Category Archives: Art

Cork worldmap lasercut

UPDATE: 202304 street map Hilversum

In the weeks before Arja got her University degree, i’ve been working on a cork worldmap.
She always wanted to have a way to mark the places she has been.

So i started drawing, copy pasting, moving, potracing and editing.
Using Coreldraw and Inkscape i ended up with this:

End result:

So i made one for us too ..

My svg file

https://media.henriaanstoot.nl/world-landen-verzie-aan-werken-20160221-c-corelX4.svg

Lasercut Xmas Cards

Using a lasercutter i’ve been making some wooden ornaments.

We send these as Xmas cards, so people can hang these in their tree afterwards.

DIY Xmas Cards

We also used these for Advent Calendar decorations.

You can find the lasercut models attached

https://media.henriaanstoot.nl/2015KERST.cdr

Making a lot of graphics for a book.

Protographing a bonsai we made (360 we made )

Coline is publishing a book for her thesis.

So we had to design Covers and graphics for this.

I used Scibus to make a mockup design.
The graphics in the book are made using Inkscape.

The book itself was written using Indesign.

Inkscape is perfect to create vector graphics. These can be resized to any resolution. So always perfect.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics
In the past i’ve used a program like sodipodi, there is something like it now integrated in Inkscape.
This is a tool to convert bitmap to vector graphics.
(Using a small jpg, i could convert it to vector graphics and print it in a huge size)

Inkscape work


Some designs

Final design

Schematic drawing beer brewing

Made a drawing about the steps involved brewing beer. Made this after following a workshop beer brewing at t’wort wat

Just to have a follow-along sheet .. so i dont forget a step.

UPDATE : Used this to teach others about brewing later on.
For friends, family or colleagues.
See post about NA Brew and BBQ day

Little drawing about one of the greatest pipers.

May he rest in peace.

He was a great driving force for current pipers like: Ross Ainsley and Ali Hutton.

His music was innovate. Not alway liked by purists.
He listened a lot to Breton music, and used a lot of cross-fingering to play extra notes.

The (bad) comic about him.

See the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust at https://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/

Great tunes:

Some of the tunes I play:

  • Mexican Hat Dance
  • Thunderstruck/Angus Thing
  • Full moono down under
  • Muineira De Poio
  • Smeseno Horo
  • 98 Jig
  • Soup Dragon (Banjo)
  • Belly Dancer (started this on Border Pipes because of the tuning)
  • Sleeping Tune
  • Andy Renwick’s Ferret
  • Pressed of time (Mandoline)
  • Fourth Floor
  • High Drive (smallpipe with our Folk Band)
  • Zeeto the Bubbleman (long time ago)

New shirts for our group “Prutsers”

Design made with Inkscape

Joke about this: Someone’s granny said: “Indeed prutsers .. 3 is far to hot for those shirts”

Prutser .. as used many times on this site.

Definitions of botcher. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence. synonyms: blunderer, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler. type of: incompetent, incompetent person.

Used in our context: Not serious about the things we create, fast fun and easy .. then we take it apart and make something else.