Sue Walters, internationally renowned Australian pyrographer, teaches you everything you need to know to create stunning pyrography artwork through three step by step projects including.

- For Beginning Woodburners: Ducks & Bulrushes
- For Intermediate Woodburners: Golden Eagle
- For Advanced Woodburners: Wolf

Inside you'll find:

- Pyrography history, equipment, work area and safety
- Materials, preparation and finishing
- Woodburning techniques such as solar, negative, relief, engraving, color, torch, pyrographic machine and hot wire
- In depth instruction on creating animal fur, feathers and eyes-plus simple ways of burning natural objects, water, trees, bushes, rocks, and grass
- Methods for burning onto wood, leather, paper, bark, and antlers, are detailed alongside ample pictures of pyrography on the various materials that will inspire novice woodburners.
- Bring color to the artwork using different pigments and effects
- Ideas for using your new found skill

Internationally-renowned Australian pyrogrpaher, Sue Walters, is a self-taught woodburner. She has won numerous international pyrographic art awards including 2002 and 2003 Australian Society of Miniature Art International Competition, 2003 Melbourne Working with Wood Woodworking Competition, 2002 Australian National Woodcarving Competition, 2002 Canadian Woodcarving Championships, 2001 Ontario Woodcarvers Association Championships, 2001 Ottawa Woodcarving Championships, and 2001 Hawkwind Wood Carvers Competition. Sue Walters is a frequent contributor to Wood Carving Illustrator and Scroll Saw Workshop magazines. She is the owner of a website suewalters.com, the Pyro Newsletter and the Pyro Classroom Online which offers one-on-one communications and a message board for pyrographers. She is the author of Pyrography Workbook. Walters resides in Upwey, Victoria, Australia.

Sue Walters lives in Australia and was a horticulturist before she turned to Pyrography.

Pyrography means "to draw with fire." There are those who "burn the pencil lines" to create their pictures, but it is pyrography in its "most complex form that is most beautiful and appealing. The "combination of texture drawing can create pictures that appeal almost lifelike." Color can be added and a wide variety of woods used to create a multitude of burned possibilities.

This book is an educational text as well as a magnificent motivational piece. The author calls pyrography a craft, but at her level of expertise, I feel it should be labeled an art.

Following a nicely written introduction is the nine-page gallery. Just looking at these burnings is enough to get you excited about trying to do some of this work yourself. But after you've finally calmed down a bit and begun reading the material beneath the photos, you can't help but be surprised to learn that all the works are not on wood. There's wood, all right, but also cowhide and rag paper. Oh my! Even I am at a loss for the proper words to describe these works.

Chapter 1 is an excellent discussion of equipment, the work area and safety.

There are various types of pyrographic machines - something many of us have learned in classes at Rally on the Rio. The differences between the North American and the British/Australian/European areas exist primarily because in this country, woodburning grew up with wood carving as a way to texture ducks, birds, etc. It is a good way to texture wood.

In other parts of the world, pyrography is more focused on flat artwork and decorating furniture and turnings.

Here we have developed a great variety of nibs. In other countries, there is little need for a great variety of nibs as the purpose of burning has not changed much over the years, so the original nibs serve for most work.

There's more information on power units, desired features, comparision of solid point and wire nib burners, other equipment and safety. All of it is interesting reading.