Fractal Burning Art

Wood electricity art and lichtenberg art wood are other names for this art.

Fractal burning art. Fractal burning also called lichtenberg is a process that creates images such as these on wood using high voltage electricity and a conductive solution. The backyard scientist who you may remember pouring molten aluminum into a watermelon has a very cool how to for burning lichtenberg fractal patterns into pieces of plywood using electricitynot only is the process mesmerizing as you can see above but the resulting patterns are beautiful. This method takes much less time but its output is very different and of course unexpected. This art has a basic difference in wood burning art or pyrography art.

Custom lichtenberg figures fractal burnt wall art w epoxy made to order lightning electrocuted wood bold home decor burns burning homedesignz. If you have an experience of wood burning art you know how long it takes to do itin addition you must have a design sketch and follow it. Because here they come. Fractal wood burning also known as creating lichtenberg figures is the art of burning lightning or tree like figures into wood using high voltage electricity.

The most common fractal wood burning material is wood. There are 1175 fractal wood burning for sale on etsy and they cost 23395 on average. These machines are very dangerous and potentially deadly if you make a mistake when. These designs are known as lichtenbergs designs because they were resulted by the experiences and experiments of the german physicist george christophe lichtenberg in the 18th century.

Finish the item as you normally would and enjoy your high voltage art. This may take away the shallow surface burns and soot caused by the flare ups as well as allow the deeper burns to be accentuated. Lichtenberg art actually is an art to make a design on the. If you prefer randomized patterns and do not want to spend too much time check for electricity burning.

The high voltage electricity is generated by a transformer usually a microwave oven transformer a neon sign transformer or an oil burner transformer. You can sand the item to 220 prior to fractal wood burning and then sand again with the same girt after the wood is dry.