I love fill patterns, textures, and random designs as my shading strokes in pyrography. While you can, of course, use your shading tip, small repetitive patterns worked with your loop-tip or ball-tip burning pen fill an area easily, add interest, and can add tonal shading by working in layers of burning.
Today’s free doodle patterns show six quick and simple fill patterns. How many burn lines and how packed those burn lines are worked into one area will determine how pale or dark your shading becomes.
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Here’s a free Lora Irish Pattern pack that you can learn, and practice downloading. Contains 11 full-sized, printable patterns of some of our favorite people.
Stamp collecting is one of the top hobbies worldwide. As philatelists, we delight in little bits of art work that come from far away places, and that tell about a tiny bit of history, geography, social changes, or feature someone that has effected their country. The vast majority of the stamps that we collect cost less than a US quarter, yet bring hours and hours of fun as we track down complete year sets, special revenue issues, or even discover cancelled stamped envelopes from distant cities.
It is estimated that to have a complete worldwide collection you would have over 500,000 different stamps, from so many countries that Wikipedia has their own WikiProject just for collectors. Many of us focus on several favorite countries, or perhaps a topic or theme that is important to us.
Where you might specialize in butterflies, steam engine trains, or famous women in history, I personally search for stamps that feature maps, geology, and space endeavors. On one of my stamp collecting forums, Stamp Community Forum, one member noted that he collected stamps that feature men with mustaches.
Treasure Trove of Ideas
As wood carvers, pyrographers, and craft artists stamp collecting is a treasure trove of ideas, designs, and pattern work. Over the next few days I will be working on a pyrography pointillism project that features two Celtic birds, entwined in a Celtic knot pattern, inside of a traditional stamp frame.
Pointillism is the process of creating a design using only small dots. Small, widely spaced dots will create our pale tonal values; medium-sized dots, loosely packed give us the mid-tone values; and large, tightly packed dots will make our dark tonal value range.
Art Styles of Pyrography
To learn more about the different styles and patterns that can be used in your pyrography work please check out Lora Irish’s Art Style of Pyrography – 190 pages, 15 projects, Ready for Download, which we have placed on sale for those following our blog and this free project.
This is a quick, easy, beginner’s level free pyrography project that can quickly be personalized to include your name, a date, or a location. By the time we are done this project you will discover how you can create your own postage stamp designs by mix and matching topic patterns with stamp frames.
Supplies needed:
12″ x 12″- 1/4″ sheet of birch, poplar, or basswood plywood Wood burning unit – either one temperature or variable 220-grit sandpaper #2 to #4 soft pencil Painter’s tape or masking tape Red ball-point ink pen for tracing Loop tipped burning pen Ball tipped burning pen Ruler
So, while you get your supplies together, I am off to get our newest e-Project completed, which will, of course, focus on stamp collecting designs and ideas. See ya’ tomorrow with the free pattern to this project. – Lora
Today we will put our Mushroom Pyrography Doodle project together to create a desktop note board. The finished project also makes a great recipe holder for your kitchen. If you are just joining this project, please follow the links below for the free step-by-step insturctions and pyrography pattern for this free Lora S. Irish wood burning pattern.
Please drop by our carving and pyrography pattern website, Art Designs Studio, to get your free mushroom pyrography patterns that complement this project. The pattern package is on our home page. The links to the previous posts for this free project are below.
Step 15:Finishing Your Project
1. Lightly sand your work using a fine grit nail foam core pad or board. Wipe any sanding dust with a dry cloth.
2. Cut your cork board to 5 1/2” wide x 10 1/2” high, using a sharp craft knife. Round the corners using a jar or bottle lid as your guide. Cut a sheet of computer paper the same size and shape as the cork. We will use the paper to protect the cork during the sealing steps.
3. Spread an even layer of yellow carpenter’s glue to the back of the cork board. Lay the cork onto your plywood, 3/4” from the right side of the plywood and 1/2” inch from the top – aligning it with the burned design.
4. Lay several heavy books on top of the cork, to apply pressure, and allow the glue to dry completely.
5. Using hot glue, circle the outer edge of the cork board with one strand of sea grass. Begin your gluing at the center of the bottom edge of the cork.
6. Using hot glue, circle the outer edge of the plywood with one strand of sea grass. Begin your gluing at one lower corner of the plywood.
7. Lay the cut computer paper over the cork area of your project. Thumbtack into place. Use a spray sealer, following the directions on the label, to seal your burning. The computer paper will protect your cork from the spray application.
8. Cut your basswood board to measure 12″ long by 3 3/4″ wide. Draw a diagonal line from corner to corner on the basswood. Using either a small cabinet saw or your craft knife, cut along the line to create two triangles. Sand the cut edge of each triangle piece of basswood. Using yellow carpenter’s glue, glue the triangle supports to the back of the plywood to create legs. Place the basswood legs 2” from the sides of the plywood, with the long diagonal cut edge against the plywood.
Thank you for joining me in this fun pyrography, wood burning project.
That’s it!!! If you are ready for more great patterns and designs that you can use in your pyrography doodle projects please see our new Lora Irish pattern package, Pyrography Doodles at Art Designs Studio. This exclusive package includes 300 doodle designs that you can use in your pyrography, 26 carving and pyrography patterns, 10 finished doodle samples, and 3 border patterns.
Let’s finish up the pyrography wood burning steps for our Doodle Mushroom design. During these steps we will fill the large mushroom’s stem, work the foreground mushrooms, and then work a general check of the work accomplished.
Please drop by our carving and pyrography pattern website, Art Designs Studio, to get your free mushroom pyrography patterns that complement this project. The pattern package is on our home page. The links to the previous posts for this free project are below.
The large mushroom stem uses a large flower design with a curve-sectioned center, a ring of small spirals, and then layers of serrated petals. Use the serrated petals to fill the space between your flowers.
Step 13: Working the Front Mushrooms
Follow the doodle pattern placement guide and work the foreground mushrooms. Use a dark-medium setting throughout this burn.
Step 14: Finishing the Shading
Check your shading to strengthen any area that needs deeper tonal value work. Also check your doodle patterns for tonal value. You can re-burn any doodle pattern to add more value, if needed.
Tomorrow we will do the finishing steps to turn this Pyrography Doodle Mushroom wood burning into a desktop note board or kitchen recipe board. See you then and thank you for reading.
Today we will fill the top of the mushroom cap with a large doodle pattern, then adding graduated shading to the cap. Please drop by our carving and pyrography pattern website, Art Designs Studio, to get your free mushroom pyrography patterns that complement this project. The pattern package is on our home page. The links to the previous posts for this free project are below.
The pattern on the mushroom cap is a very large flower pattern with long leaves, butterflies, and small daisies. Begin the large flower at the top of the mushroom cap. As you work the doodle pattern towards the outer edges of the mushroom cap begin filling using small daisies. Add as many butterflies as you would like.
Step 10: Shading the Cap
A second shading is worked over the entire large mushroom to deepen the tonal value along the outer edges and behind the leaf curl. Leave the mushroom spots unworked, the white of the wood.
Step 11: Working a Second Layer of Shading
To push the background leaves even deeper into the design, a third layer of shading is added. Please follow the shaded drawing guide for your shading placement.
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