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Flogging is a woodgraining technique which is used to create wood pores. Many woodgrain backgrounds for a variety of different woods are flogged.
The "Flogger" is the name given to a specialty brush used for this purpose. Floggers have long bristles and are flat, which makes the "patting" action of flogging (also referred to as "stippling" in some older books and references) easier to do.
Woodgraining Techniques
Flogging
Creating wood pores with a Flogger
After base coating your work in the proper primer and color, allow to dry the prescribed amount of time. Using the glaze of your choice, apply it to the surface in the direction which the woodgrain should be following. Next, using a dry brush, drag out the glaze from end to end.
Dragging Technique:
Cheap, stiff bristle brushes work nicely for dragging. Inexpensive chip brushes, which are not stiff, also work well for dragging because of the lack of density of bristles which allow for fingering (a term describing the clumping together of groups of bristles) and good line definition and variety. Chip brushes are prone to losing bristles, which all who use them are well aware of, so look your work over and remove any bristles with the tip of your brush before proceeding to the next step.
The actual technique of dragging is a simple one: hold your brush at almost parallel to the surface and pull through the glaze in a meandering way from one end to the other end. Since this is a negative removal method you will wipe the brush after each pass to keep it clean for removal.
Flogging Technique:
Immediately after dragging and while the glaze is still wet and open, proceed with the flogging.
Flogging is done in a light patting motion with a flat brush - held parallel to the surface being flogged. View below for the direction of flogging which is opposite what one would "naturally" choose to do.
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3" and 4" wide Floggers
fig. 1 Direction of flogging
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