I wanted to share this image because I love the way it looks. This is the view I enjoy of the table in my studio and I add to it as I create more prototypes. These pieces are sketches to work through ideas so it’s entirely appropriate for them to sit atop a sketchbook.

I am ready to move on from the brainstorming phase and begin making finished pieces.

Here’s an idea I’ve been thinking about for awhile, what if I made more flowerburst pieces in different colours and made it an even larger installation. Sounds like a good project to work on while I’m thinking about something new.

There are around one hundred blue pieces in the original installation, and I’ve shown it twice this way. I like the idea of it becoming larger with multiple colours. Last week I painted some paper with yellow and red acrylic ink and started cutting more pieces. I have close to twenty of them already.

I don’t have a deadline or anything for this. I wanted to get working on something again and this was the project that drew me the most. It’s my version of crocheting granny squares.

I had a small pile of screen prints, created at the end of my residency at The Leeway Studio, which needed to be transformed into more pyramids. And now they are, which brings the number of my tiny pyramid army up to around one hundred and fifty.

I will be showing these in October at Emily Carr in the library window (might need a window replacement service from a local Fort Collins replacement windows company after the stampede to come see them. I need to come up with how I’m going to do it, and what other work to include.

These are process photos of paper cut work I created this week in collaboration with Ben Z Cooper. At the end of August he asked me to collaborate on a multi-media piece for IDS West, and of course I said yes. My part was to intricately cut these two layers of paper to overlay a digital screen.

Each piece is approximately 11.75″ wide by 19.75″ long to fit over said screen.

The bottom photo is the two layers together over the dark screen. I sent this to Ben when I was finished so he could see how thing turned out. I was originally going to cut three or four layers, but I decided the two of them had enough going on all by themselves.

I don’t know exactly what Ben will do for his part of this piece, but I know it’s going to be AMAZING! Check out his website to see more of his work as an Imaginographer.

Last week was my final few days of working from The Leeway Studio at Emily Carr, and I spent the time making one last series of prints. I reused some of the stencils I created for a previous batch of prints to make these ones.

I chose the colours from the left over inks and made up the composition as I went along. I love the crazy colours and busy layered patterns of this series. It may be my favourite so far.

I started cutting up the prints and making more of the pyramids. When these are done I’ll have about one hundred and thirty of them, which will make for an interesting installation.

I’m in my final two weeks of the Artist Residency at The Leeway Studio, and I’m working on finishing a large group of tiny paper sculptures. Two weeks ago I shared some of the process of making the screen prints for these, and now here is the paper transformed into three dimensions.

There will be sixty of them by the time I am done, to go with the thirty-ish I made from the previous batch of prints.

Here are the two batches together. I’m hoping to make one more series of screen prints before the end of my residency, and also transform them into one more batch of sculptures.

My work on the paper cut patterns has almost ground to a halt as I work on a whole bunch of other things. The braided rug has taken over my brain and that’s what I’ve been spending more time on lately.

The paper cut pieces pictured here has been in progress for a few weeks. It is so tiny and intricate that it is not enjoyable to work on, but it’s my own fault for not making the template a big larger to begin with.

It’s a beautiful design though, and eventually I will see it through to the end.

Last week at The Leeway Studio I worked on a new batch of layered screen prints with the intention of turning these into more small pyramid shapes. I did five or six different layers of colours and shapes on the paper, and ended up with some very sloppy prints. These are photos of that work in process.

Stencils cut from butcher paper.

Stencil and screen covered in ink.

A detail of an ink test on newsprint.

Pieces of the finished prints cut into pyramid templates.

At the end of my session last week I’d only just begun to cut the paper into pieces, and will work on assembling some of these this week.

Some of those screen prints I shared recently have been transformed into an army of tiny pyramids. I started out with the idea of turning one print into a single 3D object but decided to maximize the paper by making multiple small 3D objects from each prints.

The first image above is of the larger piece I started out with next to my first tiny pyramid. I made about sixteen of these last week while working at The Leeway studio.

This week in the studio I decided to use up the remaining prints to make as many of the pyramids I could. They are each unique in pattern and it’s interesting to arrange them into a variety of configurations. I love them so much more now than I did as prints.

I keep wishing I had enough prints to make about one hundred more of them because that many tiny pyramids would look amazing!