After playing around with the iron and tips for a few minutes, I jumped right in and burned the first project in the learning book. A cattail. This took me all of maybe 15 minutes. It looks a bit rough but believe it or not, it turned out better than the one in the book! The book has a few patterns, I have not done any of them yet. More on patterns later.
February 14, 2014. The pyrography kit came with a few artist quality colored pencils so I decided to try them out right away too. These were just regular colored pencils so they didn't blend like I thought they would. However, it turned out beautifully for this rose, but I immediately ordered some high quality watercolor pencils!
(I didn't realize it was Valentine's Day when I did this rose. Kinda cool)
February 17, 2014. Football season was a blast this year! I watched EVERY game, including the pre-season! Our team not only made it to the Super Bowl, we actually won for the first time in Seahawks history! I decided to try this to celebrate. The logo turned out ok, but as you can see, burning text is a lot harder than it looks! Still, not to bad considering this is only my 3rd pyro project. I have since learned how to prepare the piece of wood before burning, as well as how to finish it after the burning & painting. I also make my own text patterns to transfer to the project (when needed).
Onward to the next project!
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