Dorothy showed us many other methods for making our mark on fabric and paper. She also showed us many examples of what others had done in...

"An individual stroke is an utterance of touch." Dorothy Caldwell  Dorothy is demonstrating the next Stroke Painting exercise.  We taped...

Dorothy Caldwell taught her 'Human Marks' workshop in Gloria Daly's Duncan studio. Many of us had registered for the workshop over 18...

An exciting delivery - the floor tiles. But, oh dear, many of the boxes are damaged and a lot of the tiles appear to be broken. The...

Brian, the cabinet maker who works for South Shore Cabinetry , places the 'Lego' blocks, shims them until level and then makes the...

I claimed my space by placing a table and 2 chairs on the porch. Dave has been working on the outside staircase. It is made from big...

I attended Jane Dunnewold's Dye workshop at the Pacific Northwest Art School  in Coupeville. Jane took us through many different dyeing...

While I was away in New Zealand, a lot happened on the home front. The cut flower bed burst into bloom. It is hard to see, but the...

Here am I surrounded by Audrey Boyle's 'Tribute', (dress fabric, Dacron, irrigation tube). From Audrey's artist statement: 'Having worked...

I made a quick trip to New Zealand to be in on my father's 87th birthday celebrations, Mother's' Day, another family birthday and to...

The studio gets its gutters..... ... and grey, metal, no-maintenance soffit. Proline Roofing and Gutters  makes each individual gutter on...

Cameron on Stilts At the end of the clip, you can hear Cameron ask me if I have been waiting for him to use his stilts. I answered "Yes,...

Dave is making the porch and arcade soffit from strips of rough finish, tongue and groove, western red cedar.  It smells so good out near...

Ron and I spent the day cleaning up the construction site. Manufactured wood and concrete board went into the skip. Anything made with...

Dave has started framing up for the outside stair footings. He said it was lucky he didn't make the framing any smaller because he...

I worked carefully around the tree roots while digging the trench. I covered the exposed roots with strips of wet, wool blanket to keep...

A delivery truck dumped a load of sand that will go in the trench. The trench will hold 2 different types of conduit full of different...

Pattern Language # 116 Cascade of Roofs (p. 566). The studio, relative to the house, is a small and simple building yet the architect,...

Pattern Language #110 Main Entrance (p. 541). The entrance to the studio is placed in the centre of the wall. This pleasing symmetry is...

The tapers, Cameron and Jordon, have arrived. They finish the rough edges of the drywall with plastic strips... ...tape and wet plaster....