Flowers and Smoke...Pyrography Is Fun.....

[Wally Dickerman]

This is a piece I did several years ago when I was doing a lot of pyrography. I'm not a flower artist but I did several similar pieces and they were fun to do. (and sold well) One of these days I'm going to so some more pyrography and add some piercing. Carefully....In order to do the piercing the walls have to be 1/16th inch thick. Once I was doing some burning on a thin walled piece when I noticed more smoke than usual. The piece was on fire inside the vessel! Things got exciting for a while...Lesson learned!!

This piece is about 7 inches in dia.

[Doug W Swanson]

That's beautiful, Wally! Great job!

[Jamie Donaldson]

Wally, your range of skills never ceases to amaze me!

[John Keeton]

What a neat piece, Wally!!! Aside from a beautiful form (a given for you!), the placement of the flowers is just very balanced. They look as though they are popping up at random.

[Tony De Masi]

That is simply beautiful Wally.

[Michelle Rich]

au contraire, you indeed are a flower artist. I agree with John, that it looks like a random wildflower garden.

[Cheryl A. Prince]

Wally the flowers are simply beautiful! I really like how they pop on the burned/textured background. I'd love to see more of your burned and colored pieces!

[Dale Miner]

Wally,

Ten thumbs up! (ten for those of us that are all thumbs when it comes to pyro)

[Alan Trout]

Wally,

That is an awesome piece and well done.

Alan

[David E Keller]

Beautiful work, Wally! This is my wife's favorite of your turnings... Seems to be in step with the tastes of the modern woman... I'm guessing it sold quickly.

[David DeCristoforo]

While I am not crazy about the flowers, the form is beautiful and the effect of the dark texturing is fantastic.

[John Spitters]

Very nice work Wally, Question ? What did you use to color the flowers ? .. you have some fine coloring details within the flowers themselves so I am curious as to how you did this.

John

[Brian Effinger]

Wonderful piece, and I love the flowers and colors.

[Greg Just]

Very nice Wally. Why type of finish did you apply to the final product?

[Wally Dickerman]

Very nice work Wally, Question ? What did you use to color the flowers ? .. you have some fine coloring details within the flowers themselves so I am curious as to how you did this.

John

John, the flowers were colored using Prismacolor pens. I used Daly's Ben Matte tung oil as a final finish.

[Baxter Smith]

Neat work! The color of the flowers are great and the dark texturing almost makes it look like they are in a flower garden.