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Simple Guide to Wood Craft Finishes – Free PDF

Simple Guide to Wood Crafting Finishes
The when, why, and how each sealer product is used by Lora S. Irish

Absolutely FREE – Just click the link to download!!!

Purpose of finishes
Preparation
Questionnaire
Aerosol v. brush-on sealers

Acrylic sealers
Polyurethane
Paste wax
Boiled linseed oil
Tung oil
Mineral oil
Burnishing
Polished craft paints
Reworkable fixative sealer
Furniture polish

Wood Burned Tiki Wind Chimes

Bamboo is a great media for wood burning! Use well dried, two year old or old sections. Wash the bamboo section with soap and water, then use a sharp utility knife to scrap away the outer layer of the bamboo.

Measure and mark your length, allowing at least one-half inch above the node. The node area closes the bamboo section to create the sound chamber and it is an easy area for your hanging accessories.

Cut your bamboo piece into the desired lengths with a fine toothed saw. Lightly sand the entire piece with 220-, then 320-grit sandpaper. You are ready to trace your pattern using graphite paper and to have fun wood burning the design. Add your wind chime elements.

Bamboo does not need a sealer or finishing coat, so once you have your chimes or bell knocker installed your project is ready to hand.

Here’s the link to my Tiki Chess Set free craving project.

ArtDesignsStudio.com News

There are four new pattern packs added to our wood carving, wood burning, and craft pattern warehouse this week!!! Plus three new discount coupons that you can add to your cart.

cp146 Tiki Patterns

Twenty fabulous Tiki Line Art Craft Patterns based on the Polynesian icon of the First Man. Patterns include designs for wind chimes, garden flags, bar decorations, and quilt projects. Have fun wood burning or wood carving these delightful male Oceanic art images.

Also include is the pattern pack with images and line patterns for your own Tiki Chess Set. Sixteen different designs to chose from for you King, Queen, Rook, Castle, Knight, and Pawns.

cp147 Barbecue Spoon Patterns

36 patterns for small wooden spoon carving. Created for wood blanks that are 8″ long or smaller, and 1/2″ or thinner. Wonderful one evening wood carving projects for beginners.

Also included is the Garnish Set of Wood Carved Spoons, which includes 9 different patterns, plus the photos of each finished spoon.

cp148 Celtic and Tribal Patterns

24 large-sized craft pattern for Celtic Tribal Animals, Butterflies, Sea Horse, Dragon, Cobra, Hearts, and more.

Enjoy the challenge of interlocking lines with the bold impression of Oceanic art tattoo geometric designs.

Ready for wood carving, wood burning, or paper crafts.

cp149 Wood Carved Wooden Spoon Bowl Shapes

This package is for those wooden spoon carvers that need a little inspiration in creating new bowl shapes for their designs. Included are 41 grid line art patterns that focus on classic as well as modern bowl, and ladle shapes. These bowl shapes can be used with any wooden spoon handle design.

Coupon Code — 59ccp
Complete Pattern Collection by Download

Get the Complete Collection by Download, including the four new pattern packs for only $59 USD. Use the coupon during Check Out!

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Pyrography Greenman Leather Bullet Journal Cover

Greenman Pyrography Leather Bullet Journal Project

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The newest project on my table is a step-by-step pyrography leather Greenman, inspired by the fun hobby of bullet journaling.

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Our Greenman Leather Pyrography Bullet Journal Cover is worked on 7 to 8 ounce vegetable dyed leather and laced using waxed linen thread and two bamboo skewers. The completed journal opens at the bottom, with the lacing for the bullet journal pages on the back of the journal. You can open the cover and completely roll the cover to the back to have easy, full access to your pages.

28 large-sized, step-by-step photos spread over 7 pages, with complete instructions, a free Greenman pattern, and printable bullet journal pages.

This project is a great compliment to me recent Greenman Leather Slop Bag Project. Check it out as the free pattern for this project would create a wonderful design when you are ready to burn your second bullet journal cover.

For more ideas to use with this Bullet Journal Cover project you may wish to check out ArtDesignsStudio.com’s newest E-Project, Colored Pencil Portraits.

146 pages of instructions, patterns, and ideas including 6 in-depth step-by-step portrait projects and 62 patterns for wood spirits, greenmen, shamans, wizards, vampires, dragons, and assorted designs.

On SALE through June 4th, only $9.50
regular price $14.95

Check out our other E-Book on sale in the right-hand nav bar.

Or try our Adult Coloring, Pyrography, Carving Patterns Pack which has just the patterns and designs, ready for your next project.

62 line art patterns and designs featuring Wood Spirits, Greenmen, Shamans, Wizards, Pixies, and even Vampires. Also included is an assortment of fun designs featuring Henna Flowers, Dragons, Winged LIzards, and more. As an added bonus this package includes 12 fully colored or pencil shaded designs to guide you in your craft work.

Ready for you to download to your computer and print from your home printer, available at ArtDesignsStudio.com, Lora S. Irish’s pattern store.

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Colored Pencil Let’s Talk Color

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Whether you are a wood carver, a pyrographer, or a gourd artist eventually you will be using color. Color is part of everything we see and understanding how color works – the basics to color theory – insures that your project is vibrant, vivid, and bold each and every time.

Over the next few days we will focus on how the eye sees color v. how the eye sees shadows and light, primary colors v. complimentary colors, and color combinations that create intense skin tones.

So, grab your freebie now and have fun reading through the basics. Tomorrow we will start a fun, step-by-step Mystic Shaman portrait!

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Free pyrography wood burning project and pattern

Free Celtic Pyrography Project

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Stamp Collecting – Philately

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

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Pyrography Doodles #3

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The images on this page are sized to print an 8 1/2″ x 11″ guide sheet which includes your sepia temperature setting, a close-up of the burning, the pyrography shading guide, and the doodle patterns used in that step. Please be patient as the image loads. Click on the image, allow it to load in a new window, right-hand click on the image, and choose Save to your Desktop.

Step 3: Medium Dark Leaf Patterns

To establish the mid-range of your tonal value, begin your pattern burns using a medium-hot setting on your tonal value scale.
Each fill pattern is a complete, small design within the boundaries of that section of the larger pattern. Work the patterns with a fine line tip – either a ball tip or looped tip pen. Work the patterns right to the edge of each section to give the impression that were the outlines not there the pattern would continue into the background.

For the first doodle patterns, shown in this step, I used simple repeats of small flowers, scales, and spirals.

Step 4: Shading Background Areas

An unshaded background for your pattern fills allows the white of the wood to show through your line work. You can work a common, shading fill over a section first, then lay your pattern work over that shading to darken the tonal value of the entire section. This technique allows you to have a mid-toned background with a dark line doodle.

You can also burn your doodle pattern first then shade over that section to darken the total tonal value of that section. This technique will darken both the background and the line doodle.

After these sections are shade the dark fill leaves are worked at a medium-hot setting to create the tonal value of pattern fill at the same color depth as the outlines of your pattern.

Step 5: Laying Patterns over Shading

Continue your pattern fill doodles over the shaded leaf sections noted in this step. Work towards creating even thickness lines and consistent tonal values.

We will continue our Pyrography Mushroom Doodles on Monday, see you there and then. We will continue to fill this mushroom pyrography doodle pattern with fun and easy to create doodle designs. Please slip over to our craft, carving, and pyrography patterns website, Art Designs Studio, to get your free patterns for this project. The download link is on our home page.

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