Hello from Germany

[techniques]

Hello,

I'm a German woman and bitten from the leather worm again. I did leather carving for several years but have stopped, because there are happen some things which did me not more do leather work. But now I'm back and I have yet lurked at your forum for a while.

As I started with leather carving over 25 years ago I did know anybody which I could ask or from whom I could learn. There are not much people here in Germany which doing leather work. Therefore I have applied to an American Leather Guild and have sent my leather work to America to ask people to critique them.

I'm overwhelmed from the much information one gets here at the forum and the many great leather workers which shows their work and give tutorials.

The next 5 months I have to work overtime at my job in the office, but after that I will do more leather work again. I have read that there are also monthly challenges, but couldn't find the actual challenge. Can anybody tell me more about the challenge?

I will try to post some of my earlier work and hope it will work.

Please excuse my bad English.

Greetings

Gisela from Germany

This is a small ring binder and the mallard drake is a design from Paul Burnett.

part of handbag

threedimensional rooster

Hope you like them.

[King's X]

First, welcome to the forum.

Secondly, you have some beautiful work there. Keep the pixs coming. I love the rooster, maybe you can post some 360 photographs? I would like to see how you accomplished this project. Thanks and greetings.

[Regis]

Welcome Gisela to this great leatherworker community. You have done some very nice work there. Your English is a lot better than my German spelling. Although I speak Greman after living near Koblentz for 7 years, I can not write/spell.

Regis

[techniques]

thank you for the kind words. Here are more photo from the rooster. They were taken in 1999 and my camera was not the best. In the next days I will make more detailed photos with my Canon EOS.

[manfrommuc]

Servus Gisela,

netter Gockel

und du bist in Deutschland nicht alleine..........mit deinen Lederarbeiten....

Grüsse aus Bayern

Johann

[Jimbob]

Hello,

I'm a German woman and bitten from the leather worm again. I did leather carving for several years but have stopped, because there are happen some things which did me not more do leather work. But now I'm back and I have yet lurked at your forum for a while.

As I started with leather carving over 25 years ago I did know anybody which I could ask or from whom I could learn. There are not much people here in Germany which doing leather work. Therefore I have applied to an American Leather Guild and have sent my leather work to America to ask people to critique them.

I'm overwhelmed from the much information one gets here at the forum and the many great leather workers which shows their work and give tutorials.

The next 5 months I have to work overtime at my job in the office, but after that I will do more leather work again. I have read that there are also monthly challenges, but couldn't find the actual challenge. Can anybody tell me more about the challenge?

I will try to post some of my earlier work and hope it will work.

Please excuse my bad English.

Greetings

Gisela from Germany

Hallo Gisela!!!!!!!

Gruesse aus Sued West Virginia....toll dass man hier auch mal Leute aus der alten Heimat trifft...Ich bin nun schon viele Jahre hier und komme aus Esslingen bei Stuttgart...waschechter Schwabe.....HiHi.....bin im Leder Hobby seit langem habe aber noch viel zu lernen...deine Arbeiten sind ganz toll und der Hahn insbesondere !!

Hier in diesem Forum ist immer was geboten, wenn du mal Hilfe brauchst oder das Englisch ein wenig "haengt" lass es mich wissen!

Gruesse aus Gate City, VA

James

www.berkheimarts.com

[ClayB]

Hi Gisela,

I guess I missed your introduction but wanted to welcome you. You have done some nice work. I am really impressed with the rooster. I've only seen sculptures like that done by a few people and you did a really nice job on it. I'd like to try more of that type of work sometime and may have some questions for you on how you came up with a pattern. Thanks for sharing the pictures of your work and I will looking forward to seeing more.

The monthly challenges were something I started awhile ago and ran for a few months. Then things came up and I had to quit doing them. Clay Miller took over and ran them for a while after that, but he also got busy with all the things in his life and had to quit doing them too. I hope that someday something like the monthly challenges can get started again. The old challenge patterns should still be here on the forum and you could sure try the patterns and post pictures of your projects. Just because the month they were started in is over doesn't mean that people cant still participate in them.

[techniques]

Servus Gisela,

netter Gockel

und du bist in Deutschland nicht alleine..........mit deinen Lederarbeiten....

Grüsse aus Bayern

Johann

Hallo Johann,

freut mich wenn Dir mein Giger gefällt.

Mittlerweile kenne ich auch einige Leute hier in Deutschland die mit Leder arbeiten aber in den achtziger Jahren, als ich angefangen habe, war ich ziemlich allein. Da gab es auch noch kein Internet. Zum Glück ist das jetzt besser.

Hello Johann,

I'm glad that you like my rooster.

In the meantime I know some people who works with leather but as I startetd doing leatherwork in the eighties I was nearly alone. There didn't exist internet. Luckily now it is better

Gisela

[techniques]

Hallo James,

vielen Dank für Deine lieben Worte. Das ist ein tolles Forum da trifft sich anscheinend die ganze Welt. Ich komme aus dem Frankenland. Freut mich, dass Dir meine Arbeiten gefallen. Die sind alle noch im vorigen Jahrhundert entstanden. Die letzten Jahre habe ich nichts gemacht. Aber jetzt will ich wieder loslegen. Muss aber etliches erst wieder lernen. Besonders das Schneiden mit dem Swivel knife, da bin ich momentan sehr ungeübt.

Auf Dein Angebot mir beim Übersetzen zu helfen werde ich bestimmt einmal zurückkommen.

Hello James,

thank you for your kind words. This is a great forum. It seems as if the whole world meets here. I'm from Frankonia. I'm glad you like my work. They are all made at the last century. But now I will do it again. But I have to relearn some things again. Especially the cutting with the swivel knife, at present I'm not skilled with it.

Thank you for your offer to help me with translating.

I hope you can all understand what I mean.

Greetings

Gisela

[techniques]

Hi Gisela,

I guess I missed your introduction but wanted to welcome you. You have done some nice work. I am really impressed with the rooster. I've only seen sculptures like that done by a few people and you did a really nice job on it. I'd like to try more of that type of work sometime and may have some questions for you on how you came up with a pattern. Thanks for sharing the pictures of your work and I will looking forward to seeing more.

The monthly challenges were something I started awhile ago and ran for a few months. Then things came up and I had to quit doing them. Clay Miller took over and ran them for a while after that, but he also got busy with all the things in his life and had to quit doing them too. I hope that someday something like the monthly challenges can get started again. The old challenge patterns should still be here on the forum and you could sure try the patterns and post pictures of your projects. Just because the month they were started in is over doesn't mean that people cant still participate in them.

Hi Clay,

thank you very much for the warm welcome. I had the pleasure to take part on some workshops with Robb Barr in the nineties. During the first workshop we made an eagle head and I decided to make sometimes a three-dimensional bird. Several years has gone since my plan come true.

I made them in 1999 and showed my rooster in 2000 during a leather show in the Netherlands on which also Robb Barr takes part. He told that he was very proud on me, because I was the first of its students which has made a three-dimensional piece. This made me very happy. When I remember correctly Robb has then also tried to make three-dimensional work and this was his Looking Back Eagle. I'm sure he would have created many wonderful leather art, if he would still live. Robb told me also from a man in the United Sates who has improved his technique and made it yet more detailed. I guess Robb meant Jan Schoonover.

I will try to write a description how I made the rooster as soon as I find the time. But be patient with me, because I have to work overtime for at least 5 months at the office.

I will also post some photos from items which I have made after instructions and patterns from Paul Burnett. Paul has also made some three-dimensional birds which are one of a kind. You can see some of them in his gallery.

For the future I have planned to make some three-dimensional birds and they will be a mixture of the techniques from Paul Burnett, Robb Barr and Al Stohlman. And I will then also try to take part on some of the formerly monthly challenges.

Gisela

[manfrommuc]

Hi Gisela

Rene Berends makes workshops with animals like this owl

20.-22. NOVEMBER 2009

Kursinhalt:

In diesem Seminar werden die Techniken gelehrt, die zur Darstellung eines Lederbildes mit 3-dimensionaler Wirkung erforderlich sind. Vorbereitung, Design, Lederschnitt, Lederprägen, Ledertreiben und Kolorierung gehören zum Lerninhalt des Seminars, wesentliches Lernziel ist jedoch die Schältechnik, mit der der eigentliche 3-dimensionale Effekt erzielt wird. Bei dieser technisch nicht einfachen Spezialität werden durch "Abschälen" einzelne "Federn", der Schnabel und die Ohren von der Oberfläche des Grundmaterials abgehoben (nicht abgelöst!) und dann geformt und fixiert. Abschließend - wenn die Zeit reicht-wird die "Eule" unter Anleitung koloriert.

Grüsse

Johann

[Aulus]

Hi Gisela, auch von mir ein willkommen im Forum! Schöne Arbeiten!

[techniques]

Hi Gisela

Rene Berends makes workshops with animals like this owl

20.-22. NOVEMBER 2009

Kursinhalt:

In diesem Seminar werden die Techniken gelehrt, die zur Darstellung eines Lederbildes mit 3-dimensionaler Wirkung erforderlich sind. Vorbereitung, Design, Lederschnitt, Lederprägen, Ledertreiben und Kolorierung gehören zum Lerninhalt des Seminars, wesentliches Lernziel ist jedoch die Schältechnik, mit der der eigentliche 3-dimensionale Effekt erzielt wird. Bei dieser technisch nicht einfachen Spezialität werden durch "Abschälen" einzelne "Federn", der Schnabel und die Ohren von der Oberfläche des Grundmaterials abgehoben (nicht abgelöst!) und dann geformt und fixiert. Abschließend - wenn die Zeit reicht-wird die "Eule" unter Anleitung koloriert.

Grüsse

Johann

Hallo Johann,

vielen Dank für den Link. Ich habe diese Technik von Robb Barr gelernt und dort hat sie auch Rene Berends gelernt.

Dieses Bild habe ich während meines ersten Workshops mit Robb Barr gemacht an dem auch Rene Berends teilgenommen hat. Rene hatte den Workshop organisiert.

Hi Johann,

thank you very much for the link. I learned this technique from Robb Barr and there also Rene Berends has learned them.

This picture has been made by myself during my first workshop with Robb Barr and there also Rene Berends has take part. Rene has organized this workshop.

Greetings

Gisela