A laptop, Lino block and carving tools in a child’s fold out pale wooden desk with models of Godzilla and other kaiju and one stay dinosaur on a little shelf at the back.

Since my son’s been sick this week, I have been trying to work in his room. But I can’t print in there or go spend a few hours in my studio. So there’s been less progress & more kaiju than usual.

My final print for #PrinterSolstice2526 will take me a bit longer

#linocut #printmaking #wip #sciart

My partially carved Lino block shows Qing Dynasty polymath Wang Zhenyi with her hair piled high on her head in a long dress, seated at a round table in a pavilion. Above her is a round suspended lantern. Below the tables she is holding a round mirror. At her feet are a sextant and a celestial sphere. The block is on a cutting mat on a table with a nearby pencil and carving knives.

Been looking after my sick kid this week, but when I can, I’m making some progress on the 12th & final #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt: multiplication.

I’m making a #linocut portrait Qing Dynasty polymath Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) known for her books on astronomy, her poetry,

#printmaking #histsci 🐡🧪👩🏻‍🔬

My linocut portrait of Elisabeth Hevelius using a giant sextant on the right side and part of the new constellation named and depicted by Johannes Hevelius based on observations he made with her, featuring the Lynx. The star map is printed in a black vertical stripe. Then there’s a gradient of gold to red, so the sextant is largely gold and she’s mostly in red.

For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt angle, my #linocut of astronomer Elisabeth Koopmann-Hevelius (1647-1693) 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🔭 #histsci using a brass sextant to make astronomical observations & some of the new constellations her husband Johannes Hevelius named based on their observations, & she published in 🧵

my linocut portrait of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow in lab coat looking at the viewer, holding a pipette in on hand and a test tube in the other. She has short bobbed hair, wears a dark sweater, a medallion on a chain, a watch and a couple of rings. Behind her are a grid of circles. She is printed in dark blue and the circles are silver. The circles are filled with various tints of red.

For #printerSolstice2526 prompt fraction my #linocut portrait of medical physicist & Nobel laureate for the radioimmunoassay method for measuring concentrations of molecules in blood. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci

Born to an immigrant Jewish family in the Bronx she went to Hunter College, tuition-free, their 🧵

Several copies of my linocut portrait of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow in lab coat looking at the viewer, holding a pipette in on hand and a test tube in the other. She has short bobbed hair, wears a dark sweater, a medallion on a chain, a watch and a couple of rings. Behind her are a grid of circles. She is printed in dark blue and the circles are silver.

First layer down of my portrait of medical physicist Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt fraction

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #peelReveal #womenInSTEM #histsci

A mostly carved Lino block with my portrait of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow in lab coat looking at the viewer, holding a pipette in on hand and a test tube in the other. She has short bobbed hair, wears a dark sweater, a medallion on a chain, a watch and a couple of rings. Behind her are a grid of circles.

Working on the next print for the #printerSolstice2526 prompt fraction: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow the medical physicist who taught us how to measure substances which were minute fractions of our blood when she, & her physician research partner Solomon Berson, invented the radioimmunoassay.🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬#histsci 🧵

My linocut of Alicia Boole Stott as a middle aged woman surrounded by shapes related to her research on 4D polytopes including her 3D unfolding of a hypercube, her drawings of the 3-principle sections of the 600-cell, her expansion of the octahedron- a truncated octahedron, and sections of the 16-cell. Printed on cream coloured washi, she’s printed in raspberry. The outlines of shapes are printed in bronze. A vertical stripe of shapes have brightly coloured faces in yellow, red, orange and blue. She used colours to indicate how they fit together in 4D.

For the #printerSolstice2526 prompt volume: my #linocut of autodidact #mathematician Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940) with diagrams of cross-sections of 4D polytopes from her publications. 🧪🐡🧮👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci

Alicia came to math honestly. Her father Prof George Boole developed Boolean logic, but died 🧵

My lino block print shows a portrait of a woman in indigo, Esther Lederberg, with curly short hair in a 1940s hairdo, lab coat with collar and gloves, holding a Petri dish vertically in each hand in front of her. Each Petri dish in bronze has the same pattern of marks. She is surrounded by silvery green E. coli bacteria of exaggerated size, several which are being attacked by bacteriophages. Both lysis (phages reproducing inside cells, then exploding out of cells) and lysogeny (genetic material indicated by gold section of tangle of DNA is quietly integrated into that of the cell). The plasmid shown in some but not all E.coli alludes to the bacterial fertility factor F.

For #printerSolstice2526 prompt 2: my #linocut of trailblazing #microbiologist Esther Lederberg (née Zimmer, 1922-2007) 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci who made discoveries fundamental to modern understanding of bacterial gene regulation, recombination & exchange, but her work was both overshadowed by & sometimes 🧵

My green Lino block in progress shows a partially carved portrait of a woman with curly short hair in a 1940s hairdo, shirt with collar and gloves, holding a Petri dish vertically in each hand in front of her. There’s a small carving gauge on my block.

Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt: two. I have a theme of replication and the place printmaking and science intersect for this one. 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡#histsci This microbiologist put her experience working in her father’s print shop in her youth to work, when she (and her more famous 🧵

My Lino block portrait of Agnes Pockels holding her pen and notebook by her trough (which was 70 cm by 5 cm and 2 cm deep, with a ruler along its length and a sliding divider). There is a button attached to an apothecary scale in the through so she can measure surface tension. She has her hair up and wears a dress and a cross on a necklace. She is surrounded by soap bubbles and you can see text in reverse for the Pockels point, 20 angstroms squared. She is in a gradient of dark forest green to lime from the base of the print upwards. The text, bubbles, and swirling patterns in the soap film in the front of her through are in pale pinkish purple.

For #printerSolstice2526 prompt division here is my #linocut portrait of Agnes Pockels (1862-1935), the self-taught scientist who pioneered surface science. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci

As a woman she did not get the chance to go to university & study physics like her theoretical physicist brother Friedrich, 🧵

My carved green vinyl Lino block portrait of Agnes Pockels holding her pen and notebook by her trough (which was 70 cm by 5 cm and 2 cm deep, with a ruler along its length and a sliding divider). There is a button attached to an apothecary scale in the through so she can measure surface tension. She has her hair up and wears a dress and a cross on a necklace. She is surrounded by soap bubbles and you can see text in reverse for the Pockels point, 20 angstroms.

Working on my next print for #PrinterSolstice2526 - another scientist portrait for the prompt division. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢 #histsci I decided to interpret it like the ‘dividing line’ or interface and highlight the life and work of autodidact Agnes Pockels (1862-1935). Not allowed to attend university as a woman 🧵

My linocut shows a young Olga Ladyzhenskaya in profile, from the shoulders up in a gradient of navy blue at the bottom to pale burgundy at the top on cream coloured washi paper. She’s wearing a shirt and jacket with her hair up. She’s facing some text, carved in reverse, with some words in Russian and mathematics. The text explains this is the system of Navier-Stokes equation, initial and boundary conditions. Below her is a diagram of laminar flow eddying into turbulence. The text reads "систему уравнений Навье — Стокса" which means 'a system of Navier-Stokes equations' and also "для функций" which means 'for functions' and "при граничных и начальных условиях" which means 'under boundary and initial conditions'.

For #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt expression: my #linocut of Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004), 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🎢🧮 #histsci a #mathematician who overcame personal tragedy, faced Soviet totalitarianism & the catastrophic political upheaval of the 20th century to make a huge impact on math, making important 🧵

Green Lino block in progress is mostly carved and shows a young Olga Ladyzhenskaya in profile, from the shoulders up. She’s wearing a shirt and jacket with her hair up. She’s facing some text, carved in reverse, with some words in Russian and mathematics. The text explains this is the system of Navier-Stokes equation, initial and boundary conditions. Below her is a diagram of laminar flow eddying into turbulence.

The next #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt is expression so I am working on a portrait of one of the great 20th century mathematicians, Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004). 🧪😁👩🏼‍🔬🧮 #histsci She made immense contributions to the study of partial differential equations, particularly the Navier-Stokes equations 🧵

My 8” x 8” linocut print shows a seven-spotted lady beetle in red and black with white on a pale pink apple blossom with yellow centre and darker pink outlines

For the 5th prompt of #PrinterSolstice2526 odd: This is my 8” x 8” lino block print on delicate Japanese washi paper of a seven-spotted lady beetle, or ladybird or lady bug (Coccinella septempunctata) on a pink apple blossom. 🐡🧪🐞 Like most blossoms it has an odd number of leaves (5) and like some

My linocut portrait shows a short-haired woman (Rachel Carson, later in her life) looking over her shoulder at the viewer in this oval-shaped print on 9.25” x 12.5” cream coloured washi paper. Above and behind her are assorted birds, below is water, various fish, sea turtle, kelp and small sea life. She’s got a monarch butterfly on her shoulder. The print is in a gradient of purple at the bottom through turquoise to slate at the top. Sea life includes jumping salmon, shark, sea turtle, anemone, urchin, crab, shellfish and kelp. Bird life includes an osprey with a fish, a black skimmer, a peregrine falcon, a flock of Canada geese, an American robin, a chestnut-sided warbler and her favourite, a veery. Some animals are hand-tinted with gouache.

The 4th prompt for #PrinterSolstice2526 is subtraction so I thought of a scientist & talented writer who brought the world’s attention to what was missing. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci After publishing the sea trilogy in the 40s & 50s, when marine biologist & conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) published 🧵

This is my Lino block in progress on a cutting mat next to two gauges. Lightly purple tinted so you can see what’s white and carved away, a short-haired woman (Rachel Carson, later in her life) looks over her shoulder at the viewer in this oval-shaped block. Above and behind her are assorted birds, below is water, various fish, sea turtle, kelp and small sea life.

Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt subtraction- a scientist who brought the world’s attention to what was missing where there had been indiscriminate pesticide use, & DDT in particular. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci Award-winning science writer & marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) 🧵

My linocut on white Japanese paper shows 18th century woman (Laura Bassi) in dress with fur cape, and hair in ringlets with a hairpiece which echoes a laurel crown. She’s holding an open book with Newtonian optics diagrams and in front of her is an electrical machine (a stand with vertical large glass plate and hand crank and brass tubes to channel the large electrostatic charges it could generate through friction). She is surrounded by typical high tech lab equipment of her day like conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, Leyden jars and Volta's electric pistol. It’s printed in a gradient of a hint of turquoise through violet to red-magenta to bronze from the bottom to the top.

The 3rd prompt of #printerSolstice2526 is one so I made a #linocut of the 1st woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist & professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). 🧪🐡🎢👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci I've shown her surrounded by the sort of state-of-the-art

My carved Lino block on cutting mat shows 18th century woman (Laura Bassi) in dress with fur cape, and hair in ringlets with a hairpiece which echoes a laurel crown. She’s holding an open book with Newtonian optics diagrams and in front of her is an electrical machine (a stand with vertical large glass plate and hand crank and brass tubes to channel the large electrostatic charges it could generate through friction). She is surrounded by typical high tech lab equipment of her day like conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, Leyden jars and Volta's electric pistol.

The next #printerSolstice2526 prompt is ‘one’ so I selected a woman who was often the first: first woman science doctorate, first woman physics professor and first woman member of a scientific academy, the Academy of Sciences at the University of Bologna: Laura Bassi (1711-1778). 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬#histsci
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As described this is my linocut portrait of Bibha Chowdhuri, with a mountain range featuring Sandpakphu in front, sky with schematic of an extensive air shower behind her. She is a serious young Indian woman printed in purple ink with head and shoulders at a slight angle. The mountains are in a gradient of dark to light blue as we rise from the bottom of the page. The sky is a vivid gradient of colour like at dawn with a yellow umber through orange, pink, magenta and blue as it rises behind her and the mountains. Carved away in white is a near vertical line at the top branching repeatedly like a tree into straight, dashed and wiggly lines to indicate a particle cascade.

For the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt ‘even’ -the number of quarks in a meson, a type of particle first observed & published by Bibha Chowdhuri (1913-1991) & her supervisor D.M. Bose in extensive air showers from cosmic rays. 🐡🧪👩🏾‍🔬🎢 #histsci My portrait shows her, a mountain on which she gathered her 🧵