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Sometimes, when you don’t have time to create a whole body of work, it is fun to participate in a collaborative project. That is why this past summer I applied to be part of the Littlest Print Exchange. The Littlest Print Exchange is an annual juried trade of tiny art prints. Fifty artists are each invited to submit an edition of 50 prints and in turn receive a complete portfolio of 50 prints from all 50 contributing artists.

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To my luck I was picked to be one of the 50 printmakers involved. So in early October I got to work making my 50 3″ x 3″ etchings to send off to Illinois. Why did Christopher Clark start the Littlest Print Exchange? He says that  ”in truth, the Littlest Print Exchange is a chance to defy the notion that bigger is better, to prove that good things really do come in small packages, and to build connections between artists working around the globe.”

Being the owner of a print studio I encourage any opportunity to see the work of other printmakers and to connect with them. Because of this I was really excited and happy when I say the little package sitting in our mail box from Chris. I am also happy to announce that all of you can see these great prints as well. We will have the Mini Print Show up at Spark Box Studio until the end of the month.

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If you don’t already read this blog then you have been missing out! Booooooom is by far the BEST art blog I have seen and it is coming out of Canada! Created by artist Jeff Hamada Booooooom started as a fun project meant to build a network of fun creative people  and it is now one of the largest blogs on the internet. Booooooom features art, design, film, music, photos and more … you can seriously spend hours looking at really amazing work. Plus many of the artists are emerging.

The concept of a pinhole camera is quite simple. It is a camera with no lens and a very small aperture, a pinhole sized aperture to be specific. The pinhole is poked into one side of a light proof box or container and a shutter is made out of electrical tape. In the darkroom photo-paper or film is inserted into the camera. The typical exposures range from 4 seconds to an hour.

The cameras Erin and Kyle developed produce negative images because the cameras house photography paper rather than film. A negative image means that the colours are inverted, blacks are white and whites are black. The next camera to be developed will be one from a tin container that will house actual 35mm film, which will produce positive images when the film is used in the darkroom enlarger.

In April Spark Box Studio will be running a pinhole camera workshop if you’re interested in trying this exciting medium.

Pinhole Camera Workshop
In this exciting workshop participants will create their own pinhole camera. As a group we will go out and capture images of country landscapes which will be developed in black and white at the studio by participants. Everyone will bring home several mysterious black and white photographs.

April 9, 16 & 23 : 
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
$90 a person, max 6 people
materials included
You my sign up for this workshop online here: Workshop Sign up

With over three years experience photographing weddings, Catilin has developed a great eye through the lens and operates a successful business. Visit her site, read her blog, check out her photos at Adelita Rose Photography.

Spark Box Studio would like to extend a thank you to Peter Gershom Allen who donated several boxes of well needed darkroom supplies. We met Peter at the second Creative Minds forum on July 14 2009, after we had spoke about our project. Standing next to the rather tall giant Peter we felt a little dwarfed. Peter told us about how he was a professional photographer in his youth and how his career led him to specialize in aerial photography. Peter offered us some of his ‘ancient‘ technology and we gratefully accepted. Upon inspecting the several dusty boxes we found two analog timers, a digital timer, a color enlarger, film canisters, photo paper bags, dark room lights, plastic trays, tongs, and an assortment of miscellaneous, unidentifiable objects; The kind you scratch your head at. With Peter’s donation Spark Box Studio moves another step closer to having a extensive dark room setup.