Wood burning a wooden mortar - photos + video of the process

 

This pyrography post is about a wooden mortar. Join me as I make my design on this piece. My idea was of course to add spices to its exterior.

Here is the packaged wooden mortar and pestle received from my sister. I will be making some drawings only on the mortar and not on the pestle.

First I did my research to help me decide which spices I will pick as my models.I left out small spices like black pepper because I felt they would not look that nice. I picked something more complex in shape. Using a 2B pencil I made drawings of basil, ginger root, garlic, cloves, star anise and cinnamon. Any pencil traces can be erased with a rubber.

 This is how the mortar turned out. After making the main lines of each spice I added some shading.

 You can watch the whole process of me wood burning this mortar. It's at 16x speed. I was moving so fast the camera lost its focus sometimes.  

 

 

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