So far this year I’ve been experimenting more with making automata and mechanical toys. Here is a seagull automaton kit from Rob Ives’ website.
I’ve been learning how to make automata and mechanical toys so far this year, and so this week I downloaded a seagull automaton kit from Rob Ives’ website.
Here is the finished version:
This is papercut 83 of my papercutting quest (using the “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments” book, in preparation for incorporating them in future papercuts that are made by laser and also by hand.)
This is a very simple-looking design, but sometimes they are the hardest ones to make a decent job of cutting…
…but even close up I think this one actually looks OK. My skills really are (gradually) improving, as I get closer to the end of my 100-day challenge.
I’m still cutting my way through all of the designs from one particular book. This is how far I’ve got so far…
Following on from this post and this post, I’m still working my way through the designs in the Dover Books publication “922 Decorative Vector Ornaments”
This is my latest batch:
…with some close-ups:
…and my favourite today:
It’s that time of year again, so I’ve been designing a swirly filigree heart for lasercutting.
It’s that time of year again.
So I’ve been trying to develop a heart design where I can fairly easily insert people’s names, or phrases or dates, etc. This is how far I’ve got:
… and this is what my latest experiments look like when I’ve cut them out:
