12 Brilliant Pyrography Water Patterns To Inspire Your Creativity 

If you want to make your pyrography experience more enjoyable, you should work on water patterns. 

It seems challenging to use shading for these designs. But surprisingly, it isn’t. You can easily try pyrography water patterns even if you’re a beginner. You need to know and practice some techniques.

From ocean waves to foamy droplets, you can make every pattern with a touch of your innovative ideas. 

Unique Ideas You Can Follow

Drops on Sunflower 

• Needs expert skill level 
• Design Type: Realistic flower petals with deep shading 
• It is a beautiful floral design to hang in the living room area
• The natural touch of black charcoal color can be added on the negative spaces
• Includes magnificent lens effect through the drops and droplets

Marine World In Action

• Best choice for advanced crafters
• Design Type: Simple and realistic 
• Use of shading on whale skin, charcoal pencil is used for the dark shade as well 
• Light burn shading strokes elsewhere

Reflections on River 

• Suitable pyrography for experts
• Design Type: Layered shading techniques
• This is very intricate and entails a lot of patience
• The entire surface of the wood is burnt to make either reflective surface or clouds or any establishment
• It uses light shading, medium and heavy – all kinds of shading

Ocean View

• Perfect for a skilled artists
• Design Type: Extremely complex shading to introduce the realism of a partially sunny and partially clouded afternoon environment
• Use live edge of the wood to induce a sense of hyper realism 
• You should keep the temperature low while burning dark shades

Swimming Animal

• Super skilled artists can work on this pattern
• Design Type: Animal head and back are floating over the liquid surface and are surrounded with a lots of ripples generated by the tiger’s movement
• You can make beautiful wall plaques for home and office
• Superbly realistic work

Realistic Lake & Landscape

• Suitable for expert artists
• Design Type: Lively and detailed patterns with colors
• Use of white graphite pencil tip strokes to make it realistic
• Used a pale blue color pencil on lake surface to reflect the color of sky 
• Blend light and dark shadings to make impressions of sunlight and shadow

Floating Lilies and Leaves

• Great patterns for beginner to medium skilled artists
• Design Type: Simple flowers with a lot of shades
• Light burn strokes on the reflections
• A few drops of water on the leaves will make the piece nearly realistic 
• Highlight the pattern corners with dark strokes
• It is better to use live edge of the wood as the periphery

Snow Flake

• This is a geometrical shape having self repeating fractal patterns
• Very popular and good-looking woodburn art
• Design Type: Bright colors on the snowflakes indicates an environment having bright light
• Looks better on round or rectangular plaques  
• All the negative spaces around must be burnt with heavy shading

Water Splash 

• A good pattern for semi-skilled pyrographers. I have done it only to prove that simple outlines can bring amazing outcome.
• Design Type: Dancing wave top, having a few flying droplets. And a whale to that banged the water.
• The most challenging part for me was capturing the sense of realism and the dynamic motion. It requires careful observation and understanding of the physics (light, transparency etc.) of water to accurately convey the movement, flow, and energy of the splash through pyrography. After failing to do a realistic spash a few times, I decided to make an outline based one. Abo
• Blend packed dots and dark fill shading strokes on the reflection 
• It can be a wonderful gift to friends and family
• A great scope for to test your skills of hyper realistic woodburn art

A Flowing Stream 

• Suitable for advanced level pyrographers 
• Design Type: Layered stroke techniques to make a serious depth of field. It was very tough one for me.
• There are a lot of objects in the piece, therefore, not suitable for small surfaces
• Flowing rivulet patterns are made with light shading at low heat
• You can add colors on the hummingbird feathers. It will be a tough job to make the colors strikingly shining.

Droplets on Rose Petals 

• Required advanced good knowledge of burning
• Design Type: Multiple shading styles, and some realistic droplets on the petals
• You can make it on a reading table, cupboard, or closet doors. A great piece to hang on walls if done on a plaque
• Create reflection with dark shading. The liquid lenses make it look like real. 

Challenges I faced

• Achieving the right size and placement of droplets in relation to the rose was a big issue for me. I had to draft the outline a few times.
• It was difficult to capture the realistic appearance of the droplets through shading and highlights. Moreover, it was very challenging to create seamless transitions from the rose petals to the droplets.
• Conveying the three-dimensional nature of water droplets through shading and shadows was another big issue. But it requires time to learn how to burn the 3D effect. Now-a-days I can do it.
• Precisely controlling the heat of the pen to avoid overheating or smudging adjacent areas is a master I had to learn over time. Thanks to years of burning practice.

 Fishing at a Lake 

• Needs expert-level skills 
• Design Type: Wriggling fish jumped into the air having a colorful lake ambience with trees and amber sky 
• Perfect gift for a person who loves fishing
• You can hang it near your study table

Additional Tips to Create Perfect Patterns 

To make perfect water pyrography patterns, you should follow some tips. Such as:

• It’s easier to create the liquid patterns on light colored solid wood as you will have ample opportunities to make dark shades.
• You should make the outline with freehand light shading. 
• Before applying a hot gun to the wood, draw the design with a graphite pencil. So that you can trace the drawing and avoid mistakes. This is a must for heat activated scorching chemical uses.
• You must practice a lot for realistic and 3D droplets
• Use a white charcoal pen to make the patterns more realistic.

Related Resources

• Landscapes burning on wood
• A quick video on water drop pattern burnt on wood
• Fish wood burning

Moreover, here’s a very interesting video on these.

FAQs 

Conclusion 

Now you have some magnificent water pyrography designs. Prepare the wood and tools. Get started with the pattern you love the most. 

However, place the wood piece on a flat surface while using the hot gun. Press it gently to make perfect strokes. 

Best of luck!