[Woodcarver]wood burned portrait tips-sylda

[Sylda]

This will certainly help me when I try to do some of my grandchildren.  So
far I have only done pictures from books.  I did basically the same as you
in burning the pictures, but haven¹t tried the carving.  I want to perfect
the burning before trying the carving.  I have no web site, but will try to
get a picture to you and would appreciate your opinion.  It will be awhile,
so don¹t hold your breath.  I¹m taking the burner and some wood ( & the
sander) with me, but have no idea how much I¹ll do. Am I understanding you
right ‹ you only carved around the edges, rounded the face and tapered out
toward the edge of the wood???  Did you do any reburning after the carving?
Thanks again,
Sylda


On 12/16/04 9:01 AM, "Linehan718 at aol.com" <Linehan718 at aol.com> wrote:

> Hi Sylda,  I know my pics aren't very good, but that problem should be solved
> shortly-getting myself a nice digital cam for xmas, then I will work on my
> photography skills.  This was my first pyrography portrait.  what i did was,
> scan a picture into my pc-resized it and sharpened it and converted it to
> greyscale.  printed it out and used carbon paper to copy it to the wood.  I
> only worried about main features, the shape of the face and blocked out large
> areas of shading.  I know you can't see it by my pic but there is some very
> delicate shading in the burning, giving it an almost realistic look.  This was
> all done free hand with the original picture as my model.  I thought I had
> ruined it a few times but learned that as long as you don't scortch too deeply
> into the wood, you can use fine sandpaper to lighten up any area you need to.
> I would burn then sand, burn again until I was happy with it.  when the
> burning was done, i then did stop cuts all around the top of the picture, to
> the depth of 3/8"( wood was 3/4" thick)  then dug it out and beveled it up to
> the remaining surface. then sanded it all smooth so that the portrait popped
> out from the wood.
>  
>  
> Maura carvin' in nyc


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