August 2021
Wood Carving Relief Project – Canada Goose
| Relief Wood Carving – the fine art of using chisels, gouges, and knives to remove small chips from a flat wood board to create a three dimensional design. That design can be worked as a low relief with smooth side walls to each element, a high relief carving where undercuts are made on higher elements to cast shadows on lower elements, and in intaglio where the design is cut in reverse – down into the wood to create a mold. Please click “Wood Carving” in the navigation bar above to learn more about Relief Wood Carving. | ||
Sepia Tonal Value Crayons for Pyrography
Crayons are a quick and easy media to use on your printed patterns when you want to test your tonal values before you begin your pyrography burn.
While browsing through the Back to School supplies at my local big box store I came across Crayola’s 24 pack of Colors of the World skin toned crayons. This same palette of colors is also available from Crayola as marking pens – Crayola Ultra Clean Washable Multicultural Markers, Broad Line, 10 Count, and in colored pencil media – Crayola 24 Colors of The World Skin Tone Pencils.
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All these packs hold a range of yellow-brown, red-brown, and neutral brown color giving us, pyrographers, a full sepia scale to compliment our burnings.
Before you touch your wood watercolor paper, or gourds with your pen, use can use these color packs to establish exactly where you want your shading and how light or dark you want it.
Any mistakes or any decisions to change an area’s value is worked out on paper, not on your expensive basswood plaque.
