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May 27 2014

Color Chart for LSIrish.com

Mike A., Hooker green is equal to the phthalo green shown in the left column, second grouping. A medium red-brown earthtone is equal to the venetian red, right column, third section!

Mike A. and his wood carving club are currently working as a group through our Canada Goose Relief Wood Carving Project – a great step-by-step project for any beginning wood carver. He sent an email yesterday asking several questions on the paint colors used in this tutorial. So, I am posting my favorite color chart guide here on our blog for Mike.

The chart is grouped into several areas for easy reference.

Left hand column, top shows the basic gray tones for neutral shading. French gray tends towards a beige-gray or brown-gray coloring, and Paynes gray tends towards a glue-gray or gunmetal tone. The second group shows the dark color tones used in colored pencil work for complimentary shading, where the compliment of the final color of an area is used to create the shadow tones. The third section is my favorite graduated colorings for yellow. The bottom group in the left hand column shows my skin tone colors.

In the right hand column, the top section shows my muted tone shading colors. The remaining sections show my chosen graduated tones for pink, red, purple, blue, and green.

Every paint, pencil, and pastel company has their own unique names for their colors. I would recommend that you keep a copy of this painting guide on your computer. You can print a copy, then write the manufacturer’s names of the paints you already own beside the matching color swatch.

To learn more about working with colors – hues, compliments, tones, and values – please visit our tutorial Who is R.G. Biv? For working with watercolors for your pyrography projects, please see Watercolors and Wood Burning. For more information on how to paint your wood carvings, you will want to take time reading our Painting Your Wood Carving tutorial.

Click on the color reference chart for a full-sized image. Right hand click to save to your Desktop.

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Apr 24 2014

Pyrography Doodle #7

6 Comments / Pyrography Projects / By irish

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.

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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.

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Apr 23 2014

Pyrography Doodles #6

4 Comments / Pyrography Projects / By irish

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.

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Step 12: Pattern Fill the Stem

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.

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Apr 22 2014

Pyrography Doodles #5

3 Comments / Pyrography Projects / By irish

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.

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Step 9: Doodle the Top Cap

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.

Please remember these are large images that you can right-hand click and save to your desktop.

See you tomorrow!

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Apr 21 2014

Pyrography Doodles #4

3 Comments / Pyrography Projects / By irish

Small doodle patterns can be used to create the fill textures inside the sections of any pattern, adding delightful little designs to your work. Those doodles can be repeat patterns, random fills, or large, fully complete designs. In today’s step we will work a large floral pattern in the underside of our mushroom cap.

To provide a clear, easy-to-follow, easy-to-print image, the photos on this page are fairly large. Please be patient as they load to your browser. Click on any of the images to open them, full sized, in a new window. Right hand click on the image and save it to your desktop.

Step 6 Completing the Leaves

To create more tonal values in the overall mushroom design, turn your temperature setting down to a dark-pale setting. Work the doodle fill patterns into each section, following the pattern guide. Note that the designs and patterns of the doodles are still strong even though they are worked at a pale value.

If you missed the beginning posts to this free pyrography project:
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Step 7: Shading the Mushroom

Using a common fill pattern, shade the mushroom cap, underside, and stem. Work the shading on the left side of each area, with the darkest tonal values along the outer edge of each area. Follow the shaded drawing for placement.

Step 8: Fill the Underside of the Cap

Fill the underside of the mushroom with the large flower pattern shown on that step page. This pattern features a double scroll center with an inner ring of five petals and an outer ring of scalloped petals. Add more scalloped petals between the flowers to fill the space between each flower.

For more great patterns to use with this project, please visit our Pyrography Doodles Pattern Package on our pattern website, Art Designs Studio.

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