From Prompt to canvas

[shogun]

These are some of my old posts describing the process:

Sunrise Samurai (Experiment in Canvas)

I was inspired by @ lmiksch’s post about canvas to pick up a 10 pack of 8 by 10 canvas panels from amazon: I wanted to play around with painting and engraving. This is my first experiment: [IMG_5472] I started by spray painting the canvas with red, orange and yellow: [IMG_5466] and then I covered the whole thing in black spray paint: [IMG_5467] Then all I had to do was find a cool image, invert the colors (greys) and run a very light engrave over the canvas with the glowforge. The col…

New fun with canvas (and SpinArt)

First the madness… [IMG_8560] [IMG_8559] And then the method… These are both acrylic paint on canvas which are then lasered by the mighty Glowforge. The top one started out as a black 8.5 by 11 canvas and the bottom one was a 10 inch square white canvas. My inner child has always had a deep and abiding love for spin art (I mean, throw paint at a spinning canvas? Hell yeah!) So I used an old fan and took the fan blade off, made a flat base and some attachment doodads and put it where the fan…

or the full rabbit hole:
https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=%40shogun%20in%3Afirst%20canvas