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Learn to burn beautiful art from any drawing, pattern, or photograph!Updated edition of the 200-page illustrated guide to woodburning by renowned artist Lora Irish41 patterns plus projects that slowly progress in difficulty for beginner, intermediate, and advanced pyrographersSkill-building exercises and technique tutorials to help you master temperature, stroke, texture, and layeringStep-by-step instructions and clear photos to practice patterns, plus clear guidance on pattern transferring methodsPyrography methods to help you judge the depth of color or tonal value for each area of your designNew practice gallery, seven new patterns, updated opening sections, new photography, and other updates to this revised editionA complete and contemporary update to the popular resource for woodburners, inside this revised edition of Great Book of Woodburning, artist Lora Irish reveals her secrets to creating stunning pyrography!Beginning, intermediate, and advanced pyrographers alike will benefit from more than 40 original traceable line art designs, detailed overviews on the basics of woodburning, a thorough practice section, technique exercises, and clear step-by-step instructions for transferring a pyrography pattern.
About the Author
Lora and her husband, Michael, work from their internet studio at ArtDesignsStudio.com for line art wood carving, pyrography, and craft patterns and their online free tutorial blogs at LSIrish.com. ArtDesignsStudio.com offers more than 2500 pattern in various subject categories, including North American Wildlife, Celtic Knots, Dragons and Mythological Beasts, Nautical and Sea Life, and many more. Lora continues to provide new patterns, new projects, new step-by-step instructions, and new inspiration to many artists, only available on her pattern website. Irish's free online tutorials can be found on her blog at LSIrish.com, where she shared step-by-step in-depth wood carving, pyrography, applique quilting,and scroll saw projects.Trained as a Fine Artist at the University of Maryland, twelve of Lora Susan Irish's pure breed dog oil paintings have been published as limited edition art prints. Her art has been featured on the front covers of "Doberman Quarterly" 1991, "Samoyed Quarterly" - all four issues of 1991, and "Shetland Sheepdog Quarterly" 1991 published by Hoflin Press.She is the author of a series of woodcarving, pyrography, and craft pattern books including the Great Book of Dragon Patterns, Relief Carving the Wood Spirit, and The Art and Crafts of Pyrography; Classic Carving Patterns published by Taunton Press, publisher of "Fine Wood Working Magazine"; and Classic Chip Carving published by Chipping Away, Inc. L. S. Irish shared the Wood Carver of the Year - 2007 with Ed Gallenstein, editor and publisher of "Chip Chats Magazine", for her support and teaching efforts in the wood carving community. Working from her rural mid-Maryland home studio, Lora S. Irish is currently exploring new crafts and hobbies including wire bent link jewelry, metal sheet jewelry, piece patch and applique quilting, gourd carving, gourd pyrography, and leather crafts. You can contact Lora at her blog, LSIrish.com.
