Journaling a Work in Progress - Fluorescent Leather Artworks.

Small introduction to my New Business Card Stamp

Introduction
Thought I would share some of the intermediary stages in the making of one my leather artworks. I am almost complete with this one, I am still applying the final layers of edge paint & which will be followed by a layer of top-coat to seal it all in.

I also received my brand new wood-stamp that I ordered in roughly the dimensions of a traditional business card, which I will be using to stamp my own on paper scraps, cardboard & also leather scraps. I did a couple of business cards on Leather even gave them some edge paint & they look exquisite like that.

I love using more than 1 color for stamping, so here using the only ones I have at the moment which is red & green, I got absolutely gorgeous random prints for each business card. Even the business cards feel like miniature pieces of art now.

A different Angle giving a full view of the new giant stamp!

Anyways returning back to the Current Wallet I am almost done with.

I laser printed the outlines which I then used my dip-pen with thinned out leather paint to go over the outlines on the raven

The first layers of color, a mix of pearlescent mauve & green with neon blue, neon green in layers. I filled in other areas white in preparation for the next layer.

Here he is pretty much finished, Due to the nature of the paint it is also Uv-Reactive & will fluoresce under blacklight

A shot of the entire Outer portion of the Wallet, Front & Back.

Applying the Edge paint Layer by Layer until we have a beautiful even Edge.

Under Blacklight in Darkness, view of the raven

Under Blacklight the Skunk

The Last Picture you can see the wallet pretty much complete, although the edges are not properly done yet.

There are a lot of moments where I have downtime on a project, waiting for glue to dry, or layers of paint/edge paint to dry, or the laser printer to etch my motif etc.

So I usually am working on a couple of things simultaneously, so I am not just idling in those moments of downtime. Today I created 2 Single Card Holders. One of them I designed as a very luxurious business card, since I stamped the backside with my business card stamp, but functional that it can actually carry 2-3 cards in that single slot.

Here is the first Single Card holder I made, on the backside of this one I stamped my business card stamp onto, in the picture the edge paint is drying

Here it is under mild blacklight

I made another one which I made more refined, this is the backside of that one, this one I custom made as a gift for a friend I've known since childhood, I etched his artist name on the front

Here is the backside of the Card Holder with my business card stamp, the details were hard to bring in focus I couldn't be bothered to take another picture but decided to add at least this one to show

I leave you with this little Journal of my past 2 Days. I'll update you with beautiful shots of the wallet once it is fully complete!

KATSW ------ House of Qiparosa