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Practice boards do not need

to be scraps of your working

surface—they can become

full-fledged projects of their own.

This papier-mâché grocery bag

was the practice board for the

Sunflower Yarn Caddy project.

PART TWO

Practice Boards

New designs or patterns present new challenges for you as a pyrographer. Each working surface has

its own texture, density, and color tone that affect the evenness and final look of each burn stroke. By

working a small scrap of the same material you can experiment with your pyrography ensure the best

burn possible on your larger project.

A practice board will be used to record your tonal values according to your temp settings. With

each new step in your pyrography project, do a small sample burning on your practice board making

any necessary adjustments to tip, texture, and temperature before putting pen to project.

As you explore each working surface available to pyrographers, you will find small projects that

you can use as your practice session works.

Five factors determine the final look of any area of burning. As you work your practice board

make note of each of these directly on your grid so that you can, at will, reproduce any of your textures

or stroke fill patterns:

•

Working surface

•

Tool tip profile

•

Temperature setting

•

Fill or texture pattern

•

Hand position