I have finally finished my layers project at 5 PM today!! It took me WAYYYYY longer than anticipated because of all the speed bumps I hit in the road. But in the end it has all been worth it! I love how it turned out and the effect is exactly how I pictured it in…

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.

For the second version of this project, I made a more organic and fluid design. I still plan to work on the project more to add an aspect of depth. I want to stain the wood with more coats lower down so it fads to a darker shade of wood at the bottom to a…

I decided to stick with the colorful design, but I rearranged the layers so that it more resembled a thermal image spectrum and took out a layer to simplify it just a bit. The paper is a bit thin, and so there was some wrinkling when putting them together. An Elmer’s glue stick was all…

After many Inkscape and Retina Engrave issues I decided to go back to my original design. I made an acrylic version, but I liked the wood better. The piece is about 4×4 inches and is 4 layers.

Adjustments from test cuts and progress post decided to paint the middle layer added LED stand during the critique, it was suggested to try and add lines to enhance the constellations. I tried to laser that layer with the lines on it but I did not like the way it looked because it did not…

This is the final version of my piece! I had a basic colour palette picked out of pinks and blues, and I decided as I went along which colour I thought would look good for each layer. I attached pictures of almost every later before I tapes them all together into the final piece. Working…

I ended up finishing my project and I’m relatively happy with how it turned out. I had a little bit of trouble with sticking the two acrylic layers together so it’s a little bit messier than I’d like but I’m over all satisfied. The wood layers are put together with wood glue and the acrylic-acrylic…

Here is my final design of my layers project, where each color represents one layer to be stacked from darkest blue to the tan wood color representing the land. UPDATE: 4/10/21 I believe I have finished! Its 5 layers, 4 gradient blue water layers and the sealed natural wood land layer! Here are the five…

Greetings, it’s me again. As I mentioned in the last post, due to some problems I could not attempt to use 6 different types of wood for the project. However, I still have my cuts by 2 different types of woods, so at first, I managed to assemble all the pieces together using the different…

Since last time, I have attempted cutting out the koi pieces for my piece. I used the pink cardstock underneath the veneer layer and used the magnets to hold the veneer and paper down. Unfortunately, I still had pieces fly away and disappear in the laser cutter. I am going to look into getting masking…

(This post will be updated at the end when the final piece is finished) Over the weekend (April 10-11 2021) I was able to finish the final model for, and sliced version of the astronaut statue. The model had some issues during import, creating holes in the model where it should have been solid. After…

(4/12/21) As of right now, for my initial design the only thing I need to do is add the top layer over the raindrops to case it in. I planned to do this by using scrap pieces of wood from previous cuts and hot gluing them between the base layer and top layer. However, the…

Update: 4/15 So I have successfully put together another version of my project and I am happy with the progress I have made. There are definitely some areas that I am planning on fixing and I would like to make another final version of it. I am going to add some more detail by adding…