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Ashley Van Etten - Illustrator, printmaker, designer and owner of Willywaw, maker of handprinted goods. Rhode Island. willywaw.com

April 2025 🚀 @ARTiculateTees.com, my new project, just launched!
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Printed my first sample of Frog Block, a screen print, and made a pillow for #printpromptmonday #spring #printsky #screenprinting #womensart #printmaker
May 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I’ve missed about a month of #printpromptmonday. Ugh, so sad. Work’s been hectic and today I was piecing together vellum for my Frog Block screen print. That’s all I’ve got to show today. #screenprint #textiledesign #printsky
April 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Good morning Monday! Last chance to get an ARTiculateTees.com order in this week. Please place by noon (4/28). #peoplesmovement #goodtrouble #resist #democracy #liberty #truth #courage
April 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I made a few samples of my new “Knitting” print before deciding to make some changes and re-burn the screen. It was a pain to reclaim the screen, but it’ll be worth it in the end. I handprint and sew each tote. This one is made for small knitting projects.

#knitting #screenprint #textiledesign
April 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Give this a share if you can - the prompt this week is your #favouritepiece
Some great work has been shared already! If you search the tag #printpromptmonday you can have a look 🩷

#printmaking #art #artshare #illustration #woodcut #linocut #intaglio #screenprinting #etching
The graphic for this weeks print prompt Monday! It shows three relief print motifs - a rabbit with a long medieval trumpet, a lady doing yoga and a weird bird. From the trumpet the words “print prompt monday” are emanating. In the top left it states that this weeks prompt is “favourite piece” The graphic has an off white background and the details are in a bright red and muted teal.
April 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I have several new tees, supporting science and the environment, available for purchase @ARTiculateTees.com

#citizensciencemonth #water #environment #peopleforscience #activist #tshirts #tees #apparel
April 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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First post here we go, it’s all about the #Ocean

#lightforgestudio #narragansett #blackpoint #dawnpatrol #beachlife #optoutside #sea #ocean #rhodeisland #upearly #vitaminsea #spring #april #freedive #onebreath #oceanlife
April 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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#friends #printpromptmonday

❤️ Our feathered friends keep us company. Here’s my print of a winter wren, from a letterpress block and also as a screen print.

#printsky
#blueskyartshow
#womensart
#printmaking
#printmaker
#screenprint
#screenprinter
#natureart
#inspiredbynature
#handprint
#texiles
April 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I started something on the side - check it out and please share if you like.

ARTiculateTees.com.
Expressing Ideas Through Art.

The site just launched 🚀
A screen printed flo blue tee with the words “Every Vote Counts” in white ink. Screen printed Ice blue t-shirt with the words “Good Government, of the people, by the people, for the people” in white ink. Screen printed moss green t-shirt with the word “Grass Roots” woven into an image of prairie grass and roots, printed in beige ink. A screen printed crimson colored t-shirt with the Preamble to the Constitution “We the People” ect. printed in charcoal black ink.
April 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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#printpromptmonday #foliage 2 red oak screen prints. The 1st was an actual leaf that my mom found and gave to me. The 2nd was inspired by random shapes.
#printsky #blueskyartshow #womensart #printmaking #printmaker #screenprint
#inspiredbynature #texiles #homedecor #oaktree #leaves #woodland #leaf
March 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#printpromptmonday #inprocess Though it looks simple, this is one of my hardest prints to pull. Rainbow is 6 colors on 3 screens, which create 11 colors.
#blueskyartshow
#contemporaryart
#womensart
#printmaking
#printmaker
#art
#serigraphs
#screenprint
#screenprinter
#silkscreen
#handprint
#texiles
A white cotton tea towel screenprinted with 6 transparent, and bright, overlapping colors, which appear to be brush strokes, creating a rainbow of colors.
March 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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#printpromptmonday #water Reached back for this 6 color screen print, a study for Ebb and Flow.

#printsky
#blueskyartshow #contemporaryart
#womensart #printmaking
#printmaker #serigraphs
#screenprint #screenprinter
#silkscreen #natureart
#inspiredbynature
#handprint #oceanlife
#seaweed
A screen print of flowing seaweed and water in shades of green, blue and aqua.
March 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🎺 The Print Prompt Monday - March Prompts 🎺

Interpret the prompts however you want!

You might want to hold off posting anything until we make the weekly Monday 6pm post (just you’ll get more engagement then)

Give this a share!

#printpromptmonday #printing #artshare #art #illustration
A graphic to show the prompts for print prompt Monday: 3rd “Flipped” 10th “Water” 17th “In Progress” 24th “Foliage” 31st “Magic”
March 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Here’s my #Flipped #PrintPromptMonday screenprint of *Mermaids*. #printmaker #screenprint #artbsky #printmaking #womensartbluesky #wmsart #mermaids #coastalliving #oceanlife #beach

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March 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I love coming home from my studio, aka The Icebox, which is very chilly in winter, and curling up on the couch with my dog nearby and an iPencil in hand. Normally, I like to draw at my desk with a real pencil. #sketching #natureinspired #womensartbluesky #floraandfauna #woodland #art willywaw.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Thought I’d share a photo of the sweetest press I bought several years ago. How cute is that wheel! It was well worth the wait from S. Africa to Rhode Island. 12x17 inch bed.

RLV Etching Presses, E300
https://www.etsy.com/shop/EtchingPressshop

#printmaking #printingpress #printmaker #etchingpress
February 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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#printpromptmonday #inmotion

Seaweed is my favorite subject. I love the movement, flow and its wildly organic nature. This was a quick test, made with 2 overlapping and repeating lino blocks, on my (then) new RLV E300 Press. Sweet 12x17 bed. #seaweed

https://www.etsy.com/shop/EtchingPressshop

February 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Atlantic Silversides, my digital collage. It was created for CERF, the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, 8 yrs ago. Even back then, the current admin tried to silence scientists speaking about climate change. FAFO. www.cerf.science #climatescience #climatechange #science #marinebiology
February 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Tried out @flashes.blue in beta, and… even though it looks like just another image-sharing app, the way it works under the hood is nudging closer to my ideal social media experience.

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Why the Flashes App is Renewing My Hope in Federated Social Media
The Dream of Federated Social Media For years, the idea of federated social media has been floating around as this idealistic vision of a better internet—one where you actually own your identity and ...
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February 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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I noticed the song sparrows are already choosing their boxes, which seems a bit early to me, so I’ll put up a few more tomorrow. My Nest pillows are handprinted with cornflower blue, water-based ink, 13”x19”, with an concealed zipper and synthetic down inserts. willywaw.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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TIL: A fellow Flasher (maybe we need a better name? 🤔) pointed out that pre-launch download registrations are crucial for me. Once the app goes live, all those pre-orders will count as downloads on launch day, potentially giving the app a boost in the charts. So...

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Bernie Sanders in a jacket. The caption on the picture says "I am once again asking for you" and then the follwoing letters have been added to that to make it a meme: "R PRE-ORDER"
February 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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I’m leaving FB & IG for bluer skies! My name is Ashley and I’m an illustrator, printmaker, designer and owner of Willywaw, maker of handprinted textiles. If you find my work of interest, please share. I’d appreciate any help as I rebuild on bsky. TY 💙 #womensart #printmaker #smallbusiness #shopindie
February 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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#PrintPromptMonday #indoors My mom loves paperwhites (me, not so much!) and grows them indoors on a windowsill by the sink. I screenprinted this 2 color design on cotton tea towels and canvas for Mother’s Day a few years ago. #screenprint #mothersday #paperwhites #springbulbs #teatowels #flowers
February 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac!

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#selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie
February 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
February 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM