Exploring the art form of Pyrography with Brenda Wilkie – free tutorials and patterns
Trillium flowers grow wild in the moist dappled sunlight forests of the pacific northwest. They are easily identifiable by their three large leaves below a single flower that has three petals and three small side leaves. Todd was out hiking with a friend and took a stunning picture that I immediately fell in love with … Continue reading Trillium Wallflower 2 Pyrography Tutorial wood burning
Some of you are probably thinking it is summer, so what the heck is Brenda doing posting a Christmas themed tutorial?! Well Christmas in July is gaining in popularity and it’s never too early to start working on homemade gifts for the holidays, so I created Jingle Bells, the third installment of my Christmas Postcard … Continue reading Jingle Bells Christmas Postcard 3 Pyrography Tutorial wood burning
Todd bought a photography ‘how to’ DVD and I was watching part of it with him. At one point the photographer had a series of flower close-ups with dark backgrounds. I loved how they looked and it inspired a new tutorial series I’m calling wallflowers. Apple Blossoms is the first flower creation in that series. … Continue reading Apple Blossoms Wallflower Pyrography Tutorial wood burning
A while back Todd got into fractal wood burning, or Lichtenberg Figures burning as some call it. Fractal wood burning is done by using electricity and I’ll explain it a bit more at the end of the blog. He gave me several pieces he had done so that I could try wood burning on them. … Continue reading Entwined Seahorse Pyrography Tutorial wood burning
A while back I created my first ever mandala, the Mandala Flower, and it was a lot of fun. I just love how you can put so many different textures and pattern designs together in one piece of artwork and it still looks good. Since I had so much fun with the first mandala, I … Continue reading Mandala II Pyrography Tutorial Wood Burning
The shading pen tip is my workhorse in pyrography. Other than the gingerbread house tutorial, all of my projects so far have relied heavily on the shading tip. Just guessing I would estimate I use it at least 95% of the time if not more. As I’ve mentioned before, I have a Colwood burner (super … Continue reading How to use the Pyrography Shading Pen Tip Tutorial wood burning
I love owls. They are one of my favorite birds and when I was commissioned to create a piece of pyrography art featuring an owl, I was thrilled. This particular owl was photographed at a zoo near Seattle, Washington. I later discovered that it was a Eurasian hawk owl; so, not native to the United … Continue reading Hawk Owl Pyrography Tutorial wood burning