Etching on painted mdf

[geek2nurse]

Argh, I can’t find them, and they were lovely! I did find this from @kittski, where she did multiple layers of paint on tile and then engraved through the top layer:

All you need is... (Rainbow tiles)

We could all use a little of this. Ceramic tile spraypianted rainbow colors, then top coat of solid white or metallic silver. Then zapped! [0624181103~2][0624181101~2]![0624180121~2]

and this one, talking about scratchboard, which is basically wood with layers of paint:

Lasering scratchboard is groovy

I finally had a chance to play with something I’ve been meaning to for some time: trying to laser scratchboard! Scratchboard is a wood board – much like draftboard – with two layers of paint on top, a white under-layer, and a black top layer. You’re meant to scratch off the black layer to reveal the white. I figured I could use my to scratch with I chose to score one piece from a series of algorithmically-generated human-like figures that I wrote in Processing. [al…

I really want to find those boxes again, though!