Bloom day scans/kaleidoscopes
Category: Scanner art
My monthly efforts with plants and a cheap scanner.
Canna, Eucomis and more
Some recent scans and manipulations that I haven’t had time to publish.
Canna scan.
Canna four-pane.
Canna kaleidoscope.
Canna honeycomb.
Eucomis scan. (Bleh!)
Eucomis four pane. (Eh.)
Eucomis kaleidoscope. (Hmmm…)
Eucomis honeycomb. (Ahh…)
Fiddling with a scan from back in May.
Midsummer bouquet
Water lily
First kaleidoscope I’ve done from a photo, rather than a scan.
How it’s done
Creating kaleidoscopes isn’t magic. Here are the directions. I’m not as fast as the video I created below. The hard part is choosing the slice to use. The tedious part is getting the pieces of the mosaic to line up.