Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social
Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist. Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)
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Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social
Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist. Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)
spore.social
@minouette@spore.social
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Apr 01, 2026
Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. Her work on elasticity theory won her the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences. 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathematician #womenInSTEM #histsci
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Jane Tomlinson - Artist 🌻⭐️
@JaneTomlinson@mastodonapp.uk
Artist. From Stratford-upon-Avon, now in Oxfordshire, UK. Woke as hell. LOVES: art, art history, birds, cats, cheese, "Detectorists", EU, facts, horses, kindness, maps, marine biology, Mother Nature, rock music, science, stone circles, tea, weather, wildflowers, wildlife LOATHES: bigots, Brexit, guns, gods, liars, timewasting, Tories
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Jane Tomlinson - Artist 🌻⭐️
@JaneTomlinson@mastodonapp.uk
Artist. From Stratford-upon-Avon, now in Oxfordshire, UK. Woke as hell. LOVES: art, art history, birds, cats, cheese, "Detectorists", EU, facts, horses, kindness, maps, marine biology, Mother Nature, rock music, science, stone circles, tea, weather, wildflowers, wildlife LOATHES: bigots, Brexit, guns, gods, liars, timewasting, Tories
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@JaneTomlinson@mastodonapp.uk
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Mar 30, 2026
What a fun afternoon we had yesterday at Brook Arts Hub in #StratforduponAvon learning the basics of #gelplateprinting.
Since I sold my etching press I've been looking for an alternative printmaking method which can easily be done from a small home studio. Perhaps the playful and experimental process of #gelliprinting is the answer? We shall see.
Thanks to Stephanie for guiding us!
#art #workshop #printmaking
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Forb Azul
@snailrageprints@metroholografix.ca
Here to share my art and crafts. Human made only always. Header picture alt text: A black and white linocut print with words reading "ALL THE WALLS OF EMPIRE SHALL FALL" centered between two walls. The wall on the left is made of tall cement blocks and represents the walls in Palestine. The wall on the right is made of metal lengths and sheets and represents the walls on the southern border of the "U.S.". Both walls are topped with barbed wire.
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Forb Azul
@snailrageprints@metroholografix.ca
Here to share my art and crafts. Human made only always. Header picture alt text: A black and white linocut print with words reading "ALL THE WALLS OF EMPIRE SHALL FALL" centered between two walls. The wall on the left is made of tall cement blocks and represents the walls in Palestine. The wall on the right is made of metal lengths and sheets and represents the walls on the southern border of the "U.S.". Both walls are topped with barbed wire.
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@snailrageprints@metroholografix.ca
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Mar 07, 2026
@snailrageprints@metroholografix.ca it was a neat project and I learned some things: - I don’t particularly like the destruction inherent in the reduction process. I know, I know, all creation is destruction, but I’d rather come out with blocks I could print again and again. -Getting precise registration (aligning the paper with the printing block) with otherwise delightfully wispy deckled paper edges is an incredible challenge
- these color inks are not quite as opaque as I was led to believe, I had to do some additional mixing to get the pure green (shown here) to look green at all upon the red in the combined print. (It first came out looking black) #printMaking #reductionLinocut #reliefPrint #humanArt
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e.e.varis
@varis@mementomori.social
Really just four archetypes (an Academic, an Artist, an Activist and an Adventurer) piled on top of each other in a trench coat. Cover pic of the season: Bluebells blooming in Hallerbos forest, Belgium.
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@varis@mementomori.social
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Mar 04, 2026
#Viivasyövytys vs. #Akvatinta -vedokset samasta levystä.
Itse en ainakaan tiennyt vielä kuukausi sitten mitä nämä metalligrafiikan termit käytännössä edes tarkoittavat, joten ehkä tämä on informatiivista muillekin: Viivasyövytyksessä levyn pinta on suojattu pihkan ja tärpätin hajuisella pohjusteella ja nimen mukaisesti vain pohjusteeseen raaputetut viivat syöpyvät happokylvyssä. Akvatintassa levy on lähes paljas, jolloin koko pinta syöpyy - ellei joitain alueita nimenomaisesti suojaa sellakalla, kuten olen tässä tehnyt origamikurjelle. Enemmän syövytystä = tummempi väri.
On jotenkin tajunnanräjäyttävää miettiä, mistä ihmeestä ne ovat joskus 1600-luvulla keksineet, että tämmöistäkin voisi puuhailla. Puupiirrokset ja linografiikka ovat omasta mielestäni tosi loogisia ja suoraviivaisia prosesseja, mutta tämän tekniikan kehittäneellä tyypillä on kyllä ollut erilaiset aivot tai erilainen elämänkokemus kuin minulla - todennäköisesti toki molempia.
Opettaja on silti sitä mieltä, että tämä tekniikka ”sopii” minulle. Tosiasiassa taidan pikemminkin sopeuttaa tekemistäni ja aiheitani siihen tekniikkaan, joka kulloinkin on käsillä. 🤔 Joka tapauksessa olen nyt sen verran kärryillä, että seuraava työ vois olla jo ”varsinainen työ”, eikä harjoitus. 🚀 #grafiikka #printmaking
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Forb Azul
@snailrageprints@metroholografix.ca
Here to share my art and crafts. Human made only always. Header picture alt text: A black and white linocut print with words reading "ALL THE WALLS OF EMPIRE SHALL FALL" centered between two walls. The wall on the left is made of tall cement blocks and represents the walls in Palestine. The wall on the right is made of metal lengths and sheets and represents the walls on the southern border of the "U.S.". Both walls are topped with barbed wire.
metroholografix.ca
Forb Azul
@snailrageprints@metroholografix.ca
Here to share my art and crafts. Human made only always. Header picture alt text: A black and white linocut print with words reading "ALL THE WALLS OF EMPIRE SHALL FALL" centered between two walls. The wall on the left is made of tall cement blocks and represents the walls in Palestine. The wall on the right is made of metal lengths and sheets and represents the walls on the southern border of the "U.S.". Both walls are topped with barbed wire.
metroholografix.ca
@snailrageprints@metroholografix.ca
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Feb 28, 2026
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Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social
Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist. Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)
spore.social
Ele Willoughby, PhD
@minouette@spore.social
Artist, printmaker and marine geophysicist. Settler in Tkaronto (she/her)
spore.social
@minouette@spore.social
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Dec 11, 2025
Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵
#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt
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