Hummingbird

Marcus J April 4, 2013

Today’s project was inspired by a carving I purchased from Alex Mountain, a Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwagu'ł) artist from the Mamalilikulla First Nation. Alex is an Indigenous carver often found working on the streets of Gastown, Vancouver.

The final result was cut from red cardstock, mounted on orange, and finished with a black border.

I'm still working out a few kinks in the process—the SVG file and the cutter both need some adjustment. Once that’s sorted, it’ll be goodbye to the X-Acto knife.

The original wooden carving is shown alongside my paper-cut interpretation on the cutting mat.

First Cut

Marcus J March 27, 2013

I have recently acquired a Silver Bullet Die Cutting machine. Here is the first cut! One of my photos turned into silhouette using photoshop and then cut to plain card stock.

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Marion Porter. My Aunt.

Marcus J February 16, 2013

Marion recently celebrated her 97th birthday this January. She is a lovely woman—my father's sister and the last remaining relative of her generation.

She now lives in a care facility and is visited daily by her son, John.