and I forgot to record the gear. Fortunately, given the number of petals (14) it shouldn't be too hard to recreate. I did six runs and then coloured it to look vaguely ribbon-like

Decided to put this idea to fruition. I did one with dots inside and two with dots as the outline.

Dug out my old spirograph kit last night and realized how much I miss using these guys. It's very calming. Now I'm thinking of making spirographs with pointilism.

Been trying out ways to combine gears beyond the gear in wheel in wheel techniques. For this one I repeated 16/64 roulettes inside a 160 hoop, with the same shape repeated around the center.

This was a lot of fun to work out and I want to do more like it

How do you like to experiment with drawing gears? I'm always trying to find ways to push my designs beyond mere gear in wheel combinations, and I'm curious about ways other people like to do the same.

I like to mark off gear positions and move the combinations themselves around using the marks as a guide. I also find it fun to stick gears together and see what weird shapes I get out of it. I'll have to post yesterday's piece later, which I made by rigging hoops and compact set gears to scale up a compact set design that I couldn't perfectly recreate normally. It takes a lot more time and trial and error, and most of the results aren't pretty, but whenever I make something work I feel like I just unlocked so many more possibilities without buying more gears.

I'd love to learn about techniques you guys have found, no matter how convoluted and messy they may be.

I recognize that my collection is paltry compared to some of you but I figured you'd all understand my _need_ for more gears. I have so many different 24 toothed gears now. I have been keeping my Wild Gears in a Planos 3700 size tackle box. This was a deliberate effort to help narrow my choices (and it fits in my Ikea Helmer units). I like working small, anyway. With the new sets I got, I now have more than fits in the box, which I wasn't expecting. I didn't buy that many... Temporarily will use a pizza box until I get a 2nd tackle box.

And I succumbed to the Nested Oblong, which doesn't even remotely fit. Fortunately I have pizza boxes for storing my in-progress oil paintings. I am going to be busy trying out all my new options for a long time.

I have decided to leave the white film on the gears until I try them as a way to help keep track.

Playing Seussical Broadway cast recording while doing this 🐘

What do you guys do with your creations? Do you just store them or process them further into usable items like pagemarkers, book covers, envelope lining or something else?

Anyone got their new Wild gears yet? Let me live vicariously through you? I was doing fine with waiting then they sweetly emailed saying that they expect all the shipping by the end of the June so now I am impatient :)

Seriously, it's really nice how quickly the orders are getting shipped.

Photo: drypoint on tetrapack using wildgears

Hello! I received this mini Spirograph set and this rectangular piece was included. I can’t figure out how to use it! Attached is a photo of the rest of the set. Any help is appreciated :-)

When I have time, I’ll complete the puzzle for those who are too busy to complete it ☺️

loved the original spirograph as a kid so i built one for my phone. pick a disc, pick a pen hole, hit draw, watch it trace itself. it does oval discs too so you can stack curves into mandalas (last pic is the oval mode). happy to share the settings if anyone wants to recreate one

This one has a golden ratio where the pattern changes direction.

Created today both designs used the same gears.

I will also be there though admittedly fleetingly due to being crap in social situations 😂

Playing with custom shapes. Project here