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two panel illustration closeup of poppy seed characters being disturbed from their pod, flower

poppy seeds

cyanolumen samples

If you're interested in kitchen printmaking I highly recommend Alternative Processes Academy (They're photography oriented)
alternative-processes-s-school1.teachable.com/p/aboutus

How China is helping to facilitate Israel's illegal settlements - Lausan China's proclamations of support for Palestine cover up its complicity in Israeli settlement building

Read this research from Palestinian scholar Razan Shawamreh that critically unpacks the disconnect between Chinese politicians' lofty rhetoric on Palestinian sovereignty and Chinese corporations' ongoing assistance in expanding illegal Israeli settlements. lausancollective.com/2025/china-a...

What is professional working life like for a woman in the US, or is this an academia/Harvard exception? (Also worrying!) I really thought US was more professional, senior men don't hunt you like this

Painting of a Brahminy Starling with Two Antheraea Moths, Caterpillar, and Cocoon on Indian Jujube Tree

Butterly print upper side attacus cecropia

Antheraea moths painted by Bengali artist Sheikh Zainuddin (1777) Butterfly nature print by Sherman Denton (1900).

Nature print was considered a more accurate reproduction than painting with the aim of removing the artist from the process altogether. IDK man. The painter let the butterflies fly

A ghost eats a fish from a pile while a scrared cat look son

Saw an academic on Bengali ghosts plug an AI image for their talk. Talk to artists! Manisha Nashkar's series is so good www.instagram.com/manisha.nask...

Think there maybe some overlap with nature printing enthusiasts from 15th-19th C wanting the most faithful copy of nature without any human intervention and end goal of AI to eliminate even the prompter in reproducing an image of the mind so to speak. Nature Printing later gave rise to the camera

Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Landscape with Insects, Cyclamen and Thistle, oil painting

Lepidochromy: The process of transferring the colorful wing scales of butterflies/moths onto paper, porcelain, or glass with the help of pressure and an adhesive #NaturePrint
Otto Marseus van Schrieck (undated)

Nature print of the Marbledwhite butterfly

Nature Print of the Orange Tip

Nature Print of the Peacock butterfly

Book Butterflying with the Poets 1864

Rubbing every membrane of a butterfly to a clear gum arabic base on paper #NaturePrint
Joseph Merrin's Butterflying with the Poets (1864)

From my personal experience reporting a hindutva event to my local MP as a member of public- you will be grilled about your "agenda" which means that a corporate lobbyist has already met with them

Illustration of two speakers at an event speech bubble on one with text counter corporate lobbyists

At the ECCAN meet yesterday(Drill Hall)where folks from Hope for the Future did a talk on raising climate change issues to MPs

vebetables but up into shapes

Early print making currency with nature print

printmaking sample shows a girl running down a road

Want to make a nature print zine based on a workshop I did with a 6 yr old- initiated her to potato printing, looked at Benjamins (nature print currency from the late 1700s) combined Ebru (ink marbling) & botanical prints into narrative illustrations

"Of what materials was I made?" soap bubbles!
Link to my free #texturepack feel free to play around: aindric.com/freebies/

A mongolian horse rider has captured a long cloth and holds it triumphantly while stars fall around them. Above, traditional Mongolian patterns frame the illustration and shagai (sheep ankle bones that portend the future) in the four positions are drawn in circles. Text at the bottom reads "THE LIGHT ALWAYS RETURNS"

"The Light Always Returns," a phrase that's been kicking around in my head these days. I want to keep repeating it until it becomes the truth. #print #comicart #hope

please keep sharing!

Nature print

Loranthus nature print by Thomas Horsfield (1773-1859) an American EIC officer in Java, early 19th century
herbariumworld.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/t...

Colonel Richard Beddome Another botanist to see the value of nature printing, was Colonel Richard Beddome (1830–1911), who commissioned these nature prints recently re-discovered in the RHS Lindley Collections. Posted to India as a military officer, Beddome went on to devote his life to recording the flora of the country. He was appointed to the Indian Forestry Commission as a conservation worker and became a member of Madras University. Beddome was an avid plant collector and left over 10,000 herbarium specimens to the Natural History Museum and several thousand to Kew. However, these nature prints show that he was also experimenting with other means of capturing the true likeness of a plant. Beddome frequently employed local artists to create botanical illustrations and it is likely that he did the same for these prints rather than producing them himself.

Calcutta botanic garden and the colonial reordering of the Indian environment Richard Axelby

In the very long history of nature printing, it becomes a snapshot of Empires in the middle
I imagine it moved away from being collaborative (tho not equal) when for eg. East India Company went from being a trading organisation to being a political and military power in South Asia.

Hi Brian, here's my recently commissioned nature print bat- which is part of an illustrator led picture book anthology 'This Is How I Draw' (more in the thread)
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Thank you Kruttika! <3

Paper marbling should be seen as a photograph of water.

I don't see photography as a stable record, an archive, more like a living surface.

In this regard I agree with Alternative Processes

Thank you! The project came from a children's picture book maker himself, I'm glad the publishers took it on
www.instagram.com/canajimo/?hl...

Thank you Ami I'll post you a copy when I receive it!

Recently constributed to this paper for Global Childhood Studies on ecopedgogy where one of the writers Niveditha introduced me to materiality. Nature printing was a pandemic side quest in my art practice and I am happy to incorporate it more in my journey

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

illustration showing a sequence of post it notes as a heart turned upside down and a bat doodled on it

illustration of a fruit bat

Here’s part of my spread which is a visual idea that came to me that bats are essentially upside down hearts!

Illustration spread by Rajiv Eipe about a fly on the wall

illustration spread by Ogin Nayam about a hosue on Stilts

illustration spread from Priya Kurien of a abstract fish in a celebratory procession in the sky carrying a basket of watermelons with text I am just a borrower.

I hope more workbooks like these exist in children’s publishing in India. Artist-writers have a unique ability to bring in ways of seeing to a story

Hand holding a copy of this is how I draw against a backdrop of framed illustrations

#ChildrensBook Alert🎇
This is How I Draw is an incredible illustrator led workbook from Canato Jimo, published by Pratham Books.
Stoked to be a part of an incredible roster of artists, and a children’s book that centers the illustrator (pic by Bijal)
storyweaver.org.in/en/stories/6...

Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji is a political cartoonist and illustrator Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji is a political cartoonist and illustrator. Check out her work here at Comics Beat!

Quick reminder: NYC’s new First Lady, Rama Duwaji, is a cartoonist!

www.comicsbeat.com/zohran-mamda...

If you have a permanent residency outside the current one I suppose you're an expat- it means you can move there. An immigrant likely has no plan B

Ya 🥲 imagine it's like a confluence of all sorts of surveillance cultures. The women in tech who were laid off for saying biased data need to be looked at were right

Thank you Ami, I was reading about how they're being trained and imagined this