I love playing with color with my felt pens, using gradations of color, sometimes in a limited color scheme, sometimes playing with the whole spectrum. One day, I was drawing with Spirograph ring 144/96 and wheel 84, the biggest one, using the … Continue reading →
I was excited to get an email from Ariella Zwillinger, a 15-year-old in Maryland, with photos of a piece she made for an art show this month. She says that it took her a couple months to finish, but in the end she is proud … Continue reading →
I made a downloadable, high-resolution, printable set of coloring pages, “Wreaths and Stars“ which you can now (July 2024) buy from this site. It comes to you as a high-resolution PDF file with 12 printable coloring pages – one for … Continue reading →
Aaron Bleackley of Wild Gears has released another video showing a wheel within a wheel. This one is interesting to see as it unfolds. For more wheel within a wheel designs, see my previous post. Shop Wild Gears here
Continue reading →The Super Spirograph curvy diamond layout sits on an 8.5″ x 11″ paper with enough room to make an epitrochoid around the outside if you keep to a smaller wheel – below 40 or so. (If you’re in a country that … Continue reading →
A ring with 120 teeth gives a 5-pointed star with gear 48, and gear 24 gives a pentagonal pattern without any crossed lines. (See the math behind the number of points in a hypotrochoid.) These two gears can work well together, … Continue reading →
Here’s a “wild” thing that Wild Gears can do: make designs with a wheel inside an off-center hole in a larger wheel going around inside a ring. This picture shows little wheel 24 inside hole 60 which is in larger … Continue reading →
Scrapbooking Alert! Whether you do paper-and-scissors scrapbooking or digital scrapbooking, Spirograph – and especially Super Spirograph – has great potential. I’ve used Adobe Photoshop on some of the images below, but many imaging processing apps have very cool filters you can … Continue reading →
How to know in advance how many points a given wheel will make in any Super Spirograph layout.
Continue reading →The Super Spirograph rectangle may seem boring compared to, say, the cloverleaf layout, but it can actually be useful. I needed to make a certificate recently, so used Super Spirograph to make a fancy border, then sized it up a … Continue reading →
