My wife and I saw the Deadpool movie a few weeks back. We really enjoyed it, so I thought I'd make a Deadpool portrait. This was also the first project I did on my live stream. It was a lot of fun to cut out.
Normally, I don't color my portraits. But this one cried out for some color. Since I stack cut a few of them, I decided to experiment with stain. I used an ebony stain and a red sienna stain from Minwax.
The first one, I had trouble controlling the stain. It would bleed out into areas I didn't want. So, for the secone one, I used a woodburner to outline the areas of color I wanted to corral. That worked really well. The colors didn't bleed and I had much better control.