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I didn't think I would get this finished for some time, but I woke up at 3:30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, thinking, designing. At 4 I gave up, put wood in the heater and started to work on a design. Looked for pictures on the computer under images, found an idea that |i thought it would work.
First step would be to draw it on paper, to do this I drew around the rim of the bowl, sketched the inner diameters, cut out 3 wonky leaves of different sizes. Arranging them in an overlapping sequence, and drawing around them. It seemed to work, keeping them a bit random
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Complete the wreath, draw, erase and draw again, then cut the completed design out to fit in the rim.
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|Next challenge was to transfer the design, with no carbon paper in the house anywhere, I searched. That took some thought and head scratching to come up with an idea. If you don't have it make it, took a small piece of paper and used a charcoal pencil to blacken it. It worked but got some smudges on the surface too. It turned out not too bad.
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Wood burning a design sounds simple, just to make a smooth line is a challenge for a beginner, different densities of wood, bumping over growth rings, making curved lines.
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I thought it turned out not too bad for a beginner, just needed some sanding to clean up some of the edges to make then sharper. Had thought of coloring the leaves green but my wife did not agree, liked it the way it was, even used the word beautiful, Settled on just coloring the berries red.
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Just will need some wet sanding and a water borne top coat, I am happy it didn't end up in the heater, and it will be ready for Christmas celebrations.
Thanks for looking and comments are appreciated.
First step would be to draw it on paper, to do this I drew around the rim of the bowl, sketched the inner diameters, cut out 3 wonky leaves of different sizes. Arranging them in an overlapping sequence, and drawing around them. It seemed to work, keeping them a bit random
Complete the wreath, draw, erase and draw again, then cut the completed design out to fit in the rim.
|Next challenge was to transfer the design, with no carbon paper in the house anywhere, I searched. That took some thought and head scratching to come up with an idea. If you don't have it make it, took a small piece of paper and used a charcoal pencil to blacken it. It worked but got some smudges on the surface too. It turned out not too bad.
Wood burning a design sounds simple, just to make a smooth line is a challenge for a beginner, different densities of wood, bumping over growth rings, making curved lines.
I thought it turned out not too bad for a beginner, just needed some sanding to clean up some of the edges to make then sharper. Had thought of coloring the leaves green but my wife did not agree, liked it the way it was, even used the word beautiful, Settled on just coloring the berries red.
Just will need some wet sanding and a water borne top coat, I am happy it didn't end up in the heater, and it will be ready for Christmas celebrations.
Thanks for looking and comments are appreciated.
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