Debbie Pompano - Woodburning Project & Pattern Treasury: Create Your Own Pyrography Art with 70 Mix-and-Match Designs (Fox Chapel Publishing) Step-by-Step Instructions for Both Beginners and Advanced Woodburners

I dedicate this book with love to my husband, Joe, my lifes companion and helpmate, in gratitude for his constant love, support, and understanding.

And to our beautiful and cherished daughters, Rachel, Rebecca, and Laura, who have brought so much joy and love into our lives.

Most of all, with deep thankfulness for this opportunity to share my love of art and nature with others, I dedicate this book to:

God, the Artist

You take the pen,

and the lines dance.

You take the flute,

and the notes shimmer.

You take the brush,

and the colours sing.

So all things have meaning and beauty,

in that space beyond time where you are.

How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

Dag Hammarskjold
Markings

I would like to thank the following people without whom this book would never have been written:

My parents, Dorothy and Sidney Beller, for instilling in me a love of art, nature, music, and good books, and for nurturing my imagination.

My sisters, Margie Beller, Wendy Huntington, Laurie Sklar, and Sandy Millerwhose love, friendship, laughter, (and emails) have comforted and encouraged me throughout the years.

Peg Couch, my editor at Fox Chapel Publishing, for believing in me. Her insights, friendly encouragement, expert guidance, and patience made this book possible and have changed my life. And to Kerri Landis and the talented staff at Fox Chapel Publishing, who have turned my lifes dream of writing a book into a reality.

Orchid Davis, for her warmth and generosity of spirit as a teacher, and for her inspiring example.

Robert Becker, editor of Creative Woodwork and Crafts and Pure Inspiration magazines, for his kindness, support, and encouragement.

And to my very talented guinea pig woodburning students in my classes at the wonderful John C. Campbell Folk Schooltheir enthusiasm and feedback inspired me and gave me the confidence to write this book.

2011 by Deborah Pompano and Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., East Petersburg, PA.

Woodburning Project & Pattern Treasury is an original work, first published in 2011 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc. The patterns contained herein are copyrighted by the author. Readers may make copies of these patterns for personal use. The patterns themselves, however, are not to be duplicated for resale or distribution under any circumstances. Any such copying is a violation of copyright law.

For a printable PDF of the patterns used in this book, please contact Fox Chapel Publishing at , quoting the ISBN and title of this book, as well as the pattern or patterns required.

The ambrosia maple platter used in the woodburning Harvest Time ).

Print ISBN 978-1-56523-482-6

eISBN 978-1-60765-892-4

Pompano, Deborah.

Woodburning project & pattern treasury / Deborah Pompano.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-56523-482-6 (pbk.)

1. Pyrography. 2. Pattern books. I. Title. II. Title: Woodburning project and pattern treasury.

TT199.8.P66 2011

745.514--dc22

2011012651

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I was very lucky to grow up in a large family with four sisters, in Norwich, Connecticut. My parents, Sidney and Dorothy Beller, were both creative people. Dad was a certified public accountant, but his real love was woodworking, and our entire basement was filled with saws and tools. He always had a project going, and he built everything from a cedar closet for our clothes to bookcases to a handsome inlaid map of the United States made from fifty different types of wood veneers! Dads other loves were playing the piano and gardening. I am grateful to have inherited Dads love of wood, nature, and music.

Mom was also creative, loved to sew, and taught all five of us girls to make our own clothes. She knitted, crocheted, did beautiful embroidery, and cooked incredible meals. She collected and often read to us the great books of art, music, and literature, which she bought on the installment plan at the local grocery store or through the mail. She would never allow us to complain that we were bored but insisted that we find creative things to do, and we did! Mom also fostered a great love of wildlife in me with frequent trips to the Mohegan Park Zoo in Norwich, which was filled with deer, owls, hawks, and even a monkey house.

Our local public high school, Norwich Free Academy, housed the fabulous Slater Museum and Art School, and I am so thankful to Mom for driving me there every Saturday morning throughout my elementary school years for drawing, painting, and pottery classes. We didnt have computers or video gamesjust an old black and white TV, so I had plenty of time to climb the big pine trees in our yard, sew, explore nature, read, play the piano, ride my bike, roller skate, paint and draw, and dream. I am so grateful for the wonderful childhood that I had. I know I would not be an artist today if it were not for those cherished years.

I attended the University of Connecticut as an art major and met my husband, Joe, there in 1971. We lived in Massachusetts for many years, and I received my B.A. degree and teaching certification in elementary education and art education from the University of Massachusetts. In 1981, we moved to Virginia. Joe and I live in a cozy old house in Hanover, Virginia, and have raised three wonderful daughters: Rachel, Rebecca, and Laura. We now share our home with our two dogs, Corky and Snow Bear. I have worn many artistic hats over the years, having worked as an elementary school teacher, art teacher, portrait artist at shopping malls and art shows, and scrimshaw artist, carving intricate designs into whalebone and elephant ivory. Ive also worked as a landscape artist, working in oils, pastels, pen & ink, and pencil. For the past twenty years, I have taught piano and art lessons in my own home studio, the Harvest Moon Studio.

When I discovered pyrography in 2002, my life as an artist completely changed. I was deeply attracted to this craft because I have always had a deep love of nature and trees, and I just fell in love with the unique medium of drawing on wood. With each picture I complete, I see the potential for so many new effects and cant wait to try them out. I have met many interesting, creative, and talented people as I have explored this fascinating craft. After almost four years of studying and experimenting on my own, I took a class in woodburning with Orchid Davis at the John C. Campbell Folk School, in Brasstown, North Carolina. Orchids excellent instruction and encouragement were invaluable to me, and I was very honored to be asked by her to teach woodburning classes at the school, which I began to do in August 2009.