J.K.Richard

These will be part of a bundle UK-bound not before long:

Very smexy.

Next we have Wicca East meets Wicca West

Can you see it?

How ’bout now?

…and now?

Background is a Buddhist sura for harmony. Characters are God and Goddess respectively. The last picture does no justice because of light bounce: mixed-media approach with metal flaking.

…and with that…I’m [...]

I officially declare this bunch to be made of coolness and win!

Book cover ISO A5.

Use of stain-off/resist technique with dye and antiquing (that word doesn’t look correct).

Iiiii’ve got some hole punching and stitching to do…

Phoenix on Latigo set to fit ISO size A4:

…back to the Leather Mines I go.

I knocked out a pair of cuffs (armlets, armguards, bracers) yesterday — you know, bed rest from post-op and all

Solomon’s Seal (pentacle) with tribal background:

The finish is actually a very dark Navy Blue … as it ages it’ll fade a tad to allow the deep brown to peek through — kind of an [...]

I’ve been hammering (tapping really) away at the commissioned bracer set:

I’ve been working both in tandem, casing (wetting) one while tooling the other. This is why one appears darker than the other.

(the gleam in the photos between the beveled edges is bounce from the ambient light).

I spent the morning updating and configuring Ars Tergus [...]

Done!
…and DONE!

Taking an early hiatus to go see ponies at the barn…and the studio needs a de-cluttering. Badly.

Bracers tomorrow.

…not that we sleep much. But we can rest…

Previous post today showed yesterday’s bad design choice… now we show a much better choice that sticks to the design sensibilities of this modified gorget:

Front and back of gorget:

I wanted to finish it tonight but it is alas 7:45 ish and I do try to keep [...]

I took a look at the back piece of the gorget yesterday and the black, on black, on black, on black on … you get the picture…was looking a bit monotonous to me.

So I wanted to bring in something on the piece that would break up the monotony and decided to paint the leather.

**it is [...]