I thought I would make a whimsical bumblebee shaped cyanotype filled with leaves from my garden (and the money plant seed pod eyes)! minouette.etsy.com/listing/4530... #cyanotype #botanicalArt #bumblebee #printmaking #leaves

Hark! 📯 It's my latest lino print, they're calling it The Mask Peddler. A demon flogging human masks, could it be some kind of metaphor, who's to say. This print will be available once the shoppe reopens at 12:00 sharp on Friday... 🔥 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

I and many authors have a policy—if someone wants one of my books and can’t afford one, I will just send it. I don’t do this because I am loaded or even comfortable. I do this because I know poverty entirely too well. Stealing it is downright disrespectful.

I made some cyanotypes with my son this week. We went for a walk to gather some botanical materials. I wanted to show him how you can paint the photo emulsion on paper in any shape so I made a little cat …

Toronto’s official bee (Agapostemon virescens, bi-coloured sweat bee) on my Echinacea this morning

Combining cyanotype and sun print: first made a fern print with copper inkodye which turned out a rosy orange colour and then I coated the print again, for a cyanotype of branches of the tree of heaven (once again pulling up invasive plants to make art)! #cyanotype #botanicalArt #printmaking

Octopus arms (not called tentacles! I know right?) have literally hundreds of suckers that grab onto anything. Except themselves. Ever. How do they not end up in a permanent tangled knot? 🐙 A Suckery Thread 🧵 #Octopus 🦑🐡

Happy birthday to Dolly the sheep 🐑 ! Dolly, the female sheep born 5 July 1996, was a trailblazer. She was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. ⁠ #linocut #printmaking #biology #histsci #genetics 🧪🐡 minouette.etsy.com/listing/6650...

Nice! Here's another one that I posted a while ago bsky.app/profile/xeno...

Happy birthday to #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡🎢🔭 #histsci Behind her, in my portrait, is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations

Cinnamon is living a life of leisure

REJOICE FOR BEST COMPETITION OF THE YEAR NOMINATE YOUR BUGS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy birthday to Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) who, with her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays, was the 1st to observe mesons. My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her data & a schematic of the cascade of particles we find in cosmic rays. 👩🏾‍🔬🐡🎢🧪 #histsci

Happy birthday to #physicist Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933) who discovered atomic recoil, Radon & recognized radioactive elements could undergo chains of transmutations into a series of new elements. 🧪👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci ⁠ She was Rutherford’s 1st grad student at McGill. After publishing her results in 1899

The thing about living in a big city is that sometimes there can be an entire parade you didn’t expect on the road with a bike lane you were planning to take on the family bike ride to the ravine. But since it wasn’t a big downtown parade, it was small enough for the cop doing crow control to

Happy Canada Day! This is a digital collage of my linocut of each province and territory with their official flora and fauna, and my home province Ontario with trillium and common loon. I hope you enjoy your holiday and get out into nature. #linocut #printmaking #Canada #CanadaDay #wildlifeArt

We were so impressed with this still life study the 12yo brought home from school that my husband built a frame (with his help). They were assigned to make a pastel drawing after a section of a still life painting they found in an art books. (I recognized Cezanne’s Still Life with Apples & Peaches)

June 30 is Asteroid Day to raise awareness of opportunities and risks posed by asteroids, their role in the formation of our solar system, their impact in space resources and importance of protecting Earth from impact. 🧪🐡 June 30, 1908 an approximately 12-megaton explosion that occurred near the

Seemed like ladybug and flower weather. This is my 8” x 8” lino block print on delicate Japanese washi paper of a seven-spotted lady beetle, or ladybird or lady bug (Coccinella septempunctata) on a pink apple blossom. minouette.etsy.com/listing/4444... #linocut #printmaking #insect #blossom 🧪🐡🐞

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy birthday to German-American theoretical #physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972), the 2nd woman to win the Nobel Prize for #physics. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡🎢 #histsci As the series of increasingly large atomic nuclei grows with additional nucleons (protons p & neutrons n) from hydrogen to transuranic elements

This is my hand-carved and hand-pulled Lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The fins reminded scientists of ears on the elephant in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo. 🧵

This is my lino block print of American botanist, cytogeneticist and 1983 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) with some maize. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔬#histsci McClintock, who received her doctorate in botany from Cornell in 1927, studied the cytogenetics of maize and how their 🧵

Guillermo del Toro didn’t get 100 carpenters to build a massive gimbal-mounted ship and ice flow in a Toronto lakeside parking lot so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Big and very shallow = very, very bad.

Pulling the edition of portraits of Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) botanist, cytogeneticist and Nobel laureate. #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci #womenInSTEM 🧪

I accompanied my kid’s class on a 20 km bike ride (plus 6 km to get to and from school) and I am now exhausted. But I am very proud of my kiddo, an inexperienced and nervous cyclist cause he did it!

Happy birthday to Alan Turing, OBE, FRS (1912 – 1954), British #mathematician, #cryptanalyst, computer scientist, prophet & hero. Turing foresaw not only that machines might quite likely develop the capacity to think (after all, our brains are only made of matter, & complex systems of neurons, 1/n 🧪

Made a jig for the background layer of my next scientist portrait. Several of you guessed right away: a scientist at her microscope with a background of corn or maize was indeed Nobel prize winning cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) who discovered jumping genes. #linocut #histsci 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬

A tower of giraffes for #WorldGiraffeDay! Such an apt #termOfVenery for the world’s tallest animal, celebrated on the longest day (in the northern hemisphere - or night in the southern). There are estimated to be only 117,000 remaining in the wild 🧵

YES! FINALLY!

This is why my drawings take ages.

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become 🧵

Working on a new scientist portrait. Any guesses? #linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci

Seconded! If you hear the word "overdue" used for an earthquake, volcano, etc., you're almost certainly NOT talking to a geoscientist. In fact, if you say "overdue" too loudly, a geologist will pop out of the nearest trash can like Oscar The Grouch to tell you all about why we don't use that word.

Oh, blerg, it’s a don your rain boots to enter the mud room kind of morning. At least I work from home and flooding got no further but ☹️

Embroidered a dedication so it’s time to send this baby quilt off. (Technically I am her great-aunt but who’s counting?) Her older siblings got alphabet baby quilts with #linocut animals and I want each quilt to be unique so 🧵🧶

Printer refuses to feed paper all of a sudden 😫

Ghostly fern cyanotype minouette.etsy.com/listing/4519... #fern #cyanotype #botanicalPrint #alternativePhotography #cyanotypeArt

This one of a kind cyanotype image of a two Gerbera daisies on 8.5” x 11” water colour paper. minouette.etsy.com/listing/4519... #cyanotype #botanicalPrint 🐡🌼

A cyanotype of a wild geranium from my garden minouette.etsy.com/listing/4519... #cyanotype #botanicalPrint #wildGeranium #flowers #alternativePhotography

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! 🐡🧪🎢 #histsci He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together

From my garden: Virginia creeper cyanotype #cyanotype #printmaking 🐡

Resetting the “days without taking a loved one to the hospital” counter back to zero.

I've seen his work in many museums and had no idea until recently that Yinka Shonibare was disabled

My friend Matt Sesow lost a hand in a childhood accident. His paintings are in museums

Off the top of my head, some great disabled artists: Frida Kahlo Matisse Beethoven Van Gogh Toulouse-Lautrec Monet Ray Charles Chuck Close Stevie Wonder

Sigh… people doing this is probably why Pinterest thinks *my* art is AI generated. It doubly hurts artists coz then people think ‘ew, you use AI’ or ‘ew, your work looks like AI’ and don’t wanna hire us 🙄

I have embellished this lily of the valley cyanotype with a couple of linocuts: the Karner blue butterfly and hummingbird clearwing moth. I think I should do some more #multimedia with #cyanotype. minouette.etsy.com/listing/4519... #linocut #printmaking #butterfly 🐡