Copper Plate in Progress

A city is growing between my ribs at the studio these days...

NYC Maker Faire

 On September 21 & 22, my paper Montreal and I went to visit the New York Hall of Science as an exhibitor and pop-up demonstrator at the MYC Maker Faire 2013!

In addition to exhibiting my own artwork, I gave a series of free demonstrations, where people could sit and create their own pop-up cards with me. People of all ages got to take home their own fearsome shark, or their own cityscape - and some umbrellas too!

Showing my lifesize pop-up people and their surrounding neighbourhoods was an amazing way to connect with other makers, especially papercraft artists! One beautiful origami piece was by a fellow Canadian named Jonas Lobo. He had a beautiful round folded piece of paper that slowly breathed:
(http://makerfaire.com/makers/giant-dynamic-interactive-origami-sculpture/)

And a tiny city-builder, by the name of Wurlington Press!

 As well as the Life-Size MouseTrap performance troupe all the way from San Francisco!

There was an amazing kids-only Robot Foundry, with the ROBOT of FREE HUGS!

And the Texas Bike Zoo's 2-person butterfly bikes - which I could seriously have ridden all the way back to Canada in!

And of course - delicious food trucks!

The NYC Maker Faire was a pretty magical weekend to spend in NYC - and I hope the people who learned how to make their own pop-ups make some magic of their own!

Finished a version of 'Inner Cities' and I've uploaded it on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/72005553

Enjoy!

Inner City Stop Animation in progress

A preview of what I've been working on in my studio!

A Merit Badge-Making Machine!

The side project of merit badges has brought a lot of colour and happiness to my down-time. Sewing away on the metro, cutting badges out during slow moments at work, and seeing badges go home with people really brightens my day. And gives me the PERFECT EXCUSE to go to art supply stores!!

Pop-Up Workshop at Montreal's Griffintown Art School

Come learn 4 pop-up techniques and build 10 cards this Sunday at Griffintown Art School with me!

http://griffintownartschool.ca/?page_id=3404

The Magic of Pop Up Books

Recently I've been redrawing new samples to include in my pop up book workshop, and I'm really excited to introduce some new drawings and pop-ups with more layering. While in Toronto at Graven Feather Studio, they kindly took some amazing photographs of the new pop-ups:

 The multi-layered shark, which works using 4 layers of TOOTHY shark teeth!

Starting off with maquettes to master newfound folding and gluing techniques, in the workshop students go from the basic instructions to creating illustrated creations!

 Stacked buildings of St. Laurent.

Using collage pieces on a blank form, people can add any imagery of their own - even their own hands!

And a lovely example of found music paper being turned into a ribcage!