Great Book Of Woodburning

Great Book of Woodburning is a comprehensive guide to Pyrography that is perfect for beginners and experts alike. Providing details on the four essential pyrography ingredients - temperature, speed of stroke, texture patterns and layering.

Learn to Burn If you want to experience the joy of creating stunning pyrography art, all you need is an inexpensive woodburning tool and the Great Book of Woodburning. In this fully illustrated, 200-page guide, nationally recognized artist and pyrographer Lora S. Irish shares her expertise and reveals her secrets for crafting beautiful burned images from any drawing, pattern, or photograph. In no time, you'll be doing everything from shading to composition as you adorn furniture, jewelry, ornaments, greeting cards,and much, much more. In the Great Book of Woodburning, you'll discover: -Skill-building exercises to help you master temperature, stroke, texture, and layering -Step-by-step instructions and more than 25 patterns for beginning, intermediate, and advanced pyrographers -Methods to help you judge the depth of color or tonal value for each area of your design

Great Book of Woodburning is a comprehensive guide to Pyrography that is perfect for beginners and experts alike. Providing details on the four essential pyrography ingredients - temperature, speed of stroke, texture patterns and layering - this reference also includes chapters on equipment, surface selection and preparation and finishing techniques.Pyrography (or woodburning) is 'the art of burning a design or pattern into a natural surface', such as gourds, wood, leather, or cotton rag watercolour paper 'using heated one-temperature or variable- temperature woodburning tools or a fine flame'.Teaching the way in which the eye comprehends visual tones and translating this knowledge into light and dark values with woodburning tools, this text for all skill levels also provides 30 traceable line patterns that differ in skill and ability.