Love the smell of a wood fire? Love beautiful art? Well, then you'll love the artwork of Minisa Robinson. Her artwork looks like delicate pencil sketches in earthy brown tones, but that's not actually how she creates.
How does she do it? Robinson creates art using a practice called pyrography.
Instead of drawn onto a surface, the design is burned into a surface, with the blackened areas serving to create lines, shapes, and shadows.
We've seen incredible art made with pretty unexpected materials, like the artist who creates brilliant sketches using nothing but dirty windshields, but Robinson's art also shows us that with some skill and a little determination, you can make art out of anything — even fire!
Check out her amazing work below, and you'll swear you can smell the cozy scent of a campfire as you look at them.
[H/T: BoredPanda]
Minisa Robinson creates these incredibly lifelike sketches on raw wood. But they're not created with paint or pencil.
Instead, each line has been carefully burned into the wood's surface in a process known as pyrography, which literally means "writing with fire."
The result is a drawing in a spectrum of warm and earthy brown tones, from the pale beige of the wood to deep, charred black.
And thanks to her steady hand and attention to detail, her images come out stunningly.
To create a black background like this, Robinson simply applies even pressure and temperature to burn it to an even darkness.
So how does she do it? After all, fire is kind of unpredictable, right? It would be really hard to get a drawing like this with a flame!
Well, pyrography doesn't exactly use fire.
Rather, Robinson uses a wood burning tool, which features a metal tip that heats up to a very high temperature, hot enough to burn the surface of the wood.
It's handles just like a pen, but of course for this, safety gloves are an absolute must!
But because it's used like a pen, Robinson can easily draw just as she would with a pencil on paper.
The tool also has both a fine point for detail and a broad surface for covering larger areas.
So she can do everything with just this one tool!
To make her images, she starts with the basics…
And then adds in the detail, just the way you would with any painting or drawing.
She works in quick, light strokes to keep her images looking three-dimensional and full of life.
And in the case of this lion cub, perfectly fluffy!
Typically, she'll lightly sketch her design out in pencil first to get it laid out correctly. After all, once you burn into the wood, you can't exactly erase!
Robinson's work has gained fans across the country, and she's even done larger projects like this beautiful, rustic headboard with a sweeping mountain scene.
