I don't plan to write much on this website, as there are just too many sites to keep up with. Just wanted to explain how / why I got into solar pyrography.

When I was much younger, maybe around ten or eleven years old, I was shown how to use a magnifying glass and burn objects with the sun by an older friend. I was really interested in the process, but mostly because I couldn't believe that you could start a fire with just a mag glass.

When I was through with ninth grade, my sister was graduating high school. I made her a sign on a piece of wood that served as a certificate of her completion of the 12th grade. Little did I know, my sister still has that sign and just few weeks ago was when I saw it again.

I think that sign was sort of a rite of passage for my artistic side. I realized twenty years later, as I was recovering from a tonsillectomy, that I could really experiment with solar pyrography and create some interesting pieces with bizarre textures. I happened upon my old magnifying glass that was in a bin in my closet and immediately decided to experiment.

For a while I'd only create pieces without painting any of them. I wanted them to be natural, one hundred percent solar pyrography. As of lately, however, I have begun to experiment with tempura paint in conjunction with the solar pyrography. I think it adds much more life to the pieces, though not all pieces call for it.