Playing around with making short video clips of my art projects. You know, just to compete in today's attention economy or whatever. Anyway, here's my little Great Blue Heron stamp and a grubby test print! #printmaking #birds #birdart

Guess who still hasn't acquired a piece of glass to roll ink on? This is the block inspired by the #Egyptian tale of the shipwrecked sailor.

#Linocut #Egypt #birdart #printmaking #art

For the #SciArtSeptember theme “lyrical” I’m going with the use of imagination & analogy in the exploration & communication of science through thought-experiments like Lyell’s Amphibious Being! In geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875)’s famous ‘Principles of Geology,’ he wrote that to avoid some sources of prejudice in understanding #geology would require an Amphibious Being, 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #histstm #SciArtSeptember #amphibian #PhilosophyOfScience #EarthScience #geologist #MastoArt

I have a chaotic morning so I’d love to stand on one of my hometown Groningen’s bridges and muse into (unto?) the canal.

This one has very different versions, I kept mixing black and blue ink in a loose way, so each one of the 10 I made is truly unique. Shop here (for €110,- inc taxes): https://www.schulte-printmaking.com/product/9915694/standing-on-a-bridge

#printmaking #ink #woodcut #Mastoartist #Groningen #musing

Landscape of a Mountain
Linocut, black and gold ink on paper
18x24 inches

Ready for sale this weekend

#art #dailyart #MastoArt #printmaking #printmakeronmastodon #linocut #blockprint #blockprinting #reliefprint #landscape #mountains

Seems that piece of tangled fishing line I picked up does indeed work for a bit of blind embossing

#BlindEmbossing #Printmaking #Pebbles #WhatIf

The #SciArtSeptember prompt gossamer made me think of the wings of this Megachile brevis leafcutter bee.

Unlike the better known, and imported honeybee, the Leafcutter bees are solitary and make no honey, but they are vital pollinators who play an important role in the ecosystem. They are found throughout the US and southern Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 🧵1/2

#bees #MastoArt #nativeBees #Megachile #linocut #printmaking #sciArt #pollinators #washi

»Still in living in Ruins (Living in ruins II)« (September 2023)

(This should have been posted already in January, but due to Covid and the Post-Covid condition in which I find myself in from January on until now and other things, I had no capacity to write it, even if the linocut existed already since December 2022.)

When will the picture be drawn so that everyone could see it? There are so much more ruins now in the world than two years ago and so many more people got killed because of violent ideologies and died because of the capitalist normal condition. Then the world is ever more in upheaval, turmoil and disruption. Where do we go from here? Which we? We are drowning and we are burning. Which we? We are on our own. Which we? We as a class of the exploited. Is it possible to collect the fragments, the wreckage, the pieces and the splinters to put it in such a constellation that the catastrophe will be recognizable a well as its solution? Ruins, future ruins, wreckage upon wreckage. No place, nowhere. There is one objective reality, one material earth, an all encompassing nature, one history, that the world has gone through, though experienced in a myriad different ways, but can there be one reason that is able to grasp all of this? Is there really a quiet voice of the intellect, that does not rest until it has made itself heard? It seems increasingly harder to believe that there is one. The catastrophe has happened, is still happening and will happen unless there will be a real movement towards a new condition. This real movement can only consist in self-organization and self-determination of the conditions of production and of the necessary exchange with the nature. It can only be the common production of the form of mediation itself by the associated individuals. So, when do we associate as individuals? It’s pretty much necessary, really.

#lifeinruins #permanentcatastrophe #fragmentation #realmovement #art #linocut #printmaking #artwork

Oh look a new, really big landscape. First test print, 18x24 inches #MastoArt #printmaking #art #dailyart #wip #workinprogress #landscape #landscapeart #blockprinting #linocut #reliefprint

For #SciArtSeptember day 9: heart, it’s trailblazing American #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & our knowledge of the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis. She published original research establishing that….

🧵1/n
#MastoArt #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histstm #printmaking #linocut #histmed #HeartDisease #sciArt

A fine day for putting your head in a fridge, or purchasing a fridge still life! There are still some left in my shop (€90,- inc taxes)! Buy here: https://www.schulte-printmaking.com/product/10975281/fridge
#printmaking #summer #ink #MastoArt #linocut #stilllife

These turned out differently to what I thought, but I like them, now to buy stamps and send them on their weird way. They'll have had a unique experience on their journey. I'm excited to see photos of them, I imagine them beaming like muddy kids on adventure. #linocut #hands #mastoart #printmaking

#Printmaking
See more here:
http://katherinemontalto.com/category/printmaking/

#printmaking #art #wip #linocut #blockprint #reliefprint #dailyart #artistsOnMastodon

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt “simian” I made a new edition to my ongoing series of animals with fabulous collective nouns. It’s A Conspiracy of Lemurs. These ring-tailed lemurs definitely appear to be up to something. Caught in the act of scheming. The word “lemurs” mimics their tails, of course!

The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) is a wet-nosed primate, endemic to Madagascar. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #termsOfVenery #lemurs #ringTailedLemurs #typography #lettering #primates #MastoArt

I have finished cutting the first layer of my first trial reduction #woodcut! Very exciting. Everything that is cut away will remain yellow. Then follows green, and blue for the dark shading.

Next up is getting the ten prints exactly right on the stamp. I have no press, so that will be something.

#printmaking #ink #MastoArt

#printmaking #art #wip #linocut #blockprint #reliefprint #dailyart #artistsOnMastodon

This is a hellishly clever lady, and I love that she's written about her process. Also: REDUCTION lino, which is a terrifying method (also known as "suicide print" because one screw up and the whole edition can be ballsed up...)

https://www.hazelmcnab.com/blogs/news/june

#printing #linocut #printmaking

For #SciArtSeptember Day 7: indigo a little story of analogy & bias in the most famous physicist of all. My lino block print is inspired by the earliest colour wheel, made by Isaac Newton. When he first split white light in 1665 into the rainbow spectrum of colours, he named & described what he saw as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (often denoted ROY G BIV).

🧵1/n
#sciArt #histstm #linocut #printmaking #colour #music #spectrum #Newton #physics #light #MastoArt

Check out little article about some #printmaking artwork I did related to our science project for the Antarctic Science Platform ⬇️🎨🇦🇶

https://www.antarcticscienceplatform.org.nz/updates/ant-art-ica-using-art-to-communicate-antarctic-research

#sciart #scicomm #seaice