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...
This is a portrait I did on vegetable-tanned leather as a gift for my aunt's 80th birthday. The image is of my mom and her sister, back when they were young ladies in their late teens/early 20s. For more examples of my hand-burned pyrography work or to order your own custom piece visit: Lonestar Pyrography
