CHISELS AND CHIPS
Meet the Artist: Rick Hounjet
Rick Hounjet is a wood turner from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a juried member of the Saskatchewan Craft Council, a member of The Saskatchewan Wildlife Art Association and member of The Hub City Turners. Rick has been wood turning since 2000. He enjoys working with wood dyes and pyography to create turnings that often depict beautiful nature scenes of Saskatchewan. He uses local salvaged wood for his turnings. Rick Hounjet has showcased his work at Small Quirks Exhibition at the Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery, ArtNow Fine Art Fairs(Saskatoon and Regina), Reflections of Nature Art Show and Gallery On The Greens Saskatoon. Rick along with his wife Michelle Misouri are also the creators of the annual Wild Oat Fine Art Show and Sale in Saskatoon. Ricks work is currently available at The Saskatchewan Craft Council Saskatoon, Handmade House Saskatoon, Broken Spoke Fine Art Gallery, Maple Creek Saskatchewan and Eagle Bay Resort, East Trout Lake Saskatchewan. View more of his work on his Facebook page called Chisels and Chips or Instagram @ChiselsandChips.
The creatively intriguing pieces from Chisels and Chips are turned from local salvaged wood. A log in a wood pile can become a beautiful bowl, vase or platter. Rick enjoys working with wood dyes and uses pyography techniques to create beautiful nature scenes of Saskatchewan. Before a piece is designed, Rick examines his turning carefully looking for how natural wood grains, knots and inclusions can be incorporated into the scene. Often a wood grain may depict northern lights or a sun ray! Several layers of dyes are often used to created the perfect hue. Freehand pyography is sometimes added and worked in with a knot or inclusion! Several hours of polishing and oiling highlight the beauty of the wood and bring the scenes to life!
CREATIVITY AT WORK
py·rog·ra·phy
- the art or technique of decorating wood or leather by burning a design on the surface with a heated metallic point.
What is Wood Burning Art?
The technical term for wood burning is pyrography and is derived from the Greek words pyro = fire and graphos = writing. Wood burning is a traditional art form in which materials such as wood, leather, or cork are burned on their surface by a heated metal tip. This results in dark colors of the material from the burn marks. In their entirety, these burn marks result in the desired decoration.
The first fire art of this kind was practiced in ancient Egypt and Africa. They simply used pieces of metal heated in a fire to decorate wood or leather with works of art and writing. With the arrival of electricity and the invention of the first soldering iron, by Hans Sachs, the metal tip heated by fire was replaced.
Not long after, the industry developed special devices for pyrography, the so-called branding irons. For some years now there has been a wide range of different wood burning tools, which can be adapted to the most diverse needs with temperature regulation and exchangeable burning loops (metal tips).
Source: craft-art.com
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