diurnal moth fan
LightNews LightNews
banner
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
diurnal moth fan
@jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
920 followers 600 following 950 posts
Linocuts, bugs, etc
https://linktr.ee/wooden_teeth
Posts Replies Media Videos
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Condor WIP. Hopefully will print the last layer tomorrow or Saturday
Linocut print in progress. There's a pinky orange layer and a purple layer that are different shades of the condor's head. Beak, body and outline will be the next layer
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
EW!
The opening paragraph of the Olivia Nuzzi hateread in the NYT: Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, “blue as the flame.” She loved that “the sight of something as trivial as a rose” could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his “particular complications and particular darkness.”
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Watched Frankenstein last night
Garth Marenghi's classic quote: I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Still of the kid at the end of Old Yeller, about to put old yeller out of his misery
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
An excerpt from an essay about Bodhidharma that reads: At certain times in its long history the Zen form of Buddhism has been known as the “wall-gazing school”. Bodhidharma, said to have brought “Dhyana” or “Zen” Buddhism from India to China in the sixth century, was sometimes known as the “wall-gazing brahmin”. For nine years he sat in his solitary cave gazing into [I have modified the original quite to say "game 3 of the world series" here], staring into a boundless beauty – a world of beauty so intense he didn’t even want to sleep to miss any of it.
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Justin klugh tweet that says Joe Buck: welcome to the top of the 47th (Sun rises) (Sun keeps getting bigger) Buck: Yes (World engulfed by flames) Buck: oh god yes
October 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Made a 4 colour reduction print of a cardinal on a couple of different colours of paper. I wasn't sure how I would feel about the beige paper but it turned out to be my fav!

#sciart #birds #printmaking #linocut #bsnm
A linocut print of a male cardinal perched on a branch with red berries. The cardinal is printed with an orange beak and red body, with brown outlines and details and a black "beard." It was printed on a beige paper with little bark inclusions that make it look speckled Same print but on white paper. A sort of pile of the prints on my coffee table, with one print in the centre. Two prints, one on the beige paper and one on the white paper, fanned out on my coffee table
September 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
My red-eyed tree frog prints are now up in my store! Printed with blue ink and then coloured with watercolours. This was a fun experiment and a very limited edition (I made 6).

woodenteeth.bigcartel.com/product/red-...

#sciart #bsnm #printmaking #blockprinting #linocut #watercolours #herps
A scan of my red-eyed tree frog print. It was printed with a blue outline and I coloured the frog in with watercolours. It has bright green skin with a blue and yellow streaked side. The eyes are bright red, and the feet are bright orange. Two of my tree frog prints fanned out on my coffee table.
August 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Working on colouring some red-eyed tree frog prints with watercolours

🐡
4 of my hand coloured tree frog prints. The frogs are bright green with orange feet and bright red eyes. I did this as a linocut in blue ink and then I filled in the other colours with watercolour paint.
August 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Technically not one of my best photos, but I love how goofy this bee looks. Brundlebee
A bumblebee about to land on some clover, it's in the process of grooming its face so there's sort of a leg up. The wings are all blurry. The head is cockeyed, the body is very fat and fuzzy
August 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Chimney swifts are one of my favourite birds. I used to count them for a citizen science project. I made some prints of a nesting swift and they're up for sale now in my shop! Limited edition of 30.

woodenteeth.bigcartel.com/product/chim...

#sciart #birds #bsnm #linocut #printmaking
a chimney swift adult inside a chimney with a nest attached to the wall of the chimney with three chicks inside. Chimney swifts are small swallow-like birds with large eyes and a small down curved beak. They have pointed wings and a short squat tail. They resemble flying cigars and spend most of their time on the wing catching insects. Once they nested in big hollow dead trees, but now they've adapted to roost and nest in chimneys. Three of my chimney swift linocut prints fanned out on my table. Prints are done with black ink on an off-white paper
August 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
The left is completely silent on the subject of men wandering endlessly in search of a female to mate with, expending all their energy and dying, or not surviving their post-maturation molts
A picture of a male tarantula wandering in search of a mate
August 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Getting back into the printing saddle again with some chimney swifts
Two linocut prints in black ink of a chimney swift inside a chimney with its nest and 3 little chick heads popping out
July 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
I can never really get a good picture of these once I've packaged them and once I have, I hate dismantling them. So here's some better looks at the already sold ones
Different number in the edition of the virgin tiger moth print. The moth has its wings outstretched similar to one that's been pinned and you can see the colourful underwing. Three of my virgin tiger moth prints laid out on a table, slightly overlapping, with a small air plant for scale
June 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Down to my last Virgin Tiger Moth print! If anyone wants to grab it (it's on sale along with everything else until July 4th): www.etsy.com/ca/listing/7...

#SciArt #BSNM #Insects #Moth
A Linocut print of a virgin tiger moth. Solid black background, the wings of the moth have a geometric black on white pattern. The underwings and body are a red turning to orange gradient.
June 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
QRP with your skull art
A linocut print of the profile view of a barred owl's skull. The background is black and skull is white with black contours
June 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
i have a new broken capillary on my cheek and i know it's not a big deal but it's bothering me and i keep saying this line to myself whenever i look in the mirror
A still of Arch Hall Jr's face from the the movie Eegah that has written on it "Sorry about my face" (a line from the Mystery Science Theatre 3k ep they did). His face is, well, it's hard to describe, but red and scrunched?
June 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
For #PrintPromptMonday, prompt spring: my flamingo print. The peachy pink colours remind me of the season

#birds #sciart #linocut #printmaking #spring
Three of my flamingo reduction linocuts depicting the neck and head of a flamingo. The background is a peachy/salmon colour and the flamingo is hot pink, there's a black outline and beak tip
May 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
For #PrintPromptMonday (prompt: earth) my desert rain frog print. Chosen because these guys spend their days under the ground in burrows where the sand is moist
Two linocut prints in black, one on an off white paper and one on a beige paper. Both of a desert rain frog, a round, unsmiling little guy with stubby legs.
April 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Easter bunny
An eastern cottontail rabbit on a leaf strewn path, head in profile, it's looking alert and like it might take off running soon. The same cottontail, now with its back to the camera, still looking alert with its little cottontail in view.
April 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
For #PrintPromptMonday. Theme is #favouritepiece. It's hard to pick a favourite but I think my ibises at Wakulla Springs are a favourite of mine.

#magic #birds #SciArt
A linocut print in black ink on beige rustic paper with little bark inclusions. The print features two white ibises, one close to the viewer, one in the distance, both in a swampy southern US location (Wakulla Springs, Florida). There's some saw palmettos in front and cypress trees and cypress knees in the back
April 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
If you want to receive snail mail, a snail in the mail, I've got a few orange-pink snail prints up in my shop (4 to be exact)

woodenteeth.bigcartel.com/product/rose...

#SciArt #Printsky #BSNM #linocut #printmaking
Picture of two of my snail linocuts. A simple small linocut print of a classic garden snail in a rosy ink and plain white background on a japanese printmaking paper Two more snails, one a little darker than the other
April 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
For #printpromptmonday, my hen and rooster prints (they're just friends)

#SciArt #birds
A reduction linocut print of a chicken's head and neck in profile. The comb and face are red, the background and beak are orange. My rooster linocut, of a classic leghorn style rooster's head in profile. With a white body, red comb and yellow beak and background.
April 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
I have 4 artist's proofs of my turkey vulture print and it would be great to clear them out, so I'm selling them for 30 CAD (about 21 USD?), shipping included anywhere in the world.

woodenteeth.bigcartel.com/product/turk...

#printmaking #linocut #birds #SciArt #BSNM
Two of my turkey vulture linocut prints fanned out on my coffee table. The print features a turkey vulture in profile, with its distinctive pink head, the neck and "shoulders" in black with some loose cuts for feathers. Just one of my turkey vultures on the table. I forgot to mention that it has lots of black wrinkles on the face and a penetrating gaze, I think.
April 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
jess-d-ripper.bsky.social
Ham
a gouache sketch of a white hamster hunched forward and standing on its hind legs
March 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM