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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. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #mathart #SophieGermain #ChladniFigures #mathematician #Fermat #womenInSTEM #physicist

Work in progress. The text is from Milton’s epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ (book IV). It’s slow work and every so often I take rubbings to see how things are progressing. Once carved, I’ll proof it and then decide if I want to let more light into the tree. The fourth photo is flipped so that you can read the text if you zoom in.

My final Canadian 🇨🇦 province #linocut is my home #province #Ontario along with its symbols, the common #loon and trillium. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, black, green and yellow, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

Ontario is where I was born and where I now call home. Growing up on Lake Ontario I was always aware of our region being defined by the Great Lakes, 🧵1/2

map #SciArt #printmaking #mapart #Canada

Next in my Canada 🇨🇦 series: the Northwest Territories with its territorial symbols the gyrfalcon and mountain avens flowers on my hand-carved linocut map of NWT. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, gray-brown, green and yellow, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

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After a few days of thinking I decided to give it another try with a different ink + following the advice I was given in the last post (spritz water on the fabric before printing)... and here is the beautiful purple result ! 🥰
I am so happy with how it looks ! 🤭🪻
Tomorrow I'll be at Place Saint Pierre (Toulouse) art market from 10am to 7pm! I will not be selling these bags just yet because I just printed them and they still need to dry some more.
#linocut #linogravure #handprinted #art #toulouse

My next Canadian 🇨🇦 province is Manitoba with its provincial animal the bison and flower the crocus (Anemone patens) in this linocut. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, pale violet, umber and brown, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

It's no mystery how the bison could symbolize this prairie province. Manitoba is one of the few places where 🧵1/n

Happy birthday to Wilhem Röntgen (1845-1923), the German physicist who discovered x-rays and earned the Nobel Prize for physics in 1901. I’ve depicted him in this thermochromic portrait at work, studying this mysterious, newly discovered, invisible form of light, based on a photograph of him in his lab, using a Crookes tube to produce x-rays. The form of the print mimics the nature of his discovery -
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#MastoArt #linocut #sciart #Roentgen #physics #histstm #xrays #printmaking

Next in my 🇨🇦 Canadian series: la belle province. The symbols of Québec, its provincial bird, the snowy owl and its tree, the yellow birch cover the hand-carved map of #Québec in this #linocut. The block was inked 'à la poupée' (with different colours, Payne's gray, gold, black and yellow, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.
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Deuxième dispo de ce matin, c'est byzance dites-donc :

Espoir

Encres typo sur papier crème 90 g
Gravure 14*27 cm, tirage en trois passes (oui c'est long)
Estampes signées, datées, numérotés.

Premier tirage limité à 7 exemplaires, vendu avec une réduction car j'ai été radin sur les marges d'encadrement. Il y aura des retirages mieux calés sur un autre papier, vendus au prix normal.

Tout le bénéfice perçu sur les ventes de cette estampe sera reversée à des cagnottes pour l'aide à l'Ukraine.

Ici : levilain.fr/produit/espoir/