Little Book of Pyrography: Techniques, Exercises, Designs, and Patterns
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 Basics—all of which are included here—and 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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Little Book of Pyrography: Techniques, Exercises, Designs, and Patterns
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 Basics—all of which are included here—and 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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Little Book of Pyrography: Techniques, Exercises, Designs, and Patterns

Little Book of Pyrography: Techniques, Exercises, Designs, and Patterns

by Lora S. Irish
Little Book of Pyrography: Techniques, Exercises, Designs, and Patterns

Little Book of Pyrography: Techniques, Exercises, Designs, and Patterns

by Lora S. Irish

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Overview

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 Basics—all of which are included here—and 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781565239692
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date: 08/14/2018
Edition description: Gift
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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. Lora is also a frequent contributor to Woodcarving Illustrated and to Scroll Saw Woodworking and Crafts magazines.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Pyrography Systems 8

Pyrography Tips 11

General Supplies 12

Basic Supply List 15

Surfaces 16

Practice Board 36

Creating a Wood Practice Board 52

Tonal Values Practice Board 58

Light and Dark Exercise 1 Temperature of the Tip 64

Light and Dark Exercise 2 Burning Time 68

Light and Dark Exercise 3 Layers of Strokes 74

Light and Dark Exercise 4 Texture Pattern 79

Light and Dark Exercise 5 Putting It All Together 84

Texture Exercise: Putting Textures Together 89

Finding Tonal Values: Composition of a Good Woodburning 94

Tonal Value Exercise: The Pocket Watch 108

Project 116

Step-by-Step: The Dragonette 117

Gallery 141

Index 158

About the Author 159

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