Today more and more people different ages enjoys wood burning. This type of needlework is widely available and requires a minimum of basic skills and maximum care when working. Wood burning is called “pyrography”; the design is applied to a wooden surface using a special electric burner, which can be purchased at special craft stores. You can come up with designs for wood burning yourself, or you can find ready-made templates and sketches on the Internet.

Material selection

The best material is a board made of alder, birch or linden. The wood should be soft and light, especially if this is your first work. Beginners also use regular plywood. Before applying the design, such a board must be sanded with sandpaper. Or you can do everything on a cutting board that will be ready.

Sketches can be drawn on the board by hand, or they can be translated using carbon paper or a stencil.

How to apply a drawing

Make sure the board is dry before burning. Place connection points on the pencil-translated drawing and only then draw lines. To obtain a thin line, the electric burner should be moved quickly, and vice versa, if you want to get a thicker line, move the tool pen more slowly.

There is no need to press hard on the electric burner when applying a design. When the line is completed, the pen must be torn off sharply.

First, the outer contour is burned out, then gradually you can move on to the internal details, to the center. It is best to burn in parts, that is, you need to give the newly burned elements the opportunity to cool. So work a little on one area, then leave it and move on to another, and so on until the whole job is completed.

After burning, the surface should cool slightly, then carefully, so as not to damage the strokes and lines, especially small ones, you need to sand the board with fine sandpaper. You can paint with watercolors or oil paints only when the work has cooled completely. After painting, the work must be waxed, that is, subjected to a wax finish. Thanks to waxing, the design acquires a soft shine and preserves the natural color of the wood and the richness of the colors.

Examples for inspiration

Patterns for wood burning can be very diverse: animals, flowers, ethnic ornaments, nature, and so on. They can be used to decorate cutting boards, as pictures in the home, or as gifts for family and friends.

For beginners, it is best to choose simple drawings, as in the photo:

Children can also do pyrography, of course, under close supervision, because they need to work with a hot electric burner. For little craftsmen there are also interesting, beautiful and easy drawing schemes:

Do this interesting view needlework is quite simple, the main thing is not to be afraid and follow your imagination. Happy creativity!

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Wood is an extremely grateful material. Tough enough to be durable, hard enough to hold even very thin shapes, soft enough to allow processing with simple hand tools.

Therefore, decoration methods wooden products there is a mass. For example, patterns and drawings on wood.

The concept of pyrography

Wood burning or pyrography is a fairly simple activity, but at the same time it provides a quick and beautiful effect. In terms of its technology, pyrography is easier to perform than, for example, carving, although, of course, here too much depends on the complexity of the pattern and execution technique.

Patterns for burning wood are made with a special device - a burner. It is a metal pen attached to a pen. The pen is made of nichrome wire of different thicknesses, which allows you to get lines and dots of different diameters. As a rule, burners are equipped with a whole set of attachments used for pyrography.

There are devices with hard and wire feathers. The former have a constant heating temperature and are more often used for background cauterization. In burners with wire pens, the heating temperature can be adjusted, which allows you to obtain lines of different intensities.

When the device is turned on, the pen heats up to a fairly high temperature and burns through it when it comes into contact with wood. When working, you must follow safety rules, since it is very easy to get burned on the wire.

Relatively soft wood is used as a material for crafts: birch, chestnut, poplar, alder. Very good results when creating a pattern are obtained on plywood, especially birch. Required condition: wood or the same plywood must be dried very well.

In addition, to obtain a high-quality ornament or design, you must first sand the material. The surface of the craft should be completely smooth.

Pyrography technique

There are several different techniques that allow you to obtain a drawing or ornament from a sketch.

It is better for a beginner to start with the simplest and most standard ones.

• The standard technique involves transferring a sketch of a pattern onto a tree and burning it along the contour. In this case, various methods are acceptable: applying strokes, obtaining a dot image, and so on. The photo shows an image of a bird.
• The negative method requires more subtle and lengthy work. In this case, the design is created with the light color of untouched wood, and the background is burned out. Most often, photographs or complex pictures are burned in this way. For patterns, standard techniques are usually sufficient.

In this case, 2 methods are used. The first involves direct burning of the background around the applied sketch. The second combines carving and background: first, the entire background is burned out, and then the artist cuts out an image on it.

The relief pattern is another example of a combination of carving and pyrography. To do this, a sketch is transferred to the tree, cut out to give volume - not with a jigsaw, but with a milling cutter, and then burned out in certain areas. The photo shows a relief image.

Drawings and patterns for wood burning can be downloaded from any relevant website. You can even use your own photo if you can download the right conversion program.

Work technology

The work itself is quite simple, although it requires accuracy and perseverance. As a rule, it cannot be completed in one go.

1. Use a jigsaw to cut out a part of the appropriate size, and carefully clean the surface and cuts with sandpaper.
2. Patterns for wood carving are redrawn onto a sheet of paper by hand or through carbon paper.
3. A pen of the required type - writing or oblique - is installed on the device, and the contours of the image are burned out.
4. They begin to retouch the background - to do this, attach a retouching pen to the device. Other attachments can also be used. The photo shows the processing of the background under the pattern.
5. After the material has cooled, the surface is cleaned of dust and soot and wiped with an eraser.
6. To make the product more durable, the craft is coated with transparent varnish.

In the proposed video lesson, burning a pattern on a wooden sheet is discussed in more detail.

Nowadays, there are many ways of wood burning, each of which requires separate skills and materials. This article will discuss the most common method - pyrography. This method is literally drawing on wood using a special electric burner, which can be purchased in many stores, both in the craft supply and in the tool department. In this article we will look at popular designs that are perfect for wood burning.
The best material for applying a design is considered to be a plywood board made from alder or linden. Before work, it must be sanded using sandpaper. Sketches can be drawn on wood by hand or transferred through carbon paper, you can also use a stencil, but do not forget to remove it before burning.

Let's look at popular designs for wood burning with your own hands

• Burning is carried out exclusively on dry wood.
• To begin with, dots are first placed on a pre-drawn drawing, and only after that lines are drawn. In order for the line to be thin, the pen of the electric burner should be moved quickly. And to get a thick line, on the contrary, go slowly. When the line is finished, the pen should be torn off quickly, without holding it in place. You should not press the pen while drawing.
• First, burn out the outer edge of the design, gradually moving to the center.
• By changing the heat and angle of the pin, you can create both deeply saturated lines and barely noticeable strokes. You can also change the color intensity of the lines.
• Do not slow down the movement of the electric burner pen along the drawing. This can cause the edges of the burnt grooves to become charred. The same thing happens if the pin overheats.
• You can cool the tip of the pin by simply holding it upright for a while.
• Burning should be done in several parts of the drawing at once. After working a little in one area, they leave it and move on to another, and then return to the first. This is necessary to avoid intermediate burns between nearby strokes that occur due to overheating. Therefore, you should not immediately burn out several parts that are close to each other; before you burn a new stroke, you need to let the neighboring one cool down.
• If you need to shade a large area, you should first burn out the outline (outline), and then work inside it with the wide side of the pin. When creating a background, you can use a variety of techniques: paint with vertical lines or strokes, dots, patterns of various sizes and density of application. Also, wood burning kits often contain shaped tips, the use of which helps to diversify the design in a simple, uncomplicated way.
• Having finished burning the design, the surface is carefully, but carefully, so as not to damage small strokes and lines and not to round the edges of the protrusions, sand the surface with the smallest sandpaper.
• An already finished drawing can be supplemented by painting it with watercolors or oil paints. To paint on wood you will need paints High Quality and a sufficient set of soft round and flat brushes.
• Burnt and then painted works require a special finishing, which is waxing. The wax finish gives the picture a matte silky shine and preserves the natural color of the wood, and also helps to preserve the tone and richness of the applied paints for a long time.

We study diagrams and examples of beautiful works for inspiration

The photo below shows a selection of light patterns that can help beginners get their hands on:

Certainly popular motifs for burning, for example, on a cutting board are paintings depicting nature.

Flowers burned on wood look very beautiful. Here are a few patterns that are very easy to complete even for those who are new to this craft.

Perhaps the following examples will seem more complicated than the previous ones, but the animals made on wood are worth the effort put into their creation:

Video for beginners on the topic of the article

In these videos you will see how the process of wood burning takes place, you will learn some of the nuances of this type of activity, how to choose the right burner and, perhaps, you will find new ideas for yourself and the performance of your work.

Since only talented artists can draw and burn icons on their own, it is much easier for novice pyrographers to realize this idea using ready-made stencils for burning. Be prepared for the fact that work on this “project” will take a lot of time, because icons are very complex artistic compositions. However, the end result will meet any of your expectations. You can download pictures for wood burning on the Internet. You can enlarge the picture to the right size using any free program for working with digital images.

Print the sketch on a printer, and then transfer it to a wooden blank using tracing paper (copy paper) or other accessible ways, which were discussed in detail in previous articles. When burning a design on wood, start first with the main contours, and only then move on to small strokes and lines. If you wish, you can decorate the frame and frame of the icon with jute filigree - the effect will be amazing.

submitted by Anton 13.01.2018, 18:14

To burn an image in the form of ornate patterns on wood, it is best to use a plywood board - it is soft, light and easy to process, so it is ideal for such work. As for sketches and stencils for burning, they can also be found and downloaded for free on the Internet on thematic websites. Choose the pattern you like, transfer it to a prepared piece of wood and start creative work.

Any artistic patterns will look perfect on pieces of furniture (for example, wall shelves for books or homemade decor), as well as kitchen utensils: wooden spoons, rolling pins, cutting boards. Particularly popular are patterns for wood burning with light floral motifs that will decorate any wooden surface. They are much easier to draw than openwork compositions or “swirly” lace.

submitted by Anton 13.01.2018, 18:23

If you have already mastered the initial technique of “drawing with fire” at home and learned how to skillfully use a pyrograph, it’s time to move on to drawing more complex images - for example, still lifes. These can be either flowers in a vase that stands on the table, or an unusual floral pattern in space. There are many ideas for burning. For beginners, you can choose primitive flower schemes and sketches (chamomile or tulip). But if you draw well, you can burn larger flowers - roses, carnations or gladioli. Such stencils for wood burning can be easily found on the Internet. Flowers always look good on a variety of decorative surfaces and cutting boards. You can even make your own exclusive painting, which you can then proudly hang on the wall or give to loved ones.

submitted by Anton 13.01.2018, 18:26

For burning, drawings and sketches can be neutral (landscapes, geometric shapes, animals and other similar images) and thematic. The latter include drawings of a specific theme or holiday ones. The most popular pictures are New Year's (Happy New Year cards, images of Santa Claus, decorated Christmas trees, garlands and gifts). This list can be continued for a long time.

Select a suitable stencil on the Internet, download it to your computer (if necessary, you can process the image in Photoshop), print it and carefully transfer it to a sanded plywood board or other suitable piece of wood. Beautiful New Year pictures, scorched with your own hands, will delight you not only in holidays, but also throughout the next year.

submitted by Anton 13.01.2018, 18:28

For boys, drawings for wood burning should be exactly " masculine character“It’s unlikely that young pyrographers will want to draw ornate patterns, flower arrangements or cartoon anime girls on the surface. They prefer to burn cars, ships, and architectural structures.

That's why best option for boys who are interested in pyrography - paintings for wood burning not with elements of painting or still lifes, but images of cars, buildings, airplanes, weapons and military equipment. As an option, you can download house templates (country cottages, country houses, high-rise skyscrapers). Boys will burn even a simple license plate of a house with much more pleasure than flowers in vases and other feminine “things.”