Creating Stunning Pet Portraits with Pyrography Techniques
Preparing Your Wood Canvas
A course by Hannah Veiga , Pyrography artist
About the video: Preparing Your Wood Canvas
Overview
“During this lesson, I'll teach you to sand your wood using different grits (60, 120, 220) for a smooth surface. The sand-wipe-sand method helps refine the wood. Cracks can be filled with wood filler or epoxy, which should be sanded once dry to ensure a smooth, burnable surface.”
In this video lesson Hannah Veiga addresses the topic: Preparing Your Wood Canvas, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Stunning Pet Portraits with Pyrography Techniques. Master pet portrait pyrography techniques for creating stunning, realistic woodburned art, focusing on tools, textures, and finishing.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now we're moving on to sanding our wood. It's an essential step in any wood burning project. Sanding your wood will impact everything down to the smoothest of the wood, which results in how smooth your burns are and even how finishes are applied. And then longevity of your wood burning marks as well. So it's super important to be able to have access to either a palm sander or an orbital sander. What I use at home is an orbital sander. So you plug it in. At the back here, you're gonna see the holes. and what you're gonna wanna do is align the holes So this is an eight hole sander and I have ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Stunning Pet Portraits with Pyrography Techniques
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Arts & Crafts, Decorative Painting, DIY, Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration, Woodworking
Hannah Veiga
A course by Hannah Veiga
Hannah Veiga is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Hamilton, Ontario, whose main practice focuses on pyrography—the art of drawing with fire on wood. Guided by the natural grain, she creates compositions that celebrate the organic character of each surface, exploring the balance between control and spontaneity. Her work reflects themes of growth, decay, and rebirth, inviting viewers to find stillness and curiosity in the natural world.
Before discovering pyrography, Hannah experimented with screen printing, etching, drawing, painting, and mixed-media sculpture. Today, she combines her artistic practice with education, sharing her creative process through workshops and tutorials that encourage sustainability, material awareness, and the expressive potential of natural materials.
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