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Hand Painted Zine, Part 15 | wolfCatWorkshop Get more from wolfCatWorkshop on Patreon

September Patreon Update (open to free members). Back on the zine project and the procrastination projects that got me there.

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Square intersections.
Made with #cuttleXYZ

Liquid Circles
Made with #cuttleXYZ

Fishy morphing cubes.
Made with #cuttleXYZ

YouTube video by Cuttle Show and Tell: Making Escher-Style Morphing Patterns in Cuttle

Thanks for posting this @h.olysh.it!
I think I had a few more to get out of my system so I made another video. A little faster with more designs and fancier tricks youtu.be/2LHOzeMDrIk

YouTube video by wolfCat workshop Making a Scrolling Background for Puppet Shows

Making a scrolling background youtu.be/n76ZK9gGzHY?...

New Cuttle Livestream youtu.be/vrfo4zVHgWQ?...
I'm approaching 50 of these. I think I'm getting better at being in front of the camera 🎥 but I still have room for improvement ✂️

Including some talk about this kind of pattern.

Hand Painted Zine, Part 14 | wolfCatWorkshop Get more from wolfCatWorkshop on Patreon

New Public post on my Patreon. The green monster runs among the stars.

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Wow very nice! Love that end grain on the sides.

Little free library photo with year 2015

Little free library photo with year 2025

A decade of free books. Our little free library turns 10 this month!

The doors were wood and acrylic 10 years ago but I replaced them with metal doors and sheet metal panels. The panels can be removed individually and repainted every time they get tagged.

It's tough living outside.📚🪽

Drawings for the #rakugakiShow at @giantrobotstore.bsky.social

I kind of had forgotten how much I like using colored pencils with a heavy,heavy hand. Somehow feels like I'm doing something wrong 😅.

Making Paper Strandbeesten We love the artistry of paper mechanisms.  Simple tools and techniques creating humor, beauty, and amazement. [Federico Tobon] from [Wolfcat Workshop] makes amazing automata, crosses between cut pa…

Remember that time @hackaday-feed.bsky.social wrote about some paper experiments I did using cuttle.xyz

Thank you so much for the mention @hackaday-feed.bsky.social ! "Simple tools and techniques creating humor, beauty, and amazement" you made me blush 😊

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Also happy new year of the snake!

New public post on my Patreon, trying out a more spontaneous approach to some drawings. www.patreon.com/posts/hand-p...

A photo of a gray tabby cat curled up under a colorful blanket with just her face and paw peeking out.

Solace is a snuggle bebe.

#cats

Love it! 🐰

Hi Rob! Nice to see you over here. 👋

After meeting some cuttle.xyz friends in person last month, I was finally inspired to try it out. Following @wolfcatworkshop.bsky.social's show-and-tell on parquet deformations, I made hexagon->bunny tiles.

I've been trying to incorporate these kind of morphing patterns into my drawings. This one takes an Isometric grid and adds a twist. When drawing on top of this grid the 3D view also twists along. It started as a digital sketch but the final was done with watercolors.

I decided to annotate several of these kinetic art pieces with specific materials and techniques. Check out the rest on this public Patreon post www.patreon.com/posts/kineti...
I'd also love to get more of your questions and suggestions.
#kineticArt #automata

This is a Show and Tell video about making Escher-like patterns that metamorphose into other patterns using Cuttle's customized repetitions feature.Mentioned... Show and Tell: Making Escher-Style Morphing Patterns in Cuttle

This exploration has unlocked a new level of making patterns for me.

I've always loved the type of Morphing Patterns M.C.Escher designed and here are a couple of methods for making similar things.

The video is not a tutorial but it shows how I arrived at the technique: youtu.be/eTlSAptcjwc?...

A short interview I did with Voyage LA magazine where you can learn among other things that:
* I once wanted to be a writer
* How living as an immigrant between two languages made me lean into making pictures
* How lucky I am to be surrounded by supporting people

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Sketchbook spread with watercolors. A grid of squares on the left and some character illustrations on the right.

More contrasting pages between grids and illustrations. I increased the line “wobble” on the grids and it makes it look like quilted fabric which I like. I had fun doodling the shapes coming out of the cat’s hand.
Also really digging that "Imperial Purple" by Daniel Smith.

Sketchbook spread with watercolors. A grid of squares on the left and some noodle-like shapes on the right.

This sketchbook page shows how I’m often pulled in two directions: geometric patterns and free hand-drawn forms. I wanted to see what I could do with a simple square grid, the lines are a little wobbly and the heavy granulating watercolors make it look more organic, I like that contrast.

I really like the way this drawing of our cat Shiro turned out. Sometimes these fast ink and watercolor sketches manage to capture the feeling with just a few gestures, they can feel almost like snapping a casual picture.

Simple Tree With Moving Leaves - Kinetic Kit | wolfCatWorkshop Get more from wolfCatWorkshop on Patreon

New public post on my Patreon page. This is part of a recent series where I’ve been creating diy laser cut kits. I honestly have no idea what this particular one is good for 😅 but you know, sometimes creative work follows strange paths 🐍

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Looking for advice/recommendations:

I’ve been using Mailchimp for a while but I find it a bit heavy handed and clunky for my use case. And I want something simpler.

Thinking about TinyLetter or Substack (though I don't intend to charge for it).

What do you think, any other options you like?

watercolor blobs on a sketchbook with black line doodles inside of them. Photographed on a yellow background with a brush, a pen a crystal and some paper folded into a star.

The watercolor blobs come first - as random as possible and often with some colors I’m interested in mixing. Then I fill in the shapes with a black pen. It feels odd to outline watercolors so hard but I like that they are little self contained windows of weirdness.

#wolfCatWorkshop #sketchbook

I’m a little overwhelmed with the current explosion of social media platforms so I decided I’m going to go back to the basics for a little bit. I’ll be posting pictures of my sketchbook(s) the way I used to do.
Here are some birds and weird characters drawn with multicolor pencil and watercolors: