Techniques: Pyrography (Executed)

So I've just received Pyrography tool and began testing it out to see what I can produce as a beginner. Here are some photos of my attempt:

Techniques: Pyrography

While looking at ways I could develop my final outcome, I found a technique called Pyrography. 

'Pyrography is the art of decorating wood or other surfaces with burn marks, resulting from the controlled application of a heated object. Such object known as 'poker', this technique is also known as Pokerwood or Wood burning.'

This technique will allow me to burn my illustrations directly onto wood or leather. So as I originally thought of laying out multiple sized canvases in a formation and illustrating onto them to create a canvas collage piece (tester--->), I'm going to look into making wooden boxes to carry out the same purpose, but using pyrography instead.







I was also considering mixed media in the process, so where I have burned in the intricate detail, I will apply colour using some sort of ink to give it a watercolour effect on wood.

As I saw other areas you could apply Pyrography to, such as merchandise, souvenirs, jewels, accessories, I saw an area of opportunity open up for me. Lately I've been making my own jewellery and this gave me an idea to push them further. Here I have an example of a wooden one that I have done before:

So if I could get my hand on bigger wooden gogo beads, I could have a larger scale to illustrate onto using pyrography, which I could exhibit along with the box installations.

Jeannie Phan

I've been looking at some pieces by Jeannie Phan and noticed how she effectively combines surrealism in her work. She tends to illustrate hair protruding through absurd areas of the body, and does it beautifully, which contrasts with the daunting idea of where the hairs are actually coming from.

Also looking at how she transfers her work into merchandise/products, gave me a few ideas as to how I could implement my work onto something other than canvas or paper.

Inspiration

While looking at various artists, I have been gathering ideas on how I could develop my illustrations into final pieces.