Sunday, January 02, 2011

Original Human Figure Project

In October 2005, in this blog, I showed the restoration of the big human figure carving I had done.  (You can see it HERE)   Now I have uncovered the photos showing how I did the project in the first place.   Unfortunately it was before free digital photography, so I only have these few photos.

First is the start of the tooling:

The project was tooled on vegtan Blue Wildebeest leather.

And this was with the figure dyed completely:

...and then mounted and framed with a thin strip of leather - at the time I did not want any framing to take away from the carving itself.

This piece traveled 8,000 miles and underwent a lot of 'abuse', which was why I had to restore it in 2005.  So this again, is what it looked like after the restoration:



 

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