First proof and this is one I am really going to have to think about. 15 x 15 cm linocut, mostly improvised on the block and suffering in the end from too much happening. That said, if you like detail, it might be worthwhile wandering around inside it for a bit. For my part, I like the boulders, fir trees and scree to the left of the tower. They have an honest simplicity and have given me food for thought.

#linocut

First proof and this is one I am really going to have to think about. 15 x 15 cm linocut, mostly improvised on the block and suffering in the end from too much happening. That said, if you like detail, it might be worthwhile wandering around inside it for a bit. For my part, I like the boulders, fir trees and scree to the left of the tower. They have an honest simplicity and have given me food for thought.

#linocut

Detail from a linocut work in progress. This is a block I abandoned a year or so back and came upon last week. It’s one of those ‘let’s see what happens pieces’ and I’m enjoying playing with it. Hoping to proof it next week before deciding where to go with foreground (not in this picture).

#linocut

Bear lino from 2023. Trying to find some levity with art these days because 2026 has been off to such a dark start. Hope you're all doing okay out there. 🩶

#linocut #linocutprint #artwork #bear #MastoArt #FediArt

Detail from a linocut work in progress. This is a block I abandoned a year or so back and came upon last week. It’s one of those ‘let’s see what happens pieces’ and I’m enjoying playing with it. Hoping to proof it next week before deciding where to go with foreground (not in this picture).

#linocut

Bear lino from 2023. Trying to find some levity with art these days because 2026 has been off to such a dark start. Hope you're all doing okay out there. 🩶

#linocut #linocutprint #artwork #bear #MastoArt #FediArt

Epiphany is time for my #linocut of Perchta, also known as Frau Perchta or Berchta (or Bertha in English), a figure from Alpine folklore, who visits during the 12 days of Christmas. Her name may come from “the bright one” or the German word for the feast of the Epiphany and her history is linked to white robbed goddesses like Holda who oversaw spinning and weaving or the goddess Frigg and she emerged from Germanic and 🧵

#printmaking #folklore #Perchta #winter #Berchta #12daysOfChristmas

Another scientist in my collection with an unknown birthday is one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official and overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the “Overseer of the Women Physicians.”

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#mastoArt #linocut #sciart #printmaking #histsci #histmed #medicine #Peseshet #AncientEgypt #hieroglyphics

Another scientist in my collection with an unknown birthday is one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep,a royal official and overseer of priests, who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BCE. She is described as the “Overseer of the Women Physicians.”

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#mastoArt #linocut #sciart #printmaking #histsci #histmed #medicine #Peseshet #AncientEgypt #hieroglyphics

I got a used sizzix (hand crank die cut machine) for use as a tiny press to make prints. Slowly but surely learning how to get a decent amount of pressure.
#linocut #printmaking #linoprinting #beginner #humanArt

the frog linocut was very difficult to design, not because of any complexity, but because it was hard not spend hours just doodling silly frogs

#mastoart #linocut #frog

Another of scientists without a known birthday: my #linocut of ancient Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which does not make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction, 2000 years ago! Here with a reconstruction of his seismoscope, schematic of how it might have worked & 🧵

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#histsci #printmaking #ZhangHeng #EarthScience #seismology #mastoArt

“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.” These are words I often live by. My son recently started experimenting with #linocut printing and made me this for Xmas. I framed it and hung it on my shop wall with some other maker art. #maker #printmaking #woodworking #framing

the frog linocut was very difficult to design, not because of any complexity, but because it was hard not spend hours just doodling silly frogs

#mastoart #linocut #frog

Epiphany is also the day for La Befana! The latest in my slightly sinister winter holiday folklore collection: the Italian Christmas witch. La Befana is a witch of Italian folklore who brings sweets & gifts to good children and coal or cinders to bad children on Epiphany Eve. She flies on her broom and comes down the chimney. It’s dangerous to watch her. She’s both grandmotherly and a witch, beloved & ridiculed. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #Epiphany #Christmas #folklore #Befana #12daysofchristmas

Epiphany is time for my #linocut of Perchta, also known as Frau Perchta or Berchta (or Bertha in English), a figure from Alpine folklore, who visits during the 12 days of Christmas. Her name may come from “the bright one” or the German word for the feast of the Epiphany and her history is linked to white robbed goddesses like Holda who oversaw spinning and weaving or the goddess Frigg and she emerged from Germanic and 🧵

#printmaking #folklore #Perchta #winter #Berchta #12daysOfChristmas

Mexico to associates in #LatinAmerica, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. With them she found strength and #solidarity in shared struggles against poverty, racism, and imperialism.

3 - "Central America Says No!" (1986), #linocut. Catlett repeatedly expressed outrage against #imperialism and US interventions around the world. This piece combines several printing blocks that Catlett used for earlier #prints. "Chile I" and "Chile Il" are powerful statements condemning the atrocities committed

Finding relevance in the #exhibition "Elizabeth Catlett: A Black #Revolutionary #Artist and All That It Implies" that I checked out last month at the #Art Institute of #Chicago.

1 - "Untitled (Composition for a Peace #Poster)" (circa 1950), linocut. Collaborative #print designed by Catlett and carved in a linoleum block by Alberto Beltrán.

2 - "Sharecropper" (1952, printed 1972), color #linocut on cream Japanese paper.

By the 1960s, Catlett was well into her second decade in #Mexico, working