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.
About the Author...viii Introduction...1 Gallery...3 Part One:
Woodburning Basics...11 Woodburning Tools and Equipment...12 Selecting Wood
for Woodburning...18 Preparing the Surface...22 Finishing Steps for
Woodburning...26 Part Two: Practice...31 Using Shading and Texture...32
Creating a Practice Board...40 Patterns for Practice...52 Composition of a
Good Woodburning...66 Part Three: Projects & Patterns...89 Beginning
Projects...90 Creating the Dragonette Step-by-Step...91 Dragonette
Chessboard...101 OUr Daily Bread...106 Goldfish...108 Ivy Line...110 Wild
Rose Corner...111 My Room Gingerbread Man...112 Single Briar Rose...114
Summer Morning Sun Face...115 Pentagram Star...116 Intermediate
Projectrs...118 Creating the Mallard Drake Step-by-Step...119 Buffalo Skull
Dream Weaver Circle...134 Western Horse...136 New York's Finest...138
Old-Timer Fireman...140 Solar Flare Sun Face...141 Mule Deer Portrait...142
White-Tailed Deer Lodge...144 American Eagle...146 Berry Green Man...148 Oak
Man...150 Advanced Projects...152 Creating The Country Church
Step-by-Step...153 Cowboy Boots...166 The Philadelphia Derringer...170
Western Dragon...172 The End of the Road...174 Grandpa's Pride and Joy...178
Hide 'n Seek...180 Horned Owl...182 Harrisburg Star Barn...184 Our Town
Mantel...186 Bank Barn...188 Church Mantel...188 Glossary...190 Index...191
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