Yoga Text Woodburned Bangles

Do-Something-Everyday, May 2, 2016

It was tricky wood burning the yoga text on the bangles. With care  and patience, I managed to do it.

Do-Something-Everyday: Pyro Doodles

Do-Something-Everyday, April 29, 2016

I did this wood burned drawing on a small plaque that I had picked from the craft store for a couple of dollars. It was made of thin plywood but I liked the shape of it. I did a little doodle art on one side and painted the surrounding area with white gesso which made the drawing pop out.

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Do-Something-Everyday, April 15, 2016

A plain wood vase transformed into a painted textural piece of art with pyrographic tools. One side is dense with repetitive triangles drawn using hot tips and the colored with Golden fluid acrylics. It has a very nice texture with a 3-d effect. The other side (below) is more traditional with flower patterns. The wood burned flowers are highlighted with surrounding colors.

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Do-Something-Everyday: Pyrographic Drawings

Do-Something-Everyday: Week 2, Day 7

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Do-Something-Everyday: Peacock Pyrography Watercolor Art

Do-Something-Everyday: Day 2 of 365

For day 2 of my DSE project, I am posting another of my pyrographic watercolor art with my favorite bird, the peacock. Peacock is the national bird of India and it pops up a lot in many of the art and crafts I do. Below are the process shots:

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Linked to Paint Party Friday. Thanks to Eva and Kristin for hosting.

Do-Something-Everyday: Pyrography Watercolor Art

Day 1 of 365

This is the first day of Do Something Everyday 365 challenge. The idea is to post something everyday on the blog. Post something means anything new I did that day, whether art, craft, photography, cooking, anything.

Art Coloring for Adults

You may know by now that I love creating pyrographic art. But, my approach is a little different from the traditional way of creating wood burned art. Mine is more like zen doodle art--dense patterns that are colored later. I spent a very busy time this week creating several pieces to put in my Etsy shop. I made them similar to adult coloring pages except that mine are on wood. I think it is cool because after it is colored it can actually be hung on a wall. Along with each wood piece, I printed a paper copy of it and colored it to give an idea of how to work it on the wood. You can see below what I did it.

Here is the link to my Etsy shop.

In other news, I did this small piece of art to meet two challenges: Iamthediva zentangle challenge and Art Journal Journey November challenge.

I am also linking this post to paintpartyfriday.

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Another Pyrography Art: Peacocok

This is a mixed-media art where I have combined wood burning and water coloring. Below, I have provided photos of various steps involved in creating the art above.

First, I lightly sketched with pencil the design I wanted to wood burn.

 With the wood burning pen, I doodled on the face, neck and the body of the bird.

I continued with wood burning on the train. Since I was planning to paint this part. I just burned a few areas while leaving others untouched.

I wood burned additional details on the train, the flowers and the leaves.

I used transparent watercolors to paint the flowers and the train of the peacock.

The finished piece.

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Pyrography Art

I did this pyrographic art freehand without a preconceived notion of how it should be. It emerged on its own borrowing the variegated colors of the wood and,  with little dots of white around the periphery completed itself. Truly zen.

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Pyrographic Art: Wise Owl

I continue to experiment and practice with the wood burning kit I purchased a few months ago. The owl above was created on a bamboo cutting board ( I got a set of two for $3 from Amazing Savings) using a combination of techniques:

1. First, I heat transferred the owl image (which I got from Graphics Fairy) on the wood using the technique described here. 

2. Next, I wood burned the details and shading using various tips. 

3. Finally, I painted additional details (light colored feathers) using acrylic paints. 

The whole project took about three hours and though, I am pleased with the overall effect, I intend to practice more.

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