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sparkboxstudio.bsky.social @sparkboxstudio.bsky.social · Mar 1
Hello! We're Chrissy & Kyle. We are both visual artists working primarily in traditional printmaking using eco-friendly processes. We also create resources to help artists on their professional journey!

Website: sparkboxstudio.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@sparkboxstu...
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Been coating screens for new projects and shared the process in a new video: youtu.be/0W1e-pWrIpQ #silkscreen #screenprint #printmaking
Coating Silkscreens with Photo Emulsion | Art Printmaking Vlog
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September 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Our spring post: “For the Cosmos” a colourful screenprint by Chrissy Poitras featuring abstract flowers in a striped vase. #printpromptmonday (sparkboxstudio.com/product/for-...)
May 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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May have to convince Kyle to make more gem art, they’re some of my favs 💎 "Refinement" a copper plate etching with aquatint. I love the close-up of the plate, you can see the contrast between the etched lines & the untouched copper. #printmaker #art Online Shop: sparkboxstudio.com/product/etch...
May 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Finally printed the edition of a multi-plate etching I made while away at Zea Mays Printmaking residency. So happy with how they turned out. #etching #intaglio #printmaking #art
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How I Tackled My First Multi-Plate Etching | Art Vlog
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April 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Kyle’s been working on a new print and it features a large split fountain technique, something he’s never done before. He’s wanted to try this for a while and this piece called for it. #screenprint #printmaker #art
April 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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We love a studio hack! When we first opened we couldn’t afford one of those giant, beautiful metal drying racks. So Kyle made us a DIY drying rack that's on casters that rolls under our tables. 💛 #art #artstudio #diy
April 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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The Union Gallery is celebrating their 30th anniversary with a silent auction. Proceeds are split between the artist and the gallery. This is my piece, "To Gather", an acrylic work on paper. Auction closes April 25: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
An acrylic painting on paper of a stylized bouquet of flowers in a vase. The flowers are rendered in an illustrative, slightly abstract style with bold shapes. The background is minimal, flat pink with mustard yellow table. Details of the acrylic painting on paper of a stylized bouquet of flowers in a vase. Focus is on flowers that resemble daisies. An angled images of acrylic painting on paper of a stylized bouquet of flowers in a vase. The flowers are rendered in an illustrative, slightly abstract style with bold shapes. The background is minimal, flat pink with mustard yellow table. Details of the acrylic painting on paper of a stylized bouquet of flowers in a vase. Focus is on flowers that resemble daisies.
April 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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We have been deep into #etching lately.
This print is an oldie but a goodie—Kyle made it back when we were still using Future Floor Wax as our hardground (yes, the floor polish 😅). We actually loved this process - it was cost effective, easy to make and easy to clean-up.
April 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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We've been sending our more applications to open calls this year than ever before, so we made a worksheet to help us with artist statements. If you're needing help with writing your #artist statement it's on our Patreon (for free and paid members): www.patreon.com/posts/instan...
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Instantly improving your Artist Statement in April! | Spark Box Studio
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April 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I almost gave up on this cut stencil silkscreen but I am so glad I stuck with it. What a fun process! #silkscreen #printmaker #artist
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If You’re Overthinking Every Print, Watch This! | Art Vlog Printmaking
YouTube video by Spark Box Studio Printshop & Artist Residency
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April 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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My entry for #printpromptmonday - the theme is Magic!

"Safe Travels" screen print by Kyle. Who hasn't wanted to create a portal to another dimension?

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March 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Hello! Posting older work as an intro, from 2023 at the Art Gallery of St Albert, Alberta, Canada. I work in printmaking, photo, and print adjacent media, large and small, focused on the headwaters, watersheds, and glaciers in the eastern slopes and out in the prairies to Edmonton (home).
Silk panels silk screened with a collage of mountain and glacier imagery hang from the ceiling in the centre of a brightly lit Gallery space; larger images of repeat photography hang on the walls. The silk shows images from the Athabasca, Bow, and North Saskatchewan. Seen here is an image of the Athabasca Glacier flowing across 5 four by nine foot panels. The images along the wall combine historical and contemporary images by the artist re-photogrphed in the same place, drawings of older archive on top of the new images of the Bow Glacier and Saskatchewan Glacier, showcasing how they have melted back. Silk panels silk screened with a collage of mountain and glacier imagery hang from the ceiling in the centre of a brightly lit Gallery space. Behind the silk panels a larger wall piece of blue cyanotype work peeks out. The images on the panels show the Athabasca Glacier close up, and part of Johnson Canyon, along with a bit of Athabasca falls in the center. The images are merges seamlessly into one long piece split across many panels each four by nine foot in size. Silk panels silk screened with a collage of mountain and glacier imagery hang from the ceiling in the centre of a brightly lit Gallery space on the left side only of the photo. Seen behind the silk panels a larger wall piece of blue cyanotype work, which shows urban river scenes. Edmonton downtown and refinery row scenes merge seamlessly with the Mountain peaks around Abraham lake, at large scale. Currents is seven feet tall and stretches from wall to wall, encompassing those within the gallery A small piece of silk flutters at the left from 'flux', but the focus is on the large 'currents' artwork taking up the majority of the long gallery wall. Blue cyanotype imagery shows parts of Edmonton's downtown, from the Legislature though to the industry around rundle park, refinery row industrial images, and the ice on the river in the foreground merging into glacial ice on the right of the image. A person is seen looking at the work, giving a sence of scale. The work is large, seven feet tall, and meant to feel immersive, with recognizable landmarks to tell residents where they are looking in Downtown Edmonton's river landscape.
March 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The the joy on Kyle's face when he pulls a great print! #etching #printmaker
March 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Last summer Kyle and I spent a couple weeks at Zea Mays Printmaking where we took a deep dive into non-toxic aquatint #etching. We loved it! #printmaker
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Secrets to Green Copper Plate Etching - Spark Box Studio
Join us as we both created copper plate etchings using green methods for hard ground, aquatint, coffee lift and stop-out.
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March 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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#printpromptmonday time! This week is #foliage, let’s see your flowery offerings.

Extra favour from us this week - please share the graphic around if you feel able to, it will help spread the print prompt love.

Remember to tag your post with the hashtags, post all week long and like other’s subs!
March 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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#PrintPromptMonday theme is #Foliage

This is my "Happiness Is" screenprint based on a collection of flowers drawn as part of a larger mural piece.
March 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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“Cat Book” is one of our all-time bestsellers at craft sales, because, well… how can you not fall for a musical feline surrounded by antique books? 🐈‍⬛🎻 This is a photopolymer plate printed on the Vandercook. bit.ly/4iA6NMY
#printmaking #catart #handprinted
Vintage-style relief print depicting a man surrounded by large antique books. He peers into a cutout cavity inside one of the books, where a small cat is whimsically playing a cello. Overhead image of a black and white relief print and the photo negative used to create the printing plate. Detail of the vintage-style relief print where the man peers into a cutout to find a small cat is shredding on his cello.
March 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Spent a great day printing this two colour #etching in the shop yesterday. #printmaker #artistinstudio
Copper plate etchings featuring a botanical scene, surrounded by test prints displaying various colour tones achieved through aquatint techniques. Overhead view of a copper plate prepared for etching, with visible etched lines of leaves and plants. Ink and printing tools are on the table, showing parts at the printmaking process in progress. Angle view of two copper plate prepared for etching, with visible etched lines of plants and leaves. Ink and printing tools are scattered on the table, hinting at the printmaking process in progress.
March 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Trying to be realistic about art making vs social media posting.
Art making always comes first—it’s the heart of what we do—and to follow our human rhythms, not the algorithms (thanks @andyjpizza.bsky.social for those wise words).
March 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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A humble proposal:

Ban the word “complex” from all art writing. It doesn’t tell a reader anything they can’t decide for themselves.

While I’m at it: if the word “powerful” shows up in an artist statement, I know an AI wrote it. It’s equally meaningless and lifted from gendered tech writing.
March 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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A walk through of editioning a screen print with tips and tricks! #screenprint #silkscreen #artiststudio
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Screen Print Tips and Tricks - Spark Box Studio
Kyle printing his newest screen print Tides and Gravity. Shares colour mixing, registration, screen print setup.
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March 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Getting to use these old presses is such a highlight to being a printmaker! We genuinely love making original handmade prints and having a studio that’s also a museum for print history is an added bonus! #printmakers Can you relate?
March 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Never give up on your vintage manual tools! So satisfying! The lovely, dedicated folks @sparkboxstudio.bsky.social go the distance to restore an abandoned press. Beautiful! ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z8K...
Deep cleaning a Vintage Printing Press | Printmaker Art Vlog
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March 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The great thing about being an artist during the winter is you can print yourself flowers. 💐 #silkscreen #floralart #printmaker

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March 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
sparkboxstudio.bsky.social
Hello! We're Chrissy & Kyle. We are both visual artists working primarily in traditional printmaking using eco-friendly processes. We also create resources to help artists on their professional journey!

Website: sparkboxstudio.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@sparkboxstu...
March 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM