Super Spirograph Therapy Session
The other night I’d had enough of thinking and working for clients, so I indulged myself in a spirograph therapy session.
I took out my old Super Spirograph and set up a wave pattern, attaching the pieces to the paper using the putty that comes with the new set – which is basically poster putty
You never know with these irregular shapes when the wheel will come back to its original starting point. In this case, after going around to create the pattern in the second picture, the pen landed one tooth over from its starting point. I knew from experience that completing the pattern would create a dense design, take a long time and not be as interesting as it was now – it would hide the shapes of the loops on the concave sides, which I found interesting. So I went around once more with the dark blue pen, then twice more with red to create the design you see.
I filled the spaces with more designs using the same colors, plus purple, with ring 150/105 and various wheels. Here’s the result. If I did it again, I would try to make the large design more symmetrical:
Spirograph therapy session result
The therapy session worked and I went to bed happy.
The complete pattern would have 268 points on it according to my calculations ! Now 268×4 = 1072, which is almost 17×63 or 1071. So we have efectively a 17-pointed pattern.
Spirograph resurrected my artistic hobby. I’m an art major and work in advertising. I stopped drawing many years ago as Adobe Products started to spoil my everyday creativity. Just getting into Spirograph and for the first time again, drawing with a fine marker using a Spirograph wheel, it is a little scary if I make a mistake on paper.
Sounds therapeutic. Give yourself permission to make mistakes! Psssst: I’ll tell you a secret – you can always scan your designs and clean them up in Photoshop. 😉
I love nothing better than creating and completing a beautiful design with my Super Spirograph. I dislike nothing more than almost finishing a beautiful design and having a pen or wheel slip and botch it all. It is like playing a round of golf on a good day vs. a bad one!
I hear you. And a confession: After scanning the designs to put on the website, I get to photoshop them, and can remove the worse messes – stray lines or blotches. Maybe I shouldn’t, and keep it real!
How funny I just happened to look up spirograph therapy to see if such a thing existed. I am 51 years old and today I bought a spirograph set. No, I do not have any children. This is totally for me. I just enjoyed a glass of wine and a spirograph therapy session. I remember how much fun it was playing with my spirograph growing up. But now that I’m older I’m actually using the markings to make more sophisticated and complex designs. Here’s to therapy!
Good for you! I’m glad you found the site and you know that you’re not alone. There are more layers to this spirograph thing to be discovered…