How portraits are burned on a tree from a photograph. Master class: Burning a portrait

Burning out Is not just child's play, but often— it is a hobby that brings beautiful creations to the world. Everyone can learn how to burn, regardless of whether you have the makings of an artist or simply do not. I told about where to start, which tells.

Today I will talk about how to burn out more complex paintings. Perhaps you will succeed, of course, not the first time, to burn out, for example, a portrait of your beloved.

What you need to burn a picture:

Computer with installed graphics programs and laser printer,

A high-quality photo (a low-quality photo may not make a picture for burning),

Acetone, cotton wool or bandage,

Plank, planed or better plywood, fine sandpaper,

Scorcher,

Varnishes: nitro varnish and long-drying PF.

Today we will learn how to make a cutting board with a burnt portrait. First of all, you need to prepare the base for burning, that is, the cutting board itself. I will not talk about how to do it in this article. I will only say that after you prepare the cutting board, the plane on which the drawing will be applied must be sanded with fine sandpaper until a uniform white surface is obtained. After sanding, be sure to remove any residual dust. You can immediately grind the other side, so as not to do this later. And so we have the foundation ready.

Now we move on to the most difficult stage of obtaining a drawing from a photograph for burning. What programs do you need to create a drawing? Well, whoever has Photoshop or similar programs, you can use them. I used a free program from Yandex: Yandex. Photos and the program included with Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

We select the photo that we want to edit, and create a separate folder for it and copy it there, so that if the final result does not work out, you can not worry. Open the photo you want to burn using Yandex. Photos. To do this, open the program and select File - Add Photos ..., select the folder where your photo is located, click OK.

After the images of the photos are loaded, you either select all the photos to add, or only the one that you need and click Import.

Now your photo has been added to Yandex. Photos. Click on the picture and press the Editor button at the bottom of the program.

Now you need to use the Visual Effects, specifically the Sketch.

Click on the sketch and select the Contrast and the Force of influence, so that the contours are most successfully and clearly conveyed, here the most important thing is not to overdo it and find a middle ground. And click the Apply button.

The next step is to get clearer and thicker lines, for this we go to Color Correction. For this photo, I had to decrease the gamut, and set the rest of the settings to the maximum. And then click the Apply button. And we exit the Yandex. Photos.

This is what we got after working in the Yandex. Photos.

The next step is to work with Microsoft Office Picture Manager. I will not dwell in detail, I will only say that here we go to the section to change the pictures ..., where we adjust the brightness and contrast. So that the drawing is most successfully translated into plywood or wood.

Now I will tell you why all these photo operations were carried out. At one time the Domashny TV channel was broadcasting with the famous decorator Marat Ka, and in one of the episodes he showed how an image printed on a laser printer was transferred to a wooden surface. The fact is that a laser printer applies dry toner to a sheet of paper and burns it with a laser. Some of the toner remains poorly attached to the sheet of paper and can be transferred using acetone onto wood. I also used this property. True, it will not work immediately to translate an image from a sheet to a tree or plywood.

In order to transfer a drawing for burning onto a tree, you need to properly prepare the drawing so that the lines have a certain thickness so that when copying there is a sufficient amount of toner on the tree and the drawing is clear. The cotton wool needs to be wrapped in a bandage and moistened. In this case, in no case should cotton wool be very wet. The cotton wool should be slightly damp, otherwise the image will simply be blurred. It is better, before you start translating the image, to try to draw the drawing on some unnecessary piece of wood with a moistened cotton wool and only then, to translate the image onto a tree.

We take our board and put a sheet of paper with a drawing on it, with the side where the image is printed to the board. We will position the image the way we need it. The image, transferred to the tablet, will turn out in your mirror image. And if you want to burn out the inscription, then in the picture it should all be in a mirror image, so that when the picture is reduced to a tree, you get a normal inscription. Holding the paper with our hand, we begin to drive over the drawing with a small radius with rotational movements, gradually covering the entire drawing. After you have gone through the entire drawing, you can quickly go over the entire drawing again and remove the sheet of paper.

You can burn various ornaments, patterns, images of animals, plants, people on wood, and you can endlessly enumerate. In order to transfer a sketch to wood, carbon paper is mainly used. Some of the masters print the drawing on parchment paper, attach it to wood and burn it out on paper. It melts, leaves scorched touches. Very experienced craftsmen draw their own sketch on a tree that they want to burn. Portraits are done in the same way. They are drawn with a simple black pencil on a blackboard and only then the process begins. But there are also people who draw very poorly on their own, and I really want to burn out the portrait of their relatives. What to do then? So, let's answer this question and consider the topic of the article, which sounds like this: "Burning photos on wood."

Variety of options

The very first way is image processing in Photoshop. The image is processed so that it is all in small strokes. Then the drawings are printed on parchment paper. They are attached to the wood and begin to burn.

The second of the methods is when an image of a person is printed on a laser printer in a schematic expansion. For this, it is best to use special thin photographic paper. It is attached to the board with the wrong side and burning begins.

Please note that the heating temperature of the burner must be as low as possible, otherwise the paper may catch fire.

This method will not take you much time. Because of this, he is the best in burning portraits, not only for experienced craftsmen, but also for beginners. After burning, you need to remove the pieces of paper. This requires the portrait to be completely cooled. Then we take a cotton pad, moisten it with water and wipe the finished work.

The third way is to use a special-purpose laser machine. This method is not cheap, but it does not require much time and effort. This laser is attached to a personal computer. It performs the function of the brain. We load a photo into it, process it and send it to the laser to do the job. Then the laser itself begins to burn out the image that it received. You just need to varnish the finished portrait.

Now let's look at a few master classes on burning portraits.

Portrait of a girl

To work, you will need the following tools and materials:

• Copy paper;
• Plywood sheet;
• Sandpaper;
• Simple black pencil;
• Burning apparatus;
• Brush;
• Clear nail polish.

First you need to prepare the image itself. We do this using a special program and print it out. Then we level the surface of the plywood with sandpaper.

We fix the copy paper and the printed sketch on the plywood. We circle. After that, be sure to check if all the lines are printed.

We connect the burner to the mains and wait for it to heat up. We burn out. We cover with a layer of colorless varnish.

Here's the picture!

For a cute girl

For work you will need:

• Sketch;
• Wood;
• Burning apparatus;
• Copy paper;
• Sandpaper;
• Colorless varnish;
• Brush.

Let's get to work.

We scan the selected photo and print it in the required size. We prepare the wood. We align it with sandpaper.

Then we put carbon paper on the finished base, and a drawing on top of it. We fix it with scotch tape. And we begin to trace the outline. At the end, we check if all the lines are printed on the wood. If it’s bad somewhere, then we finish it neatly.

We connect the device for burning to the network and wait until it heats up to the required temperature. We start to burn. After the work is completed, you need to carefully remove the extra pencil lines. We do this with an eraser.

Cover the finished portrait with a layer of colorless varnish. We remove it in a place inaccessible to children until it dries completely.

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Burnout is my passion. You can burn not only on wood, but also on leather, paper and other materials, but you need to approach them prepared. My master class will help you acquire this experience - it is designed just for beginners. Before starting work, I found a photo, scanned it and printed it in the size I needed: it turned out to be about 20 by 25 centimeters. Then I found a suitable piece of wood and sanded it properly with 400 grit and then 600 grit sandpaper. This should always be done before starting work with wood. Then I polished it with a brown paper bag (by the way! It works the same as sandpaper-zero), moving it in the same way as when sanding with sandpaper. Now I'm ready to transfer the picture to the tree. I position the image, fix it. Once I found it very convenient to use scotch tape or masking tape for fixing - this does not allow the picture to move while I transfer the image. Now I always do this, attaching the picture by the top edge. The next step is to place the carbon copy under the portrait. Make sure you place the carbon paper right side up against the tree to avoid getting your photo printed on the back of the paper instead of on the tree. I always look at what comes out at the beginning of work to be completely sure that I am doing everything right. I use a red pen and start tracing the main lines of the photo. The red ink allows me to see which lines I have already translated. A photo translated into a tree looks something like this ...

Now I'm ready to burn the portrait. Using subtle shading, I start with the eyes. I always do the eyes first, it helps me to keep the likeness of the portrait, and in general, leaving them for last is not correct. Important! Never use a tilted tool to outline something in a portrait - it leaves deep marks in the wood. You want soft eye features. I use the tip of a ballpoint pen to outline the iris and pupil so that they are not in the tree, but above it. Here are baby Megan's eyes and complete.

Next I do her nose, mouth, teeth and add some shadows to some areas of the face, again using subtle shading. I also slightly emphasize the shape of her face ... and she begins to come to life.

Now I move along the left side of her face, adding more shadow. Using shading, I draw and shape her ear. I add a subtle shadow to the cheek, chin and forehead. Then I change the attachment and, using the hair attachment, I begin to easily add hair to her, being careful to maintain the correct direction of hair growth.

I paint over her hair, keeping an eye on where the highlights are - in those places I shade weaker. Please note that her hairline is not clear and discontinuous, there are always strands that come out.

It's time to move on to the fur on her sweater. I turn the picture sideways and, using hatching, start with the fur under the chin and start hatching towards me on the left side of the collar. I sometimes heat up the instrument so that some areas are darker than others. Now I unfold the picture straight ahead and hatch the right side of the collar "away from me." The result looks something like this.

Now it's time to tackle her sweater. I tried to imagine what a knitted fabric looks like in a sweater, and made a couple of experimental sketches. I grab my hair attachment and, using the hot and lukewarm attachment, begin to draw lines on the sweater. Pay close attention to the curves and shapes of the sweater. Previously, after I applied all the lines, I shaded a light shadow around each line. This time, I wanted to create an effect where the top of the sweater is darkened and the lines zigzag through the wood without casting a shadow. Great, huh?

And last but not least. I look around the portrait and decide where I need to darken a little more. When I feel that the work is almost finished, I put it somewhere in the house for a couple of days so that I can see it when I walk by. This allows me to see if I have missed anything. In a few days I return to work and correct all the shortcomings that I have noticed during this time, and I finish. I sign - and the work is completed. I hope you found it interesting to read my instructions step by step. I took this portrait for about 40 hours.

In the technique of burning on wood, many different images of ornaments, patterns, images of animals, birds, plants, people, nature, and more are performed. To transfer the image to a wooden base, black graphite or ordinary carbon paper is most often used. Some burners offer to print the drawing on parchment paper, glue it to the tree and burn the drawing over it. When heated, the parchment will melt, leaving scorched lines underneath. Some especially gifted pirogathists with artistic inclinations draw images, including portraits of people, by hand with a simple pencil, down to the smallest detail. But what if you don’t know how to draw, but you want to burn out a portrait or other image without copying? Today's article will tell you how to make wood burning photos at home.

Methods for burning photos on wood

Photos with the image of people, animals, flora are processed in a special program, for example, in Photoshop, to obtain an image consisting of small strokes and dots. Then sketches of these images are printed on a printer on parchment paper and transferred to a wooden base using a red-hot burner. Remains of parchment can be easily removed without leaving a trace.

We study burning a photo on wood using an image

A portrait of a person, any image of an animal, plant or something else, at your request, is printed in a schematic extension on a laser printer. Ideally, this image is printed on thin photo paper. Then the burner with a round nib is used on the seamy side of the image, which is tightly pressed with toner to a wood or some other base. When heated with a hot burner, the toner on the paper melts and prints onto the surface you want. The burner must be heated to the lowest possible temperature so that the paper does not catch fire from contact with it.

It only takes a few minutes to transfer an image in this way, which is a huge advantage of this method. Plus, it's the perfect way to get an image onto your work surface for beginners. When the toner heats up, tiny pieces of paper may remain on the surface in some places, which can be removed after the substrate has completely cooled down by slightly dampening a cotton pad in warm water.

This method is probably the most costly on the budget, but it will take a minimum of effort from you to burn it out. Typically, such a laser apparatus is attached to a computer that will act as a brain. A photo with the desired image is loaded into it, processed and sent to the laser. Next, the laser burns the image line by line with translational movements. You just have to cover it with varnish or paints for color.

Paintings burned from your photo on a wooden base can be ordered on the Internet. The price of such an image will depend on the complexity of the work, timing and manufacturing method. For example, an American pyrographist asks for $ 250 for a family portrait scorched from a photograph, measuring 27x35 cm. He makes his paintings only by hand using only metal and flame, each of them is unique and made to order. In addition, we think that there is still a mark-up for painstaking work. During the three years of its official website existence, he sold only 48 paintings. As you can see, there are not many connoisseurs of diligence at this price.

Things are much better with another English pyrographist, who burns for sale paintings, typical, standard, not as complex and individual as those of his American colleague. Therefore, his paintings in the technique of burning on wood are definitely cheaper, for example, he estimated a portrait of the singer Lana del Rey measuring 20x20 cm at $ 35, a map of the ancient world based on "The Lord of the Rings", measuring 30x30 cm at $ 45.

As you can see, the bulk of its potential buyers are media fans and moviegoers. For 4 months of work, this little-known pyrographist has sold about 30 similar images.

Patriotic attributes and various gags in the form of wooden plaques are in great demand.

There are a sufficient number of talented pyrographic portrait painters in Russia as well, their sites or groups can be easily found by typing in the search box “burning your favorite photo on wood to order”. Below are several works of our compatriots who are professionally engaged in burning portraits on wood.

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