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#insertaninvert2024

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the final #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt “diving” and for #invertefest this is a hand-printed of the Paroster pallescens beetle, surface diving water beetle from Australia. It is printed on 8” x 8” Japanese paper.

Paroster is a genus of beetles in the family Dytiscidae. I really liked the look of this beetle and the amazing diversity of this genus of Australian diving beetles!

minouette.etsy.com/listing/179

My linocut print “Diving Beetle Paroster pallescens” shows the beetle viewed from above on an 8” x 8” white Japanese washi paper. It’s an oblong beetle with pale yellow limbs and antennae, black eyes, and a muddy green elytra. The most striking feature is the long hairs radiating out from the back legs like extravagant eyelashes.
#linocut#printmaking#insect
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Another 2024 print for #insertAnInvert: made for the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt is crawler, about shellfish who can drag themselves over surface like the spectacularly coloured lined chitons (Tonicella lineata), beautiful, tiny marine mollusc of the North Pacific. I don’t usually make reduction prints but I think I might otherwise loose my mind trying to capture the complex patterns.

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Final stage of my chiton print shows the ovoid animal from above with a series of plates surrounded by a girdle. The plates have pale pink and orangey brown downward pointing triangles down the middle with slanted thin stripes of burgundy, blue and black on either side. The girdle around the circumference has a reddish rim with yellow and blue dashes and a burgundy ring around the plates.
#linocut#printmaking#Tonicella
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar & #invertefest &#crustmas print made for #InsertAnInvert2024 🦀 Time after time shrimp like crustaceans have evolved crablike forms (through a process called carcinization) and do a good job of pretending to be crabs, but this odd looking fellow is the real deal, a true crab. My red frog crab (Ranina ranina), also known as a spanner crab or Huỳnh Đế crab, is … 🧵

#linocut#printmaking#crustacean
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

For the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt flyer, and #invertefest this final week of the year: my kaleidoscope of butterflies. Kaleidoscope is the wonderful name or term of venery for a group of butterflies so I designed this print to match the symmetrical images you can see in a kaleidoscope. There are three each of the orange Isabella’s Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), 🧵1/2
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#printmaking #sciart #butterflies #MastoArt #typography #termsofvenery #insect

A square linocut on white paper with the words ‘A kaleidoscope’ at the top and ‘of Butterflies’ at the bottom in black ink. Inside are 3 rings of 3 types of butterfly at 60° to each other with the middle ring offset by 30° so they look like they are arrayed like items viewed through a toy kaleidoscope. From the inner ring out there are three each of the orange Isabella's Longwings (Nymphalidae Eueides isabella), three yellow Eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus), and three blue Red-Spotted Purples (Limenitis arthemis astyanax).
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: For the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt jumper: This is a small little handprinted linocut print of a red-legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), one of the most common grasshoppers in North America, these are the most commonly seen grasshoppers in the northern US and southern Canada. Reddish-brown on their backs, yellow-green below, they are named for their orangy-red legs. 🧵1/2

My tiny linocut print side view of a standing red-legged grasshopper. Its antennas and lower legs are orange, and its body is printed in lime and grey on white kozo paper.
#linocut#printmaking#sciart
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Day 12 #ArtAdventCalendar: made for #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt blobchain my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea, printed in blues, turquoise, violet and pink on white 9.25” by 12.5” Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. 🧵1/n

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.
#linocut#printmaking#PortugueseManOWar
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

Day 5 #ArtAdventCalendar: What’s inside this cigar box? A black smoker - with giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) for #InsertAnInvert2024. I’ve had the idea for this #multimedia in my head for years! Cigar box, collaged papers, gouache, Posca pen, glue, washi tape.

I’ve never had the opportunity to go on a research cruise to a hydrothermal vent, though I have contributed to plans for monitoring 🧵

Three shots of a multimedia artwork: Cigar box, collaged papers, gouache, Posca pen, glue, washi tape. At the top is a shot of the inside of the box with open door. The inside is lined with dark blue washi with edges in gold. There’s cut paper artwork if a black smoker on watercolour paper painted in gouache with smoke from painted Japanese tissue. In front are several clumps of giant tube worms.
#sciArt#hydrothermalVent#marineGeophysics
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 3 my final hand-printed lino block print with gel plate printed areas is about Coronula diadema, a barnacle which specializes in humpback and some other baleen whales for #InsertAnInvert2024. Each print is 20.3 cm x 20.3 cm (8” x 8”) on lovely Japanese mulberry paper and shows the humpback whale swimming above and a close up of the whale below with six barnacles. 🧵1/3

My square 8” x 8” print on white washi paper. The upper two thirds are printed as a deep blue-green rectangle with missing unprinted white silhouette of a humpback whale now filled with a linocut print of the humpback in dark blue-grey. The tip of its mouth and tail extend into the white margin space. The bottom third is a grey rectangle with the missing silhouettes of 6 barnacles unprinted in white now filled with linocut C. diadema barnacles with silver striations and orange centres with opercular valves.
#linocut#printmaking#sciArt
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

every day until New Year’s. I made this print for the #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt intertidal in mind. My Lino block print of two Pisaster ochraceus, generally known as the purple sea star, ochre sea star, or ochre starfish, on a bed of kelp, is hand-printed on delicate white Japanese paper with bark inclusions. A common sea star, or starfish of the Pacific, it is a keystone species considered an indicator of health in the intertidal zone. 🧵2/

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

For Blobfest #InsertAnInvert2024 prompt blobchain my linocut of a Portuguese Man o’ War floating at the surface of the sea.

These are beautiful but deadly creatures, also known as bluebottles, resemble jellyfish but are actually colonial organisms called siphonophores. They are made up of many genetically identical zooids which each perform different roles. 🧵1/2

minouette.etsy.com/listing/166

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.
#linocut#printmaking#PortugueseManOWar
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Ele Willoughby, PhD

With eye month, #InsertAnInvert2024 has given me another excuse to talk about bees. How many eyes do you think bees have? I’ve been making art about bees for years, looking at photos and specimens and talking to entomologists but I only recently learned something which seems a basic fact of bee anatomy: they have FIVE eyes! More precisely, bees like this Osmia lignaria (a blue orchard mason bee) 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #bee #masonBee #Osmia #nativeBee #pollinators #blueberry

My linocut print shows an iridescent blue and translucent white chine collé blue orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria) hanging upside down from a white wild blueberry flower. There are five other blueberry flowers and leaves and other parts of the plant in pale green with hints of red. Printed on ivory washi paper.
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