Pyrography Patterns: Basic Techniques and 30 Wildlife Designs for Woodburning

Description

If you're a woodburning artist with a love of nature and animals, Pyrography Patterns will make it easy for you to create vibrant and attractive wildlife images. Award-winning pyrography artist Sue Walters offers 30 dynamic North American wildlife patterns and 10 original border designs to use in woodburning projects. These engaging animal subjects-including geese, eagles, bear, deer, wolves, foxes, owls, chipmunks, cougars, and more-are presented in harmonious natural settings. Large ready-to-use designs are provided in both line and tonal patterns. Amazingly detailed tones are shown directly over each line drawing, to guide you in darkening your picture with ultra-realistic, lifelike effects. The author includes tips on transferring patterns, plus advice on segmenting and manipulating the images to create your own custom designs.

Sue Walters is an internationally renowned Australian pyrographer. She has won numerous international pyrographic art awards, including the 2002 and 2003 Australian Society of Miniature Art International Competitions, the 2002 Canadian Woodcarving Championship, the 2001 Ontario Woodcarvers Association Championship and the 2001 Ottawa Woodcarving Championship.