Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Pollinators by moonlight and in the garden

Still enjoying playing with cyanotype combined with linocut. Here are a couple of recent ones where I combined a moon cyanotype with varies plants and linocuts of insects.

Moon, moths and lanternfly
Moon, moths and lanternfly. 11" x 14" cyanotype and linocut by Ele Willoughby, 2026


Moon and Plants Cyanotype With Linocut Butterfly and Moths
Moon, plants, moths and butterfly 11" x 14" cyanotype and linocut by Ele Willoughby, 2026


September is a busy #scicomm month with the Mineral Cup (which you can catch on bluesky or mastodon) and SciArtSeptember. If you've been following along, some of my art that I am sharing daily will be familiar. I also made a brand new linocut for the prompt ruby: a male ruby-throated hummingbird with Canada columbine. 

Ruby-throated hummingbird, 8" x 8" linocut by Ele Willoughby, 2026
Ruby-throated hummingbird, 8" x 8" linocut by Ele Willoughby, 2026









Friday, September 12, 2025

Making Cyanotypes in the Sun

I've been taking advantage of the late summer sunshine to make some cyanotypes with some of the specimen I gathered and put in my flower press while in New Brunswick and some "volunteers" from my garden.


Proso millet cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby
Proso millet cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby

Proso millet cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby
Proso millet cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby

Wild Carrot and Other Wildflowers cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby
Wild Carrot and Other Wildflowers cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby


Wild Flowers and Wild Carrot cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby
Wild Carrot and Other Wildflowers cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby

Two Ferns Cyanotype,  on handmade paper with a deckle edge, about 7.25" x 9.75"
by Ele Willoughby, 2025

Fern Leaf Cyanotype, on handmade paper with a deckle edge, about 7.25" x 9.75" 
by Ele Willoughby, 2025


Found Monarch Butterfly Wings, Wildflower and Leaves Cyanotype, on handmade paper with a deckle edge, about 7.25" x 9.75" by Ele Willoughby, 2025

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Cyanotypes and Memento mori

 One recent sunny day, I made some new cyanotypes, and also took the time to tone and tint some previous cyanotypes.


skeleton and tulips cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby, 2024
Skeleton Amongst Tulips, cyanotype by Ele Willoughby, 2024

virginia creeper and red admiral butterfly cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby, 2024
Virginia creeper and red admiral butterfly cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby, 2024

Willow cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby, 2024
Willow cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby, 2024

Virginia Creeper and Lemon Balm Cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby, 2024
Virginia Creeper and Lemon Balm Cyanotype, 11" x 14" by Ele Willoughby, 2024