Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
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A group of bullfinches is a bellowing, & this linocut shows a bellowing bellowing, singing loudly. I am making a series on the weird & wonderful terms of venery - the collective nouns for groups of animals (& other things). Some are evocative, some strange & obscure. This is the third in a series of such prints.

How could I resist a “bellowing” of bullfinches? We don’t actually have bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) 🧵

These linoleum block printed bullfinches are printed in black ink on Japanese kozo, or mulberry paper with chine collé breasts in pinkish-orange and dun for the males and females respectively. Each print is 14" by 9.25" or 35.6 cm by 23.5 cm in dimension. The typography is designed to match the words. The letters of 'Bellowing' ("to make the loud deep hollow sound characteristic of a bull") are hollow and capitalized. The serifs on the 'B'of bullfinch are evocative of tail feathers. The letters are cursive and organic to suit the birds. The birds have musical staves with notes emanating from their mouths.
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