Use a pair of cheap jewelry pliers to change the tips out and just keep a metal pan nearby to drop the hot tips into.... Like a pie pan sitting on a potholder will do the trick.
Actually... you probably ought to do this again with a better system. Hand tools would speed up the bit changes. A metal pan could hold the ones your remove when hot. Your art looks really good done in this manner.
This was a fun video to watch. I always love watching you create! Your style is so fun and unconstrained. I am a wood-burning artist and if this is something you'd like to get back into doing, I have a few recommendations. I use the Razertip woodburning tool. You hold it just like a pencil so you get an incredible amount of control. Another plus is that instead of switching out the tips (after waiting for them to cool down) you change the entire pen. No waiting required! If you have any questions or want to chat about woodburning at all, let me know! I'm always up for an arty chat. :)
May I just say I love your channel so much! It is a place I can come and feel cozy, peace, and joy. You are such a beautiful person inside and out, not to mention your incredible art talent! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful art and life with us!❤❤❤
This just goes to show that when you have drawing and painting skills, they translate perfectly to so many other crafts! Mira seems so bubbly and easy-going, but the look of focus at 10:29 is intense! We never know what we'll see next on this channel!
That’s nice, I love the frog! I do a lot of wood burning, it’s so incredibly fun! And you can also make very realistic stuff with it. But I mostly work with a wire nib burner, those heat up and cool down much faster. I can see you have a lot of carbon build-up, that’s the black stuff you see on the nibs. If you get rid of that, it will work much better again. You can do that by running it over a tea sieve or something. That the nib broke it could be that you’re pushing too hard on the nib. Let the weight of the pen doing the job.
I bought a set like this (it is a combo of pyrography tool and soldering iron) to use to solder some jewellery pieces but I do want to try the pyrography side too. Could you not use a pair of pliers (not too much pressure) to remove the nib when it is hot and put it into a dish of cold water to cool? One of your tin dishes you use as a palette would be great for this. That way you don't have to wait for it to cook before you can continue working on your piece. Once they're cool just dry them off with a small towel/facecloth/paper towel etc and they're good to go again.
Don't drop your nibs in cold water, it could damage them because the water would make the hot metal suddenly contract.... Which might even cause cracks in cheaper sets.
I have only recently started watching TH-cam, and your channel is one of my favorites! I watch your old videos and sketch along with you. When you say, “art fam” I really feel like I’m hanging out with you, and I get the feeling that you are such a genuine person. I also identify as a style hopper! I’m not a professional artist, I’m a retired pharmacist who is recovering from the trauma of that experience. Art is a huge help, and when you say, “be kind to yourself” it makes me want to cry!
I have done a little wood burning years ago is fun but yes takes a long time to do can be meditative . Thanks for sharing the Frog is so cute and what a wonderful Keepsakes for your son. 💖
Neat. My mom bought me a wood burning set for Xmas last year. I haven't tried it out yet. This gives me some ideas of what can be done with it. Thank you. Love the frog and flower.
i bought one of those over 10 years ago and havent used it yet lol you did a great job with it and the markers work really well with the burnt wood look 😀
Wood burning brings back memories of high school, here in Australia (at least at my school) we had a subject that was called ‘wood work’ or something, it was of my favourite subjects…any creative one was really 😂
I really do hope you do this again, maybe even with a newer wood burner . I love how these turned out! It’s something I have been wanting to do these .
I have tried a little bit of wood burning when I was a teenager. I made I sign for my grandmothers hobby room when I was a kid, it’s fun but so much harder than it looks 😊
Using a silicon kitchen/oven mit should help with changing hot tips. I bought myself one of these about 18 months ago after using one in class a few times & it's still sitting in its packaging, lol. Thanks for the encouragement to get it out & play.
I have that same wood burning kit! I’m just starting out with it, but I really like it. I’ve just been doing the round wooden planks for now, but I’d like to graduate to a larger wood canvas/slice
Since I got into colored pencils, I want to do this. I have a cheap system around (one of these with thousand nips), which I used for electronics in university. But due to the experiences I had with it (flimsy nips and burning myself), I'm procrastinating that activity. And the cheap tool I have don't work with real wood, it can be used on this soft press boards.
I have a wood burning machine that has two ports for two tools, so I can swap in between them while one is cooling so I don't have to wait to change nibs. It's really fun!
I love wood burning, but I would highly recomend one burner with heat regulator, I ones had one with out and it is getting hotter and hotter and ruins your art peace, and other way arround if the burner is not hot enough (depens also on the wood type) it is no fun and the outcom is not great ad all. Also I would recomend a stone tile under the wood and water or sand nearby. A glass of sand is also good for the tips to cool down (I use plyers to change them so they don't need to cool down first...impatient)
I tried wood burning art for the first time last year I did three pieces of my grandmother and one of Davy Jones from the monkees in memory of them because they both were a huge part of my childhood and really meant a lot to me 💓💓
Idk anything about wood burning so someone could correct me but could you cool it down in water? Maybe use a heat resistant glove and drop the tip in the water and maybe the tip of the tool to cool it?
I never tried woodburning because im one of those people that hold my tools near the tip/bottom/whatever its called. And obviously you can't do that if its a hot tool. I've always been interested in woodburning and also gourd burning, but i know me, i know I'll go to grab the tool near the tip, out of habit, like I'd use a colour pencil, marker, paintbrush...and I'd end up burning myself. Your stuff turned out cute.
YAY! It's Mira Day! Thank you for your persistence in completing both pictures. You made the working of the engraving look so easy......4,000x.....WOW! 😁
My first and only wood burning project was on a half chunky slab slice for a friend. She wanted her house number and a design of my choice. I drew a humming bird drinking from flowers and then painted the flowers. I stained the live edge slab, and she was super happy. It was fun!
Love the drog! ❤ Hmm! Drog? Of course I meant the frog 🐸 😅! Try a newer and more a more powerful tool to burn next time. Maybe the technology has improved a little bit in almost a decade 😊. However I did wood burning some years ago (ok, MANY years ago) and my tools wasn’t that slow. I changed the nibs with pliers as soon as I had turned of the ting. Do not do that with the tool still connected to the socket, who knows what horrible things could happen 😮. I think you could do some really interesting and cool art with wood burning. Just imaging your ocean paintings with different darkness of the burned wood instead of paint. I think it would look amazing 😍
Hi, just wondering if you would ever consider shipping to the UK? I’ve been wanting to purchase your products for so long but am u able to. Hope you’ve had a great day Mira! :)
I wish I could ship to the UK again, but ever since they changed their laws, I need a VAT ID to be allowed to ship there. It is really hard and confusing for small businesses to get one; I’ve tried before. :(
I did it once at camp boggie creek and I was trying to do iron man for my mom and I had gloves on and I burned my self because I had one of the gloves on backwards and it had a hole in it and I touched the hot part with the hole part and ever since then I’ve never touched it again.
Why don't you try to use plyers to unscrew the hot nibs and let them cool of on an heat resistant surface while you work with.the next tip? Should save you alot of cooling down time.
Funny thing: I was cooking a pizza and the oven needs cleaned, so it smells a little burnt every time we use it.. the WHOLE time I forgot that and thought I was tripping by smelling burnt smell. 😅
Mira, I love the tulip and the frog, but... *Safety concerns!!!* (from burn savvy) *Safety Tips & Tricks* Don’t touch the metal when machine is on! Keep your burner away from flammable stuff. Tie back loose hanging hair, jewelry, headphones, etc. Work on a hard, sturdy surface [ex: table or desk… no need to burn holes in the couch. Or your leg.] Secure the stand to the table. [no holes in the carpet either] Always place your burner on the stand when not in use. Turn burner off any time you leave the table. Unplug when leaving the room. Use metal pliers to gently remove hot tips or insert cool tips into a hot burner. Place hot tips in a heat-safe dish to cool. If a tip resists going in: STOP, back up, and try again. *Safety tools and gear:* Adjustable drawing table: Helps keep heat from fingers and face. Also helps with artist posture. Leather gloves, rubber finger guards, finger heat shields, or thick cork grips: Keeps fingers from getting too hot. P95 Mask: For lung protection from smoke and sanding. Fan: Helps move smoke and heat away from face and fingers. Better yet, get a fan with an activated charcoal filter to clean smoke out of the air as it pulls it away from you. Air purifier cleans smoke and particulates from burning and sanding out of the air I will add: Put your tool down when not using it - you were waving it around, close to your hair and eyes all the time you were talking straight to camera. Keep your heat tools (all your art tools, in fact) away from the reach of inquisitive, exploring children. (do you have safety catches on your art room cupboards?)
Use a pair of cheap jewelry pliers to change the tips out and just keep a metal pan nearby to drop the hot tips into.... Like a pie pan sitting on a potholder will do the trick.
Actually... you probably ought to do this again with a better system. Hand tools would speed up the bit changes. A metal pan could hold the ones your remove when hot. Your art looks really good done in this manner.
I also found letting them sit in little cups of water helps them cool down quite a bit if you need to change them again.
This was a fun video to watch. I always love watching you create! Your style is so fun and unconstrained. I am a wood-burning artist and if this is something you'd like to get back into doing, I have a few recommendations. I use the Razertip woodburning tool. You hold it just like a pencil so you get an incredible amount of control. Another plus is that instead of switching out the tips (after waiting for them to cool down) you change the entire pen. No waiting required! If you have any questions or want to chat about woodburning at all, let me know! I'm always up for an arty chat. :)
May I just say I love your channel so much! It is a place I can come and feel cozy, peace, and joy. You are such a beautiful person inside and out, not to mention your incredible art talent! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful art and life with us!❤❤❤
This just goes to show that when you have drawing and painting skills, they translate perfectly to so many other crafts! Mira seems so bubbly and easy-going, but the look of focus at 10:29 is intense! We never know what we'll see next on this channel!
That’s nice, I love the frog! I do a lot of wood burning, it’s so incredibly fun! And you can also make very realistic stuff with it. But I mostly work with a wire nib burner, those heat up and cool down much faster. I can see you have a lot of carbon build-up, that’s the black stuff you see on the nibs. If you get rid of that, it will work much better again. You can do that by running it over a tea sieve or something. That the nib broke it could be that you’re pushing too hard on the nib. Let the weight of the pen doing the job.
IN AUSTRALIA IT IS CALLED A POKER PEN,, MY DAD DID A LOT OF WORK DESIGNS ON WOOD. BYE MARIA
I bought a set like this (it is a combo of pyrography tool and soldering iron) to use to solder some jewellery pieces but I do want to try the pyrography side too.
Could you not use a pair of pliers (not too much pressure) to remove the nib when it is hot and put it into a dish of cold water to cool? One of your tin dishes you use as a palette would be great for this. That way you don't have to wait for it to cook before you can continue working on your piece. Once they're cool just dry them off with a small towel/facecloth/paper towel etc and they're good to go again.
Don't drop your nibs in cold water, it could damage them because the water would make the hot metal suddenly contract.... Which might even cause cracks in cheaper sets.
I have only recently started watching TH-cam, and your channel is one of my favorites! I watch your old videos and sketch along with you. When you say, “art fam” I really feel like I’m hanging out with you, and I get the feeling that you are such a genuine person. I also identify as a style hopper! I’m not a professional artist, I’m a retired pharmacist who is recovering from the trauma of that experience. Art is a huge help, and when you say, “be kind to yourself” it makes me want to cry!
I have done a little wood burning years ago is fun but yes takes a long time to do can be meditative . Thanks for sharing the Frog is so cute and what a wonderful Keepsakes for your son. 💖
Neat. My mom bought me a wood burning set for Xmas last year. I haven't tried it out yet. This gives me some ideas of what can be done with it. Thank you. Love the frog and flower.
Oh I absolutely love wood burning. It's very therapeutic, but it does take patience and practice. I love the froggie!!
Painting is much faster!! 🎨 I love the smell of campfire, but time and patience is not in abundance here!! 🔥 Those pieces turned out lovely!!🤗😍
OMG THE THROWBACK BB MIRA!!!!!!! So cute!!
i bought one of those over 10 years ago and havent used it yet lol
you did a great job with it and the markers work really well with the burnt wood look 😀
Wood burning brings back memories of high school, here in Australia (at least at my school) we had a subject that was called ‘wood work’ or something, it was of my favourite subjects…any creative one was really 😂
I really do hope you do this again, maybe even with a newer wood burner . I love how these turned out! It’s something I have been wanting to do these .
I have tried a little bit of wood burning when I was a teenager. I made I sign for my grandmothers hobby room when I was a kid, it’s fun but so much harder than it looks 😊
I love woodburning. Honestly easy to shade with pressure and different tips. Beautiful projects can be created!
Thank you for the continued inspiration Mira, loving the content lately!
Wow, that's awesome! I never would have thought to use colour on wood 😍
One of my friends woodburned Christmas ornaments with our names on them! I think it would be super fun to make ornaments 🩷
Have you tried "scorch pens" or "wood burning pens" ? Supposed to give the same effect on the wood but easier. ❤😊
I have that exact kit! Maybe you could try using a pliers to remove the nibs.
Using a silicon kitchen/oven mit should help with changing hot tips. I bought myself one of these about 18 months ago after using one in class a few times & it's still sitting in its packaging, lol. Thanks for the encouragement to get it out & play.
I have that same wood burning kit! I’m just starting out with it, but I really like it. I’ve just been doing the round wooden planks for now, but I’d like to graduate to a larger wood canvas/slice
I find it easier to do the outline in close together dots, gives it a good texture and more precise
Since I got into colored pencils, I want to do this. I have a cheap system around (one of these with thousand nips), which I used for electronics in university. But due to the experiences I had with it (flimsy nips and burning myself), I'm procrastinating that activity. And the cheap tool I have don't work with real wood, it can be used on this soft press boards.
I love the pieces and I have a wood burner too. I went simple as well lol
Omg love your work
Omg I love the Froggie! The tulip is also very pretty. It looks fun, but I don’t think I would have the patience. ❤
The Frog ist so Cute ♥♥♥♥
I love your Art so much
We did wood burning in middle school in shop class, it was a lot of fun!
The frog turned out so cute ❤
I like the idea of using what you have to make great art. I should do the same thing as I own sooo many art supplies 😅
I have a wood burning machine that has two ports for two tools, so I can swap in between them while one is cooling so I don't have to wait to change nibs. It's really fun!
I love wood burning, but I would highly recomend one burner with heat regulator, I ones had one with out and it is getting hotter and hotter and ruins your art peace, and other way arround if the burner is not hot enough (depens also on the wood type) it is no fun and the outcom is not great ad all. Also I would recomend a stone tile under the wood and water or sand nearby. A glass of sand is also good for the tips to cool down (I use plyers to change them so they don't need to cool down first...impatient)
I tried wood burning art for the first time last year I did three pieces of my grandmother and one of Davy Jones from the monkees in memory of them because they both were a huge part of my childhood and really meant a lot to me 💓💓
I love when you try new things and make the best of your mistakes! I love the frog!❤😊
Idk anything about wood burning so someone could correct me but could you cool it down in water? Maybe use a heat resistant glove and drop the tip in the water and maybe the tip of the tool to cool it?
I never tried woodburning because im one of those people that hold my tools near the tip/bottom/whatever its called. And obviously you can't do that if its a hot tool. I've always been interested in woodburning and also gourd burning, but i know me, i know I'll go to grab the tool near the tip, out of habit, like I'd use a colour pencil, marker, paintbrush...and I'd end up burning myself.
Your stuff turned out cute.
YAY! It's Mira Day! Thank you for your persistence in completing both pictures. You made the working of the engraving look so easy......4,000x.....WOW! 😁
The frog looks awesome!
I tried this before and it’s fun and I love the smell of burning wood 😊 you did really good 👍🏻 I love it
The frog looks so cute! 💖 What kind of marker did you put over the copics?
i love wood burning i used to wood burn wooden ornaments so fun!
Also, watch ur pets around wood burners. Especially cats. Awesome video and art, mira. As always😊
Not sure if someone already mentioned this or not but you can change the hot tips out with pliers.
My first and only wood burning project was on a half chunky slab slice for a friend. She wanted her house number and a design of my choice. I drew a humming bird drinking from flowers and then painted the flowers. I stained the live edge slab, and she was super happy. It was fun!
I love the frog 😊, it's so funny that my parents and I were just talking about the wood burning kit they got us as kids.
I love your sense of humor in this video! (I mean always but you cracked me up today hahah)
I absolutley adore the frog
You should do this again but try it on leather! It's a lot easier and really satisfying!
I was literally thinking about you last night, so I'm glad to see the notification pop up 🎉
You are SO inspirational! I love that you’re using what you already have in hand. Your wood pieces came out super cute! 🥰 🌷 🐸 🪵 🔥
U can change the tip when its hot just use a good pair of pilers just be careful not to drop it. Once U take it off put it in a oven safe pan or bowl.
I have done wood burning before I made a small Pluto one and the goblin king from labyrinth on a big piece
Fun!
Love it 😍
Question. Why do you let yours cool down before you change the tip?
Good question. If you don't, you will burn your hand touching a hot tip.
Both of your pieces are adorable=3 Have a great day=)
Love the drog! ❤ Hmm! Drog? Of course I meant the frog 🐸 😅!
Try a newer and more a more powerful tool to burn next time. Maybe the technology has improved a little bit in almost a decade 😊. However I did wood burning some years ago (ok, MANY years ago) and my tools wasn’t that slow. I changed the nibs with pliers as soon as I had turned of the ting. Do not do that with the tool still connected to the socket, who knows what horrible things could happen 😮.
I think you could do some really interesting and cool art with wood burning. Just imaging your ocean paintings with different darkness of the burned wood instead of paint. I think it would look amazing 😍
Hi, just wondering if you would ever consider shipping to the UK? I’ve been wanting to purchase your products for so long but am u able to.
Hope you’ve had a great day Mira! :)
I wish I could ship to the UK again, but ever since they changed their laws, I need a VAT ID to be allowed to ship there. It is really hard and confusing for small businesses to get one; I’ve tried before. :(
But thank you for wanting to support my shop!! That is so sweet 💜
That’s makes way more sense, thank you for the explanation ❤️
Cool. 😊👍🏻
When she first started sketching out the first one I thought she was gonna do baby Groot 😂
I haven’t done wood burning in over 25 years but I know exactly how that smells. Love it ❤️ Both of your pieces are adorable
I did it once at camp boggie creek and I was trying to do iron man for my mom and I had gloves on and I burned my self because I had one of the gloves on backwards and it had a hole in it and I touched the hot part with the hole part and ever since then I’ve never touched it again.
Watching you do this makes me want to break my own wood burning stuff back out because I too still have a massive piece of wood I need to burn into.
Why don't you try to use plyers to unscrew the hot nibs and let them cool of on an heat resistant surface while you work with.the next tip? Should save you alot of cooling down time.
I love the smell!
I love camping
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Funny thing: I was cooking a pizza and the oven needs cleaned, so it smells a little burnt every time we use it.. the WHOLE time I forgot that and thought I was tripping by smelling burnt smell. 😅
Mira, I love the tulip and the frog, but...
*Safety concerns!!!* (from burn savvy)
*Safety Tips & Tricks*
Don’t touch the metal when machine is on!
Keep your burner away from flammable stuff.
Tie back loose hanging hair, jewelry, headphones, etc.
Work on a hard, sturdy surface [ex: table or desk… no need to burn holes in the couch. Or your leg.]
Secure the stand to the table. [no holes in the carpet either]
Always place your burner on the stand when not in use.
Turn burner off any time you leave the table. Unplug when leaving the room.
Use metal pliers to gently remove hot tips or insert cool tips into a hot burner. Place hot tips in a heat-safe dish to cool. If a
tip resists going in: STOP, back up, and try again.
*Safety tools and gear:*
Adjustable drawing table: Helps keep heat from fingers and face. Also helps with artist posture.
Leather gloves, rubber finger guards, finger heat shields, or thick cork grips: Keeps fingers from getting too hot.
P95 Mask: For lung protection from smoke and sanding.
Fan: Helps move smoke and heat away from face and fingers. Better yet, get a fan with an activated charcoal filter to clean
smoke out of the air as it pulls it away from you.
Air purifier cleans smoke and particulates from burning and sanding out
of the air
I will add:
Put your tool down when not using it - you were waving it around, close to your hair and eyes all the time you were talking straight to camera.
Keep your heat tools (all your art tools, in fact) away from the reach of inquisitive, exploring children. (do you have safety catches on your art room cupboards?)
first one
And yet nobody said anything!
Um burning your art ito wood uh I don’t know about that
I burn myself with a glue gun so i don't think I'll try this anytime soon