Working on several new prints for #folktaleweek2025 …

A hint: a good place to find echoes is in the mountains. This first layer I made with a gel plate for the second prompt #FolktaleWeekEcho. Next up will be a #linocut.

The story of Echo and Narcissus is lovely but I wanted a more unusual story so I found a story about echoes from Japan.

#printmaking #wip #gelPlatePrinting #folktaleWeek #illustration #MastoArt

For #spacetober_challenge day 15 prompt blackhole: my 6” x 8” mono print, built up with layers of ink on a gel plate of a Super Massive Blackholes (SMBH) with relativistic jets.

#printmaking #gelPlatePrinting #blackhole #astronomy #spaceArt #sciart 🧪

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1327046019

I've been playing with adding black ink and watercolour paints on a gelplate and then quickly putting watercolor paper on and off. It's given me some interesting pieces to work on, and possibly some absolute failures. But that's what play is all about. Knickers to perfection

#gelplateprinting #gelplate #gelplateprints #abstractart #artist #abstractartist #painting #abstractpainting #contemporaryartist #expressiveart #contemporarypainting #expressionism

I’m seeing invasive dog-strangling vine pop up around my neighbourhood. Now’s a great time to get rid of it… long before it goes to seed or starves monarch butterfly caterpillars who thought they were safely on milkweed. Join my anti-dog-strangling vine vendetta on behalf of the monarchs?

Summer is a good time to remove it. Look for the lance-shaped leaves, green stem that twists around 🧵1/n

#mastoArt #linocut #gelPrinting #gelPlatePrinting #swallowwort #monarchButterfly #sciart #pollinators

I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration 🧵

#monoprint #monotype #gelprint #gelplateprinting #bonfire #Walpurgisnacht #Hexennacht #folklore #spring #MayEve #witches

Snake in the Garden

https://makertube.net/w/dTMGmT634AbmWea6PqX78V

For the #Spacetober prompt astronomical object: a mono print built up with layers of ink on a gel plate of a Super Massive Blackholes (SMBH) with relativistic jets.

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1327046019

#printmaking #monoprint #gelPlate #gelPlatePrinting #sciArt #spaceArt #blackhole #MastoArt

For the #SciArtSeptember prompt cursed - monarch butterflies who are fooled into laying eggs on the invasive dog-strangling vine (European swallowwort, Vincetoxicum rossicum) due to its similarities to its host plant milkweed are cursed to hatch larvae which starve and die. Dog-strangling vine unlike milkweed doesn’t serve as a food source for the caterpillars, 🧵1/

#linocut #printmaking #gelplateprinting #sciart #monarchButterfly #urbanEcology #MastoArt #invasiveSpecies #speciesAtRisk