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this stencil can be bought all over the world, anyone can use it...love your seat!!!!

hey tom, i love this embossed look...the link below shows some embossed bags...i always wondered how it was done.. http://www.robbiewear.com/gallery7.htm

very nice fishies storm, i too enjoy burning leather....the kids complain about the smell ... the last time i got the burner out i used it to cut some stencils for airbrushing out of old xray films... xray film is great for templates for leather projects too, it last forever

great skulls and wood grain, love the colors

sweeeeeet

yep, just water based, non toxic

welcome bryce, you certainly have made a great start. Leather can be used for so many thing, lookiing forward to seeing more of your work and seeing your progress

I have been giving the airbrush a workout lately, trying to improve my skills. No surface is safe....if it can be painted..look out. Casey(leathercat) had a friend over and i thought.....

welcome, beautiful work, no more lurking, time to join the gang

sweet work, skulls rule

very nice wallet, like the background and web.....time to stop biting your nails...ha ha ...lol....

nice colors and skull. Skull work is so addictive, maybe we need a section for all thinks skully.

hi scott, there has been a few posts about airbrushes in the past.. which one to get depends on what you want to do. I have had a paasche in the past and it is a great airbrush but i needed to get a very fine line so i have upgraded to a Iwata HP c plus. This is a gravity feed, that means that there is a cup at the top, the draw back is that it holds only about 9ml. The paasche i also have is a siphon feed which means it has a bottle at the bottom that holds alot more. I still use the paasche for large projects but the Iwata has the option to remove the end piece so i can spray a very fine line. Paasche and Iwata have lots of models, gravity and siphon. The needle size is quite important too, .3mm is middle of the range. The finer the needle the thinner the paint needs to be. The paasche VL that i bought comes with three different size ends and needles so this is quite useful. There is also single action which means the air is always on, and dual action which means you press down for air and then back for paint and the way the air and paint is mixed is different for both actions. Dual action is superior but again it depends on what you want the airbrush to do. As for compressors that is another whole story and depends on what and where you are going to airbrush. I dont have a shed or garage so i work in the kitchen. I recently bought a silent compressor that is worth its weight in gold to me. It only comes on when i am airbrushing and is small and compact, but of course you pay for this feature. There is lots of info on the net so do some research, especially on the airbrush forums. Iwata and paasche also have very good websites. I found the best prices for airbrushes is on ebay. Good hunting.

wow drac, very neat work....

great pics clay, thanks

Here's my effort on the bottom flower using photoshop. I'm not very good at photoshop but had a play with your photo.

welcome to the land downunder....just in time for winter!!!

wow, great pics, thanks

hi david, the base color on the leather was 'whiskey', the white was just acylic white and the darker color the whiskey with a little black added. I think spirit dye (i dont have any) or enamel or oil paint would work better as it would sit on the outside of the water drops. I think my paint spread across the water drop. I would also use less white next time and i dont think the leather dye i had (darker color) attached to the water very well. I found the effect interesting and i sure the look could be improved with practice. As to the use, well i sure someone will come up with a project to use it on. I like spiders idea of frog skin.

beautiful work, i love your color combos

I found this technique on an airbrush forum and decided to give it a go on a scrap of leather. The effect that i was trying to get is the look of water drops sitting on the surface of the leather. I first stained the leather and then gave it a good seal with a leather finish so the leather repelled water. I used a water spray bottle to spray the leather so there was water droplets all over. Next you get down at the level of the leather and using an airbrush, spray white so that the white hits the side of the water drops but not the leather if possible. You then turn the piece around and spray from the opposite direction with a color that is one shade darker than the base color. What you should have is white on one side of the water drops and the dark color on the other side. Next you let the water evaporate and the color will remain. This was my first attempt and the white seemed to go all over and i cant see the dark, but maybe practice would help.

sweet work tom, the wings are so well formed, great fit on your face...love the grin

nice work tom, i like the design and the color, you shouldnt have mentioned the lacing error, now we are all going to look for it!!

sweet work, i like them

nice work and color, hope the fair goes well