Excited to post my new Spirograph video! Now that I have the technology figured out, let me know in the comments if there’s any particular Spirograph theme that you’d like me to show in a video.
Continue reading →Make spirographic valentines with the oval wheel inside a ring. Here are some ideas.
Continue reading →I love playing with color with my felt pens, using gradations of color, sometimes in a limited color scheme, sometimes playing with the whole spectrum. One day, I was drawing with Spirograph ring 144/96 and wheel 84, the biggest one, using the … 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 →
Scrapbooking Alert! Whether you do paper-and-scissors scrapbooking or digital scrapbooking, Spirograph – and especially Super Spirograph – has great potential. I’ve used Adobe Photoshop on some of the images below, but many imaging processing apps have very cool filters you can … 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 →
I’ve made my first two Spirograph videos! I think that the first one especially gives much more instruction on the fine points than other Spirograph videos I’ve seen. Let me know what you think.
Continue reading →In case you’ve lost the cover of your old Spirograph set, or the booklet showing the patterns, or maybe you’ll just find this handy, I’ve re-created the pattern guide showing the patterns created by Hole #1 of each of the … Continue reading →
A reader asked whether the hole numbers on the Spirograph wheels correspond to the distance from the edge in millimeters. The answer is “not quite”. They are very regular, however, which is one of the reasons that the designs are so … Continue reading →
Back in the day, when I was a kid and the only pens we had to use with our Spirograph sets were the ballpoint ones that came with the set, I dreaded Wheel 52 with Ring 150/105! Why? Because the … Continue reading →
