Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Ripley’s Collection features quite an assortment of unusual art — cheese sculptures, portraits made of human hair, pictures crafted using cigarette ash, ...

This method of carving and burning dates back to the Nazca and Moche civilizations of Peru as early as 700 AD. There’s also evidence from China, Egypt, and Rome suggesting that pyrography has been ...

If you have nerves of steel, the ancient art of pyrography may be for you. More difficult than drawing, with countless hours poured into a single piece, and when the ...

Dino Muradian's hyper-realistic artworks would be impressive if he drew them with a pencil and paper. But the self-taught pyrographer uses heat as his medium, in a technique he has developed and honed ...

A Leeds artist has said that it was a “dream come true” to appear on a popular BBC TV show and showcase the ancient artform that she has come to specialise in. Chantal Gatehouse, a talented pyrography ...

Bottle gourds, or calabash, have long been taken as auspicious objects in China. With a small mouth and a big stomach, they were used as containers in times past. In ancient times, doctors would often ...

My finished teapot textures! I was given this prop model in my look development class, and my goal was to create a realistic pyrography design! I specifically aimed to recreate Aspen tree wood and ...

Chantal Gatehouse, a talented pyrography artist from Leeds, is soon to be featured on series 3 of the popular, award-winning BBC show "Make It at Market”, which will air from 3 March at 3:45pm daily ...