Valarie Connell Art

So you have found wood burning or have been burning for a little while and you aren't sure about sanding. You get mixed information in social groups and you are confused. Do I sand? How high of grit do I sand? How much sanding do I need to do? The questions and answers can be overwhelming.

Learn the safest way to transfer an image/pattern to wood. How do you transfer an image on to the wood? I see this question all the time, by those new(er) to wood burning. It's a great question, but some times the answers given are well, just not.

Learn the proper way to clean you wood burning wire tips. I used to use fine grit sandpaper to clean my wire tips and boy was that a costly mistake. It's easy to stop abusing your pens and shift course for the sake of your tips & pocketbook.

I fight daily to keep out of the dark almost inescapable hole which is created by my chronic pain, major depression. Sometimes this fight is so overwhelming and exhausting that I can’t focus on anything else.

You’re scrolling through the posts and you’re fantasizing about being half as good as these other artists. You ask yourself, “why doesn’t my burning look like this?” which is almost always followed up with something like “what am I doing wrong?”.

This year for the holiday season I decided to burn a couple of snow globe ornaments on my Drawing With Fire YouTube channel. Learn how I added glittery snow without getting it all over the place. No glitter bombs with this technique. A step by step of what I did after I wood burned the ornament and a list of supplies used.