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My award-winning local library, part of the City of Montréal's large network of libraries, houses something called a MakerSpace.

This provides publicly-accessible creativity tools within a walled-off area of the library, including sewing machines, computers with design software, scanners, 3D printers, and more.

Today I had some fun in the MakerSpace, taking an introductory-level 3D printing workshop. At the end of the workshop, all participants were invited to 'play' with the software to design... anything we wanted to.

I opted to design a 3D version of an imaginary creature, from one of my recent watercolours. It's a semi-abstract painting for one of my upcoming chronic pain and CRPS rare disease awareness activities.

The MakerSpace staff run the 3D printing jobs overnight, so I should get my little 3D-printed model sometime this week. Once I've received it, I'll share a photo of it, alongside the painting that inspired it.