Step by Step Pyrography Project Getting Back on Track

[David Stanley]

My apologies to anyone trying to follow the step by step project I had begun earlier and for my not being able to keep a consistent output on this pyrography tutorial this month. I had some other urgent projects to complete plus some minor mishaps.

The main reason for the delay is that the main content of the pyrography project on the blog is to be published in Fox Chapel's 'Pyrography Special issue Magazine'. This meant I have had to re-work a number of aspects and start again to take photos more suitable for print production. This has all contributed to the lack of updates.

I have at least placed some photo updates of the project on my blog and will add some instructional content later. I hope no one has been let down by the lack of updates. I've posted a couple of current progress photos of the latest version of this project.

There have also been some additions to the pattern I posted and if anyone needs an updated one, email me and I will send it to you.

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[vk4]

wish I had your skill, That is really well done,:2tsup::2tsup::2tsup: the other half and I are playing around with Pyrography, and I am into wood turning as well.
(see PLATTER with FAULT) in turning section.

The Border, Heron, have been done by my wife (much better than my efforts),, and the fishing, angel, and rose are my efforts, also a platter I have just done from Camphor Laural.

Cheers ,

Jeff

[David Stanley]

Thanks 'vk4', there seem to be many different ways of doing pyrography, like there are many ways of drawing or painting.

The project I've shown here is a bit different from what I usually do, in that it uses line as a prominent element and colour is incorporated. The other thing that I do differently, is use a very low heat setting for shading and only a medium heat for dark areas and lines. I just build up to the required darkness by repeated layerings of overlapping line or tone.

You both seem to be off to a good start with your pyrography. When I first purchased a pyrography machine, quite a while back, I couldn't get much joy out of using it at all, it just didn't seem to suit me.

Then much later I saw some examples of pyrography on the net that impressed me, about five years ago. So I gave it another try and then another try some time after that but with a different attitude and some experimentation I found it to be just drawing or painting on the timber with a different kind of brush.

I have only been doing the pyrography with any serious intent for four years and only a couple of works a year up until now. But I have had constant drawing experience, as an illustrator for over thirty five years and it seems to me that pyrography is just another drawing medium more than it is anything else, though one offering unique possibilities .

I haven't tried turning, but I like the way your platter displays the figure and the natural abstract beauty of the included 'fault'. As I mostly carve and do pyrography, I tend to choose timbers with little figure. But figure is an attribute in timber that I really like nevertheless.

Keep on with the pyrography it can work well with turning I've noticed.