I have always enjoyed creating artwork (between photography and traditional artwork) that focuses on silhouettes rather than super detailed oriented pieces. I figured that for this project, creating a peaceful and serene natural background with a central layered focus on the silhouette of a wolf that has been raster engraved would be a good way…

I’m pretty late but here’s my layers project design. Basically its a combination of current me and young me, the black outlines are going to be different layers of acrylic to kind of create a typography map of sorts of the faces. Something I’m conflicted about is how to position the heads, which pieces of…

I plan to finish the chess board using a jig saw puzzle locking technique. It will also alternate between clear and wood.

My idea for the layers project is to create a map of my hometown Foster City. This city is built at the shoreline and is very flat so there are no topographical features to show. I took inspiration from a picture of a laser cut map that only uses one very detailed layer for the…

I really like how the fusion 360 slicing tool works so I’m going to attempt to use it to make a scaled model of my combat bot. In this initial revision lots of the details don’t come through well, due to missing the layer slice or simply being to small. Since I know Solidworks well,…

The rotation of the lightning bolts in my design was heavily influenced by the spiraling piece, by Jen Stark, attached below. Instead of suspending the layers in the air using string, I plan on drilling a hole through the center of my piece and feeding an axel through it that would allow each lightning bolt…

My concept for the layers project is to create a stylized sci-fi tree. For my sketch, I actually built a model in Minecraft using world-edit (for me, it’s much easier to conceptualize an object in 3D instead of starting with a sketch). The added benefit of this method is I was able to separate out…

On the first day of class, as Prof. Rosenstock was describing the type of work we would be doing in this class and showing us examples, I was already formulating this idea. Trying not to get too personal, but over winter break, I got into a very heated argument with someone close to me. It…

An art piece from Philip Roberts reminded me of rangoli. Rangoli is art that is created using colored sand and sometimes other materials too during festivals. There are also ready-to-use rangoli that are piece made from colorful acrylics. I added an image of what acrylic rangoli looks like. My plan is the make some acrylic…

I wanted to include motion in this piece. I was inspired by laser cut gears that are layered in an intricate design. Even though it doesn’t look like this one spins it still served as motivation for my work.

For my layer design, I decided to go with a forest type of environment. I want to work with saturation values and see how I can manipulate the trees and layers using different types of wood textures and colors. I’m excited to see how the environment plays out. I haven’t decided if I want a…

For this project, I was really interested in creating a 3d sculpt (see inspiration below). I wanted a recognizable figure that was still a little challenging so I chose a hand flashing the devil horns sign (or whatever you choose to call it). I know this symbol has a lot of meaning in other cultures…

For my layers design I thought of making a windows screen with multiple tabs. I plan to laser cut this all in wood. Everything that has a red outline will be cut and placed in a different layer/height. In the last image was the first edit I made in in a photo editing software. I…

For my project, I want to create a topography map of Monterey, California.  I am hoping to incorporate both wood and acrylic panels, each with slightly different cuts.  The top layer will be the frame, followed by an engraved land map. The three acrylic panels will complete the illusion of water depth. Below are my…

for this project I will attempt to create an intricate clock face with fake gears and various wood designs. I have seperated the design into the top face with the numbering for the time, the middle with cutouts adding design elements, the gears which will serve as a backdrop and be the main focal point,…

I was really inspired by the forest layer piece we discussed in class. I really liked how each element was a different depth of the forest, had its own color and texture, and really showed what you would find the deeper into the woods you go. It also gave it a very mystical kind of…

I chose to base my layers design off of this artist because I like the way she simplifies nature but uses layers and colors to add depth and detail. I like this piece because of the incorporation of the semi-translucent paper which mimics streaks of light. She uses repeated form to create an endless sea…

For my layers project, I decided to do a map of the San-Francisco/Bay Area (where I am from). I am going to have all water be a blue-color (similar to the color in my photo) and the land and roads will be made of balsa wood. There will be three layers: the water, the land,…