My wife’s 1997 Honda Civic is nearing 300,000 miles and we continue to nurse it along. Recently the glove box wouldn’t open. Working the latch did no good, and removing the two screws that secure it on the bottom didn’t help either. The latch is stuck closed, and the whole glove compartment just hangs from … [Read more…]
This is one of my newest designs, based on Acoma and Mimbres turtle pottery patterns. At some point I will be using my woodburner to put it on a gourd. Here is a mockup I did in Photoshop to make it look like a sandstone petraglyph: For my Etsy shop I also created a vector … [Read more…]
With my previous design I was sure of what I wanted through each stage of sketching and burning. With this design I wasn’t so sure. I liked the idea of a woven pattern, but wasn’t completely sure how I wanted to execute it. I started by cutting the gourd into a bowl using a coping … [Read more…]
This serpent design is my most recent woodburning project. I did a quick study of anasazi pot designs which gave me enough knowledge to come up with a pattern of my own. My first task was to make sure the edge of the bowl would be level. I didn’t want to have the opening on … [Read more…]
Another holiday project was this picture frame. It looks fairly similar to some others that I’ve done, but I experimented with a few new textures.
The Thanksgiving holiday was a good time to try pyrography on a new surface. My sister in Tennessee had some little spinner gourds sitting around, and I thought they would be perfect for trying out some new designs. She agreed to let me use them, so I soaked and scraped them to get the outer … [Read more…]
For family gifts this Christmas I wanted to decorate picture frames. It’s remarkable how a plain wood surface can be so completely transformed. Primitive abstract designs were what I tried first. Then, looking for something more like I might find on ancient pottery, I started doing geometric patterns. Even the same pattern can look completely … [Read more…]
This is a review of my new Colwood Cub woodburner, and an encouragement for you to give it a good look as you make your own decision about what to buy. As stated in a previous post, I’m new to woodburning. I have years of experience as an artist, but I hadn’t tried woodburning until … [Read more…]
This is a woodburning project inspired by a youtube video tutorial by Sue Walters. I loved the abstract pattern she created on her gourd, and wanted to try it myself. Dried gourds are apparently very difficult to find locally this time of year, so I opted for a different surface. Michael’s has inexpensive baltic birch … [Read more…]
