Exploring the art form of Pyrography with Brenda Wilkie – free tutorials and patterns
This is just a friendly reminder that you have 13 days left to get your challenge artwork sent to me if you'd like it to appear in a video on YouTube. Plus, I want to mention a new YouTube tutorial that is available today. The YouTube tutorial covers creating fur or hair against a dark … Continue reading Pyrography Challenge Reminder
In this tutorial I’m going give you 6 tips for getting smooth burn results. Then I will do an example burn to show the tips in action. During the example burn I will provide some addition information such as extending the color, and switching pen tips. I created a video version of this tutorial and … Continue reading Pyrography Techniques – Tips for Smooth Burn Results wood burning tutorial
This is the last of the weekly challenges. This challenge features the Yawning Jaguar. I had started this artwork with the intention of turning into a tutorial, but during the course of creating the artwork I decided against that. The reason is the reference photo isn’t awesome, and the mouth was a bit complex. That … Continue reading Pyrography Challenge 3 (Sept 19, 2021)
This week's challenge is the Mourning Dove. This artwork is the 8th installment in my backyard bird series. I haven't created any content about this artwork yet, but like the previous challenge I will include some progress photos to help you create the artwork. First, here's the link to the pdf pattern: Mourning Dove … Continue reading Pyrography Challenge 2 (Sept 12, 2021)
At the end of July I announced that I was taking a break from YouTube and my website. My plan was to return sometime in September. In this short post I will tell you what have I been doing my time away, and share when I plan to return. More importantly this post contains a … Continue reading Thank You and Pyrography Challenge 1 (Sept 5, 2021)
In this beginner friendly tutorial, I’m going to explain how to create the African daisy artwork greeting card. The project is designed to be a quick and fun project. It took me less than 2 hours to create. In this tutorial I will explain how to do the pyrography, and add color to the artwork. … Continue reading Pyrography for Beginners – African Daisy Greeting Card wood burning tutorial
In this tutorial I’m going to explain how to trace from a western tanager photo. I will also explain why I made alterations to the tracing from the photo. My goal is to help you understand my thought processes when evaluating and alter images to improve their composition for a new project. The techniques I … Continue reading Pyrography – Tracing Western Tanager wood burning tutorial