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Frosted acrylic nightlight

Posted on August 24, 2021 Leave a Comment

Lately, my dad has been making beautiful carved wooden lamps. And every now and then, he asks me to cut some mirror acrylic on my laser cutter to place into his lamps.

Tonight was one such occasion, and since I was going to head to my parents’ place for dinner, I thought I’d take the opportunity of the laser machine being spun up to also make a lamp of my own and test it out with the LEDs that dad has been using to test his lamps. This is the result.

This is a real speed build. While I’ve been wanting to do something like this for ages, o hadn’t ever managed to bring it to fruition because of the little decisions required. What size should it be? Should I cut tabs for a better piece alignment? What opacity of acrylic should I use? What should the silhouette design feature?

With a tight turnaround time imposed, I threw all those questions aside and went with a simple design. I realised I could also speed up the prototyping by using both the positive and negative shape of the silhouette for the adjacent faces, thus cutting down on wasted test material. The design was drafted on the bus trip home from work, and the light box was test-assembled using sticky tape. It’s very shoddy but proves the concept!

I was planning to use 2mm white acrylic for the leaf shapes, but it turned out I didn’t have a large enough sheet. By chance, I had a bit of cardboard on hand AND I guessed the correct settings to cut it on my laser cutter. The cardboard does the job fine!

From here – I guess I should properly glue up the box and work out how the light will be positioned and how it’d turn off and on… but I suspect that those questions may be left hanging for a while.

Posted in: Lasering | Tagged: blaugust, lamp, laser cutting, leds

Yellow-breasted fruit dove

Posted on August 24, 2021 Leave a Comment

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: avianaugust, bird, dove, watercolor, watercolour

Strawberry Finch

Posted on August 23, 2021 Leave a Comment
Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: avianaugust, bird, watercolor, watercolour

Princess parrot

Posted on August 21, 2021 Leave a Comment
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Double-banded sandgrouse

Posted on August 19, 2021 Leave a Comment
Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: avianaugust, bird, watercolor, watercolour

Violet-green swallow

Posted on August 18, 2021 Leave a Comment
Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: avianaugust, bird, swallow, watercolor, watercolour

White-browed tit warbler

Posted on August 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

This bird is like a fuzzy, winged nebula, so I decided to take a more abstract approach to today’s #avianaugust prompt!

I had a couple of false starts this time before the above piece came together. Here they are, there were things I liked in the first one but the splatters were too large. Ultimately I think the second came out way better so I’m glad the splatters made me restart the piece.

I really struggled against the paper for the second attempt – there was some waxy bits that didn’t want to take the paint. After these two I wasn’t sure I could do this concept justice but I stuck it out and I’m glad for it!

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: avianaugust, bird, galaxy, watercolor, watercolour

Bohemian Waxwing + Marsh Owl

Posted on August 16, 2021 Leave a Comment
Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: avianaugust, bird, owl, passerine, watercolor, watercolour

Little Auk 2

Posted on August 16, 2021 Leave a Comment

I actually painted this the same night as the first auk I posted. After the first painting I wanted to take another crack at attempting to depict the features of this cute little bird. I’m still not 100% satisfied with this result but I do like how some aspects came out.

Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: avianaugust, bird, little auk, watercolor, watercolour

LeConte’s sparrow

Posted on August 15, 2021 Leave a Comment
Posted in: Watercolours | Tagged: avianaugust, bird, sparrow, watercolor, watercolour
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