Map on Wood

[Sironae]

My Working Place for painting, Crafts was so empty....realy empty...it was. :-)
More Pictures will follow :-)
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[Mouse]

What a fantastic idea

Not sure this one will catch on as fast as the bookmarks did, though. I haven't got the space for large pieces of wood in my shoebox flat! LOL!

EDIT: So busy looking at the map I forgot to say it was beautiful

[Sironae]

i did´t post it because of the bookmark idea...i am still happy thant many like the bookmark idea.
but i also think the main idea of of this comunity is to share ideas and work to get better and may be show something new.
so i this is to show how to creat a great working place :-)

[Mouse]

Oh I quite agree

Have you ever painted a map on a wall, like a mural?

I owned a house once, and by the time I left it the interior was covered in murals - a different theme in each room. Mermaids in the bathroom, cave paintings with tigers and bison in my stepson's room, a landscape in the living room...

I've no pictures, for that was many years ago now.

If I owned the flat where I live nowadays, I'd paint maps on the walls instead

[ChickPea]

Wow, this is fantastic and quite unusual. I've never used a soldering iron so forgive my newbie questions. What's it like to work with? For example, does it mark the wood immediately or does it take a second or two. Is it easy to 'draw' with? Do you get sparks or anything like that from it?

(These might be dumb questions, but if you don't ask you'll never learn anything!)

[Sironae]

Hi chickPea (sorry my english is terrible i hope you will unterstand it)
It is NOT like a pen! It also depents on the wood, if you use wood like i did with a lot of woodrings i is a bit tricky. because the woodburner burns more easy on the light wood as on the dark rings.
it also depents on the heat! i have a quide good woodburner there you can control the heat, so it was for my easy to use the right heat. it burns with a good heat like a pen on papier (exept for the light and dark rings).
if you draw a long line the burn heat will drop a bit so you lose the direkt "paint". i recoment to draw short lines. you can see the long lines will lose the darkness.
At some points a got one ot two sparks or you can see smoke form the wood. so i recoment to put away any easy burning objects (papier etc). And yes this sounds silly but i wear glases (bad sight) and it protectet my eyes from the upcoming heat and smoke. so i recoment some glases to protect your eyes.
and have a "i first try on a smal pice" wood objekt.
a lot of bad english writing (my speaking is a bit better) i hope you got the informations you need. :-)

[ChickPea]

Thank you, this is great. I was trying to get an idea of what it was like to work with, and you've given me that.

I think I would probably burn the house down if I attempted this!

[Sironae]

a good woodburner is may be the expensive point on that idea. my woodburner with the differnt buringpoints was about 80 Euro. The wood is cheap. i recoment a good woodburner or it is now fun. i had first a cheap one, it was no fun with that.