something we're working on in the local Colorado Springs leather guild

[Clay]

I wanted to show the Green man that I am working on, It has been tooled and molded and formed as much as I think I can get it. I will be adding the leather dust glue mixture to it and then on Wed we will start painting it under Dale's instruction. It has been a fun project.

Clay M.

[Dan Hammons]

Clay ,

Now that is as cool as it gets right there!! He is just awesome ! I have never tried anything like that but it sure looks good. I guess I could have looked but I didn't realize we were that close of neigbors. I may be relocating to the Evergreen area later his summer and if I do will be sure and get with you. Dan

[Dale]

We're starting to paint using a few tricks from Silva.

[ClayB]

Clay,

That really looks good. I am surprised that you could stretch it that far and still have so much detail showing. Usually when I do embossed pictures, you lose a lot of the detail in the stretching, and then after filling with the dust mixture, you re-bevel to get the detail back. If you re-bevel, you can usually get even more depth.

I can't wait to see how they all turn out once they are colored.

ClayB

[whinewine]

Clay, that is so neat!!! I'm anxious to see the final result. ( I think it looks superb un-colored... but then it wouldn't be a greenman, would it?)

[Dale]

Almost done. The color in the photos appears to be a bit off. I think the greens and reds are a bit more subdued than the photos show.

[Clay]

Here is mine, the scan is not so good I will try to get a digital pic of it tomorrow.

Clay

[Dale]

We finished up this piece last Wednesday. Unfortunately, not everyone remembered to bring their piece to finish up !