Wildlife Designs
Original Patterns for Your Favourite Craft
by
Sue Walters
Softcover
215 x 280mm
103pp
Published by Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc., East Petersburg PA USA
R.R.P.$19.90
ISBN 1-56523-295-X
As reviewed in The Australian Woodworker Issue 127
While artistic talent and ability are often advantages in other aspects of woodworking, nowhere are they more important than in pyrography. The art and craft of pyrography are virtually indistinguishable from one another.
It is therefore essential that those who set out to teach pyrography must be able to convey information that addresses not merely the tools of the craft and the ways in which they may be used, but also the artistic design that directs each project towards its successful conclusion. Sue Walters, the author or Wildlife Designs, more than amply meets these prerequisites.
Winner of a string of awards both in her native Australia and overseas, Sue Walters introduces her subject with five chapters covering a range of techniques that may be used in the preparation of projects. However, she goes further than simply describing their use in pyrography, and offers advice on how the line patterns that consume the majority of this book might be used for work executed in other mediums.
A Project Gallery which includes not only the author’s work, but also that of other artists, demonstrates the application of the patterns to Quilts, Rubber Stamps, Lino Cuts, Scrollsawing, Stained Glass, Stencils, Ink & Pastels and Tole Painting & Folk Art.
Patterns make up the last 60 or so pages of the book. They range across a wide variety of wild life, from sparrows, squirrels, wolves and chipmunks, to ducks, owls and bears. Each pattern is presented in two illustrations; on the left is a full page line drawing, on the right is a fully rendered, greyscale drawing of the same size.
Wildlife Designs should prove useful not only to those who seek inspiration from the patterns themselves, but also to those who are looking for guidance concerning the formation and application of designs from an internationally recognised expert.
Photos: Colour Photos. Line illustrations of patterns.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Using Line Patterns
Chapter 2: Using Tonal Patterns
Chapter 3: Adapting Patterns for Various Arts and Crafts
Chapter 4: Modifying Patterns
Chapter 5: Transferring Patterns
Chapter 6: Project Gallery
Chapter
7: Patterns
- Lakeside View (Canada Geese)
- Call of the Golden Eagle
(Golden Eagle)
- Framed (Barn Swallows)
- Home on the Range (Pronghorn Buck)
-
Under the Wire (Sparrows)
- Big Red and Mate (Red Squirrels)
- Jane Doe
(Deer)
- Lookout Post (Peregrine Falcon)
- Waterloo County Sentinel (Horned
Owl)
- John Deer (Mule Deer)
- Duo (Wolves)
- Flutter By (Butterfly)
-
Happy Wanderer (Wanderer Butterfly)
- On the Rocks (Polar Bear)
- Majesty
(Bald Eagle)
- Dinner for Two (Chickadees)
- The Long Walk Home (Red Fox)
-
Left Behind (Cougar)
- Chip and Dale (Chipmunks)
- Focused (Cooper's Hawk)
-
Double Billing (Ducks)
- Horn of Plenty (Bighorn Sheep)
- Owl Be Seeing
You (Barn Owl)
- Hangover (Raccoon)
- Shawn Sheep (Dall Sheep)
- In the
Drink (Moose)
- Claire the Loon (Common Loon)
- Buffalo Bill (Bison)
-
Mountaineer (Mountain Goat)
- Bugle Boy (Elk)
Chapter
8: Corners and Borders
Crane
Blue Heron
Loon
Swans
White-Tailed
Deer
Mountain Goat
Canada Geese
Mallards
Hummingbird
Monarch Butterfly