Members $$hobby Posted July 20, 2009 Members Report Posted July 20, 2009 im not sure if you want a color picture but. you can try using a inkjet printer. i would make sure the ink was the indelible type. i remember seeing a marketing/sales person with some inkjet printers using some waterbased/food coloring type inks and printing on some tortilla. at the time i thought it was nifty. a neet way of advertising. iac, you would have to try the available inks and see how you can get things to line up and print correctly. Quote Riding is a partnership. The horse lends you his strength, speed and grace, which are greater then yours. For your part you give him your guidance, intelligence and understanding, which are greater then his. Togeather you can achieve a richness that alone neither can. - Lucy Rees, The Horse's Mind
JohnBarton Posted July 20, 2009 Report Posted July 20, 2009 I bought the 2-Shews video. That guy is AMAZING. I have seen the transfer stuff before and wondered if it would work on leather and for whatever dumb reason wouldn't come up off the $5 to buy a bottle. But what makes Billy amazing isn't that he transfers to leather - it's what he does with it to bring the image to life. Truly great techniques he has developed there. I personally think that images which are just put on stuff are often cheesy looking. I am referring to the type of thing where you put a picture on a coffee mug. However I find that the ones which are done with some flair and dressing up often look pretty cool. Billy puts the penultimate flair on what he does in my opinion. Using leather as the medium allows some pretty wicked artistry to be used. DC Knives - I bet you are going to rock it with this technique. Quote Support Quality. We are all humans. Buy the best no matter where it's made. That way everyone lives in harmony. Nature knows no flags.
Contributing Member ClayB Posted July 20, 2009 Contributing Member Report Posted July 20, 2009 I just came across this site. It's probably not feasable for most of us, but there are options out there. Quote ClayB Badlands Leather Art blog Badlands Leather Art Website
tashabear Posted July 20, 2009 Report Posted July 20, 2009 I've been experimenting with a bunch of papercraft techniques on leather, but this thread has inspired me! My husband has been working with black Artagain paper lately, and now I want to make some photocopies and see what they look like transferred onto leather that I've distressed and worked over. (I want to try it on a canvas that we've worked over, too.) And of course I desperately want to do this when I have less than a week to get three projects done and get packed for a two week vacation... Quote
MADMAX22 Posted July 20, 2009 Report Posted July 20, 2009 I bought the 2-Shews video. That guy is AMAZING. I have seen the transfer stuff before and wondered if it would work on leather and for whatever dumb reason wouldn't come up off the $5 to buy a bottle.But what makes Billy amazing isn't that he transfers to leather - it's what he does with it to bring the image to life. Truly great techniques he has developed there. I personally think that images which are just put on stuff are often cheesy looking. I am referring to the type of thing where you put a picture on a coffee mug. However I find that the ones which are done with some flair and dressing up often look pretty cool. Billy puts the penultimate flair on what he does in my opinion. Using leather as the medium allows some pretty wicked artistry to be used. DC Knives - I bet you are going to rock it with this technique. I had no idea what to expect before I got his video a while back and when I first started watching it I was like "oh man thats it" but then I kept watching it and it just got better and better. I must agree his video is a must have, my only wish is that he had time to make more of them. Such a shame really. Plus seeing the guys technique really opened up alot of more ideas. Quote
JohnBarton Posted July 20, 2009 Report Posted July 20, 2009 For me it comes down to durability. I don't like to put decoration on the leather when I know it's likely to be scratched or worn off. I can see the 2-Shews method being great for low use items. But for something like a cue case I'd have to figure out how to be certain that it would stand the test of time and use. Something like a sublimation process that turns the color to gas and permeates the receiving surface is what I REALLY want. Something where you can pull, stretch, bend and otherwise beat up the leather without the color coming off. Utopian? Probably. Maybe the DigitalLeather application that Clay showed us is close or is that, I don't know. Until then though using the Plaid, Picture This method seems quite promising depending on how you do it. I have a guy who wants a certain flag done and I don't want to paint it on. The last case we did with lots of paint is not an everyday case for the owner so it will mostly be in a display cabinet. The owner was made aware of my dislike for paint on the surface and he said go ahead. Anyway, seems like there are many things out there that work to get images onto leather. Here is a another one: http://www.lazertran.com/about_lazertran.htm And the book reference I got it from: Book of Transfers Quote Support Quality. We are all humans. Buy the best no matter where it's made. That way everyone lives in harmony. Nature knows no flags.
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