Project | Make Music Floral Strat

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I wanted to create a picture to display in my craft room (aka the conservatory) and thought this would make a great first project for my LOKLiK iPaint.

Music has been a passion of mine since childhood, as has crafting. While browsing the Loklik App library, for inspiration for the project, I found the patterned Strat style guitar. This image immediately gave me the perfect idea for the project, and reminded me of the Beaty of music. As with art and crafts, you don’t want to just make music, you want to make the most beautiful music you can.

After adding the text and arranging all the elements, I tried to send the project to the iPaint, but the app couldn’t process the guitar’s pattern, as it’s a bitmap image. I wanted to keep the pattern, so has to create my own using a couple of flower vector images from the Library. The flower images were copied, recoloured, resized and rotated slightly, several times over. I arranged the copies to follow the original image’s pattern as much as possible. When all the copies were in place, the elements were grouped by colour and combined with copies of the guitar shape.

I created an A4 paper template for the iPaint and set that as my material on the ‘Make’ screen and selected a blue heat erasable pen. When the machine finished working its magic, I added colour with acrylic paint markers, following the project’s pattern.

After drying, I erased the blue ink by holding the page against a radiator, as I didn’t have a heat gun to hand! The image was cut to size, along with a green card border, then mounted in a deep box frame for display.

I’m very pleased with the outcome, for a first attempt with the iPaint.

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Truly magnificent! :smiley::ok_hand: Can’t wait to see what else you do with this machine! And excellent job figuring out a workaround for the guitar!

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Oh I love this project. I love the idea for the guitar and can understand why you wanted to keep that in your design. The continuation with that pattern into the word Music really brings the whole piece together. The iPaint can be a bit tricky but once you get going you can create some beautiful master pieces, like this one. Really love this one, it’s going to look great in your craft room. :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes:

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Thanks so much Sam. It took far more time than I’d expected but I’m fairly pleased with the end result. Looked much better in natural light when I came down this morning.
Just need to make it much bigger in future, especially if I’m using pens!

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Thank you very much Belle.
I had originally intended the word music to be just green. I’m really glad I changed it up though.

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You’re welcome! Yeah, it always takes longer than expected. At least, for me, anyway. :joy: It feels good, though, when it’s finished and you can see the beautiful work you’ve done. The day after I’ve finished a painting, I keep going back to admire it, every 5 minutes. :laughing: I think you made all the right decisions, and yes, making the next one bigger will be even more fun for ya! :heart:

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This looks amazing.

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I think you should definitely get the iPaint though Sam, considering you already paint so often. It seems right up you alley.

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Thank you so much :pray:

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You’re welcome! :heart: Yes, it’s definitely on my wishlist as the next machine I get. It would be so useful for me, especially for doing watercolor paintings. Since I just ordered the iCraft — after redeeming my points for a $100 gift card and combining it with the gift cards I won from events — I’m going to save up my cheers points for the iPaint. I had to make the iCraft my first priority. :laughing:

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Great decision Sam. The iCraft seems great and hopefully will enable you to finally crack Print and Cut!

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Thanks, yeah, I hope it works for me. I’m crossing my fingers that it will. I’ve seen others who’ve purchased it, recently, say that they can’t get perfect PTCs with it. I really do think the flatten tool would fix that whole issue. So, I hope they decide to add it eventually.

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