The Art & Craft of Pyrography: Drawing with Fire on Leather, Gourds, Cloth, Paper, and Wood (Fox Chapel Publishing) More Than 40 Patterns, Step-by-Step Projects, and Expert Advice from Lora S. Irish - Softcover

Lora S. Irish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565234782 ISBN 13: 9781565234789

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Explore the craft of pyrography across the full range of inventive pyro media with internationally known author and artist Lora S. Irish!

• 43 project patterns, each beautifully detailed to help you explore pyrography across various media
• Learn the basics of pyrography systems, tools, supplies, and practice boards
• Learn the differences between the various substrates—vegetable-tanned leather, dried gourds, chipboard, papier-mâché, artist paper, cotton fabric and cavas, and wood
• Tips and techniques for mastering temperature settings, hand positions, textures, fill and stroke patterns, creating tonal values, understanding shadows, adding color to your burnings, and finishing
• Complete instructions plus photographs of both the finished piece and the work-in-progress during the pale, medium, dark, and detailed stages

Although it is often referred to as woodburning, the art of pyrography can be worked on just about any natural surface, including gourds, leather, or cotton rag paper. Lora S. Irish, author of Great Book of Woodburning, offers more than 40 amazingly detailed new projects that explore the craft of pyrography across the full range of inventive pyro media.

Inside Art & Craft of Pyrography, you'll learn the basics of pyrography systems, tools, supplies and practice boards. Differences between the various substrates are examined and discussed, including both wood and non-wood working surfaces.

Lora provides expert advice on temperature settings, fill patterns, hand positions, textures, stroke patterns and more. Chapters are included on creating tonal values, understanding shadows, adding color to your burnings, and finishing the work. 43 patterns illustrate the application of fine pyrography across a wide variety of imaginative media, including vegetable tanned leather, dried gourds, cotton fabric, artist paper, chipboard and papier-mâché.

Lora S. Irish is known for her amazingly detailed patterns that positively exude expression, and this book does not disappoint! Each fascinating project includes complete instructions plus photographs of both the finished piece and the work-in-progress across pale, medium, dark and detailed stages.

About this title

About the Author

Lora S. Irish specialises in creating original, detailed designs that capture the authenticity and character of popular subjects. Her success as an artist is not only based on the precise illustrations born from extensive research into the origins, history and physiology of her subjects, but by an ability to render her work with the proper colour, shading and visual texture that allows an artist to clearly understand the subject and successfully translate the patterns into any medium. As a result, artists have beautifully rendered her patterns and designs in many different forms: body art, paint, pyrography, pencil and ink, needlepoint, stained glass, woodcarving, engraving, stamping and jewelry. With over 100,000 books in print, Lora's popular portfolio of titles include the best selling Great Book of Tattoo Designs, as well as several others in the series, llike Great Book of Celtic Patterns, Great Book of Fairy Patterns, Great Book of Floral Patterns and Great Book of Dragon Patterns. She's also written several books on woodcarving, woodburning and wood scrolling as well as being a frequent contributor to WoodCarving Illustrated and Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazines.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565234782
• ISBN 13: 9781565234789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144