More spirograph art on t-shirts and shopping bags

Posted in Art, Brother ScanNCut, Heat Transfer, Spirograph by FredaF

And I found more ornaments made with the wild gears, that work to be cut from heat transfer vinyl to be ironed on t-shirt and shopping bags.
I LOVE the irregular motifs made with 3 wheels (another wheel in a big “hole” of the inner wheel) . You have to stop at some point, otherwise it will become a regular circle in the end with too many small shapes.

The start position of the wheels make a big difference how the ornament looks like. I started 3 times to get the result below, that gave me bigger parts to be filled with hand drawn lines.

I also made some ironing tests on shopping bags not expecting, that they are getting so beautifully.
They will make nice presents.

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This was another test to work with very thin lines. Even with flocked material (velvet htv) it worked well.
The green ornament was a real challenge though and I had to rework the cutting by hand with a craft blade. But I am glad I did it, peeling away the overlapping edges to get 3 different designs of one pattern.

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Have a great weekend!

Angelika

29Jan2015

Double line spirograph art on gelli prints and testing new pens

Posted in Art, Gel Printing, Spirograph by FredaF

Now that I know a little bit more of how the wild gears are functioning I was on search for other pens.
Some of the gears got quite big holes. I have the whole palette of Stabilo 88 which make a 0.4 mm line. But why not combine two different thicknesses. I got some Stabilo 68 pens. They draw a 1 mm line. It is great that both thicknesses got exactly the same colors. And I found some 1 mm gel pens by Faber Castell which are great for dark papers, too.

I grabbed some gelli prints I found boring and here we go turning the wheel…
I used the thick pen in the big hole, then added the little ring and draw a thin line. This gives the cool parallel lines.
With the blue one I was just too excited about the metallic gel pen, that I slipped a couple of times. This is covered with some pretty spirals and done.
The beautiful regular lines are giving a nice contrast to the blurry printed papers made with embossed ornaments.
These are still trials, but I have the feeling I get more control over the gears with time.

Now the papers got an exciting addition, but I still don’t know how to use them 🙂

22Jan2015

A box full of wild gears…

Posted in Art, Spirograph by FredaF

It was my christmas wish and they are only to be ordered in USA from the designer himself.
We ordered them early, but the fantastic german post had my package forgotten in a corner for more than 3 weeks in Frankfurt.
Thanks to the USPS tracking system you can see every move of your package, but it can also make you completely crazy when there is NO movement, especially when you are lying there suffering from a heavy flu during and after the holidays…sigh.
Then weeks later somebody must have found it and put it into the right direction, so at last I could get the package from the local tax office paying 2.7 % tax, the huge amount of Euro 4,32…what a stupid effort to collect such a little amount, but well…

Anyway unpacking was such fun, to peel off the brown cover and get the thick clear acrylic gears.
Those who read more here might know what it is.
I am a big fan of the old spirograph drawing set from my childhood.
This is a grown up set designed by Aaron Bleackley, it is called Wild Gears and was a successful kickstarter project.

My love was generous enough to buy 2 big sets for me and after playing some days I LOVE them.
At the bottom you can see my first experiments with non-symmetrical shapes. These are a challenge and I love challenges.

Have fun to see me unpack and try them!
More will follow.