pyrography indigo dragon

My Pyro Indigo King

My second pyrography project, let me show it to you.

For a Christmas present for a friend last year, I finally used the wood burning kit I’d had in my closet for the past three years. And I discovered I really liked pyrography (the art or process of creating designs on wood using a heated tool) and wanted to do a piece for myself that was something other than Cyrillic letters. I choose the dragon sketch James A. Owen drew in my hardcover of The Indigo King.

Here’s a series of pics of the process …

pyrography indigo king dragon 1

copy of sketch and blank wood

pyrography indigo king dragon 2 by heidi2524

using graphite paper to trace the sketch onto the wood

pyrography indigo king dragon 3 by heidi2524

finished tracing


pyrography indigo king dragon 4 by heidi2524

let the burning begin!

pyrography indigo king dragon 5 by heidi2524

trying out going over the same lines to create thicker lines

pyrography indigo king dragon 6 by heidi2524

final burned image


pyrography indigo king dragon by heidi2524

final (stained & sanded) x 3 then waxed, pyro piece

 

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