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A little souvenir from the wonderful Lake District (England). In Little Langdale there is a traditional packhorse bridge, built by the miners in the 17th century, using slate.
It is called "Slater's Bridge" and it is in a stunning spot for ramblers.

Here is my latest #linocut #print
A few copies available, if you fancy one :)
I have made a version in b/w and another in colours.

Happy birthday to #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell! In 1967, as a grad student she discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards us; so, like the light from a lighthouse, it appears to pulse at a precise frequency. She had been working with her supervisor Antony Hewish & others to construct a radio telescope to study quasars. 🧵#linocut #printmaking #histsci

I am not sure if it will work out well to make a linocut from this design, but I guess I want to learn from mistakes? Also all the lines are thinner as I expected.
I learned how to set up a printer in linux (easy peasy) but I'm not satisfied with the built in pdf viewer. (Suggestions welcome.)
I transferred the picture with acetone. Not perfect but well enough.
Also what's the best practice for cutting a lino plate in several usuable pieces? @linocut

Happy birthday to brilliant trailblazing US #geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact metamorphosed volcanic rocks she called aporhyolite (implying a change in rhyolite, a silica rich igneous rock, as in her thin sections like the ones in my print). 🧵
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #sciart #linocut #mastoArt

New edition of fireflies coming soon!

This #linocut block print shows 3 fireflies (Photinus pyralis, the common eastern firefly or big dipper firefly) in a field against the night sky. These bioluminescent insects are the most common firefly in N America, & they use the light organ on their abdomen to signal potential mates leaving their tell-tale trail of a j-shaped flash pattern. Hence the common name “big dipper firefly”.