This print was painted entirely 3 colors of gouache. I painted each element separately and then put the layout together on a darker pink ground in Photoshop. I love painting by hand but doing the layout in Photoshop gives me so much freedom to change it around and tweak the life out of it until it looks just right!

I have long been interested in the history of the women’s suffrage movement but it wasn’t until I began researching this print that I really learned how much these women sacrificed and suffered for their ideal. Many of the women here in the US such as Ida B Wells and Lucretia Mott, were also staunch Abolitionists which proves how truly committed they were to civil rights in general. There are so many notable women involved that it was difficult to choose a just a handful but I knew I had to highlight the the remarkable Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Emmeline Pankhurst who were the true leaders here in the U.S. and in the U.K.

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