New Guy From Brazil

[omarcolocci]

Hello everyone!

I missed the introduction forum because I misunderstood the "Member Gallery" title and made my first post on the "Getting Started" forum. Silly me.

My name is Omar -- you may wonder what a Brazilian, with Italian and Portuguese grandparents has to do with an Arabic name, and I'm used to that, but hey, we are not culturally attach to names here -- and I'm 36 years old. I'm into drawing since I was a kid, and I've already painted and messed a little with wood carving. My wife wife works with bookbinding and about a week ago, while researching on materials and techniques, she bumped into a video showing some leather carving in action. She pointed me the video expecting me to like and buy, she knows me: I was hooked!

In the middle of my quest for knowledge I found many resources, great artists and this fantastic forum, which lead me to more incredible resources and artists. You guys at leatherwork.net rock so much I was not able to make an actual question so far!

Finally, today I ordered my first pack of Tandy tools and this week I may go hunting for leather and other materials on local stores, if I'm lucky enough to find the equivalents here in Brazil. Thanks to LuisPaulo, a fellow Brazilian met in the forum, I'm not so lost anymore. Let's see how I do when I go shopping.

A big thank you to all of you, members of this great community!

Omar Colocci

[BillB]

Omar Colocci,

Thank you for posting on the Member Gallery and welcome to the Forum. I think you have already found out that we are a bunch of very friendly folks here, all interested in advancing the art of Leathercraft. I am glad you were able to link up with Luis Palo. I hope you will join in on the conversations as you see fit to do so. If you have any questions, please ask, we do have a lot of opinions and lots of friendly help. If you haven't found the coffee and donuts, they are down the hall in the corner and they are fee.

Again, welcome to the Forum

BillB