QUEEN ELIZABETH WAS AN ICONIC RULER Queen Elizabeth was an amazing monarch. Whether you admire her or not, there is no denying her rule was long and successful. I honestly don't know as much about her as many others might, but I'm confident there are few alive on the planet today who don't know who she was. Like many with access to streaming video entertainment, I watched the first season of Netflix's The Crown series, depicting her life and...
This is a short, time-lapse video clip of me working on burning a Vikings piece based on the Netflix series by the same name. I'm Swedish on my mother's side so, have always felt a real connection with that Norse ancestry. I really loved this series...watched the entire thing all the way through, twice, lol! So, this piece is a "just for fun" project for me! Below you'll find an update video depicting the progress I'm making on the Vikings...
Klaus Mikaelson is my favorite character from the television series' The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. I knew I wanted to create a series of burnings depicting several of the characters from both shows. It was no contest deciding which character I wanted to burn first! Klaus is the bad guy you hate to love. He is capable of unimaginable evil and viciousness...while at the same time possessing such a depth of personality...culture,...
I belong to several local Chambers of Commerce, including the Forest Grove, Oregon Chamber. They had an annual Chamber dinner, at which they conducted a raffle. I offered to supply a $49 retail value, custom-laser-engraved bamboo cutting board to one of the raffle winners. This board is the piece I created for a co-chamber member who represented Waste Management NW. He created this custom design, which I burned onto a 17"W x 12"H bamboo cutting...
Snape is my favorite character from the Harry Potter series. I guess I must have a soft place in my heart for the supposed "villain"...at least in some stories. Throughout almost the entire Harry Potter saga we are led to believe that Severus is someone to be feared. That he is a "bad guy" and out to get Harry and his friends. But in the end, we discover that he is really the ultimate good guy. I wanted to find an image of his character that...
UPDATED: 3/20/2019 - I've added the finished piece. Of course, as an artist I'm never really sure when a work is really DONE. You can always add a little more shading here...a little more smoothing there. I'm sure I'll probably continue to made subtle changes. But he is essentially done now and hanging on my office wall... Can you guess which character is NEXT in my series??? -- I've been having a yearning to play with some fun burning...just...
It was the first week of December 2017 when Ben contacted me wanting a custom burned rifle stock for his girlfriend...in time for Christmas! I had never worked on gun stocks before...but I was excited by the challenge! I told him that as long as he could deliver it to me with all of the finish removed and sanded down smooth before I got started I thought I could get it done for him in time. And I did! I worked with him to find just the right...
This is a really cool idea! I was contacted a few days ago by a local Portland dad who was looking for a pyrographer who could burn the first names and year of his son and daughter-in-law-to-be's wedding with a little leaf-work around the edges onto a large (36.5"L x 17.5W x 2"H), natural-edge cedar plank they had purchased. And what are the groom and bride-to-be going to do with this plank? They plan to use it as a Guest Book, of sorts, for...