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Thanks for your support! The Woodburner! This site designed, developed and maintained by RE Dulaney. Copyright Notices All logos, trademarks, and artwork on this site are property of their respective owner. Render time: 0. DB queries: Memory Usage: 1,kB. Tue Apr 14 , PM. I investigating my options. What best me. I really like carving of which I just got into lately. Wood burned art is so beautiful. Often a wood burned piece of art needs no other additions to be gorgeous.
But sometimes you may find that you want to add some color to your wood burned design. There are many different ways to add color to wood, but I want to show you in detail a few of my favorite tried and true ways. Choose a wood surface appropriate for your project. Other Basswood surfaces also take the woodburning beautifully, as do the Pine , and the Baltic Birch Plywood surfaces.
I love my Creative Woodburner for this part! Choose your color medium. So many things work on most wood surfaces. Keep in mind that a very wet medium such as watercolor may spread outside of your design on softer woods like pine. Choose a decent quality watercolor paint. I love using watercolor because the variations in the wood surface and density can affect the watercolor, sometimes leaving fun patterns and hue differences in the project.
Voila, my pattern is now transferred to the plaque! Next, after turning on the wood burner and allowing it to preheat for 10 minutes, I used the Flow Point to trace over or outline the main pattern lines.
Hold the craft tool steady without a lot of pressure and allow the tool to glide over the wood. Do not apply so much pressure that you cut a groove into the wood. Because this tool is very hot, the longer you hold it in one place, the more burned or darker the wood will be. Here is a close up of the Shading Point I used to create a leaf. I rocked the point from side to side to only burn the edges of the leaf.
Don't worry if you are not completely retracing the exact pattern lines, as they can be erased afterwards. Here is a closeup at how I used the Universal Point to create straight short lines both on the top of these flowers…. The Universal Point can also be used to create long lines within a pattern.
The Cone Point is also perfect for mini polka dots. Remember, the longer you hold the tool in one place, the larger and deeper the dot will be.
After I burned my wildflower design into the wood and I was happy with the details and shading, I felt the edges of the plaque were lacking some love and detail, so I burned a squiggly line pattern into the edges of the plaque. Still using the Flow Point, I next burned a polka dot border on the side edge of the plaque…. Next, I added pops of color using FolkArt Multi-Surface Paints that were thinned with water to an ink-like consistency for a watercolor effect that would allow me to see the beauty of the woodgrain and the burned designs.
You can keep your wood burned project one color and simply colorblock paint, or you can add a little shading by adding a second color such as I did on the leaves and the flower center below. Here is a look at my wood burned funky wildflower plaque colored in. Lastly, I used my eraser to remove any of the original pattern lines that were still exposed. Also please check out Plaidonline. Here I created this clever wood clothespin note holder. These wood bangle bracelets were also fun to create.
Question: Can this wood-burning method be used to design a cutting board? I would be using food safe oiling and conditioning once done. Answer: I don't recommend this method for a cutting board because the varnished layer can easily be removed with cutting utensils. The exposed paint could contaminate food and make people ill.
Many pigments have toxins that are best not to touch let alone eat. However, there may be food grade colors paints, etc. Answer: I don't recommend using white charcoal but white acrylic paint as described in the article. Question: Can you use neon acrylic paint with regular acrylic paint on wood burnings?
Answer: I've never used neon acrylic paint, though in general, I do not recommend acrylic paint for wood burnings unless you mix it with rubbing alcohol instead of water. Question: I'm interested in burning a picture and want to paint a sunset in the background.
Should I paint it first or burn it first. Any suggestion on what type of paint? Answer: I recommend wood burning first then coloring.
I personally use Inktense pencils with rubbing alcohol but there are a variety of methods. Hello Bryan. Regular colored pencils will not blend like watercolor pencils.
Also, watercolor pencils allow the pigment to penetrate the wood grain which makes the color stable. You may also have issues when varnishing, as the pigment of regular colored pencils remains on the surface rather than soaking into the wood. In short, I highly recommend the investment toward watercolor pencils. I was wondering if I could use prismacolor colored pencils? Also, what effect would it create? Thank you in advance. Hello, thanks for the comment; I'm happy to answer your questions.
The watercolor pencils that I recommend are one of many brands and are relatively inexpensive. The pigment in watercolor pencils dissolves easily, which is why it's best on wood. Denatured and ethyl alcohol may work, but have stronger odors. Isopropyl alcohol is generally inexpensive.
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