SmilingWood

inspired by this great building and its history, I tried to keep its memory through wood burning/pyrography art I was in a trip to Istanbul in January and i was astonished by this monument a turkish icon that can take your mind i used color pencils to add life to the image laying beside the bosphorus and surrounded by old architecture looking at this mosque can take you back in time to the age of ottoman empire please tell me your comments

I was touched by the success of Obama 4 years before as the first African American to reach the White House. Few months before he was able to repeat his triumph. His tweet " Another four years sky rocketed in twitter. I have no interest in politics, I am not an American after all. Yet i was inspired by the story of the man. In this project I used the Pyrography / wood burning to burn the Obama's face on the wood!! Funny as it sounds but i enjoyed it so much I recorded the steps from the copying of the face using carbon/graphite paper through the painting of the wood till finishing the piece. It took me two days to finish this piece. You can watch the video at: http://youtu.be/NHTfd2qVIB

In this video you can find a nice pattern for a flower copied to a wooden piece using Pyrography / wood Burning technique. Yet how can colour be added to this image to give it life? Simply you can use colour pencils. For adding a more artistic touch I use the Faber-Castell watercolour pencils. It's like any other colour pencils yet after using it , simply add a drop of water with the brush to the coloured Area to have the water colour effect without the effort to be made in using the usual watercolours. This video make it simple for you to practise this. I developed a Free 7 page quick guide for pyrography / wood burning art You can download it from  www.SmilingWood.com It's whole free Read it , share it and have fun