A bat for halloween

Made with 4 layers of mdf 1/8". Engraved wings. 6"x 6".

IT!

Our laser cutter. Quite an intimidating beast. Not so many instructions in the booklet, we have to troubleshoot it ourselves. A real "enfant terrible" sometimes.

Pinned throught the heart

A little detail added to the original fridge magnet. It makes it "faux taxidermy".

Road sign clocks

My first pop-up card

Yep, first one. Cats again.
After Le Chat Noir. Original here.

Our logo, engraved on the back.


To date, pop-up cards are the most difficult thing to laser cut. Any tiny change and I must redo the print file and the vector one. The next pop-up will be easier.

Ambiance optimale

Ultimate crafting set-up: Dad’s garage and Francine’s cosy little backyard cabin. Dog included.

Coincidence

I was cutting when this ladybug landed on Eve's drawing. The bug must have thought that a clown's nose was the finishing touch.

Notes and doodles

Ideas jotted down while crafting in the atelier d’été, after a beach stroll.

"Mouche à beurre"

Testing. On the monitor, blue line = cut, dark spots = engraving. Happily my 10 inches mobile still work, and must, because for now our laser cutter only works with windows xp.

Variations on a seascape

Some mix-media explorations with an ink drawing as starting point. Played with oil crayons, watercolor, and added a zest of Photoshop.

Spider on her night shift

Looks like a flower, but isn't. The blurriness makes her very furry.

And here she looks like...the Muppets' drummer...

East Coast patterns

Stones, seaweeds, leaves are so fun to collect and play with! Here a few iphone pix, drawing, painting, monotype printing, photoshoping, and other beach bricolages.

Endearingly brainless

My creatures are happily low I.Q., because some monsters just are.
This is a totem.
 Function: to distract much-too-serious ghosts who fly around in our brain.

Eastern drawings and pictures

Stuff I drew in Gaspé, Bic and Île-Verte. Favourite themes, as always: birds, animal, plants, shells, weeds, sea treasures, feathers, …

Work in progress

After laser cutting and before assembly, testing paint-markers. The yellow marker leaks - spray paint is badly needed.
All this reminds me of my training in industrial design!

Hipstamatic Mosaics!

East coast pix taken with flow-inducing Hipstamatic iphone app! I mostly use JohnS lens and Kodot XGrizzled film as specs. I like the scratchy edges, dust speckles, lens flares and color boosting it adds to a picture.

an artist sketch

A ten second doodle, maybe less.
Done a friday morning, in a dark classroom, many years ago.
Drawing the slides (it was before powerpoints) was a good way to keep me awake.

This is Bernini, a seventeen century artist, sometime credited with creating the baroque style of sculpture. Original here.

Cléo de Mérode

Sanguine portrait of Cléo, a famous french dancer from the beginning of the 20th century, by Eve.

Seize the day!

New, more elaborate pop-up cards

The circus themes are very inspiring to me. The final cards will be printed on high quality paper, then I'll laser-cut them with my laser.

Wavy world

Waves are everywhere indeed. Of course we think first of water and sound. But there is also waves in the brain, and light is made of waves. By extension, all cycles are wavy: the water cycle, breathing and the circulatory system, the alternation of nights and days, of the seasons, the revolutions of the planets, etc. 

This is an analog piece of work done by Eve. Included in the pix some hand drawing and paint, on an inverted photocopy of brain waves.

Because Cat.

Micro-sketch with a pilot 0.5.

Art Nouveau studies

After "Le Chat Noir" poster by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen.
Original here

From Mucha's Prinzessin Hyazinthe (1911).

This nice lady is from Dance, again by Mucha.

His sketch, her variation

Left, a doodle of mine from a Margaret Macdonald painting. On the right, Eve's variation.
I like the colors very much.
Being somewhat colorblind, I would have put bright primary colors, therefore ruining it.

Montreal pop-up card

A model of my next pop-up card. I always begin by a rough model, to see what it looks like. Then I add colors. When I'm happy with it, I make prints of it and a vector file, to cut it on the laser cutter.

Portrait of a scientist

This is a portrait of Max Planck (1858-1947), a famous physicist. This is a scan of a handmade colored drawing by Eve.

With him begin the theory of quantum mechanics, which says that in matter, there is no matter. Hard to grasp indeed! As weird as it sound, without this theory you can't make a laser, nor a computer. Without these crazy ideas, our life would be quite different.