One of the best parts of running this website is discovering people who take spirograph to a new level by combining patterns in new ways, incorporating them in multimedia artwork, finding practical ways to use them, or bringing in other technologies and materials.
I’ve invited some people to do guest posts or to send me pictures of their work. If you have something you’d like to share with the spirograph world, please contact me.
Spongepainting watercolour paper before drawing designs with Wild Gears to produce interesting multimedia artpieces. Leveling up.
Continue reading →Samantha learned about Wild Gears on this site, jumped on board Aaron’s Kickstarter campaign and got herself some sets. Now she combines them with her love of fountain pens and zentangle art. She created a thread on a forum dedicated to … Continue reading →
James May is a British presenter – i.e. “TV show host” as we’d more likely say in North America. Back in 2007 he did a documentary that appeared on the BBC called “James May: My Sisters Top Toys”. In this snippet … Continue reading →
UPDATES: I’m updating this post as I get photos and descriptions from Steve White. – HH A reader, Steve White, has been experimenting with using Spirograph pieces and just recently, Wild Gears, on a machine called a Rose Engine. A Rose … Continue reading →
How many Spirograph cookies would you eat? I’d never heard of edible markers, but apparently they exist. And Amber Spiegel, a cookie artist in Beacon NY is not afraid to use them with Spirograph! Here is her video. You can learn … Continue reading →
I don’t think many of the “tots” who ever used the old Spirotot toy – a basic version of Spirograph designed for smaller children – ever made patterns like this. It requires mastery not typical of 5-year-olds. Ariella Zwillinger from … Continue reading →
Making Spirograph designs is a bit like riding a bike. Once you get it, you won’t likely forget it – at least that was my experience, because I learned it as a child, and had no trouble coming back to … Continue reading →
Here’s a cool time-lapse video by Rachel Evans Designs showing her creating a Spirograph art project. Maybe it will inspire you!
Continue reading →I was excited to get an email from Ariella Zwillinger, a 15-year-old in Maryland, with photos of a piece she made for an art show this month. She says that it took her a couple months to finish, but in the end she is proud … Continue reading →
Guest post and photos by Angelika Holz (a.k.a. Freda Fredriksson) from Germany. Now what to do with all these beautiful little circles? You can scan them and if you are familiar with a graphic program like Photoshop you can recolor … Continue reading →
Nathan Shields (and his kids) have invented a mechanism for making Spirograph pancakes. Nathan is a math teacher as well as a father and an inventor – and quite the artist as well, especially when his chosen medium is pancake batter. … Continue reading →
The first post featuring a reader’s spirograph artwork! Raffaella (a.k.a. Norma as she calls herself in our comments) is a fifty-year-old amateur photographer living in Italy. She writes: I’ve liked Spirograph from childhood, but I bought my first Spirograph just … Continue reading →
Check out how Rachel Evans, a British artist working in Iceland, creates a stunning piece of art: See more of her work on her website, RachelEvans.com. I’m totally inspired!
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