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A throwback to an idea I return to: imagining composite creatures. One of my first, the winged walrus is about contrasts and whimsy. #linocut #printmaking #walrus #butterfly #washi #compositeCreature #illustration

23/04/12 21:12

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For #MerMay a not-quite-a-mermaid: Some believe that the mandriltee is imaginary. Who am I to say? Though it appears to be rotund, short-armed mermaid with strange facial markings, the mandriltee is neither fish nor primate & certainly not the composite creature of myth. Their

22/05/04 21:16

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For #MerMay I’m sharing Mélusine: This hand-printed Art Deco-inspired lino block print illustrates Mélusine at her bath, spied through a keyhole. Mélusine was the legendary half-fairy ancestor of the House of Lusignan and royals including the Plantagenets, whose lower half 🧵

22/05/03 21:05

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Some linocut bird art for #flockofartists

21/09/24 01:29

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The #SpaceInktober #inktober prompt is Exoplanet. Here’s my tiny #sciart imaginary Linocut planetary scene.

19/10/31 04:39

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The #SpaceInktober #Inktober prompt is discovery, so here's my linocut astronomer Caroline Herschel, scientific Cinderella who escaped a life of household drudgery to become 1st salaried female scientist. She discovered 11 nebulae (2 were galaxies) & 8 or 9 comets! #sciart

19/10/29 02:33

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The #SpaceInktober #Inktober prompt today is scientist, sharing my linocut portrait of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) who (correctly, despite she skepticism she faced) discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in stars & universe. #sciart

19/10/26 02:11

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The #SpaceInktober #Inktober prompt today is spacecraft: my portrait of Cherokee mathematician & engineer Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008) who worked on the Agena rocket, important to the Apollo mission & an author of NASA Flight Handbook Vol. III about flight to Mars and Venus.

19/10/24 22:54

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I'm not feeling any of the #inktober prompts today so here are some random, fairly stylized hoopoes.

19/10/23 23:43

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Bonus #inktober post because the #SpaceInktober prompt is Saturn. Mathematician and nihilist Russian literary author Sofia Kovalevski (or Kovalevskaya)’s work on the rotation of irregular solids was pertinent to Saturn’s rings.

19/10/22 02:29

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The #sciart #Inktober prompt is #histology so I’m sharing my linocut portrait of Canadian biochem & medical researcher Maud Menten (of the Michaelis-Menten equation) who also invented azo-dye coupling still used for alkaline phosphatase and did 1st electrophoresis of hemoglobin

19/10/19 02:20

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Not even a prompt today. Just chose to ink in an existing drawing. #Inktober

19/10/18 03:58

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The #sciartink #Inktober prompt is dinosaur. This is a version of my Torosaurus linocut.

19/10/16 05:20

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The #sciartink #Inktober2019 prompt today is bird. This is a tiny linocut angry goose, a detail from a study for work in progress.

19/10/13 00:17

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A #SciArtInk #Inktober prompt today: brain 🧠

19/10/07 22:06

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Today I selected an #AInktober #Inktober prompt: astral egg, because I could and AI weirdness is a delightful theme. Apparently I can’t count days and it’s the 5th, not the 4th, but here goes...

19/10/05 23:00

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@Faunalia The #SciArtInk #Inktober prompt today is bone... so here's a little, spooky, subtle linocut skeleton from me. #sciart

19/10/05 02:15

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Today I had a long lunch with fellow artists and lifelong friends so that didn’t leave me much time (though plenty of ideas). I’ve chosen the #SciArt #Inktober2019 prompt skull. For @Faunalia re. existential angst- doodled while cooking dinner.

19/10/04 06:42

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A very nerdy offering for the #Inktober #Inktober2019 prompt ‘ring’ - mathematician Emmy Noether (1882-1935), for whom the ‘Noetherian ring’ is named. #womeninstem #Mathematics #sciart

19/10/02 10:39