I turned a wig stand out of walnut, but didn’t want to turn it in without adding some kind of embellishment.  Since I think it should be illegal to paint over walnut, I decided that I’d add some kind of pyrography (aka wood burning) to make it better.  The trouble is, I’m not all that accomplished at pyrography, so I needed something that would be relatively easy to do and relatively easy to hide mistakes.  If I tried to make something people would recognize, like a wolf or a deer, it could easily end up looking like a survivor from some kind of horrible automobile accident.  I had this immediate flash of a woman going through cancer treatments, looking down at the wig stand and trying to decide if that thing on the top was a dog with a broken snout, an aardvark with mange, or the mythical chupachabra.

That’s when I discovered a specific type of design called zentangle.  Yeah, that’s a real word!  While it looks like doodling, that’s apparently a pejorative term for zentangle artists.  Reading about the two, it reminded me of the Twix commercial comparing an undertaker to a mortician, a janitor to a custodian, or a ghost to a spirit.  Yeah, they may be different, but no one’s gonna notice…

Here’s the effort, but to get the detail, it has to be multiple pictures.  Hope the cancer patients like this and recognize the hours and hours it took to burn that many lines, shapes, and shadings into the wood.