I found this image online, but as I am only using it for my own purposes so I can’t see the problem. I therefore don’t know who the artist is, but don’t want to take credit for it.
I am always wondering if I should leave the pictures after burning as they are, or if I should add some colour. Well, as you can see I went for colour but try not to go over the top.
Happy Crafting!
M.
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How do you transfer the image on to the wood? What medium do you use? The image looks great.
Hi Richard,
you can either use transfer paper to copy the picture, but I just used simple baking paper. Attach the baking paper safely to the image with paperclips and start tracing with a pencil which should be harder. A soft pencil will not transfer to the wood as easily. When you finished tracing the whole picture you need to consider if you want it as a mirror image of the original. If that is the case, then you just turn the baking paper and place it with the pencil side onto the wood and secure it in place with Sellotape (scotch tape). You can now retrace the picture again with a pencil and when you take the paper off, the image will be on the wood but as a mirror image. A little bit faster instead of tracing again is by rubbing something all over the picture to basically rub the pencil image onto the wood. You have to work out what item works best to rub. If you use a hard coin for example and the wood is very soft you will make marks on the wood. Test it before. Some lines will not transfer because you will have missed them out, or because the wood is to hard in that area. You will have to do it by hand with the pencil.
If you don’t want a mirror image of the original, then you have to trace it once, turn the baking paper around and retrace it all over again but make sure you have got a underlay before you end up with an image on your table. After that follow the steps above and you will have it the same way around as the original.
Hope that helps
Mel