ORIGINAL WOODBURNED PET PORTRAITS: COMMISSIONS, MEMORIALS, ETC.

CARA JORDAN PYROGRAPHY: THE ART OF DRAWING WITH FIRE

ORIGINAL WOODBURNED PET PORTRAIT

Have your beloved pet immortalized in an original piece of artwork. I can work from photos to produce a woodburned image of a wide variety of animals: horses, dogs, cats, rabbits, exotics, etc. Pieces start at about $100.00 for an 8 by 10 inch image. Email me for a quote.

BACKGROUND

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the art of pyrography involves creation through fire. Pyrography, from the Greek ‘drawing with fire,’ is achieved by burning images onto a variety of surfaces. Often called woodburning, because wood is the most common surface used, paper, tagua nut, leather, and bone are also conducive to using heat to create this type of art. Images from the natural world are easily born from wood and other organic materials; fur, feathers, and scales can be created using the texture of the burn that engraves the images into the wood, and the warm tones of a lion’s mane or an eagle’s feathers are brought to life in warm sepia tones. This beautiful drawing technique allows you to combine line, colour, and texture to create any image from the natural world or your imagination.

Although I have no formal training, I have been creating and selling my art for more than ten years. When I was a little girl, I was always inspired by a visit to my grandfather’s workshop, a little red barn in the country. He was a folk artist, and he worked in wood to create animal sculptures and images of life in rural Canada. Recently, I have become interested in pyrography since wood is the perfect canvas for images inspired by the diversity and grandeur of nature and wildlife from Canada and around the world. I use my own photographs of animals as inspiration for pieces that speak to the beauty, majesty, humanity, and souls of all creatures, great and small, that enrich and sustain our world.

All wooden pieces are finished with UV resistant non-yellowing waterbased polyurethane. In order to preserve the work and prevent it from fading, it is recommended to frame it under glass and to keep it out of direct sunlight. Commissioned pieces can be done upon request in a variety of sizes.

Come and see me burn every Sunday from noon to 5pm at the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough!

See my work at www.fineartamerica.com; www.facebook.com; www.ebay.ca

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