What Is Painting On Leather?
Sketched Leather Art
Leather is one of mans earliest discoveries. Wall paintings and artifacts in Egyptian tombs dating back to 5000 B.C. indicate that leather was used for sandals, clothes, gloves, buckets, bottles, shrouds for burying the dead and for military equipment.
The ancient Greeks are credited with developing tanning formulas using certain tree barks and leaves soaked in water to preserve the leather.
You can make leather look like anything if you want to with Painting On Leather.
Artists paint on leather with designs and pictures to create something different and bespoke.
Painting on leather is done with leather colours designed for leather colouring.
Leather colours can be thinned down either with lacquer or water for this process and applied by sponge or extra fine airbrushes like a Paasche airbrush.
As well a specialist paints for leather, you can buy dyes designed for this process, painting art on leather is not a new development, but what is new is the products used today toachive such outstanding results.
It’s not just clothing that you can become artristic with, you can even paint leather furniture, leather wallets, leather handbags, leather purses and sneakers over the last few years have become a huge trend in the industry, with specialist sneaker paints and dyes.
Another very popular sector is reenactment the costumes made out of leather, the reenactment sectors are becoming even more popular than ever before to help preserve history and to become an educational source for people, reenactment can be anything from world wars to the English civil wars, dyes and creams are used to give aged looks to this type of costume making it very easy for people to recreate costumes that look hundreds of years old. Take a look at this group about re-enactment.
Painted Wolf face On Leather
Artists can airbrush designs on leather from the leather colourants, or you can draw a design on then hand paint them on. Sealing over the design with clear coat lacquer topcoat is essential.
Text Painted On Leather
Cleaning painted designs has to be done with great care, use a natural aniline leather cleaner to gently rub over the surface on a terry towel making sure you don’t rub too hard, rubbing too hard may bring off the design.
Always keep designs protected with a protection cream at all to avoid damage and drying out.
Cold Text Painted On Leather
Flying Jacket Painted On Leather
Zip Painted On Leather
Eyes Painted On Leather
Painted Face On A Leather Jacket