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Member since Aug-24-02
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Nov-13-02, 08:54 PM () |
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8. "RE: new woodburning"
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hey thank you guys a lot  ......i still dont have an expensive burner yet,...probably never will....i made a few scans to show how i burn a little,i use white chalk along with it,..ive only been doing that about 2 years off and on..so the chalk thing is kind of new.,..
i use to e-mail other people that burn a lot and ask them about shading ,..and they would either never reply...or mainly say "just keep practicing"...so i hope what i say helps a little.
in the scan of the burner is how i hold the burner 90% of the time,....looking down at it ..thats what i see.st added that because the tip is so odd shaped....
.....to do the light shading i scrape the wood...wich is hard to explain without being right there to show you.....so if you have a wood burner...that is the only tip i use.,,,if you have that tip in your burner,,,put some white chalk on the wood,.
..and with that angle pretend you are trying to scrape the chalk off the wood,....over the box in the middle..it shows where i scraped the wood...the next box shows where i used short lines and kept adding them until it made a solid shade like in the box below.......or you can just scrape the wood until it is as dark as you want it to be,....either way works pretty good,...i always draw what im going to burn 1st...just a line drawing,..no shading
....at the top of the second scan is just a white chalk pencil...it makes a lot of contrast on the wood.....basswood is really nice wood......but the kind with the bark around it ...the ovals...are hard to burn on,..the grain runs in a circle...and a lot of the time....they have soft spots that turn black as soon as the burner touches them... ...just about all the other basswood in square plaques works great.,...as long as you can lern to shade lightly...by scraping...or using a light pattern of lines until they blend together.....you can turn any drawing into a woodburning.........i always add the white chalk last......wich is my favorite part,...sort of like a second reverse drawing,......ive experimented with colored pencil...but i only add it as light as i can get away with...after im done....cause i end up with cartoon looking pictures if i try to add too much.......i dont understand color...or painting,...so ill just stick with white chalk i think.also...after you make your line drawing...just use the burner to shade in the shapes...dont burn in lines,over the pencil lines....it will look a zillion times better.
woodburning isnt really all that much different then drawing...its sort of like charcoal/pencils closest cousin...although charcoal drawing has most likely been around longer then any other art form.
thanks again everyone for stopping in i appreciate it a lot.
--jim www.geocities.com/woodart211 |
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