This past weekend, I decided to finish a piece I had been working on for quite some time. Not that it was all active work, but, it was one of those pieces that I would work on a bit, then leave it for awhile, then work on it again…. I wanted to enter a competition this past weekend, which gave me the motivation to finish the piece (I didn’t make my deadline on it, however, I went ahead and finished it for later competitions).

The “worst part” of doing this particular piece was deciding how I was going to modify the technique I wanted to use in order to produce the effect I wanted.

Here’s the original piece, once it was carved & hand tooled on the leather:

Here is the same piece, finished & framed….

Make every moment count,