J Wildfire Fractals

After many years of working on my MacBook Pro I decided to upgrade. Don't laugh but my upgrade is to a 2013 iMac! Crazy! But not for me, I wanted a high spec old Mac with a NVIDIA graphics card especially for rendering my fractals. That is the only year they did NVIDIA and then fell out with the company.

To say I am totally addicted to the new version for Mac is an understatement. I have been so busy creating loads of lovely fractals and uploading them (in half the time) that I'm just going to show a few. I really should post as I do them but I just get so engrossed. I think I have recently done almost 100 and these are the ones that make it. I'm quite critical and if it's not a good render it doesn't go on.

I spend hours using this program and although not to everyone's taste I do these just for me and what I like. There is a freedom and escape in fractals that keeps me sane.

Did I mention they are also HUGE. Most are around 83" x 66"! Okay here's a couple of little ones and a cute one that won't make my list but I thought was quite sweet.

Green Fairy ©mforrester

White Moon ©mforrester

Ghostly Balloons :D

Nightmare Before Christmas Themed Doll's House

Earlier in the year I completed a lovely project as a birthday present for my granddaughter. I totally loved every minute of it but have to say it took loads of time. It was worth it though. Here are some of the progress pictures and also the finished result.

All the little wooden furniture painted white

My partner bought a plain wooden doll's house so the first part was to paint everything white, including all the wooden furniture. I used white acrylic paint to put down a good base coat.

I tackled the project by painting all the fiddly furniture first. My inspiration was from Sally's dress. This was going to be a bit different from the usual gothic style. I wanted it a bit more modern and illustrative.

It was a case of painting tops, bottoms and sides. I used glittery paint and some pen also and then each piece was varnished. 

I really love the telly and pinched and re-sized a small Frankenweenie image. As this is not for re-sale I'm sure they won't mind 😉

The start of painting all the little furniture.

Anyway, I'm just going to post all the pictures I took along the way. There is glitter paint in there too and metallic paints.

The inside of the house was lined with cushion covers and I really got into a bit of a mess with the glue. Spray glue did not work and left a bit of staining. In the end I found some carpet glue in the shed and that worked well. I lined the edges with ribbon. The coffin bath even has little taps that my partner put in. He also bought little twinkly lights and put them into some of the furniture for a finishing touch. Enjoy!

Dining Room and Kitchen

Bathroom

Bathroom with Outside of Bath

Cute bedroom

I even painted under the stairs

Rough drawings first

Front of house with Pumpkins

Even the back got a design

Something a little special

The back finished

The sides finished

Even the inside of the doors painted

Painted trees not pen!

Drying the panels in the sun

All the outside bits and pieces

The inside finished

Cake topper characters

Outside finished

Little finishing details

Inside with glitter floors

Spider theme throughout