Field Lines No. 7
Available2026 · Original — 1 of 1
$1,400Plotting…
Dan Dupont Art
I built a robot.
It paints in long strokes of colorful line work.
Every piece is a physical painting, drawn pen-by-pen on a custom-built plotter — thousands of overlapping strokes, hours of machine time, one steady robotic hand. Originals are one-of-one; prints are small, signed editions.
The work
Featured pieces
Sample pieces — placeholder content for demonstration. Real pieces are on the way.
How it's made
A human-built robot with a painter's patience
The plotter started as aluminum extrusion on a kitchen table. Four rebuilds later it draws strokes a meter and a half long, swaps between five acrylic pens, and runs for thirty hours without lifting wrong once. I write the systems that generate every toolpath; the machine contributes the one thing I can't — a perfectly steady hand.
5
acrylic pens per piece
31h
longest single plot
4.1km
of pen travel in one work
Time-lapses of the robot painting will appear here — add a YouTube video ID in src/config/site.ts.
Studio feed
Follow the work in progress
Pen tests, failed plots, time-lapses, and finished pieces — posted as they happen.
Journal
From the studio
June 10, 2026
Originals vs. prints: how the editions work
Sample post. Every original is one-of-one — the toolpath is retired when the piece sells. Prints are small, signed editions scanned from the originals. Here's the system.
June 4, 2026
Anatomy of a 31-hour plot
Sample post. Loom took four days, five pens, and 4.1 kilometers of pen travel. Here's what a long plot actually looks like from the studio floor.
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