My first two laser cuts are below, one in vector and one in raster! I freehanded both of these with the pen tool. Next is my layers project, I looked up pictures of dolphins as a reference to draw and painted each layer with watered down acrylic to let the wood pattern show through! For…
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Final Lantern Project
I had a small mishap where I glued the lid on the box, but was able to rip it off mostly together and reglue some of the pieces. I ended up wrapping the LEDs around a piece of water bottle, I probably should have just gotten a lightbulb but I’m not sure it would have…
Lantern Project – Jules Prisco
For this project I was really inspired by a bunch of sunset rowing pics my friends reminded me of. I decided to do a normal 5″ cube box shape, but each side of the box has two layers to try to add a little more depth to each scene. I’m using colored LEDs for the…
Final Layers Project
I finished the cuts last night and painted them, I ended up painting the parts of the dolphins that were below water light blue so you could tell they were underwater, and made the frame a blue shade as well since the natural wood color was super distracting from the dolphins.
Layers First Cuts ish
I was having issues downloading my svg files onto the computer and connecting with the laser, which unfortunately cut into a lot of my time today. I got the first two cuts done out of 5 (the backing and the first set of waves); the next reservation I could get was Saturday night so hopefully…
Layers Project
I decided I wanted to make something for my sister and she really likes dolphins, so for the layers project I’m going to stack waves that are offset with the ones behind them and add some dolphins jumping through the waves. I’m still working on fixing the lines on the second layer, I had to…
Jules Prisco Introduction
Hi my name is Jules Prisco and I’m a freshman biomedical engineering major from Pelham, NY (a small town right above New York City). Here at WPI I am on the rowing team and I’m the secretary for Art & Design Club. I was always into art as a kid, which was interesting since no…