Pyrography Workbook by Sue Walters

If you're not familiar with pyrography, more commonly know as woodburning, you should be. Woodburning is a great way to embellish many scroll saw and other craft projects, or it can be a beautiful art form all by itself as demonstrated here in this wonderful book by Sue Walters, Pyrography Workbook - A complete guide to the art of woodburning.

Sue covers all aspects of pyrography from the most basic woodburning tool that most of us are familiar with to the most advanced wood burning units with many sizes and shapes of tips for very fine detailing. She also discusses materials for woodburning, most of which I never even considered, gourds, paper, leather, logs, pieces of timber and Tugua nuts. There are also lessons in the book, from a very basic "ducks in bull rush" to the beautiful wolf on the cover of the book. There are ten other beautiful patterns and a guide to what each should look like to help complete them. Two of my very favorite pieces of art from the book are Sue's "Platypus diving" and "Turtle Rising" . If you're interested in learning how to woodburn or advance your skills this is a book that I own, and would definitely recommend you to get, If would like to see some of Sue's unbelievably beautiful art work you can visit her website here