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Leslie Deil

@lesliedeilart.bsky.social

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I am an artist. I like coffee, reading, knitting, books that I can't guess the ending, music with attitude, art, museums, swimming, and a good margarita with corn chips. https://lesliedeil.com https://lesliedeilart.etsy.com

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you! Yes the space that it not leaves and branches is carved away.

Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 11h

Experimenting with printing one live oak relief print over the other.

#multiplateprint #purpleandyellow #largelinocut #natureart #trees

Untitled Artist's Proof Multi plate linocut print by Artist Leslie Deil from San Antonio, Texas. Image is a purple live oak linocut print atop a different live oak linocut print in yellow.

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 2d

Working on a little color experiment.

#yellowart #natureart #trees #liveoak #colorfulart

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers

Print featuring three stylised black birds with long necks and beaks, grouped together on the right, against a brown background

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to be part of another group exhibition at Fl!ght Gallery

#gallery #groupexhibition #thingstodoinsanantonio #localartist #sanantonioartscene

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

Elin Thomas, UK textile artist who uses embroidery/crochet to create unique work resembling petri dishes and bacteria spores #womensart

Photo looking down on four petri dishes, neatly arranged, with what resembles bacteria and mould growing inside created with crochet and embroidery

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 8d

Test print with some test color.

#blackandredart #macabreart #beautystandards #linocut #art #printsky

"One Size Fits All" - hand watercolored linocut print by Artist Leslie Deil from San Antonio, Texas. This mostly black and white relief print shows a young girl pulling lips out of an apothecary jar filled with red lips. On the table is a second apothecary jar filled with eyes.

Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 8d

Just dropped off 2 pieces for the fine art show Inspired Minds Gallery

#eclipse #germanfairytales #artshow #acrylicpainting #reliefprintmaking

Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 9d

Happy to be included in the artist talk at Art For The People Gallery.
Just some behind the scenes pictures.

#austinartscene #artisttalk

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, US printmaker and sculptor who focused on the lives and the struggle for Civil Rights of US Black communities #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12d

Sea and boat,1988 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham #womensart

Artwork featuring a small silhouette of a boat on a stylised sea with large greenish waves

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 12d

Finished the test print.

#bodydysphoria #beautystandards #blackandwhiteart #spookyseason

Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 13d

Ready to print

#printmaking #registration #linocut

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15d

Minami Keiko (1911-2004), Japanese artist, aquatint engraver, and poet #womensart

Print featuring a blue and black bird standing facing left by a neat small tree on a rounded mound or hill top

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16d

Fabric design by Vanessa Bell, sister of Viginia Woolf, dating from 1913 #WomensArt

Fabric design with patches of red and turquoise against thin black lines on a white background

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 16d

Starting new work.

#reliefprintmaking #linocut #linocutprintmaking #studiotime #linocarving

Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 16d

It would fit nicely into a square.

Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 16d

A different color story for my Pee-Wee Herman style rattle snake.

#memphismodern #abstractsnake #rattlesnake #whimsicalart #eightiesstyle #art #printsky

"Rattlesnake Variation #2" by Artist Leslie Deil from San Antonio, Texas. This multiplate linocut features whimsical rattlesnake with sharp angles in brown over blue.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17d

UK printmaker Vicky Oldfield, Fragile beauties, 2016 #WomensArt

Print featuring a vase of large blossoms in purple and red on a patterned covered surface

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 17d

Oregon landscape remix
Picture 1: double Mount Hoods
Picture 2: view of Haystack Rock from Timberline Lodge
Picture 3: view of Cannon Beach from a Mount Hood observation point

#postcardart #smallart #oregonart #imaginarylandscape #mounthood #haystackrock #cannonbeach

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ann @annpersand.bsky.social · 19d

Teija Lehto, Cooking Jam (woodcut, 2016)

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 19d

My most recent live oak linocut has been pressed. I love these trees.

#art #reliefprint #linocut #liveoaks #blackandwhiteart #natureart #printsky

"Live Oak Study #3" by Artist Leslie Deil from San Antonio, Texas. This black and white linocut print is an upward view of a live oak tree in my neighborhood.

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Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 20d

Waiting for things to dry.

#art #printmaking #linoxut #reliefprint

Leslie Deil @lesliedeilart.bsky.social · 22d

Finished carving and I'm ready to ink.

#studiotime #printmaking #linocut #art #workingartist