Woodburning Realistic People - Jo Schwartz

Woodburning Realistic People: Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Perfect Portraits of People. Author, Jo Schwartz

Discover the art of portrait burning, and start creating perfect likenesses of your favorite people in wood. Pyrography artist Jo Schwartz reveals her dazzling techniques for turning photographs into custom portraits. She shows how to create beautiful images that resemble old, sepia-colored photos, using smooth shading methods that she has developed over years of burning. You will learn how to make a custom woodburning pattern from any picture and transfer it onto wood.

Jo shows how to render the human face with detail and beauty, with expert tips for burning lifelike skin tones and facial features. She offers easy-to-follow instructions for creating expressive eyes, noses, mouths, ears, skin, and hair for every age and ethnicity. Practice what you have learned with a step-by-step, illustrated project.

In Woodburning Realistic People includes:

• How to create realistic portraits that resemble old sepia colored photographs
• Shading techniques that the author has developed over years of woodburning
• Includes a step-by-step illustrated practice project

For intermediate/advanced pyrographers

ISBN 978-1-56523-880-0

104 Pages, Paperback

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