This handsome hardcover gift book makes woodburning easy by walking beginners through all the basics of materials, tools, and techniques. Seven skill-building pyrography projects provide step-by-step exercises in using temperature, time, layering, and texturing to create artistic tonal values.
Little Book of Pyrography makes it easy to learn the creative craft of woodburning! All that aspiring beginners need is this book and an inexpensive wood burning tool to start adorning wood, gourds, leather, paper and more with beautiful images and patterns. Legendary pyrography artist Lora S. Irish expands on the techniques and projects from her bestselling book Pyrography Basicsall of which are included hereand explores new ways to achieve lovely varieties of tone and texture. In this handsome hardcover gift edition, Lora provides a thorough introduction to basic tools, materials and techniques. Readers will learn how to set up a practice board to experiment with strokes and settings before moving on to working projects with confidence. Seven skill-building projects provide step-by-step exercises in using temperature, time, layering, and texturing to create artistic tonal values.
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Creating a Wood Practice Board |
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Tonal Values Practice Board |
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Light and Dark Exercise One Temperature of the Tip |
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Light and Dark Exercise Two Burning Time |
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Light and Dark Exercise Three Layers of Strokes |
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Light and Dark Exercise Four Texture Pattern |
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Light and Dark Exercise Five Putting It All Together |
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Texture Exercise: Putting Textures Together |
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Finding Tonal Values: Composition of a Good Woodburning |
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Tonal Value Exercise: The Pocket Watch |
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Step-by-Step: The Dragonette |
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Gallery |
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Index |
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About the Author |
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Lora S. Irish is an internationally known artist and author, whose acclaimed books include Great Book of Carving Patterns, Great Book of Celtic Patterns, Great Book of Dragon Patterns, Great Book of Tattoo Designs, The Official Vampire Artist's Handbook, Relief Carving Wood Spirits, World Wildlife Patterns for the Scroll Saw, and many more. Fox Chapel Publishing has sold more than 500,000 copies of Irish's books.