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“Sunlit Memories…”: A Process Explained
Tonight (December 05, 2019) was the opening of the Porcupine Art Club‘s themed show “Sunlight and Shadows”, which is on display at the Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre for the duration of December. I have been member of the club … Continue reading
Experiments in Collagraphy
The other day, Porcupine Art Club Director and fellow artist Catherine Cribbs, held an informal workshop with some club members on making collagraph plates for printing. (Catherine is also avid print-maker – among her various other media she works in … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, August, Collagraphy, Experiment, Porcupine Art Club, Printmaking
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Total Solar Eclipse: August 21st, 2017
I took my husband down on a 1700-kilometre trek to Hopkinsville, Kentucky last week to see the total solar eclipse, which lasted for 2 minutes and 40.5 seconds at the site. I photographed the entire sequence (99% of the time … Continue reading
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Tagged 2017, August, Experiment, Photography, Total Solar Eclipse
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Revisiting an Odd Skill After 20 Years
Back in 1997, when I was 16 going on 17, I experimented with making tiny dioramas inside of eggshells. The first one was a carved sailboat (with paper sails and the top of a toothpick as a buoy), and the … Continue reading
Photographic Experiment: Water Drops
This was a simple kitchen sink set-up done at a Porcupine Photo Club meeting. A plastic glass was placed upright on another inverted glass in a sink. A piece of cardboard with a scrap of black cloth was used as … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, Close-ups, Experiment, Photography, Water Drops
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A Warholesque Take on a Frozen Bubble
There was a Winter Hiking Day event at the Hersey Lake Conservation Area, just outside of Timmins today. The Mattagami Regional Conservation Authority and the Wintergreen Fund for Conservation arranged the annual hike, and there was also a survival demonstration put … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, Close-ups, Experiment, February, Photography, RAW Files
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Something Different: Working on a 3D Printer
The first time I ever seen a 3D printer was in 2007 in the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Engineering. At that time, like the computer of 40 years ago, it was a costly piece of technology limited to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, 3D Printing, Experiment, Technology and Art
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Will This Work Or Fail Spectacularly?
For several months, I had been toying with the idea of trying melt some gold at the glazing stage of my pottery. I looked online to see if there were any artists that had experimented with gold flakes and glaze, … Continue reading
Posted in Pottery, Technique Experiments
Tagged 2015, Experiment, Glazing, Gold Flakes, Pinchpot, Pottery
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Bits, Pieces, and Parts Thereof – The Completed Painting
I finally completed the large-scale project, titled “Sweet Nectar”, which is on display at the Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre for the month of June, 2015. (Part of the Porcupine Art Club’s themed show, “Bright Earth”.) The completed piece stands … Continue reading
More Bits, Pieces, and Parts Thereof – a Large-scale Project
It’s been nearly two months since I updated “Bits, Pieces, and Parts Thereof” (see: https://gaelicnisei.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/bits-pieces-and-parts-thereof/ and https://gaelicnisei.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/colour-test-in-acrylic/ for reference). This is a large-scale painting, made up of 15 separate canvases, and will be on display in the Porcupine Art Club’s themed … Continue reading
The Gaelic Nisei 