The biggest barrier to being a maker is tools. There are so many tools that can make your life easier but obtaining them can be both cost and space prohibitive. We do all our work in a small garage. Our workspace is shared with gardening tools, camping equipment, bicycles, and automotive tools. Renting a space …
One of the questions I often get is about how I get hand burn pieces using images on the computer. When I tell people it is using a laser printer, I’m not going to lie, I get quite a few puzzled looks. It is not intuitive how you can go from a digital image to …
After several years of doing pyrography, it never fails to surprise me all the things I have learned along the way. Below are five tools (and one bonus tool) that have been indispensable to me as an artist. If you are new to wood-burning, or even if you are a seasoned pro, I hope these help make your life easier.
This weekend is Pride so Zona is busy getting product ready. That means you get a special treat today. She’s left me, Brian, in charge of the blog. Silly Girl…. Unlike our lovely Zona, I am not an artist. That is to say not an artist in the1 traditional sense. But we here at BZ …
Tips and tricks to make better pet portraits
We just launched our brand new https://shop.bzfurfur.com and we’ve learned a lot in the process. We are launching this five-part weekly series, every Tuesday starting March 21, as a way to help other makers on a similar journey. Not everyone is going to be ready to order right away. Many people have questions and need a reliable …
We just launched our brand new https://shop.bzfurfur.com and we’ve learned a lot in the process. We are launching this five-part weekly series, every Tuesday starting March 21, as a way to help other makers on a similar journey.
You’ll often hear publishing on the internet as “shouting into the void”. There is nothing worse than having a voice but no one to hear it. Publishing to your website is similar to that. If you don’t have a way for people to find your website you might as well be shouting into the void. So how do you gain an audience?
We just launched our brand new https://shop.bzfurfur.com and we’ve learned a lot in the process. We are launching this five-part weekly series, every Tuesday starting March 21, as a way to help other makers on a similar journey. Last week we started our series talking about domain names. With your domain secured it is time …
We just launched our brand new https://shop.bzfurfur.com and we’ve learned a lot in the process. We are launching this five-part weekly series, every Tuesday starting March 21, as a way to help other makers on a similar journey.
