I made some waveform art gifts for family and friends - of kids speaking to their deployed fathers. I decided to try it in acrylic instead of wood after seeing an acrylic engrave of a popular song. The one online was single depth and the line was colored (paint?) The other versions I have seen are just prints on paper or canvas. It seemed like a good idea but because my waveforms were layered with different voices I had “depth” without really realizing it because of the different colors I had made the lines.
I wasn’t expecting the depth to show so beautifully or, really, at all. It’s a totally different look than the online generics or the personalized color prints I had seen.
These are my very first acrylic pieces so my gluing technique is…questionable (I can’t seem to get that capillary action I see on YouTube videos) but I love how amazingly better these turned out than expected!!
For this to work you need to have really square corners. This is tough to do with the GF because of the hourglass shape it puts on the edge. When I make acrylic boxes I always run a router around the edge to get a perfectly flat, square edge.
