de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth
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Just for the heck of it, I thought I would try my luck at wood-burning on paper. I still have a little more practice to do but it will be worth the challenge. My subject was the de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth. I was hesitant to post this in that it did not come out as I wanted, but seeing how I haven't been able to do skins for awhile and I had this laying around I figured why not
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Nice work Merv!
Must be tricky to apply all that shading without burning through the paper. Come to think of it, I recall a phrase from the old 'Kung Fu' TV show.. "when you can draw on the rice paper without burning through it, you may leave the temple" ..or something like that
Appears to me me that you've mastered the technique. Cheers mate!
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Never heard of this - what is the technique/material used?
ATB
Armin -
Thanks Rudi and Armin for your encouragement. Armin, I use 140 lb, watercolor paper, Acid free and cold pressed. I use a dual control Pyrography machine, it takes getting some use to but I'm slowly catching on to the shading and outlining.
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Yeah,and next your going to post saying your hand is healing well,however you have to wait on the skinning due to a nasty burn etching the P51.
Cheers,Chris -
My hand is healing nicely and I went to the Doc today and had the stitches removed and he said I should have no trouble drawing, so back in the saddle
I will definitely be more careful with fire
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Thanks Emel, the technique is a interesting way of burning, the big problem with it is, if you make a mistake it's over, there is no way to correct it. At least with a wood burn you can either sand or scrape out the mistake and start over. When you make a bad burn on paper it is there forever.
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the big problem with it is, if you make a mistake it's over, there is no way to correct it.
mapal
OMG! You mean there's no undo button of any sorts with this kind of paper work. I think I'll just stick with Ps-templates and such for now.
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