luminary

Madrone Meadow Luminary. Four inches high by 4 inches diameter. I turned this madrone vessel to a thickness of 2 to 3 mm using end-grain orientation. The wood was very dry (about 7 percent moisture content). The artwork was composed using Adobe illustrator. Some of the colors are pigma...

Madrone Meadow Luminary. Four inches high by 4 inches diameter. I turned this madrone vessel to a thickness of 2 to 3 mm using end-grain orientation. The wood was very dry (about 7 percent moisture content). The artwork was composed using Adobe illustrator. Some of the colors are pigma...

Frontal view with different lighting.

This is "Milkweed Butterfly" the third and final luminary I used for the Seattle Woodturners October mini-Symposium. This one was my "just off the lathe" example for the demo and needed pyrography as well as piercing. This photo includes a view of the inner coating. I used Liquitex opal blue...

This view shows typical lighting when used as a luminary.

This now completed 4x6 maple luminary was the example of a nearly complete vessel for my demonstration at the Seattle Woodturners' October mini-Symposium. It is adapted from a Swiss wall hanging from around 1820. This view is in normal everyday room lighting.

I decided to put together an assemblage of smaller luminaries. On the left and right are Poplar, the small foreground luminary is white oak and the large pine tree luminary is Sugar Maple. I'm calling it my Pine - Owl Assemblage. If you look closely, you can see that the leftmost and front...