A place for ALL of the things…
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Gardening Intro
Third Switch Studios is a studio in a garden. Amongst the other fingers on my working hands, there are a couple of green thumbs. I grew up in the woods, we always had a garden, and ancestry on both sides of my family contained farmers. It’s genetic. And when I finally got a yard to…
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Tinkerer Studio Intro
Third Switch Studios loves to tinker and tiptoe into realms one might not expect. With my tinkerings, I criss-cross through all my other areas of interest in search of the next fascinating thing to figure out. Projects may fall into a subset of design when they are pieces of equipment built for my studio. Or…
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Design Studio Intro
Third Switch Studios is a design studio. Whether it’s digital or in the physical realm, design has been a big part of my studio work. From graphic design to picture framing to studio equipment to public art works, I’ve had my hand in a wide variety of projects. In the early days I worked as…
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Painting Studio Intro
Third Switch Studios is a painting studio. Upon graduation most printmakers are confronted with the equipment conundrum. Leaving a space with all the large, expensive equipment only to enter a world of tiny apartments and tinier paychecks. And unless you live in an area with a printmaking community, and can afford some kind of membership,…
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Printmaking Studio Intro
Third Switch Studios is a printmaking studio. In 2011 Third Switch Press was formed as a dedicated printmaking studio. However, throughout my career I’ve come to work in a variety of media, with a variety of people, and a variety of disciplines so in recent years I’ve started to consider how to encompass them all…
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Indoor Veggie Starts 2024
This winter I decided to rethink my seed organization. After three-four years of trying different methods, I think (?) I have an improved system…rolling tool boxes. These boxes (made by Ridgid) seal and stack nicely, and unlike other brands, these don’t have a clear cover, which protects the seeds from harmful light exposure. Throw in…
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Discovering the Craft (Part 2): Painting Best Practices
“The choices that artists make of painting materials and techniques have consequences on the longevity of their work. This website is about those choices and how our present understanding of these materials and techniques from conservation research and practice can help artists make better choices.” Mission of Painting Best Practices (an educational service of Natural…
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Discovering the Craft (Part 1): Living Craft by Tad Spurgeon
Diving deeper into the craft of oil painting.
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Garden 2024!
What’s going in the garden this season?!
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Getting Back To the Easel
It’s been a while. Like since the start of covid a while. My last painting before the pause was done in February 2020. I don’t know what it was about the shut down that paused the painting. I mean…like besides everything. But I was laid off for two and a half months and spent the…
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Plant Pop-ups & Seed Stories
I finally did it. In spite of all my introverted tendencies, and the desire for any reason to cancel plans and stay home, I dragged the mister and a whole truck bed full of plants to Interwoven, my friend Rhonda Fazio’s art studio in New Bedford, MA. I’ve habitually started WAY too many seedlings over…
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What Are Electrostatic Monotypes?
This work is not abstract…it is entirely representational, and true to life. Much like infrared photography, radio telescopes, and x-ray imaging, the process of making these prints works to bring some aspect of the electromagnetic spectrum into the limited range of human perception. Normally, electricity is only experienced as momentary flashes of light, and while…
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The Tiny Library v.1
Saturday, May 6, 2023 I had the honor and pleasure to present this tiny library to the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, as a collaboration with the Community Art Collaborative and the Plymouth Public Library.
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The Tiny Library Build – Part 1 (The Concept)
The original events that transpired to get me working on this project was something not unfamiliar…someone has an idea and needed to figure out the real life logistics of bringing to fruition. I’ve worked at a family-owned frame shop since 2005, worked in galleries, I build most of my own equipment, and my partner is…
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