Day 3: Laser Cutting 101: Michelle Pajak-Reynolds visits Kendall College

[Brigitte Martin]

 

 

Some of my fresh cut shapes on the LASER cutter after the scrap material was removed.

Yesterday was another great day in the Kendall College of Art and Design Jewelry/Metals Studio studio with Phil Renato. I spent the morning practicing my Adobe Illustrator skills. Since I like to work in multiples, I decided to experiment with a simple shape to see how many variations I could get from one form using Illustrator. My master plan is to use these variations as multiple elements in larger pieces.

The egg/petal form is one of my favorite shapes. In Illustrator I used the Pen tool to draw a variety of egg/petal shapes. Using the Blend tool, Phil showed me how create a smooth transition between different forms. The Blend tool quickly gives you all of the one of a kind shapes that fall between the two shapes you're blending, similar to the metamorphosis that you see in certain M.C. Escher prints.

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