Just spent a few days on Pender Island, the most southern of our Gulf Islands. After schools end I simply wanted to slow myself down, think about the year, and make some plans. The way I slowed myself down was…
Sketching and slowing down
Category: for my students
Paper making with our Artist in Residence Julie McIntyre
We had a lovely day working with or VSB sponsored AIR (Artist in Residence) Julie McIntyre- Julie is a printmaker and paper artist. We have two days with Julie and by the end D1 many sheets of paper were produced…
While I’m off sick I have been sleeping and building, and then sleeping some more…
OK, I think I will away a couple more days. I hope everything is ok and that Miss. Fetch is keeping you working! I just put together this guitar effects PCB board testing gig. Take a look.
Sequencer (for electronic music)
A sequencer used for music is a device that sequences musical events for predictable playback. For early electronic instruments these sequencers often take the form of a collection of switches that are cued in series and which trigger some other…
Three things I LOVE!!!
Three things I LOVE!!! Dogs Skateboards And LOUD GUITARS!!!
Electives Tour
Elective Tour
Good advice for all my students;
The electronics shop guy said this: When I was building circuits in my early days, I struggled a lot. I found many circuit diagrams with different types of components. And I had to go to my local electronics shop…
16-Year-Old Artist Makes Her Dreams Come Alive In Her Paintings
While it’s really hard to measure one’s resolve for art, Dimitra Milan is hitting a steady 0,75 Van Gogh mark. This 16-year-old daughter of two artists even chose to be homeschooled so she could study art more. Milan was been…
A Brief History of Color in Art… and poisons!
A Brief History of Color in Art THE ART GENOME PROJECT BY SARAH GOTTESMAN MAY 20TH, 2016 9:19 PM Artists invented the first pigments—a combination of soil, animal fat, burnt charcoal, and chalk—as early as 40,000 years ago, creating a…
The Theremin. Carolina Eyck playing ‘Elephant in Green’ (2015)
The Theremin is an electronic instrument, originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone[2] or termenvox/thereminvox) is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the Westernized name of its Russian inventor, Léon…