Finishing Techniques for Wood Crafters shows you how to create flawless finishes each and every time. Nationally known artist and talented author Lora S. Irish presents a wide array of beautiful acrylic paint techniques and oil staining/antiquing methods. Lora takes you through all the basics of painting and staining any woodcarving, pyrography, or gourd project, with expert advice on tools and supplies. She explains beautiful techniques for bringing out the texture and character of wood, with easy-to-follow instructions and workshop photographs that illustrate every step. Sample projects throughout the book demonstrate specific techniques—like applying a vintage finish to a chip carved fish; creating realistic skin tones on a wood spirit cane topper; enhancing a Celtic knot dragon with an interesting stone effect; and more. Once you master these artistic techniques you can mix and match them to add pop to any project. With Finishing Techniques for Wood Crafters, you'll learn to apply the perfect finish for any creative wood project!

Bind: paperback

Pages: 160

Dimensions: 216 x 280 mm

Publication Date: 31-07-2018

Learn to create realistic landscape pyrography burnings with this comprehensive guide. Nationally recognized artist and pyrographer Lora S. Irish reveals her easy-to-learn methods for working in layers to obtain stunning results. You'll learn how to use contrasting tonal values to create dramatic depth in any landscape, scenery, or wildlife wood burning. Lora shows beginning pyrographers how to develop the burning process by laying one layer over another to slowly bring each area up to its final tonal value. By working a design in low or medium temperatures and adding successive layers, you can obtain total control over your final scene. Lora includes expert advice on basic tools, supplies, and techniques, along with 12 artistic skill-building projects that provide step-by-step practice in using temperature, time, layering, and texturing.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 208

Dimensions: 216 x 279 mm

Publication Date: 21-05-2018

This title allows readers to master the basics before becoming more complex in detail. Designs that appeal to today's consumer, projects galore and a well proven author make this book a must have for anyone interested in crafting handmade jewellery to keep, share or sell. Using inexpensive wire and tools commonly found around the home, readers will learn how to bend, twist and coil wire to create an endless variety of shapes for attractive necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Once readers master the basic wire shapes, they will learn how to create finished pieces by incorporating fasteners, earring hooks and cording. When these basic building blocks are mastered, readers will learn how to embellish their designs with beads and more complex designs. It provides practice projects, step by step instructions and a gallery of designs that will show readers just how easy it is to get started in this fun and rewarding craft.

Pages: 208

Dimensions: 216 x 280 x 13 mm

Publication Date: 01-08-2011

Pages: 152

Dimensions: 140 x 184 x 10 mm

Publication Date: 01-10-2009

Beaded Friendship Bracelets is an exciting, beginner-friendly guide that will show you tons of awesome ideas for making beautiful bracelets using all kinds of beads and other materials for your friends and family. You will discover over 100 fun and easy beaded bracelet designs, plus tons of trendy techniques to try, knots to know, expert tips, step-by-step instructions, and high-quality photography to help you along the way and ensure success. Learn all the exciting ways to express your creativity and make something special. This guide includes overviews on supplies, beads, accessories, tools, and materials, as well as tutorials for creating color schemes, stringing bracelets, and making tassels and other accents.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 72

Dimensions: 216 x 279 mm

Publication Date: 13-06-2023