Exploring the art form of Pyrography with Brenda Wilkie – free tutorials and patterns
This week's challenge is the Mourning Dove. This artwork is the 8th installment in my backyard bird series. I haven't created any content about this artwork yet, but like the previous challenge I will include some progress photos to help you create the artwork. First, here's the link to the pdf pattern: Mourning Dove … Continue reading Pyrography Challenge 2 (Sept 12, 2021)
At the end of July I announced that I was taking a break from YouTube and my website. My plan was to return sometime in September. In this short post I will tell you what have I been doing my time away, and share when I plan to return. More importantly this post contains a … Continue reading Thank You and Pyrography Challenge 1 (Sept 5, 2021)
In this beginner friendly tutorial, I’m going to explain how to create the African daisy artwork greeting card. The project is designed to be a quick and fun project. It took me less than 2 hours to create. In this tutorial I will explain how to do the pyrography, and add color to the artwork. … Continue reading Pyrography for Beginners – African Daisy Greeting Card wood burning tutorial
In this tutorial I’m going to explain how to trace from a western tanager photo. I will also explain why I made alterations to the tracing from the photo. My goal is to help you understand my thought processes when evaluating and alter images to improve their composition for a new project. The techniques I … Continue reading Pyrography – Tracing Western Tanager wood burning tutorial
In this blog I will be explaining the pyrography techniques to create this portrait of this smiling teen. I just love her smile and the happiness that radiates from her. This portrait marks the fourth installment in my portrait tutorial series. Just like I did with the previous tutorials I will try cover everything from … Continue reading Pyrography Portrait SMILING TEEN wood burning techniques tutorial
In this tutorial I’m going to explain how to the short dark side view hairdo. This particular hairdo features a different hair lengths, and the hair is styled so it lays in different directions. The variety of features in this hairdo will provide us with a nice selection of textures to work on. Let’s … Continue reading Pyrography Techniques – Short Dark Hair side view wood burning tutorial
In this tutorial I’m going to explain 5 different methods to create whiskers. There may be other ways of creating whiskers, but these are the 5 that I’m aware of and have used. In addition to explaining different ways to create whiskers I will also provide an example of when I used the method. Plus … Continue reading Pyrography Techniques – Whiskers Created 5 Ways wood burning tutorial