Here's something I've been working on and off for a month or so- I took one of my old longboard decks and re-designed it.
I used a combination of pyrography (wood burning) for the line work, acrylic paint, woodstain, micron pens, and graphite. I was inspired by viking-age woodcarving, as well as stave churches in Norway. I did my best to make it look like an antique from that time, somewhat weathered and faded.
The Runes at the top are Futhark, one of the oldest runic alphabets, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark . The top two runes are "D" and "K" (my initials), while the ones in the circle spell, "Northern Star", which is taken from the Minnesota State Seal, L'etoile du Nord.
The design in blue is part of (from what I know) the Kuettel Family coat of arms, on record here: http://query.staatsarchiv.lu.ch/detail.aspx?ID=1624617 from Weggis in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Some in-progress shots:
The original (boring) board
First pencil pass
First time I've ever used a woodburner, the going was slowwww
Almost there!
Just before adding the woodstain+sealer
Finished up! I'm relatively happy with it- there are definitely some things I'd do differently a second time around, but I learned a lot.
