quite a while since I did some #penAndInk work, and for whatever reason, this felt like a good week to stretch those particular legs. It also gave me the opportunity to do something much looser than my normal process, and just ink directly on linoleum with india ink, then do my best to preserve the character of the line work in the carving. I think it turned out well!
I'll probably do more of this kind of work down the road, it's quite enjoyable
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I made a short series of such patterns on different backgrounds.
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Another pollinator and garden repeat pattern! This one made with my black-eyed susans, purple coneflower and monarch butterfly linocuts.
Time to carve a new block! This is a transverse-banded flower fly in progress. Because of its yellow and black stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, it can be mistaken for a bee. But no, it’s a fly. The eyes are the real giveaway for this bee mimic, to my mind. While not a bee, it is an excellent pollinator and another friend to gardeners.
Even though, its hot, humid and sunny, I'm starting to feel the embrace of autumn (and Halloween) creeping towards us! This cemetery print of mine always makes me feel suitably spooky.
On my shops and also available at Derby Museums Shop for their 'Dracula Returns to Derby' exhibition running now until 30th May 2026! Go check it out.
#halloween #autumn #spooky #linocut #print #artist #printmaker #bat #ghost #folklore #creepy
Another fun, simple repeat pattern made with the tomato lino block print I carved and printed for my print about food crops grown here in Ontario which benefit from insects. 
Also in my spoonflower minouette shop!
Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. Women were still not allowed to participate in