15th Mar 2018

Cherries Print

Here’s a five plate printmaking project. It’s not a traditional reduction, I’ve made five actual plates. The plate design was made to have no overlap between the inks on any of the...

14th Mar 2018

Power-lines Print

This printmaking project uses a square piece of linoleum. You use the square to mark a piece of paper then cut it into a stencil. You use use the stencil...

14th Mar 2018

Crow Print

Here’s more printmaking in the pipe. It’s 4×4″ and is a lino mounted on a piece of birch plywood. The idea is you use the birch square to make a...

14th Mar 2018

Pluto Print

I started working on a four plate portrait of Pluto. Which is a planet. 🙂 This is printmaking with lino. Related Published on: Dec 30, 2017 @ 17:57

13th Mar 2018

Building and Sky Printmaking

This uses the same method I devised from the Crow. The block is used to mark paper so you can make the sky and the reflection. You then use the...

13th Mar 2018

Mats for Framing

Thanks to the advice of Pam in B.C. I now have a mat board cutter. She also sent me some mat board material for practice. Wow it’s fun and works...

25th Feb 2018

Icon

This project is to do portraits of Ottawa Icons using printmaking techniques. Time to celebrate our beautiful town! Below is the current work queue. Please comment with your suggestion for...

28th Nov 2017

Spin Art

Here’s a cool way to make spin art! Pictures of the apparatus further down. Wire a computer fan to a power source. Make sure the power source voltage is less...

23rd Nov 2017

Ottawa Printmaking Workshops!

We’ve been dabbling with printmaking lately. Everybody seems to want in on it so Doug, Lakota and I started a series of workshops. They are hosted at the Hack613 Makerspace. Check the event...

10th Nov 2017

Pallet Wood Art

Pallet wood becomes a tree again. Other pallet wood art.

25th May 2017

Dress from CDs

A group of us are making dresses that use CDs in some way. There is still room in the project for more. So let me know if interested. darcy@inventorArtist.com Here are...

28th Jul 2016

Firefly V2

Firefly Version 2 is in the works with a thanks to a grant from Ontario Art Council! Mark Stephenson, Michael Grant and I are designing this project from the ground up. We...

23rd Jun 2016

Stone

Arnold and I are up to something with stone and possibly wood or metals. Stay tuned to see what comes forward!

04th May 2016

Paint613

At the Hack613 meetup this evening we worked on the development of a new paint night. The experiments/demo were a great success. This technique is Fred Maheux’s “subliminal” method which...

13th Feb 2016

Rotary Flip Book

Here are the instructions for assembling the Flip kits (bottom of page). You will need a glue stick, pencils or markers for decorating and glue (optional). Snap your kit together,...

06th Jun 2015

Light Ideas

This is a collection of ideas for interactive and immersive light installations. These are things I’m interested in doing that could be deployed at a festival or a club. Interactive...