Wheel-Within-a-Wheel Exploration with Wild Gears
Exploring the wheel-within-a-wheel patterns gives insight into how these complex patterns form.
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Video: Loopy Wheel-Within-a-Wheel Design
I keep trying new combinations of Wild Gears to make “wheel-within-a-wheel” designs. Here is a lacey, loopy one, shown on video and also available as a colouring page.
Continue reading →High-Speed Colouring Video
How to condense 2 1/2 hours of coloring into a video that’s short enough for people to watch. And … glitter.
Continue reading →Two Wheel-Within-a-Wheel Videos
Two videos of making the same amazing full-page Wild Gears design using different colour combinations. Which do you prefer?
Continue reading →Spirograph Tips Video from Wayne Schmidt
If you’ve been frustrated with Spirograph gears skipping out of alignment, spoiling your designs, or even if you’re an experienced spirographer, Wayne Schmidt has a video for you. He applies his logical, problem solving mind to common pitfalls people run into, … Continue reading →
Wild Gears: The King of Spirographs – Video
Thanks to a reader who sent me a link to this video by Delcopond from Spain who calls Wild Gears “the king of spirograph” – which I think is a great tagline.
Continue reading →Wild Gears Video: Drawing Parallel Lines
A video featuring spirograph-like designs drawn with Wild Gears, using its unique ability to draw patterns with parallel lines.
Continue reading →Designs with Two Racks: Instructions & Videos
Ready for a Spirograph challenge? I didn’t get into the two-rack designs as a kid. Maybe I tried it once and found it too difficult; I don’t remember. But a request for some videos about them prompted me to sit … Continue reading →
Wild Gears Video: Ecstasy of Gold
I have one more video to share that I filmed last summer in the bright sunlight. I put it together with Curtis Thorpe‘s rendition of The Ecstasy of Gold, the classic spaghetti western theme composed by Ennio Morricone for Sergio … Continue reading →
Spirograph Video by Mahesh Pendam
Here’s a video I found on YouTube by Mahesh Pendam, an artist in India. He does amazing photo-realistic art and portraiture, so Spirograph must just be a sideline. If you’re new to Spirograph and are trying to figure out how … Continue reading →