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Happy birthday to chemistry trailblazer Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (20 January 1758 – 10 February 1836), wife and collaborator of French scientist Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794).

The Lavoisiers, working closely together, modernized and quantified chemistry and the scientific method, named oxygen and hydrogen, explained the role that oxygen plays in combustion, 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #histsci #chemistry #chemist #MastoArt

This is my hand-printed linocut portrait of chemistry trailblazer Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (20 January 1758 – 10 February 1836), wife and collaborator of French scientist Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794). The prints are 9.25” x 12.5” and are printed on ivory Japanese kozo paper. She is shown seated at a table with various glassware they used and writing with a quill. The print is in a gradient of gold, turquoise and pale blue on ivory paper.

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Today is also International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day and I for one, appreciate the corvids. They are extraordinarily intelligent birds! Here is my murder of crows, part of my #termsOfVenery series of collective nouns for animals series of prints.

The raven is the official bird of the Yukon, in my print with the official flora, fireweed.

Lastly my crow print, inspired by a photo my husband took.

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #crow #raven #Yukon #mapArt #fireweed #MastoArt

Black crow in flight Lino block printed on white square

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A linocut print in the shape of the Yukon filled with violet fireweed behind a black raven.

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Linocut of a group of four crows facing different directions and the words ‘A murder of crows.’ The word murder is red and looks like it was written on a typewriter. There are red crow tracks leading from it to the crows. Everything else is printed in black.

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A few of my ocean creatures for #WorldOceanDay. We call this planet Earth but it is more than 70% ocean; the continents and islands are the exception not the rule on what is mainly an ocean planet. The oceans are the biggest biosphere, a huge driver of climate, a major source of food, medicine, life and livelihood for many. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #oceanLife #portugueseManOWar #humpbackWhale #octopus #fireflySquid #biodiversity #conservation #MastoArt

My cyanotype in made with the image of my linocut octopus. It appears a ghostly white against the blue background.

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My Portuguese man o’ war linocut is printed in blues, turquoise, violet and pink on white 9.25” by 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. The float is above the water surface, the tentacles below.

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Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize.

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#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #mathematician #sciart #compsci

My linocut in blue of Fran Allen (woman with short hair, glasses, smiling at viewer) surrounded by green optimization diagrams (with lines, arrows and labels) from her famous 1971 paper.

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